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Shamrock Sugar Cookies

Desserts + Sweets, holiday recipes, Recipes, Uncategorized · March 16, 2019

This Sugar Cookie recipe is one of my favorites. It makes a large batch and both the cookie and the frosting are the so good! I got this recipe from my darling friend Rachel Parcell. She made these for Valentines Day and so I thought it would be fun to make shamrocks for Saint Patricks Day after seeing her post and recipe. It’s a simple recipe to make and is fun for every season. I wanted to to try different sizes of shamrock cookie cutters and different shades of green for the frosting.

I discovered that frosting shamrock shapes is much harder than hearts! I tried frosting them the traditional way with a knife, but the frosting covered up the shape and I couldn’t tell what it was. There was a lot of experimenting to find a way to frost them and still be able to tell what shape they were.

After some trial and error, I tried piping the frosting using different sized piping tips and that method worked the best. I experimented with the four different shades of green

Saint Patricks Day Spring Decor

Decor, Entertaining, Home, Home Tour, My Home, Seasonal Home Tours, Tablescapes, Uncategorized · March 16, 2019

I really enjoyed adding a few touches of green to my kitchen and dining room this year to celebrate Saint Patricks Day. I don’t usually go all out for the smaller holidays but I like adding a few decorations to brighten things up and St. Patricks Day is such a fun and colorful holiday to decorate for.

When I’m decorating my home for the different seasons, I try to create decor that can be used for that season and whatever holidays fall within that season. I start out by choosing a base color that mixes well with the colors in my home. I have a lot of blue decor so I try to mix in the seasonal colors with what I already have.
The Hot Cocoa Bar

I had this hot cocoa bar set up for my Galentines Day Brunch and I decided to keep it out for St. Patricks Day when I realized I had some mugs with shamrocks them. How could I not use these in the hot cocoa bar! I also had some gold chocolate coins that looked so cute in one of my milk glass compotes. I switched out the pink milk glass

Saint Patricks Day Chocolate Cupcakes

Desserts + Sweets, holiday recipes, Recipes, Uncategorized · March 11, 2019

Saint Patricks Day Chocolate Cupcakes
Making cupcakes is so much fun and something you can include your children in that’s a fun family activity. One of the most fun holidays to make cupcakes for is Saint Patricks! When my kids were little, they loved helping me bake and decorate cupcakes and sugar cookies. This year I thought it would be fun to make chocolate cupcakes with Aunt Jeanies Chocolate Cake recipe and decorate them for Saint Patricks Day. Instead of using the ganache frosting that goes with this recipe, I used my friend Ashley’s (www.livingbeautafully.com) go to chocolate buttercream frosting recipe. I needed a stiffer frosting that could be piped so I could top the cupcakes with the gold chocolate coins and green sprinkles.
The Decorations
I found these cute green and gold cupcake liners, green sprinkles, and the gold chocolate coins at one of my favorite baking supply stores and couldn’t wait to make these cute cupcakes.

I’ve listed the cake recipe

Tablescape for St. Patricks Day, Spring, and Easter

Dinnerware, Entertaining, Tablescapes, Uncategorized · March 4, 2019

One Tablescape, Three Occasion’s

I created this tablescape for St. Patricks Day but it also works well for Spring and Easter and I had these beautiful dishes with the prettiest colors of green and blue that I’d been saving for something special. I decided they would be perfect for this versatile tablescape. Creating beautiful tablescapes is something I’ve always loved to do and when I can create one that works for an entire season, I love it even more! It’s almost a challenge to create something that I can use for multiple occasions.

The Centerpiece
When creating a tablescape, I first start with a centerpiece or garland. Spring flowers are still a ways off so I used faux flowers. If you use quality faux flowers, they can be used again which I’m always a fan of.

To create the centerpiece, I used a long, faux garland and laid it on top of a table-runner for the base of the centerpiece. After fluffing the garland, I start layering in the

Aunt Jeanie’s Chocolate Cake

Desserts + Sweets, Recipes, Uncategorized · March 1, 2019

My husbands Grandma Fuhriman and her sister Jeanie were amazing cooks. We loved to visit them both and I always enjoyed following them around their kitchens trying to help them cook and learn some of their delicious recipes. They were the cutest things and shared a special relationship with one another.

The two of them always made this chocolate cake that everyone loved. The rumor is that Grandma made up the frosting and Jeanie made up the cake. They were always tweaking the recipe of both the cake and frosting. We have found at least 7 different versions of this recipe!

Aunt Jeanie, as we called her, lived near our Washington home and we’d see her often. She never forgot anyones birthday and always showed up with at least one of her chocolate cakes no matter the occasion. She had this way of making everyone feel like they were the most important person in the world and she was always happy and upbeat even though she had experienced the loss of her husband and three of