Cook Can Spin Dye » betty http://www.cookcanspindye.com time-honored hobbies Fri, 20 May 2011 00:01:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Blue Champagne Cupcakes! http://www.cookcanspindye.com/posts/240 http://www.cookcanspindye.com/posts/240#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:30:15 +0000 Sarah http://www.cookcanspindye.com/?p=240 I received the April/May 2010 Betty Crocker Cupcakes, Cakes & More magazine in the mail and immediately went to make the Pink Champagne Cupcakes.  I changed the color to blue since I didn’t have pink food coloring, but the result was fabulous!  I added on some multicolored sugar sprinkles and some silver edible ball [...]]]> I received the April/May 2010 Betty Crocker Cupcakes, Cakes & More magazine in the mail and immediately went to make the Pink Champagne Cupcakes.  I changed the color to blue since I didn’t have pink food coloring, but the result was fabulous!  I added on some multicolored sugar sprinkles and some silver edible ball sprinkles as a last touch.  Very tasty!

The recipe can be found here on the Betty Crocker website.

They were almost too pretty to eat!  Almost…

]]> http://www.cookcanspindye.com/posts/240/feed 1 Betty Crocker saves Christmas yet again! http://www.cookcanspindye.com/posts/101 http://www.cookcanspindye.com/posts/101#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:38:52 +0000 Sarah http://www.cookcanspindye.com/?p=101 It is often the case that I take pictures of my latest hobby then forget to post about it right away.  Well, this happens to be one of those situations.  Over this last Christmas holiday, I attended two cookie exchanges and baked a lot of cookies.  22 dozen to be precise.  Yeah, that is [...]]]> It is often the case that I take pictures of my latest hobby then forget to post about it right away.  Well, this happens to be one of those situations.  Over this last Christmas holiday, I attended two cookie exchanges and baked a lot of cookies.  22 dozen to be precise.  Yeah, that is a lot of freaking cookies.

My favorite cookie book has to be the Betty Crocker Cookie Book (the newer version).  However, this last year I was stumped.  I wanted something NEW and FRESH (or whatever that means).  Thankfully Betty Crocker yet again didn’t let me down and posted recipes on their website from the latest cookie contests they had.  So here are the two that I picked:

Chocolate-Marshmallow Pillows

Before the frosting:

The finished product:

The one thing that I want to mention is that I actually modified the recipes to make it all from scratch.  As you will notice part of the recipe calls for a Betty Crocker cookie mix packet, the ones that you buy in the store.  Well, that portion can be substituted by looking up the scratch version which I found in my Betty Crocker Cookie book.  But, I will mention that it was a pain in the butt to do it this way and I highly recommend just buying and using the packets.

Spumoni Chunk Cookies

The mix in the bowl.  Isn’t it pretty?

The balls right before they are going into the oven.  Unfortunately, my cooked picture of this is AWOL but the picture below looks a lot like the finished product (except that it’s missing a slight tan).

If I had to pick my favorite (and they were both very good), it would have to be the Spumoni Chunk Cookie because it had more interesting qualities to it.  Don’t get me wrong – I love chocolate.  But, the chocolate pillow cookies were almost too rich for me.  Though, I didn’t hear anyone else complain!  Enjoy!

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