May flowers: pretty and edible

Happy Wordless Wednesday and Thursday 13. I've also just discovered What I Love Wednesday, and I'm linking there.  You can too.  :-)  If you have your own WW post, be sure to sign in with the linkie below.  I have beautiful and edible May flowers to share with you today.  I hope these photographs give you inspiration for your own culinary delights.  I find it impossible to choose a favorite.  Can you?

Flickr/chotda
Cream cheese, condensed milk and gelatin folded into whipped cream, atop a sugar/orange liqueur-drizzled sponge cake. Topped with "petals" of fresh mango, and a mango-orange juice glaze. The working recipe is here if you'd like to try making it yourself. 

Flickr/Amy Eilert
Flower themed cakelet.  Flower pot mini cake design serving 3-4.

Flickr/bananagranola
Sakura Themed Jelly Candies
Made by Takanoya-sadahiro confectionery, Kyoto, Japan.

Flickr/nadiya9
Rose granita.
Rose water, lime, and honey. Tastes very delicate.

Flickr/k_keiko
Would you like to have a lotus cake?  This is the center of the lotus flower.

Flickr/bananagranola
Rose Rakugan. Wagashi shop Fukujudo-Hidenobu in department store,
Daimaru-Shinsaibashi, Osaka, Japan.



Flickr/BakeyBakey
Rosy cupcake set, inspired by Cath Kidston, designed by Bakey Bakey.
These were a trial of a white chocolate mudcake recipe decorated with buttercream and fondant.

 

Flickr/Mo RisaJonawagashi
Note below the box: Each shape represents seasonal items and/or flowers.
Each is hand made using red and/or white bean paste with natural food coloring.
Usually served for Japanese tea ceremonies.

Flickr/Amy Eilert
Flower themed cakelet. Fancy little vase of flowers mini cake design.

Flickr/Kim Dever Thibodeaux
The outside of the cake was frosted with Ghirardelli chocolate frosting, then vanilla fondant.
Border and stems are fondant. Flowers are gumpaste.

Flickr/purpletwinkie
Chocolate Centerpiece.
Photographed at the IKA International Culinary Olympics, Erfurt, Germany.

Flickr/Joseph's Vienna Bakery
Susan's flower, hand made flower on chocolate fondant wedding cake.

Flickr/Soma.R
Saffron Yogurt Mousse with Rose Petal Honey.

Flickr/Amy Eilert
Flower pot on gardening book mini cakes design with coordinating cupcakes.

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Classic chocolate cupcakes with purple buttercream and edible flowers.

Flickr/Tiney's Bakeshop
These are sugar flowers.

Flickr/Betty Crocker Recipes
Flower Power Cupcakes decorated with colored licorice twists.

Flickr/Amy Eilert
Set of 3 Flower pot mini cake designs.

Flickr/Amy Eilert
Flower themed cakelet. A topiary mini cake of little roses.

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Martha's Foolproof Chocolate Fudge Recipe

This is a recipe from one of our church friends.  You can be sure that Martha will bring her foolproof chocolate fudge to any gathering, bake sale or Christmas boutique.  You can also be sure that everyone will ask her for the recipe.  She's used to it and brings along the photocopied recipe for all to enjoy.  I tell you, it is delicious -- just look at the ingredients -- and it is so quick and easy too.  Like she says, it is foolproof.



Martha's Foolproof Chocolate Fudge Recipe

Chocolate Nut Fudge: Tropical Foods/Flickr

One 6 oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chips
One 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup chopped nuts
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
dash of salt

Melt chocolate chips with condensed milk in saucepan over low heat.  Add vanilla and salt.  Pour into 8 or 9 inch square pan lined with wax paper.  Chill for 2 hours and cut into squares.

Thanksgiving desserts: Joy of Desserts' 70+ recipe bonanza

Thanksgiving will be here all too quickly, so it's time to start planning your menus.  Of course there will be the tried and true favorites which we all have and cannot have Thanksgiving dinner without.  But in our family we also always try a few new dishes each year, just so that the holiday doesn't get boring and stale with the same old, same old.

Here is a list of more than 70 recipes full of fall flavors, and just perfect for gracing your Thanksgiving dining tables.  Just click on the links.

Have fun planning,

Pumpkin Pie - Home Shopper/Flickr

Pumpkins

Pumpkin Custard
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Jam
Caramel Pumpkin Brownie Trifle



Spices
Shoo-fly Pie
Prize-winning Ginger Cheese Muffins
Spice Muffins
Sour Cream Cookies
Spice Cake

Apples

Apple Breakfast Bread
Apple Fluff Pie
Easy Apple Brown Betty
Makes Its Own Crust Apple Pie
Fast, Easy Brie En Croute Apple Compote Dessert
French Apple Tart
Tartes Tatin (2 recipes -- French Caramelized Upside-Down Apple Pies)
Applesauce Kugel

Pears

Pear Banana Compote
Pears with Crackling Caramel Sauce (easy microwave recipe)
Quick and Easy Stuffed Pears

Poire Belle Helene - yuichi.sakuraba/Flickr

Tasty, Fast, Easy Pears Belle Helene
Warm Caramelized Pears With Clove Zabaglione

Caramel, Maple and Molasses

Caramel Apple Dip (also great with pears)
Molasses Cookies
Nectar Cake
Crackling Caramel Sauce (easy microwave recipe)
Warm Caramelized Pears With Clove Zabaglione Recipe
Prize-Winning Baked Caramel Custard
Caramel Pumpkin Brownie Trifle
Maple Coffee Ice Cream
Maple Parfait


Chocolate
Chocolate Whipped Cream Cupcakes
Chocolate Chiffon Pie
Chocolate Cupcakes
Julia Child's Chocolate Mousse
Honey Fudge and Raisin Fudge
Morton's Godiva Hot Chocolate Cake
Mars Chocolate Bars Brownies
Paul Newman's Favorite Orange Chocolate Angel Food Cake
Chocolate Brownies
Prize-Winning Chocolate Pudding
Chocolate Fruit Pudding
10-Minute Scrumptious Chocolate Cake Surprise

Nuts and Dried Fruits

Mocha Cake - All about craft/Flickr

Pecan Date Raisin Bread
Rolled Figs
Nectar Cake
Mocha Cake with Coffee Butter Icing
Sour Cream Cookies
Raisin Cake
Raisin Fudge
Prize-Winning Date Macaroons
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

More Tasty Desserts

First American Pound Cake
Mocha Cake with Coffee Butter Icing
Quick Coffee Cake
Upside-Down Cake
Julia Child's Cream Cheese and Lemon Flan
Honey Fudge
Victoria Fudge
Custard Sauce or Creme Anglaise
Graham Cracker Cake
Cream Pie, Macaroon Cream Pie, Banana Cream Pie and Pineapple Cream Pie
Brown Sugar Cookies
Cake Icings and Fillings
Gold Cake

Vintage strawberry divinity fudge recipe

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, and postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you post?

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I'm keeping with the strawberry theme from yesterday.  I love fruit, and spring and summer's bounty will only get better as the sunshiny days go by.  Time to rejoice with lots of fruit eaten out of hand, and added to all sorts of wonderful desserts, too.

Do you love divinity fudge?  These days making your own is just about the only way you can find it without any corn syrup.  So get yourself a candy thermometer if you are not used to the sugar stages, and go for it.  Don't be afraid.  Be bold. 

 

Strawberry Divinity Fudge

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup water

1/4 tsp. cream of tartar

1 cup preserved strawberries

2 egg whites

Boil sugar, water, and cream of tartar to firm stage (248 F.).  Add strawberries which have been drained as dry as possible.  Let come to a boil again.  Pour slowly, beating constantly, over stiffly beaten egg whites.  Beat until thick and fluffy.  Pour into well-buttered pans.  When firm cut in squares.  Any thick preserves or candied fruit may be substituted for strawberries.  Phoebe Journey, Stratton, Nebr.

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