2 more pumpkins this year! The clown was sculpted from my own 44 pound Dill's Big Atlantic Pumpkin and Scamper was sculpted from a 55 pound pumpkin I won in a raffle, then donated back to the same cause for their auction fundraiser. I hear he went to a good home!
the "real" scamper...
This western cake is surrounded by hand made sugar barbed wire, sugar horseshoes and western cattle/horse brands. The cake is german chocolate with homemade coconut pecan filling in the middle and covered with german chocolate buttercream - all from scratch. Yum! This cake was done for my Wee Bites cancer fundraiser website along with 80 large german chocolate whoopies - fit right in with their western theme and got lots of compliments (the party organizer told me there were anyway) :) ...
Meet Tree Brain - you'd think in all the time it took to carve him I could have come up with a better name! ha. - Pumpkin carving attempt #2 - 42.5 pound Dill Atlantic Pumpkin. See Big-Eyed-Boo Pumpkin #1
Well, I made an attempt to grow to GIANT pumpkins this year... and well, let's just say they didn't make it to GIANT status but they were heavy... or maybe I was just tired! *L* One was 42.5 pounds and the other was 26.5 pounds... not huge by any means, but they are my first, so I love them. Because I have talked to these pumpkins all summer & fall (to encourage growth I suppose - or just because they were good listeners) I decided to try my hand at sculpting since they were so ...
We're doing two cancer "bake sale" type fundraisers this fall for my 2-year old granddaughter who has liver cancer. 100% of our profits will go to Mazie's family (http://www.miracle4mazie.org) We've done quite a bit of fundraising this summer and now it's time for BAKING FUN!! woo hoo. I absolutely can't wait! I have so many recipes to pick from it's really hard to narrow them down! For sure, we will be at the Kappa Kraft Fair in Powell, WY on Sat. Nov. 27th at the fairgrounds and if we ...
