Baking and B&B

Hi y’all….wow it has been a very long time since Chelsea and I have been on here.  Let me apologize for the both of us by saying that we have been dealing with a lot of changes regarding our lives.

In fact, I am in the process of relocating, planning for my dream day (you can fill in the blank on that one), and beginning a new chapter in my career life as well as maintaining the current life I have now here in Portland. 

Mike and I are starting to pack up and preparing for a major move.  We are moving to the bay area very soon; within in the next couple of weeks to be exact.  I am so excited to begin our life together back on our own turf. 

My family owns a Bed and Breakfast.  It has been in our family for about 5 years now, and after several years of contemplating the idea of running it; I have decided to take on the task and huge challenge.  The Inn at Duncan’s Mills (http://www.sonic.net/~theinndm/) is a beautiful Bed and Breakfast located at the Russian River in California. 

My goal for the Inn is to transform her into a romantic getaway for couples whether it be a honeymoon, anniversary or any other special occasion.  This is a HUGE task indeed but I know that I will be able to achieve my goal as I am a very determined lady with a go-getter attitude.  Let the challenge begin.  I say “Bring it on, baby!”

While Stressed Desserts is still a business I would like to brand, I can do this at the same time.  I know you all must be thinking that I am nuts but let’s face it, those that know me, know that I set high standards for myself and work hard to make them stick and work in my favor.

I will be keeping everyone informed via this blog.  I can’t wait until the Inn is the “Diamond in the Ruff” it is meant to be. 

We will be offering special packages including couples massage, romance packages (champagne and chocolate dipped strawberries in the room), intimate dining experiences, and so much more.

And listen up…if you are interested in helping a girl out, stay at the Inn now.  It is a beautiful place set in a quiet setting in wine country, the coast, and the beautiful Russian River.  I am offering a huge discount if you book now through January.  Rooms typically go for $145-175.00/night (loft $325-350.00/night), but right now you can stay for $125/night on the weekend and $100/night during the week.  I am ready to establish a name for myself and build my reputation in California as a great chef as well as being a very successful entrepreneur.  Check out the website above and call to make reservations.  Feel free to ask questions here as well as book through me on the blog as well.  If you are going to book through the website please mention COOKIEBYTES for this incredible discount.

I will be preparing your breakfast and offering great activity suggestions in one of the greatest vacation destinations along the Northern California coast.  Also, we do weddings as well.  The Inn sleeps 18-20 comfortably (if you are thinking about the entire Inn for a group). 

Weddings at the Inn are also highly recommended.  And, if you choose Chelsea to be your event planner we will offer you an additional discount.  You will love her as she is the best around, having worked over 1000 weddings, Chelsea is the creme de la creme. And of course if you choose me for all of your catering my food speaks for itself.  Just sayin’ you will be more than impressed with this “Dynamic Duo” (Chelsea and me).

Thanks so much for all of your support.

~Liz

 

FoodWars4

All hail the FoodWars4 and Oregon Food Bank!  Stressed Desserts LLC was delighted to be a sponsor of the Portland FoodWars4 on July 1st.  For all of the attendees, we extend our apologies for not being able to attend in person.  However, we sent cupcakes.  Which, in my personal opinion, is better than seeing us sometimes!

If, like us, you couldn’t attend, we thought we would tempt your palate with pictures of our delicious FoodWars4 mini cupcakes.  Liz made two different kinds of cake.  Everyone loves chocolate and vanilla so why change a good thing?   Chelsea made the toppings.   We decided to go with different toppings to please every palate.  So we made several kinds:  Almond Joy, Lemon, Strawberry Cream Cheese, Caramel Machiatto, German Chocolate and Vanilla Buttercream with 4th of July sprinkles.

Almond Joy Mini Cupcakes

I think in the looks department the Almond Joy was my favorite.  I used Liz’s vanilla mini cupcakes and made almond flavored buttercream frosting, drizzled melted dark chocolate and sprinkled toasted coconut on top.  Delicious!

Caramel Machiato Mini Cupcakes

Here is my version of Caramel Machiato Mini Cupcakes.  This is by far and away the best frosting I have ever made.  I saved a batch for myself which I have been eating daily since making these!  (Caution: Not for dieters!) It is espresso and dark chocolate buttercream frosting, drizzled with homemade melted caramel on the top.  The mini cupcake was in chocolate.  These were my favorite for the taste!  Like a caramel mocha Frappuccino® from Starbucks in a mini cupcake.  Thank you Starbucks for the inspiration.  And everyone reading this blog knows how I feel about brown foods and this fits in that category also!  Double whammy!

The lemon, strawberry cream cheese and German chocolate were all just done with standard recipes that we are known for.  The 4th of July sprinkled-topped mini cupcakes were just our way of showing our patriotic flair.  Some adults also go ga-ga for sprinkles.  (Closet Confession=Kid at ♥=Me)

Here is a picture of all of the cupcakes ready to go to FoodWars!

Caramel  Machiato, 4th of July Sprinkles. Lemon and German Chocolate Mini Cupcakes ready to be delivered to FoodWars4.  They look like little soldiers all lined up in the box.

Some more German chocolate, Strawberry Cream Cheese on vanilla and chocolate cake and Almond Joy on vanilla and chocolate cake.

We love doing donations and we are glad to be a sponsor of the Oregon Food Bank!  Anytime you need us to do a little love baking for charity, please let us know and we will try to help if we can and if it is for a cause we believe in.  Otherwise, if you just need to order some scrumptious mini cupcakes in a wide range of flavors, you know where to find us.  Hit us up at the Order page at the top of our blog!  We are ready for your own Food Wars!

~Chelsea

 

An “INDEPENDENT” Dessert

Hi all,

Let me tell you, stressed is an understatement lately LOL.  Big changes at work, busy schedules, dieting dilemmas, and social cravings that are unattainable at times are not always easy to deal with on the daily.  And as much as I am stressed these days, I must say, I am happy.  Is that even possible? Or is this statement a true oxymoron? Ha Ha.

Chelsea and I have been getting orders for the 4th of July, and we are happy to fill more, but you better get your orders in quickly.  How about this for your family get together on the 4th?

An "Independent" Dessert to say the least

Every year I am asked to bring this to our family get together on the 4th of July.  This year I may do something a little different, but I’ll be sure to bring this too.  What dessert makes us say “Bring on the Fireworks!” more than a dessert that literally stands on its own?

This creamy smooth NY cheesecake “a la LIZ” is perfectly baked atop a buttery shortbread crust, frosted in a white chocolate cream cheese frosting and finished off with fresh berries.  YUM!

We all know that these “stressed desserts” ladies are watching our waistlines, but it’s a holiday and we are supposed to enjoy them. RIGHT? Hmmmmmm, well maybe just a taste will do me. 

Here’s a little dessert poem I wrote….

Where lies a pie or cake,

a bite I’m sure to take,

but as I try to stay away

a fork must claim it’s stake…

Stressed is Desserts spelled back wards,

as such life has chapters

I’ll give in to this temptation

and share it with the nation….

I savor each crumb,

as though it is my last,

but then I remember that there’s always next year

so I’ll pretend this day is future rather than the past

Don’t forget to order now folks…The 4th is right around the corner, and we have almost reached our order quota.

Here are a few of the most popular selections this year…

Flag Cheesecake (of course is number one)

Berry Cobbler

Apple Crisp

and Death by Chocolate Torte to name a few.

MMMMMMMMMM

YUMMMM!

Now, forget sweating the small stuff and start eating and enjoying the good stuff…there is always tomorrow to de-stress and de-dessert…That is until next year. Ha Ha

 

“Bat”ter Up

So, I know it’s been a while since we’ve posted.  Chelsea and I will try to do so more often.  I must say though, we are some busy ladies lately.

With the big holiday events behind me now at the club, the orders are beginning to become steadier with Stressed Desserts. YAY!! This month we were asked to do a graduation cake as well as a couple of birthday cakes.  Also, because it is wedding season, we are also being called upon to provide bachelorette party cakes, wedding cakes and more birthday cakes.  This is getting very exciting!

Last week my boss asked if I would create a birthday cake for his son’s 5th birthday. Duh! Of course….I made his cake last year too.  Last year his son was into spiders and this year it is all about bats.  Yes, BATS! So I came up with the idea of making a bat cake.  How awesome for this little guy to get a birthday cake in the shape of a bat.  Cool, right? My thoughts exactly.

Anyway, I started with a large piece of parchment paper that I folded in half and drew half of the bat.  You know, like when were kids making butterflies with finger paints and squishing it between paper and pulling it apart?  So, in order to get symmetrical bat wings I used this method. 

 

Then I cut the bat out and placed it on top of the cake and stuck toothpicks into it so I could cut it out.  This actually worked out a lot better than I thought it was going to.  Thank GOD! LOL.

I created a recipe for the perfect moist, and fluffy white cake.  I was very pleased with the end result.  The filling was raspberry and then I frosted it in white cream cheese butter cream icing.  Then I thought it would be really cool to glaze the cake in dark hot fudge sauce.  Let me just tell you that I was soooo excited with the finished cake.  It looked like the bat was lifting right off the cake.  Let us know what you think!

I know that this is not my normal silly blog.  And, I apologize for that, but for now this is it.  But I promise I’ll make you laugh again soon. :0)

 

 

Happy Hole in One

Delightful Deliciousness Maple Bar Nirvana

Happy National Doughnut Day everyone!  Yes, it’s an actual day.  Although I have not dedicated the whole day to eating holes I must admit the thought was tempting.  I am however dedicating the blog today to all things doughnut.  Voodoos beware.  Winchells disappear.  Stand in line at the nearest Krispy Kreme for your glazed goodness to roll out.  No purchase necessary today to get that sweet (not so crispy) treat.  Watch a rerun of Dexter on Netflix and drool over the doughnut box.  I like a show where doughnuts are featured.

National Doughnut Day started in France, like most delectable things.  Beignets anyone?  A little kudos to New Orleans.  But unfortunately (or read fortunately for us) it began in WWI.  The “Doughnut Girls” would pass out fresh doughnuts that they fried up in helmets to the soldiers as part of the Salvation Army hospitality plan.  Health inspectors are gagging everywhere over the frying in helmets thing.  But this was war.  And nothing, I mean nothing, should stand in the way of someone getting a doughnut, especially a soldier.  Sometimes a girl has gotta do what a girl has gotta do.

The history is pretty educational.  For those interested in that here is the link to the video to see where the Doughnut Girls began.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4PoVMwjI2jY

If you are like me and don’t care as much about the education but care more about the actual doughnuts, go and buy one.  I have a whole box on my counter right now.  Only a few left.  Whatever happened to the baker’s dozen by the way?  Lucky 13 was not in my box tonight.  Nonetheless I have my precious maple bar.  I became slightly addicted to maple bars during my first pregnancy.  I would visit the nearest Krispy Kreme (2.4 miles) to my house in California in the middle of the night during a bad craving.  My husband was in the front passenger seat.  One night or morning if you want to get technical, we were ordering doughnuts at that establishment and they were out, yes OUT, of maple doughnuts.  I think it’s the closest I have come to being homicidal.  I wanted to see pain.  It was torture.  Today I have a little bit more self-control.  But not much.  I love food.  I hate not getting it, especially during a bad craving episode.

I looked at a doughnut recipe today and thought I am going to make doughnuts for the first time in my life.  Then I said oh, I don’t have any eggs and promptly did not make doughnuts.  It was a cop-out.  It looks messy.  I don’t like to personally deep fry anything.  I don’t have a deep fryer.  It’s a lot of oil to use.  Plus it looks time-consuming.  I did not have a lot of time today.  So there you go.  But I think I will attempt it some day.

I am not a particular fan of Voodoo’s maple bacon bar.  It’s not the flavor, or the idea.  I rather like both of those things.  I am a big fan of their creativity and marketing.  They have some guts.  Cocky suckers.  I don’t like the texture.  Now if they crumbled up the bacon and put it in the dough I would be hooked forever.  As it is, I can take it or leave it.  But the flavor is awesome because for some reason maple and pig go hand in hand.  If I had a pet pig I would name her Maple.

A couple of years ago I finally had a glazed doughnut while I took a sip of coffee and I have to say, now I know what cops had figured out long ago.  That’s delicious.  I never had dunked before, can you believe it?  Travesty.  Dunkin’ Donuts wasn’t really my place.  I loved Winchells and for years did not have a doughnut because I could not find anything in a chocolate old-fashioned that compared to theirs.  I am also still partial to the sprinkles, truth be told.  I fight my kids over them.  So tonight when the maple bars that my husband brought home, bless his heart, had sprinkles of every type on them I was amazed and enchanted.  I am in love again!  The doughnut or the husband?  I also made some coffee.

So go on out there while there is still time and get your free doughnut!  Get to a Dunkin’ Donuts or a Krispy Kreme near you.  Who says there is nothing free in the world anymore?  There may not be a so-called “free lunch” anymore, but there is free dessert tonight!  Go eat your hole.  God Bless American and the Salvation Army!  ~Chelsea

 

It’s All Good

Hi everyone! Oh My Goodness, Chelsea and I have been quite busy the last few weeks with both of our full-time jobs and Stressed Desserts (even though Chels has really stepped up to the plate on the latter because I truly have not had the time). 

New dessert menus, auctions, banquets, weddings and outside orders alike, these ladies are some tired cookies.  LOL! A term that fits us to the tee, hence cookiebytes as a blog name just suits us perfectly.

I worked a long day today to make up for the hellacious couple of days and the tension bubbling and stress filled weeks the preceded this one. UGH! At least I am feeling a bit better now.  I managed (even though I don’t know how) to get everything done that needed to get done this week.

The new dessert menu at the Oregon Golf Club launched today.  Even though I was hoping to had launched it on Wednesday.  But, you know, when you are as busy as we have been, we have to do it when we can, which at times is not when we want. Of course, I guess this is true for many of us out there, right?  Especially those of us that strive to be at our best at all times.  Hmmmmm, maybe that’s why I’m so upset with myself when I can’t seem to do something just right or accomplish something in the time I desired. Oh well, I just call it the “Rainy Blues”.

So, I thought I would share the new desserts with everyone today, finally.  And, I must say, I’m pretty darn proud of this menu and even happier with the overall results.  Each one of the desserts is a favorite now. 

Chocolate Lover’s Cheesecake Delight–Rich and decadent dark chocolate cheesecake with a bittersweet chocolate wafer crust, coated in hot fudge sauce, whipped Chantilly creme and semisweet chocolate shavings….

Cafe Au Lait Creme Brulee–Rich vanilla custard infused with a robust french coffee extract meld together smoothly especially when topped with a burnt sugar crust, whipped cream and coffee beans…A truely delicious coffee treat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bringing home the classic comfort dessert but with the “LIZ” twist

Triple Berry Cobbler–Sweet and warm blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries dance with cinnamon to leave your taste buds with a kiss of summer just to we awakened by the cool and refreshing lemon buttermilk ice cream that slowly melts into the flaky honey yogurt biscuit crumble topping….a rich, yet very soothing and a “makes your heart melt” kind of dessert.

 

 

 

 

Vanilla Bean Hazelnut Ice Cream Pie–A shortbread cookie crust is the vessel to this vanilla bean infused anglaise combined with the crunch of diced, lightly salted, hazelnut bits then covered in warm berry compote candied hazelnuts and whipped cream and fresh berries.  For those of you who aren’t afraid to be a little nutty, fruity and creamy all at the same time.

Thanks for reading, and I bit y’all goodnight as I need to get some shut-eye before I fall asleep on my keyboard.  Happy Drooling!

~Liz

 

Pie and Prejudice

Wouldn’t it be great if you could take out your personal rage in a war of the worlds colossal food fight? Today I would love to throw a pie in someone’s face.  I know some of you are probably shocked that I am freely admitting that I would seek this kind of hostility.  It’s either the food fight (which would be food abuse) or go to the shooting range.  The stress has got to go.  Probably the reason so many people go postal is that they have no outlet for their natural stress and rage.  It’s not healthy.  We need stress parks.  Where people can go to get a chocolate banana milkshake at 2 am when they want to punch someone or where there is a padded room where they can just let loose for a while.  (Hourly rates would apply of course.)  I could open up a shop like that.  Bakery on one side and a let loose playground for adults on the other.  Genius.

There is nothing that makes me angry like feeling helpless or being upset over injustice.  Or people who lie or misrepresent themselves.  Or eat whole pans of tiramisu by themselves without leaving a little bit for the person who made it!  A whole pan?!  Who are you?  What makes people do these kinds of things?  It’s outrageous.  Unacceptable.

I think that Stephen Spielberg probably had the most fun on Hook during the “pretend” food fight scene. I would love to make a huge batch of pie and tiramisu and throw it in some select people’s faces. Today. Or maybe I should take my own business name and take my own advice:  Turn that stress around and eat a dessert instead.  I need chocolate stat.

  I think I would like to call this day the National Pie Throwing Day in honor of my mood.  Days have been named for less prestigious reasons.  I think I will make a pie tonight and just stand out in my driveway with it in my hands.  The first person to criticize it will have it thrown in their face.  No, no I am only joking.  The best thing would be to have a contest with rules, that way no one gets hurt.  The mom in me said that.  No sense in taking anyone’s eyes out.

We don’t really want to hurt people.  But I think it is natural when feeling overwhelmed to lash out.  The way I handle my stress is to bake.  You would think that I would be the most emotionally healthy person right now.  Well I have not baked all week so there you go!  I need to go home and bake up something tonight.  What should I bake?  Pie?

Pie always makes me remember that movie Waitress.  I love her character in that movie because I can relate in some areas.  She made the most delicious looking pies.  I think I need to hone in on that and create some pies tonight.  My grandmother gave me the best pie baking advice and it is now my own special secret ingredient which I can’t ever share with you, but just know I have the best dough due to Grandma. Thank you, Grandma.  I am sure the smell of her delicious bread is wafting through heaven about now.

So if you are up for participating in a food fight to end all food fights I think we still have room for a few more volunteers.  We should do this food fight and have people bring food for the Oregon Food Bank or something to get a ticket to come and watch.  This could become an annual thing.  It could even go as far as Chicago!  No one has to know that the reason we started this was due to a rage against some select people who lied and didn’t follow through on promises made and ate a whole pan of tiramisu alone, among other things!  We can say we are doing this for charity.  Which we have in spades. Obviously.  But maybe I am prejudiced.

~Chelsea

 

Mom Gets What She Deserves

Well my Mother’s Day was awesome.  It was my day.  And it should have been the day for every mom out there.  If you are like us in our house you might have some family traditions for this special day.  Usually my kids and husband let me sleep in and then make me breakfast in bed, which usually consists of dry cereal!  But its delicious because it is made with love.

What’s better than breakfast in bed?  Dessert in bed!  Ha ha!  This year though my hubby and kids made me Eggs Benedict, fresh strawberries, hash browns, orange juice and coffee with the perfect amount of cream and sugar!  Delicious!  Then later, my husband made a batch of his delicious chocolate chip cookies that we ate with ice cream for dessert.

This year though Stressed Desserts had their first Mother’s Day order.  Thank you for your order, you know who you are!  And I hope your mother loved it.  We created a special heart-shaped Mother’s Day chocolate cake.  The cake was made with milk and dark chocolate cake, then filled with a Bailey’s Irish Cream ganache and frosted with more Bailey’s Irish Cream and ganache based chocolate buttercream frosting and finished with dark chocolate curls.  Rich and perfect for the ultimate chocolate loving mom.  Here is a picture of the final result.

Mother's Day Chocolate Bailey's Irish Cream Cake

Contest cupcakes! One dozen birthday cake cupcakes.

These are the cupcakes that our contest winner got to enjoy!  Basically the same recipe as the Mother’s Day Chocolate Bailey’s Irish Cream Cake but with yellow cake in an Afterschool Chocolate Cake kind of way.  Our winner says they were delicious!  We are so glad that you liked them!

Different toppings make the cupcakes stand out and add a texture or taste influence to the cupcake.  I used a Mexican cinnamon chocolate dusting powder on 1/4 of the cupcakes, a vanilla dusting powder on another 1/4, white sugar pearls on 1/4 and pink sugar pearls on the last 1/4.  I also used the new innovative double papered cupcake papers.  They were incredible to use.  The color of the paper does not change when baking and the cupcakes come out of the paper without a problem.

I love it when you find that special product that makes your life so much easier.  I have a huge list of products I like and these cupcake wrappers are going to the top of the list. They are incredible.  Even our contest winner told me that he liked them!

Speaking of contests:  we will most likely be having another contest soon!  We will let you know when and what that will entail a little later.  We would also like to announce that we have been added as a preferred vendor to the Pioneer Church at Baker Cabin in Carver, OR.  It’s a beautiful venue and we are pleased and honored to be included in their vendor list.  For anyone looking for a rustic, charming, turn of the century, historic venue this is the place to be!

Right on the Clackamas River and surrounded by beautiful landscaping, it can’t be missed. We can’t wait to deliver cakes, cupcakes and favors to weddings there and to help plan the event!

We hope that all of the moms out there had a fabulous day filled with all of their favorites!  And thank you for your orders.  If you have a special occasion coming up let us know how we can help!  We are getting busy with birthday cakes, wedding cakes/favors, Father’s Day orders and Graduation cakes!  If there is a special shape you want for a cookie bouquet or cookie pops/favors let us know–we probably have it! And watch out for PayPal to be joining our blog soon so the ordering process will be much more simple!  ~Chelsea

 

Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there.  I hope your day was just as you had hoped; delightful, peaceful, relaxing and most of all full of love.

With the last few weeks of non-stop pastry work, I am finally able to find my pulse and breathe again.  I can honestly say; I’m pooped. Ha Ha.  From baskets of cake, cookies and cupcakes galore to chocolate heavenly desserts and small bites of sweet goodness, I was literally up to my elbows in pastry. 

Breathing long slow breaths was my agenda today along with relaxation. I got the best of both worlds dealt to me today. 

This morning I was awakened with a hot, perfectly made cup of coffee by my kiddos followed by a “Happy Mother’s Day, I love you MOMMY!” That in itself is the best reason to be a mom. 

Today, my brother offered to watch my little ones so I could spend the day with my mommy.  We went to lunch, window shopped and saw a movie.  We watched “Water For Elephants”, which was fantastic by the way.  We walked around and talked, laughed and got to enjoy some time to ourselves. 

I love my kids immensely but because I am a single mom, and a workaholic; some “ME” time is necessary now and again. 

That’s all for now, and again Happy Mother’s Day!!

~Liz

 

Bunny Business

Well Happy Almost Easter everyone!  The chocolate stops here.  No really, it stops.  I am on a diet.  Yes, I know.  Right before Easter.  No, I did not give up anything for Lent unless you count cigarettes and all things that have carbohydrates and sugar in them.  This is killing me. Life is not sweet at the moment.  But I have lost 3 pounds in 4 days so this impossible-to-live-on diet is working.  My German/Irish ancestors are probably collectively rolling over in their graves on multiple continents.

So just to torture myself and to take an order from my mother, I have been baking sugar cookies, cake pops and brownie pops for the children’s Easter treats for Easter Sunday at my parents church.  My mother really did order these from me.  You wouldn’t think three dozen was a significant amount of goodies but they are when you are trying to make them look Martha-perfect.  And cake pops….Well they look easy when you are looking in the recipe book.  Of course, I did not follow the recipe.  You blog readers know the drill.  We never follow a recipe.  The first batch of brownie pops that I made were incredible if I do say so myself.  I unfortunately (or fortunately) baked those for the NW Wedding Professionals meeting last Tuesday.  Those turned out to be delicious morsels that attendees are still raving about on the various social media outlets that we frequent daily.  However, the Easter chicks and bunnies are turning out to be like Bugs Bunny trying to catch the pesky mouse that eludes him.  Difficult and exasperating.  But they are finished.  All 36 cookies and pops.  Finally.

Here they are:

They actually turned out better than I thought they would in the beginning.  I am impressed with myself because normally I do not decorate well.  As I have stated numerous times, I usually leave the decorating to Liz because, let’s face it, she is awesome at it.  Her desserts look like you would hurt someone to get to it.  Mine don’t have anyone racing to them from anywhere.  Which is partly why I thought we would make a great team!  I love dealing with the business stuff (you know, money, numbers, management, finding talent, etc.) and Liz is the creative genius.  I do make a fabulous tasting cookies though.  But Liz has to finish them off.

The other night at my house, Liz instructed me on how to hold my pastry bad and use a slightly different (i.e. correct) technique.  Amazing.  I can actually write with frosting now.  And thanks to me–for learning so quickly!   They are cute and edible!  Success.  Now everyone can rest assured that I will not poison anyone at church on Easter Sunday:)

My children have been biting their little cheeks waiting to be included in the decoration process.  Normally I let them go to town on a few cookies of their own, but this time there was an exception since time and money were involved. It was a no go.  They were not pleased.  But the bunny will be hopping into bedrooms soon!  So have the clothes nests ready and the baskets filled with fake grass because that’s how the Americans do it!  We love our grass!  If you saw Liz’s last blog you will now know that the retail outlets in towns small and large are now selling edible grass.  Because you know, our kids can’t have an insulin-shock-sugar-coma fast enough on any chocolate-filled holiday such as Easter.  Who are you candy grass maker?  How much are you paid?  Because that looks easier than making chicks on sticks!

~Hope the bunny finds you and puts some Dove Bliss in your basket this Easter!

~Chelsea

 P.S.  The contest still applies for the 100 “Likes” on Facebook.  You could win a basket of cookies and pops or cupcakes like you see pictured in this blog.  Hurry Stressed Dessert fans because the orders are coming in and we only have so much time left in the month to bake these delicious treats for you!  This could be a wonderful Mother’s Day gift.  Think about it.  Go and tell your friends.  I promise Liz will do the design work so  you are in good hands!