Chrysanthemum Cupcakes

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY  
• AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY
• TWEET TREATS
• DID YOU KNOW...?
• DOG CONFESSIONS
• GARDEN UPDATE
• DOG HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0098 CHRYSANTHEMUM CUPCAKES 
• WHAT IN THE WORLD?  
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY 

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AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY 

TWEET TREATS

bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.  

 "I love it when the neighbor loses it a little." @karentozzi  

 

DID YOU KNOW...?
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
DOG CONFESSIONS

Forever Alone

GARDEN UPDATE
definitely  sweater weather in the early a.m. and p.m. Rain is supposed to be coming. Today I covered up the firewood with the tarp and collected all the kindling. A brisk wind came up in the early afternoon and had a bite to it.
DOG HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

   

GARDEN GIGGLE

Quasimodo, the demented bell ringer of Notre Dame, put an ad in the papers for a assistant bell ringer. One man applied for the job but he had no arms.
"How are you going to assist me?" asked Quasimodo.
"That's easy!" replied the man and he ran at the bell and banged it with his head.
BONG!!!
"That's amazing!" said Quasimodo. "Could you show me that again?"
"Sure!" said the man and he ran at the bell again but he missed the swinging bell and fell out of the bell tower. A crowd huddled around the hapless man lying in the street and a police office asked, "Does anyone know who he is?"
Quasimodo came out and said...
"I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME, BUT HIS FACE SURE RINGS A BELL!"

FAUNA

GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0098 CHRYSANTHEMUM CUPCAKES

So cute and pretty, these are sure to be a hit at your next brunch, pot luck or bake sale!

You Will Need: 
cupcakes, unfrosted, any flavor
white or off-white frosting
about 25 mini marshmallows
colored sugar crystals (choose colors you would like your petals to be)
mini chocolate chips or chocolate-covered sunflower seeds or other larger sprinkles
a pair of food-safe scissors
a small spatula or knife
ziploc bags
a small bowl
Instructions:
 Place about 1/4 cup of the sugar crystals in a ziploc bag. Do this for each color you have. Editors  Note: Combine colors for a neat effect.Using the food-safe scissors, cut each mini marshmallow along the diagonal. Resulting will be two halves that are triangular in shape with a large oval area (the inside of the marshmallow) that is now exposed and sticky (this is the part that the sugar adheres to).

Drop all the cut marshmallows into the bag of colored sugar, zip the top closed, and gently shake around, making sure all the sticky parts of the marshmallows are all covered in sugar. Alternately you may hand dip the marshmallows into sugar which has been placed in a shallow bowl. Set aside.

Using a small spatula, spread about a 1/4" layer of frosting on the tops of the cupcakes. Make sure there are no lumps or bumps and that it is as smooth as you can make it. You want the petals to sit evenly atop the cupcakes. 

Starting at the outer edge of the cupcakes, take a sugar-colored marshmallow half from the bag of sugar crystals and press it gently, sugar side up with about 2/3 of the marshmallow protruding over the edge. Continue with another marshmallow, adjacent to the first one, making sure the marshmallows touch, in the same fashion. Keep going until you have placed a ring of petals all around the outer rim of your cupcake without any spaces. 

Start the next row of petals slightly inward, overlapping the petals by just under 1/2 of the marshmallow. Complete this row as you did the first row, make sure to overlap each row of marshmallows equally. Continue this process until you have nearly reached the center. There should be a dime-sized circle (or slightly smaller) of frosting remaining.
Take a few of your large sprinkles (mini chocolate chips, chocolate covered sunflower seeds, etc) and drop them in the dime-sized center of the cupcakes where the frosting is still peeking through. Make sure to cover all the white frosting. 

Editor's Note: To recreate the sunflower look, line the outer ring of the cupcake with only one round of marshmallows. Then fill in the entire rest of the top of the cupcake with black or dark brown large sprinkles or chips.

WHAT IN THE WORLD?  

On today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1793 Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia
1968 NASA launches first live manned spacecraft Apollo 7; also the first live televised message from the spacecraft to Earth
1975 Saturday Night Live debuts; Bruce Springsteen snags his first #1 hit with "Born To Run"
1991 Secretary Anita Hill testifies before the Senate that her boss, Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, had sexually harassed her
2002 Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize
2008 Blind driver sets world land speed record at 192 mph
2012  Shooting of 14 year old Pakistan girl sparks outrage

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