Sweet Anne's

Monday, August 18, 2008

Monday, July 23, 2007

INGREDIENTS:

Sugar Cookie:

1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

(I always use the ready made sugar cookie dough but you can make your own dough too)

Cream Cheese spread:

1 (8 ounce) package strawberry cream cheese
1/3 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 dollups (is that how you spell dollup?) of Cool Whip

Your favorite fruit

DIRECTIONS: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 3/4 cup sugar until smooth. Mix in egg. combine the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Press dough into an ungreased pizza pan.

3. Bake in preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool.

4. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese with 1/3 cup sugar, Cool Whip and vanilla until light. Spread on cooled crust.

5. Arrange desired fruit on top of filling, and chill.

Yum!

Friday, July 13, 2007

The Eboni Cake

So the cake was inspired by a thing Eboni and Anthony did during their wedding ceremony. She had a vase with yellow sand and he had a vase of blue-ish sand and they poured their individual sands into one larger vase to make this mix of the two colored sands. So the cake symbolizes E & A with the yellow and blue stripes on each layer and the top represents the two of them coming together as husband and wife with the sands layered together in the one vase. If that makes no sense I can at least tell you that the cake tasted good. I was very pleased with it's moistness.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Let the Cake Making Begin

My friend Eboni got married in the Bahamas a few weeks ago, and is having a reception here in DC next weekend. So it's time to get this cake started. Originally, I planned to work from her bouquet.

It would be my first attempt at lilies, and I'm pretty sure I can pull it off. So all along I've been telling her that her cake will follow in my tradition of three-tiered round wedding cakes with some type of yellow flower smattered about the layers. But all of the sudden, today I decided I wanted to do something a little more funky. Eboni is pretty funky herself, and she has agreed to be my creative guinea pig. I have no idea what I'll come up with but right now I'm leaning toward something with stripes or polka dots. If you're thinking "hideous!" don't bother to tell me. I'll have some pictures posted by July 1 of whatever I come up with.