Wine and Cheese (...and marshmallows)

Happy Friday! It was a long hot week and I am glad the weekend is here. It was a short but long week… a four day work week (thanks to the Independence day holiday), but it was a long week, because it really meant now I had to do five days worth of work in four. Aaaah… now time for a nice glass of wine, or two or three. This chocolate covered little gem was a pretty easy marshmallow to make, tiny little bead fondants for the ‘grapes’ and a wedge of fondant cheese on a flat ‘plate’… its cheddar because I didn’t feel like taking out the colorants to shade swiss cheese holes.  The bowl for the grapes was a bit challenging, I rolled the brown fondant into a small ball and then used my Crate and Barrel hors d'oeuvre pick to make the bowl deep enough to hold the grapes. After I post this, I assure you I won’t be filling my wine glass with mini-marshmallows.

A Great Mail Day!

I just came back from getting the mail and what great pile.

1. A rebate check (always nice to get money in the mail),

2. A coupon to Ann Taylor (and I was planning to go anyway),

and

3. An invitation to my friends wedding (hooray!). 

It is a September wedding and there was a punch out of a leaf going across the brown ribbon of the invitation. I decided to take the punch out design and trace it onto my fondant. I used red, blue and green fondant and blended them together to create the gray-brown color. Then I rolled it flat and with my Showtime #13 sharp knife cut the little leaf out. I slid it onto the blade when I was finished and placed it onto the marshmallow just before the curvature dried.  I will wrap this little gem and put it in the freezer until September to give to her.

A Prize Winning USA Flag

Happy Fourth of July! After an amazing weekend with family and friends (and patriotic marshmallows) the long weekend is ending with a bang, literally! While I love sharing my delectable marshmallows, I could only make ONE of these sweet flags today. It is a true prize winner. I used a careful hand to perfect the fine detail of the stars and stripes together. I coated the marshmallow and added the red stripes and blue fondant portion for the flag. I used the Wilton Edible Star Glitter for the stars. They are the most peculiar embellishments ever. Each miniscule star flew out of the teeny tiny .04 ounce jar. I couldn’t find my bamboo tweezers so used the edge of my Showtime #13 knife to get the stars out and place them one at a time onto the blue fondant canvas.  There must have been a million stars in this tiny jar of edible glitter, but I only needed fifty.