THE SWEET SPOT

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Just in case you didn't know, yesterday , the day before Halloween, was National Candy Corn Day.  I hate the taste of candy corn; it's just too sickeningly sweet.  However, I love the colors and shape of candy corn!  It's the perfect Halloween/Fall symbol and I love decorating with it.  I've glued it onto picture frames, and filled vases with it.  However, I've never really used them in my cooking or baking until this week. I bought a bag of candy corn for our pre-Halloween party to use as a "garnish" on our homemade caramel apples.  They were the right size for embellishing the apples, along with mini marshmallows, mini M&Ms, mini chocolate chips, nuts and coconut flakes.  It was a big bag, so I was inspired to also try something that I've always loved as a child--Jello Parfait! What child of the 70s didn't admire the beauty of this Jello creation in Mom's Ladies Home Journal magazines?  Simply layers of Jello an...

So what has Sweetest Whimsy been up to since Summer 2010? Quite a bit, actually! (But obviously not blogging!) I present to you the cakes from Summer & Fall 2010 and Winter & Spring 2011: Retro Baby Shower Cake, September 2011 This was an almost exact replica of a cake made in 1974 for the baby's father's shower! Summer 1974 Molded Bunny Chocolates & Cupcakes, September 2011 (Disclaimer: Yes, those are Easter chocolate molds. Did you know it's very difficult to find anything with bunnies when it's not Spring or Easter?!) Sweet Bunny Cake (modeled after the Birthday Girl's brand new pet bunny!) Elmo Eats Cake! Vintage Elmo cake pan and balloon topper used for an adorable 3-year old boy's cake. "Old school" cake that I never get tired of making! 3D Monkey Cake for 1st Birthday Boy! October 2010 Monkey Closeup Rite of passage for a 1 year old: Monkey Smash Cake! Fondant & Buttercream Before we knew it, Halloween was upon us! Happy Hal...