Puff Pastry Cornucoppia

This year I decided to make my favorite Puff Pastry Cornucoppias. I wasn't doing the major cooking for Thanksgiving dinner so I thought these would be my special contribution. They were a big hit, some guests filled them with steamed green beans, others with a mixed nut and dried fruit combination. Either way they were very delicious!

I start by making a cone out of aluminum foil:


Then I wrap 1/2" strips of puff pastry around the cones:

Here they are coming out of the oven:


Once the aluminum foil cone is removed (very gently!) they're ready to be filled!

Baby Shower Cake

I was so excited to create a cake for a baby shower that was contemporary and without any typical baby themes. So I searched the internet for ideas and found myself going back to the website where I consistently find inspiration, fabulousstationery.com. It is filled with tons of amazing graphic patterns. I've not only purchased stationery from them but used many of their designs as inspirations for cake patterns.





So this cake was inspired by their design titled, "Zany Zinnias" The flowers are made from dyed white chocolate which allows me to get a very fine detail that holds its shape unlike anything else I've found.