How To: Make Your Own Chocolates

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Pin It You guessed it right,  blue stars for Star Wars. Part of the crazy week of making things for my son’s birthday. Coming soon from the Kitchen Magpie near you: R2D2 birthday cake, complete with cursing and wondering why I don’t just buy a cake. But for now, it’s all about the chocolates in [...]

Dum Dum de Dum

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Pin It I figured the Imperial March from Star Wars sums up the mood of the week. Dark, dirge-like, morose yet powerful with a triumphant- I hope -ending. Just click the video and hum along with me. This is the soundtrack  to my week. I am in the middle of preparing for a Star Wars [...]

Space Ship/Rocket Birthday Cake

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Pin It This was supposed to be a space shuttle, this cake was not in any way, shape or form supposed to look like it did. It was supposed to look like the one on the Berry Crocker website. The bleepers at Betty Crocker though, sneakily used a white cake. My crumb layer failed so [...]

Space Birthday Treat Bags AKA Astronaut Survival Kits

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Pin It The inspiration for these came from the plastic containers that I picked up from Superstore and the fact that my son wanted a rocket cake for his birthday. The containers were on sale for 75 cents each, and I thought, hey, what a much better way to do treat bags. These were an [...]

Rocketing Towards a Party

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Pin It My life has been overtaken by all thoughts space. Astronauts, stars, planets, how the devil I am going to create this cake, and what the devil I am going to put into the goodie bags that is spaced themed. I considered putting in these cool tooth flossers that are space themed (thanks to [...]

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