WHEN WILL I EVER FIND MY TALENT??

Okay, I know it's Sunday, and this probably isn't the best thing to be doing on the Sabbath so shhhhhhhhh, but Mooch is sick (passing another kidney stone) and me and the little girls were board so we thought we would experiment a little and try to do something creative. I was on my skitzo Janae's blog the other day and came across a link she had for Bakerella. This lady had the most amazing and creative ideas for treats that I had ever seen, just look at this photo. Before I go any further, I have to say that anyone who knows me, knows that I am not the best cook around, but as I was looking at all these treats I thought, (and here's where it begins to go wrong) "I can do this", and I even have the ingredients. Okay, so my candy melts are green and red left over from Christmas, and my lollypop sticks are BBQ skewers, but it's Sunday after all and we are improvising, right? So we bake the brownies first, easy enough, right? After they cooled we broke them up into a bowl and mixed in the softened cream cheese until it was sort of like a dough (this recipe is from Bakerella's blog). Sorry, I forgot to take a picture at this point. Then we rolled the mixture into little balls, we didn't have a cute little cookie cutter-----more improvisation (is that a word?)------ and dipped them into the melted candy coating. Easy enough, right?

.......................WRONG!!!

It all went downhill from here, or was it when the idea began to formulate in my mind? We should have stopped after we made the brownies because they were a perfect batch of brownies, but hind sight is 20/20. Anyway, we put them in the refrigerator to harden the candy coating and then we attempted to put the "lollypop sticks" in before we dipped the other side and things didn't go so well. "We don't care", we said, "They don't have to be cute to eat them." Here's a picture of Mady eating one. She's only smiling because I'm taking her picture, because when she actually took a bite, she said they weren't very good. So now we have all these brownie balls covered with red candy coating. Bakerella's are much cuter and better tasting I'm sure. Click on the link and check out her blog, she really does have some fun ideas. I may try the cupcakes with the candy melt flowers this week (with colors other than green and red though) ...................wish me luck. It may take me a lifetime, but I will find a talent, or die trying.