Sat show~ Holland West Shore Mall

Got lots to do today to get ready for the show tomorrow!!

I did lots of baking and prep yesterday and wish i would have had my cam with me. I hopped on over to martha stewarts site and found these absoutely **adorable** little cake pops and a recipe. WELLLLLLLL I made my own devils food cake up and added some homemade cream cheese frosting then after chillin in the freezer dipped them in chocolate and rolled in some toppings! OH my goodness they are cute!! and super cakeilicious!! and really instead of havin all the guilt of eating a big ol piece of cake these little guys are just 2 bitefuls of pure sweet heaven!! will post pics later of them.

Made some brown sugar cookies filled with toasted almond bits and did the "farmgirl bling" on them with some melted chocolate, good cookies too. Also did up some of my pistachio bread, cranberry lemon scones, (super sconeilicious) peanut butter chocolate fudge, dipped popcorn balls, choc chip cookies, cake roll mixes ready to bake today, oh and a cheesecake topped brownie that was incredibly yummo!! And also did up 3 different kinds of my chunky moist brownies one pan was topped with halloweeny m and m's, another has raspberry preserves swirled in and the third one is cream cheese carmel swirled with chocolate chips.

I think that was it. So I hope yall have a great friday!! Will let yall know on Sunday how the show was and will have pics!! Gotta get things done here so I can get to the kitchen and play!!

ENJOY TODAY*

~HUGS~

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Some baking pics for ya

WEll guess what!! I FOUND my dig camera!! Cant believe it was under some papers on the butcher block table in kitchen!! AND I searched everywhere and I mean everywhere. WEll apparently NOT!! LOL so here are pics that i took that day at the kitchen.

~~LIVE LIFE These were just really cute little candy corn shaped sugar cookies. JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~These are pumpkin bread with raisins

and they were really flavorful!~! LOVE punkin recipes!! too yummy

I did add some orange zest in with the pumpkin and it sure was a nice addition to the bread.

So today I am heading over to the kitchen to make up some mixes and do some chocolate pretzels for my show this weekend at West Shore Mall in Holland MI OH if you come you will not leave hungry i plan on having lots of samples out!

Samples will include my pumpkin spice dip, taffy apple dip, pistachio bread, fudge and maybe a bar cookie sample too. Will see what all i can get accomplished today with what i have at kitchen. Oh and definetly will have my pumpkin cake rolls for sale and a chocolate cake roll too!! COME ON OVER!!

Saturday show Holland MI

Some asst cookies for on gift trays.

If yall are around the holland area we are in a great show at the West Shore Mall sat from 10am to 3 pm

They have over 60 booths there too!! See u there!!

This is Callie getting some attention from Bry and of cource you see where Barney is??>>

So Barney's date went very well and hopefully we will have puppies on the way!! We all left for a couple hours to give the little couple some privacy so it was productive time!! LOL

I bought this little dog for Mr Boopie Woopie Boo for his ride home>>>>>>>>.isnt it cute!!

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WELL MY LITTLE MR. BOOPIE WOOPIE BOO HAS A DATE TODAY!!!

yepper that is right Barney is meeting up with a little gal Callie today~ He met her a few months ago in hopes that they would hit it off and we can let him daddy some pups well the time is NOW! So my little boy will have to get spiffed up today for his big date!! LOL I posted a couple of my favo pics of him. The one is when we had just brought him home oh i LOVE that pic!!~ the other one I could just hear him saying "what you talkin bout mommy?"

AND THIS PIC IS A FAVO OF MINE OF BUSTER a couple of years ago!! HE looks so mad!! His little eyebrows are even wrinkled up!! He really didnt like the hair I put on his hat at all!! LOL

>>>>>>>>> these cookies are nekked!~! above you can see how I "did the farmgirl bling" to them!! They are absolutley a wonderful cookie too! I found a recipe for them and decided it would be fun to use some of my powdered chai tea mix for flavor. WOW! they are good and the buttercream filling actually has a bit of it in also! very mild but yet full flavored.

I love these little mini struesel filled pumpkin cakes!! they are so moist and flavorful!!

so I did go to market yesterday am but after 2 1/2 hours of nothing but picking things up from the strong winds we had I decided to pack things up and wait for the pick up customers to come and then leave. It was horrible both of my big wood weighted down display racks blew over and then after picking all that up and putting them back in trailer the gusts were so strong it was just like throwing things around. Enough is enough!! A couple of my gift mugs got broken and then a container of cookies blew off table and of cource didnt survive the crash. Darn the boys were able to eat some pieces of those though. So last market day was sad!!

BUT>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am baking today to fill the shop tomorrow with goodies!! Dont forget all you close by folks FLORAL TOUCH FLORIST just west of Fennville will have all my baked goods for you!! I am planning on having more of the mini pumpkin cakes above and also a couple of large full ones, some cookies, muffins, a couple of cakes, candies, and lots of chocolate treats!! Plus this week i will put out samples so come on in and enjoy!!! We are off M-89 the main road to fennville, just 2 miles east of Blue Star Highway. 269-543-4815

Special Orders welcome!!

If you dont already know I do use as much locally made/grown produce in my baked goods, in fact I froze a ton of zucchini, blueberries, strawberries, cherries, peaches and everything else I could to use this winter. My silly dilly beans and all my jalapeno jellies are there and I made some fresh Spiced apple butter last week.

Stop on by!!

I better get my little boy all ready for his date now and hopefully he is returning home a changed guy!! LOL

Have a great day yall!!

*HUGS*

Darlene

~~LIFE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

ARe u ReaDy FoR HallOWeEn??

Only a couple of days left til HALLOWEEN!!!
I love the fall and also halloween!! usually get dressed up along with my Buster and we hand out candy to all the kiddos at my inlaws home but we wont be doin that this year!! =( oh well it is really sounding like it is gonna be NASTY outside. Darn every year we have beautiful days before and then the day before or that day michigan weather does a BAM!! CHANGO and it gets super awful!! Sooooooo maybe that means the tricksters will be stayin inside too!!

Today was the last market day in ALLEGAN. I just want to tell all my faithful and special customers a huge HUGE THANK YOU for buying from me!! IT WAS A GREAT SEASON!! hard to believe it is over alreay though!! BUT that just means next season will be bigger and better and I will have a ton of new sweet things for yall! It is in the works??? for maybe doin a couple of markets before the holidays for people so will keep ya updated on that too!! Our market manager is checkin into it and having it indoors!! yippee HEAT and no wind!! WOO HOO~~~

The pumpkin rolls were a big ol success they all sold and I even got a few orders for them for the week of thanksgiving!! and I did a red velvet cake roll with my concotion of raspberry cream filling!! OH my goodness they were super duper yummy!!

Tomorrow will be all about gettin ready for the last south haven market on saturday and maybe I will try a few news things. DONT FORGET for all you local folks WE ARE AT THE FLORAL TOUCH FLORIST on M-89 goin west to Fennville with baked goods for ya!!
I will keep a supply of cakes, muffins, cookies, sweet treats, my quick breads and dipped pretzels and candies there now. ALSO we are making up gift food items and gourmet food gifts for the holidays too!! delivery available**
269-543-4815

So have a blessed evening I am off to do chores and unload some hay. SURVIVOR tonight!! yeah!!
HUGS!~
** Darlene **

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

bUsTeR, CoOkIeS and a foodie gift

Above was Buster in 2006 when he took 2nd place in the petco costume contest!! MY CLOWN MR, BROWN!! Below was another clown costume I made him to greet all the kiddies at my inlaws house for halloween!! he was a big HIT!! He is just destined to be a clown every year!!

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Here are the t" bear cookies I told you bout! ARENT THEY TOO STINKIN CUTE!???

I was gonna put a little mouth on them but NAY! they are good to go this way and sold them all at market yesterday.

OH and now the foodie gift mug I made for the shop.

Found this darling ceramic coffee mug, added a little kitchen tea towel, 3 of my homemade chocolate dipped biscotti slices, a little tin green tea scented candle, and 2 of my single serve cappacino mixes. I think this would make a great gift for a coworker a friend or family member for any occasion!! I know i would love to recieve it!! Well gotta run and make a few more up.

Have a blessed afternoon!!

HUGS

Darlene and Buster Brown the halloween Clown

Fed up with rain!!

Ok so it has poured ALL stinkin day today and it is dark and gloomy!! I NEED THE SUNSHINE!!! where the heck is it??
So I made 5 of the pumpkin rolls today and cut one up in slices to sell individually at market tomorrow. It is supposed to be cold and rainy tomorrow but hopefully not too bad!!
I also made a pecan brittle that turned out great!! I used some salted toasted pecans and then pumpkin pie spice in it instead of just cinnamon and boy what a flavor!! yummo
Also made up some more frosted punkin sugar cookies and some cutesy bear face/head cookies I will take a pic of them they are way too cute to eat! Mand M for eyes and nose and some fall sprinkles on their ears. I think i will do some of them for the fall shows on a stick for the kiddies. Oh and did a big ol batch of apple butter so the kitchen smelled so good with the apples and cinnamon cooking!! I will have to make some biscuits tonight for supper so I can enjoy some of the butter on them. LOL

Well better go out and do chores it looks like the rain has let up a bit ! YEAH
Have a blessed weekend yall!!
HUGS
Darlene
!~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~