Sweet Tooth - by Crafted by Lindy - Fab Finds from Etsy

 

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1. Sweet Tooth Fine Art Food Photography - Decadent Stacked Chocolate Whoopie - LovelyFitzgerald
2. Candy Sticks - 16x20 Fine Art Food Photography Print - MommyMakes
3. Peppermint Candy Buttons - andiespecialtysweets
4. White Chocolate Hearts with Lemon, Honey and Thyme Centre. Gift Box - CricklewoodChocolates

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5. Heavenly Meringues - sugarlovephotography
6. Traditional Sweet Shop Yellow Stripe Paper Bags - InTheClear
7. The Original EDIBLE BUTTERFLIES - Rainbow Collection - SugarRobot
8. Homemade Caramel Marshmallows - whimsyandspice

[Lindy lives in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, son and daughter. Besides blogging, she enjoys running her stationery business and creating new designs for her Etsy shop. You can read her own blog here]

Easy chocolate gooey butter cookies

We've finally finished off the last of our cookies.  I feel particularly gluttonous this year as I'm the one who consumed the most.  My friend, Barb (Tiny Bubbles), shared this decadent recipe with me.  It's from Paula Deen and the Food Network, so be prepared...there are only 5 ingredients, two of which are a stick of butter and a brick of cream cheese (I used low fat cream cheese).  

I know, I didn't say healthy, but these are our new favorites!  They are soft and chewy - kind of a cross between brownies and a cake.  My mouth is watering as I type this.  Enjoy!

 Give these babies an extra dusting of powdered sugar after they've baked. 

Easy chocolate gooey butter cookies recipe printable.

Happy July 4th, 2010 - easy red white and blue strawberry treats

strawberry dipped in white chocolate, originally uploaded by alamodestuff.

Yesterday, I saw this easy to make dessert on Twitter. Today the boys and I made them for tomorrow's 225th Annual 4th of July parade in Bristol, RI. [I'll fill you in on this event tomorrow or Tuesday.]

Thanks to @DaisyJanie who retweeted a link to @PaulaPrass's blog post about these yummy treats (see her post here).

3 ingredients/3 easy steps:


strawberries
white chocolate (I used chips)
blue sugar

1) We melted the white chocolate chips in an extra small sauce pan with a little half and half. [After attempting to melt via microwave and stove top, the half and half thinned the chocolate enough to keep it melted and consistent for dipping.]

2) We dipped the strawberries in the melted chocolate letting the excess chocolate drip off.

3) Lastly, we dipped it in the blue sugar and placed them on parchment paper. Yum!

You may have to eat the ones you deem not suitable for your guests.  We certainly had a few that were messed up accidentally on purpose.

We couldn't let any chocolate go to waste, so we dipped pretzels in what was remaining.

Happy 4th everyone!  Enjoy!