German Pancakes

Last week I decided we were going to have brinner (you know, breakfast for dinner) and I wanted something new. I searched and searched through tons of muffins, casseroles, and pancakes. I saw German Pancakes... I thought hmmm... so I pulled up the recipe and thought dang those are super easy and they even cook in the OVEN! I then searched German Pancakes and in the end had about 4 recipes I was comparing. Of course I did the one thing I do best, intertwined and altered the recipes to what I thought would work and sounded best. They turned out great and my boys were disappointed when they learned there were no left overs for in the morning. *I think they are a mix of french toast and pancakes*

German Pancakes

Ingredients: 

• 6 Eggs
• 2/3 C. Milk
• 2/3 C. Heavy Cream
• 4 Tbsp. Sugar
• 1/2 Tbsp. Vanilla
• 1 C. Flour
• 2 Tbsp. Melted Butter

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 475.
• In a medium bowl, beat eggs with a mixer.
• Stir in milk, cream, sugar, and vanilla. Beat until well combined.
• Sift in the flour and blend.
• Let sit 10-20 minutes.
• While the batter is sitting, butter a 9x13 glass dish. Pour in the batter.
• Bake 15 minutes or until golden brown.
• Top with syrup and dust with powdered sugar. Serve!

                                                 *This served a family of 5 with other sides, such as eggs and bacon.

Love Bugs

Every holiday I try and bake something relative to that holiday.
This Valentines Day I came across Love Bugs on The Cake Blog, they were absolutely adorable.
I am not even close to perfecting how to decorate cakes and cupcakes but I try my best.

I did go a little bit of a different route than did...

I usually go the old route and bake the cake and then add the frosting to the cake to make the cake balls but since these had so much frosting on the outside I bought a cake ball cooking pan and they came out like these:

Instead of fondant (which I am not the biggest fan of) I made chocolate heart feet. I melted chocolate melts, took some non-stick foil, and traced little hearts onto the foil so I knew where to put my chocolate and then placed them in the fridge to get hard again:

Once the hearts were hard, I started frosting the bottom of the cake balls first so it will stick to the heart and then made my way to the top. I also took cake pop sticks, cut them in half, and the put mini marshmallows on top (dipped those in chocolate and covered them with sprinkles). The sticks were antennas and then I added the candied eyes to finish. Making most of it edible and tasty.