I had to bake something for Halloween and I have been dying to try making cake pops. Of course it made sense to make jack o'lanterns and then I thought I would attempt ghosts as well.
They are not exactly how I wanted them to look but for my first attempt, I think they are pretty good. Plus, they are super yummy spice cake with cream cheese frosting inside. I might be trying them in a few weeks for a certain persons birthday, just not sure of they shapes I am going to do.
Halloween cake pops
October 29, 2010
Trusty Gal wedding: Flowers
October 21, 2010
Last week Ben and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary in Paris but the whole day we could not help thinking back on what we were doing on our wedding day. It is so hard to believe that it has been two years already and yet, that is has only been two years. I wanted to do a post about our wedding flowers and centerpieces.
I did not want a wedding that screamed fall but that took cues from it. I wanted to go with orange flowers with brown ribbon. I know I could have gone with a much more complex bouquets and flowers but I am all about simplicity.

The bridesmaids bouquets were a smaller version of my own except they also had a few orange calla lilies.

I could not find any flower girl baskets I liked so I made my own. Nothing too crazy, I just got some brown fabric and covered a wicker basket. Their flowers were a combination of everything floral we had in the wedding (orange roses, hypericum berries and seeded eucalyptus) except the calla lilies.

The boutonnieres were super simple orange roses with seeded eucalyptus and wrapped in brown ribbon (you have no idea how much ribbon I purchased for this wedding).

These arrangements were on the first few pews in the church and then we reused them on the guest book and cake tables at the reception. You will notice that everything had duel purposes at the wedding and at the reception.

These two topiaries were on the altar at the church and were rushed over to put on the food table.


The other half of the tables had these hurricanes with beads in them.




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Pumpkin Swirled Brownies
October 4, 2010
It is officially fall weather and so I had to bake something. My favorite dessert that I found last year was pumpkin swirled brownies. They have a little cayenne pepper that adds just a kick but really contributes to the warmth from the nutmeg and cinnamon. I think they are so yummy but I have received some feedback that people would like to just have the pumpkin part by itself. I will be trying that soon.
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