Do you like White Chocolate?, do you like Marshmallows?, do you like Oreo Cookies? Then you certainly love this White Chocolate Cookies ’n‘ Cream fudge. The White mixture of evaporated milk, white chocolate morsels und marshmallow cream is one of the best home made ‚impersonations‘ of the Oreo white filling that I came across recently. So these sweet yummy bars might also be called ‚Cookies fudged into home made white Oreo filling“.
I promised some more photos from the season opening Christmas buffet at Dani’s store. The cookies and cakes are mostly about presentation and making the people feel comfortable. The guests who are coming, knowing already that the taste of gingerbread and co will be amazing, so I tried to show off a really „picture perfect“ buffet table, which is stylish and meaningful. First, I am very proud of my Hemisphere Chocolate Cake impression of an English Christmas Pudding. The problem here nobody dared to start eating and cutting it.
I tried to also make cake buffet signs that look like wooden signs. For the actual black signs I used very dark chocolate cookie dough with red sugar icing and a little white icing for the snow on top of it. The white signs are regular cookie dough flooded with white royal icing. For the booth itself I simply used the one that I created in summer and gave it a little Christmasy look.
For the Chocolate Cake Christmas Tree, I used a new baking mold which appeared to be pretty difficult to handle as the top of the tree is very thin compared to the bottom leading to different baking times. I applied some tin foil to the top for cooling.
To create the Ginger Bread Christmas Tree, I used a special Cookie Mold that I found at Lakeland in the UK. Lot´s of stars in different sizes irregulary glued together with icing make a perfekt crooked tree with a Ginger bread man on top of it.
Since we do not have any tableware in the store, people need to eat out of their hands. Millionaire Shortbread and mini Christmas Guglhupf cakes come in handy here. I also made small Pumpkin Spice cakes that were gone with two bites.
The rest of the cookie dough I used for smaller Christmas Trees or little Hangtags and a very cute Reindeer Cookie featuring, of course, a red nose.
Last Saturday my friend Dani from Danröschen had her annual Christmas event for customers in her store. Traditionally this is my „season opener“ for Christmas baking. Everything needs to be perfect, I even draw a ‚map‘ where to put things. I also try new recipes and new cake decorations. This is a short preview of the result. I will be posting more pictures with details soon.
For the wonderful „St. Martin“ tradition, where kids knock on doors of houses and sing for sweets, I prepared something ‚light‘. Kit Kat Peanut Butter Crunch Bars. The name says it all, so you don´t want to know what´s in there from a calorie point of view, but they are so yummy and kids love them.
Pretty scary, but extremely yummie. That´s how it should be, right? For these Oreo Halloween denture cookies I simply had to start with home made Oreos. You can easily find recipes online. After baking, just cut it in half and put on the filling, which I dyed in scary teethridge color. For the teeth, I was lucky enough that I still had some mini marshmallows that I brought over from the UK. Unfortunately they are mixed, so I had to think about what to do with the pink ones. Do you have any ideas? I have one, hehe. As you can see, you need to be very fast with the marshmallows as during Halloween a swarm of mini bats can get attracted by sweet things very quickly. It was fun to play dentist for one afternoon.
