Babycakes

The babies have been baked!

Say hello to Rosetta...in the form of cake balls!

These cake balls are for a bake sale to raise money for our school's drama club. Because plays cost a lot...

We're not going to give  you a specific recipe, because these treats are super flexible...

Heres how you make them:

1. Make your favorite cake/cupcake recipe (or use boxed if you feel like it)
2. Make (or buy) a frosting that goes well with your cake
3. Crumble your cake into a bowl
4. Add frosting and mix until you get a good consistency (the crumbs should stick together, but not be overpowered by the frosting)
5. Melt some chocolate (milk, white, dark, or colored...pretty much whatever you want)
6. Form them into balls with your hands (pretty much any size you want...just not overly huge)
7. One by one dip the balls into the chocolate, then either:
8a. Add garnishes (like the sprinkles we added) while the chocolate is still wet
8b. or put them in the fridge so that the chocolate will harden (after it's hardened, and if the color is light enough you can add a design in those edible pen things...)
9. Eat them! Or sell them! Or give them away! Or do whatever you planned on doing with them!

No babies were harmed in the making of this blog.

Baked Babies!

Rosetta-Thor and Athena-Zeus

Yes, that cliche assignment of "flour babies" has made its way to Adventures with Butter.
Meet Athena-Zeus and Rosetta-Thor, Nutmeg's children. Wondering about the middle names? We had been hoping that she would be assigned twin boys so that their names could be Zeus and Thor. Because, admit it, how epic would that be? Unfortunately, she got twin girls, so they just got masculine (awesome) middle names.
Now the assignment is over, which poses the question. What to do with the babies? Here at Adventures with Butter we do NOT waste flour! So stay tuned to see what has become of Athena and Rosetta...

Sugar Cookies

So something you should know about us: we love theatre. This past summer we participated in a group who put on a show and donated all proceeds to a local charity. Not only did the money from the ticket sales go to charity, we also did 2 car washes and a bunch of bakesales, which are, of course, our favorite fundraiser!
For the first bake sale, we baked together for the first time and we made simple sugar cookies, which sold like crazy!

Comedy Tragedy Masks & The flower represents the charity we donated to

The icing on the cookies is royal icing. But not really, its actually just powdered sugar and water and food coloring.
The great thing about these cookies is just by decorating them differently they can be for a bunch of different events:

Leaf cookies for the local community garden event

 or...

Balloons for a birthday

or...

Add sprinkles! (Great if you're babysitting...)

 Sugar Cookies
from America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book

Ingredients:
2 cups Sugar
2 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
1 3/4 sticks unsalted butter (softened
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 eggs 


What to Do:
1.  Whisk flour, baking powder and salt together
2. Beat butter and 1 1/2 cups of the sugar together with an electric mixer until fluffy 
3. Put vanilla and eggs into the butter mixture
4. Add flour mixture until combined
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare baking pan
6. Roll dough into balls 
7. If you don't plan on icing them, roll each ball in the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar, if you do plan on icing them you can skip this step
8.  Place on the baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes rotating half way
9. Let them cool for 10 minutes
10. EAT THEM! (but only if they are intended for you to eat, if they are a gift, do NOT eat them) 

for Royal Icing, just mix powdered sugar with water until you get the consistency you need (for outlining it should be thicker, filling in, thinner). Maybe when we get better at it we will do a post on how to ice your cookies, but for now experiment, that's the funnest way to learn!


Just as a side note, the bake sales this summer helped us make at least 100 dollars per sale and we had three (this is a lot for a bake sale) and in total we raised 16000 dollars for the local charity.