Aren't they the greatest! I've always wanted to make "shrunken heads" and this year I finally did it. With some old apples I peeled them, dunked them in some lemon juice mixed with water, and carefully carved out whatever features I thought appropriate. Supposedly you can leave them out and let them dry and shrivel on their own, but I'm not that patient. So into the oven they went! They were in there on a low setting for maybe 24 hours before we got them out. As they sat on the counter (or wherever) for a few days they continued to get more wrinkled and delapitated looking. I finished them with a coat of clear craft glaze spray, to keep the fruit flies away. :) I think they are so cute! I imagine they are singing together with great harmony.
When the leaves first started falling I wondered if I could somehow stamp their form onto stationary. I love stationary! I grabbed a pretty leaf and decided to try out a fall flower as well. The only type of craft paint I have right now happens to be finger paint, but I think it did the job quite well. :) Isn't the flower design so fun?! My husband said it looks like fireworks...and it kind of does! Doing the leaf on the second sheet was a little harder, well it just took allot of blotting to make sure I had the right amount of paint so the leaf veins would show up nicely. I was so happy with how these turned out. Now I just need someone to write a letter to!
With using strange things as "stamps" on my mind I continued...
I know! They looked so much better without the paint, but I had to try! Unfortunately their faces didn't translate onto the paper very well. But I was satisfied by trying something new, so it was worth it to me. :)
The best for last! This was a very yummy pumpkin!
Basically just a brownie baked in a deep pie plate and covered with orange frosting. I didn't want to bother with somehow making black icing, so chocolate chips stepped in and did a wonderful job. The recipe for this brownie was super simple and came out tasting more delicious and wonderful than I thought it would. So I must share it...
Jumbo Jack-o-Lantern Brownie
3/4 cup melted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Heat oven to 350 degrees and line a 12-inch pizza pan with foil; grease foil
Stir together butter, sugar, and vanilla before adding eggs and beating well with spoon. Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl and gradually add it to egg mixture, stirring until well blended. Spread batter into prepared pan.
Bake 20 to 22 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in the center. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Remove from pan so the bottom is facing up. Peel off foil and frost/decorate.
The frosting is just a regular buttercream frosting with red and yellow food coloring used to make it orange. I don't have a 12 inch pizza pan so I used my 9 1/2 inch pie plate. So my brownie was thicker and took longer to bake. But boy was it good!!
I think I'll be making it again very soon...yum!
When the leaves first started falling I wondered if I could somehow stamp their form onto stationary. I love stationary! I grabbed a pretty leaf and decided to try out a fall flower as well. The only type of craft paint I have right now happens to be finger paint, but I think it did the job quite well. :) Isn't the flower design so fun?! My husband said it looks like fireworks...and it kind of does! Doing the leaf on the second sheet was a little harder, well it just took allot of blotting to make sure I had the right amount of paint so the leaf veins would show up nicely. I was so happy with how these turned out. Now I just need someone to write a letter to!With using strange things as "stamps" on my mind I continued...
I know! They looked so much better without the paint, but I had to try! Unfortunately their faces didn't translate onto the paper very well. But I was satisfied by trying something new, so it was worth it to me. :)
The best for last! This was a very yummy pumpkin!Basically just a brownie baked in a deep pie plate and covered with orange frosting. I didn't want to bother with somehow making black icing, so chocolate chips stepped in and did a wonderful job. The recipe for this brownie was super simple and came out tasting more delicious and wonderful than I thought it would. So I must share it...
Jumbo Jack-o-Lantern Brownie
3/4 cup melted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Heat oven to 350 degrees and line a 12-inch pizza pan with foil; grease foil
Stir together butter, sugar, and vanilla before adding eggs and beating well with spoon. Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl and gradually add it to egg mixture, stirring until well blended. Spread batter into prepared pan.
Bake 20 to 22 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in the center. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Remove from pan so the bottom is facing up. Peel off foil and frost/decorate.
The frosting is just a regular buttercream frosting with red and yellow food coloring used to make it orange. I don't have a 12 inch pizza pan so I used my 9 1/2 inch pie plate. So my brownie was thicker and took longer to bake. But boy was it good!!
I think I'll be making it again very soon...yum!
4 comments:
My sweet. Those little heads are not singing. They are screaming in terror for being stuck in that oven for so long. :P
No, no! They loved the oven, so warm and toasty!
So toasty that it melted their faces.
Haha!
Post a Comment