Happy Friday! Valentine’s Day is coming up and I’m excited to share Mickey & Minnie’s Sweetheart Tea! Join Mickey & Minnie for a festive Valentine’s Day tea featuring polka dot shortbread thumbprints, chocolate raspberry linzer cookies, and white chocolate strawberry candies!
While Valentine’s Day is typically associated with romantic love, I prefer to think of it as a fun day to celebrate anyone you love– friends, family, and even yourself!…
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Happy Friday and Happy Birthday Mickey and Minnie Mouse! To celebrate this special day, I’m excited to share Mickey & Minnie’s Turtle Candies! These delicious candies, shaped like my favorite mice, have a milk chocolate base, gooey caramel, and chopped pecans. A fun birthday treat that’s also perfect for fall!
Turtles (sometimes known as pixies) are some of my favorite candies.…
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Happy New Year’s Eve! As we close on 2021, I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. This year has had its challenges and I so appreciate all of your support in making this small piece of the internet a bright spot in my life. So thank you and I wish you a New Year filled with light, love, and happiness!…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! While I was thinking about some fun leprechaun themed treats, I came across an adorable book called Little Man of Disneyland. It was written while Disneyland was being built, and it tells the story of Patrick Begorra, a leprechaun, who lives in a tree on the land that will become Disneyland.…
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Happy Friday! One of my favorite parts of Fall is that it’s apple season and there is an abundance of fresh apples. With all of the fresh apples about, I couldn’t resist making a batch of caramel apples! Inspired by the Mickey caramel apples at Disney, these pumpkin Mickey caramel apples are layered with caramel and white chocolate and have marshmallow ears and a green fondant stem.…
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Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible moms out there! I’m so grateful for my mom and to celebrate, I’m taking inspiration from another superhero mom–Elastigirl! Just like Elastigirl’s superpower, this stretchy red raspberry saltwater taffy is a delicious, chewy treat!
Saltwater taffy is something I usually associate with the candy shops I visited while on vacation.…
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Happy Star Wars Day! Today, The Rise of Skywalker officially opens in theaters! I am a newcomer to the Star Wars franchise, but after seeing the recent movies I am excited to see what this one brings! Given the importance of the lightsabers in the films, I made them the inspiration for this week’s dessert.…
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Hakuna Mataka! The new live action The Lion King releases today and to celebrate I’m excited to share these adorable grub cups! Timon and Pumbaa are one of favorite parts of The Lion King and I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the new movie than making their favorite grubs.…
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Happy Easter! One of my favorite Easter activities is hunting for eggs. When I was growing up, my family planned scavenger hunt style egg hunts where clues were hidden in eggs that led to the Easter basket. We always had so much fun spending the day together looking for eggs and then eating all of the tasty chocolates inside.…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! My family has always celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with corned beef, cabbage, and some kind of Guinness or Bailey’s dessert. To keep with this tradition, I’m excited to share these adorable pots of gold!
These chocolate pots are filled with a fluffy chocolate mousse, topped with golden Bailey’s whipped cream, and decorated with gold foiled chocolate coins, rainbow candy, and a green Mickey candy.…
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