My life is to make everything around me beautiful.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Just Desserts for Pink Saturday 9/19/09

Okay, big news in our household. Our granddaughter is going to have a baby so in May next year we'll be great-grandparents!! We're so happy and excited. It's been 9 years since she got married. Squeeeeeallllll!!!!
~*~

Go visit Beverly at HowSweetTheSound for all the Pink Saturday participants. You'll love the things you see because they are for the most part PINK!
~*~

Hubs and I have been cleaning out lots of junk we just are not going to need anymore. I have dozens of books I'm going to give to the thrift store but while I was sorting I thought I'd share this dessert book I bought about 10 or so years ago.

Now, I want you to look at these desserts realizing that every single thing on the plate is edible. The only thing you couldn't consume is the plate. I have 27 of them here for you to view. Just be amazed along with me that every single thing is edible. I'll comment on a few. Pass the chocolate please!

Chocolate fantasy, right? Ohmygosh! All edible.


The fans are chocolate.

The clowns hair is spun sugar.


Spun sugar again.



More spun sugar. Listen, I've tried this spun sugar on a couple of "designer desserts" and it is NOT easy to do. Imagine doing it on all these desserts.

The roses, hat and hat band are all edible. Gorgeous!!

Clown hair—edible.


How darling and creative to make a stove that you can eat and not have to cook on. The squares are edible and the whole stove and pots on it also.

My kind of Christmas tree—CHOCOLATE! Snow, snowman, stick, tree, fence and snow are all edible.

Dare ya to make this Halloween dessert! Fire, cauldron and bubbling mixture—all edible.

You can even eat her antennae, legs and chocolate drops on the plate.


Anyone for an artistic flair dessert? Eat the paint and the brushes.

Basket of fruit. Eat the basket along with the "fruit" and leaves on the fruit.

Eat the coconut shell and the "coconut" inside.

Here you can even eat the rind and seeds.

Chocolate cups for your dessert. Eat them also.

These are made with real cherries so the only thing you cannot eat are the stems. They're the real thing. Everything else is edible. This is adventurous even for the chef! Branches are chocolate formed into branches.

I think this is my favorite. It is not easy to make, but worth the effort. Gorgeous! All can be eaten—even the flowers and bow.

Having done spun sugar I can testify to how hard this must have been to make.

This is exquisite but I'd never even attempt it.
Okay, my sweet chicks, hope you enjoyed your venture into the land of the sweets today. I can assure you these are not to be made by the faint of heart. They are intricate and very, very involved in making each of these and there were even more in the book. You would have to have much patience and a high level of skill to even try an attempt at making any one of these. Lots of work and practice. Enjoy.
~*~


32 comments:

  1. Those desserts look beautiful and yummy!

    Happy Pink Saturday!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Connie how exciting that a new little life will be coming into your family circle. Congratulations on the fact that you guys will be Greatgrandparents.
    OMG all those desserts - yummy
    Alison

    ReplyDelete
  3. I'll have one of each..:) they look yummy..and love the way they display them..;)

    ReplyDelete
  4. Love it all but the clown is my favorit !
    Love from the Netherlands RINI

    ReplyDelete
  5. Congratulations Connie, what exciting news! Rachaelxo

    ReplyDelete
  6. Big congratulations on the new baby-to-be.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Those pictures are amazing! What a wonderful blog!

    Carol

    ReplyDelete
  8. Oh Sweetie!
    Happy Pink Saturday and Congratulations to the family. I bet you are just thrilled. How exciting. I think of all of the foods I would enjoy the ladybug most of all. Looks so delightful. Lots of sugar, sugar. Thanks for sharing. Stop by and let me share my Pink Saturday. Country hugs, Sherry

    ReplyDelete
  9. Connie, I don't think I have ever seen such artistic edible desserts. They were amazing. Thanks for sharing them.
    Hugs ~ Kerryanne

    ReplyDelete
  10. So yummy. Love it.
    Happy Pink Saturday!

    ReplyDelete
  11. Love the hat one! I made the lady bug a long time ago for my son's 4th birthday Wow...great grandparents...wayyyy too young! no way

    ReplyDelete
  12. Amazing! What patience these people must have besides a steady hand. I think I like the white hat the best! Happy PS

    ReplyDelete
  13. Hi Connie - Happy Pink Saturday! You have me hungry for sweets and I haven't even had breakfast yet! Congratulations on your grandbaby - wonderful news!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Connie, those are amazing photos. Of, course I gained a hundred pounds just looking at them, but what the heck :-). Congratulations on your wonderful family news.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Well...well...I think I am ALMOST speechless! Wow! What delights of a confectionary overload! Just exactly the sort of thing that makes me glad to be alive! Ok..one of them!

    Congratulations on your new expected family addition! Grandbabies are another thing that make you glad to be alive! Being a GREAT GRANDPARENT is a place of grandeur! I am happy for you!!
    Mona

    ReplyDelete
  16. just look to grand to eat and can you imagine the work that go into them.
    congrats. on the new little one.
    Hugs
    Judy

    ReplyDelete
  17. ......and to think I just swore off desserts - how amazingly tempting and beautiful these are!

    Maybe just a fresh peach.....or one tiny scoop of ice cream.....but nothing elaborate such as these!

    Happy Pink Saturday. I'm off to peel a grape!

    Mary - ACROSS THE POND

    ReplyDelete
  18. Those look to pretty to eat! But I think I would somehow manage.

    And congrats on being a grandma!

    ReplyDelete
  19. Congrats on the news! You dessert pics are making me hungry but really I don't know if I could take a bite out of something that looks so good.

    ReplyDelete
  20. Happy Pink Saturday, and congrats!
    Wow, that's some serious dessert
    designs!

    ReplyDelete
  21. All amazing but the clowns are a kick in the pants..Love them.

    ReplyDelete
  22. Those pics were just amazing!! Did you ever try to make anything from that cookbook?

    Congrats on your future great grandchild!! That is just so wonderful!! God bless. : )

    ~ Wendy
    http://Crickleberrycottage.blogspot.com/

    ReplyDelete
  23. Hi Connie
    Congratulations....you have another little one on the way!! I can feel your excitement.

    Tht recipe book os wonderfullly delish. There are such extravagent pictures in there! Wow.

    thank you for sharing...now I wish I had something delish like that to nibble on..

    hope you are having a good weekend
    Judi

    ReplyDelete
  24. Connie.....Congratulations! You must be so excited about the news! A new little one in the family is so special! And how gorgeous are some of these desserts! I wish I had the time and patience to do that.......the clowns just might be my favorite. I bet that's a fun book to look through. That makes me want to go look through some of my older books too!
    For some reason I had kind of lost track of you the past little bit and I saw your comment on someone's blog...I'm signing up as a follower so that won't happen again!
    Elaine :)

    ReplyDelete
  25. Congratulations on your new great grandbaby on the way! How very exciting!! All of those desserts are beautiful but I think my fav is the hat. Really sweet! Happy Pink Saturday Connie!

    Blessings,
    Sandi

    ReplyDelete
  26. Oooooh congrats Miss Connie wow Greatgrandparents bet your over the moon....
    As for those desserts who on earth could eat them after all the work that has gone in to them, loving the Lady Bug just so cute...

    Hope your having a great weekend...

    Lyn xxx

    ReplyDelete
  27. Oh, how exciting, Connie. A new baby .. nothing like the sweetness of those little ones. Congratulations.

    Have a lovely weekend. TTFN ~Marydon

    ReplyDelete
  28. Hi Connie;;;; Happy Pink Saturday!
    Wow I think I gained 10lbs just looking at all those yummy desserts... I love the one with the match stick in its mouth... too too funny... I wouldn't even think of trying to make any of them...
    and CONGRATULATIONS!! on being a Great Grandma.....

    Hugs;
    Alaura

    ReplyDelete
  29. Happy late Pink Saturday! Congratulations to be! Splendid desserts.

    ReplyDelete
  30. Happy Pink Sat Connie,These desserts look so adorable.I'd love to make the snowman and tree one.So cute.Thank you so much on my Boo words they were fun to do.Hugs,Jen

    ReplyDelete
  31. Congrats again on Mandy's impending little bundle of joy!! Ya'll will be super duper GGparents!

    Now, if I worked hard enough to make any of these items and someone had the nerve to eat them, well, then they'd be TOAST!

    Love,
    Stephanie
    Angelic Accents

    ReplyDelete
  32. I'm simply stunned! Just goes to show what you can create when you put your mind to it, no matter what the medium is. I think my especial fave is the artist's palette.

    Maybe this is one book to keep? And have you seen Jane Asher's cake decorating books (she's a Brit) as she does some phenomenal (but do-able) ones as well.

    Happy Pink Saturday (on Tuesday... I'm still visiting everyone...)

    ReplyDelete

Comments are so nice and I thank all of you that leave one for me.