Bring Me the Head of Bucky Badger

My older daughter is graduating from the University of Wisconsin Madison later this month. Bucky is their beloved mascot so, I thought it would be perfect in cake:-)

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Campfire Chic Bites

I created these for a Girl Scout bridging I have coming up this year. It didn't go quite as planned... How do you make these?

Easy!

Step 1: Screw up this recipe:

http://www.marthastewart.com/332838/chocolate-graham-cracker-cupcakes-with-t

Step 2:

Try to make cupcake balls and fail.

Step 3:

Put disaster on aluminum foil and add the word "chic" to the title to make it look like you meant to do that.

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Salted Caramel Cupcake

Enough said:-)

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Valentines Treat

This is what I threw together for our family Valentines Dinner:

Emergency cupcakes with leftover pastry cream. Drag a toothpick through the middle of the cream to make the heart and top with red sandy sugar. Simple. That's love:-)

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Valentines Cookies

My youngest worked hard putting her Valentines together for her classroom to celebrate the day. She is such a chip off the old block:-)

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The Yummiest Place on Earth

This may look like a very unassuming place but...

...it created these wonders of Epcot:

The Napoleon was the best thing on the planet!! It has the dreamiest French pastry cream nestled in between the crispest and flakiest puffed pastry you have every had. It was kind of messy and hard to eat but it was worth it. It was literally heaven on a fork!

And of course, no trip to France is complete without a French Chocolate Mousse:-)

So, I indulged...twice. And now, I  have to tackle the 3 pounds I gained but every step on the tredmill was worth it! That IS how you do it:-)

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Rainbow Cookies

My youngest loves rainbows. She colors EVERYTHING in rainbows. So, when I went to bake treats for her classroom for her birthday, I knew just what to do:

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