Amanda Hawman!!! Amanda, we want to see the creations you make with this mold, so be sure and submit pictures of your beauties to me. Congratulations!!! We have a new contest starting today for the Gourmac Anytime Cookie Stamps so be sure to check as I will be posting the contest very soon. 
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Winner of the “My Little Cupcake Cake Pop Mold” is…
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Baking Flowers!!! My Review of the John Wright Flower Cast Iron Muffin Pan!
The UPS driver had a treat for me today. The John Wright Company sent me one of their cast iron flower muffin pans. The original Wrightsville Hardware Company was founded in 1880 near their present location in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Along with their foundries, they have a retail store and outlet in a converted turn-of-the-century warehouse on the bank of the lovely Susquehanna River. John Wright remains America’s oldest continuously operating manufacturer of cast iron products!! Their products are proudly made in the USA.
The first thing to note about this pan is its weight. One could easily get a great bicep workout just by lifting the pan a few times. The detail is also amazing. There are 7 different flowers and the name of each flower is written into each cast iron mold.
A nice assortment of recipes accompanied the pan. I chose to make the corn bread muffins. The recipe is as follows:
Corn Bread Muffins
1 Cup All-Purpose Flour
1/4 Cup Sugar
3 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Cup Yellow Corn Meal
1 Egg Well-Beaten
1 Cup Milk
5 Teaspoons Butter, Melted
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add corn meal. Add to mixture: egg, milk, and melted butter. Beat until smooth, but don’t overmix. Bake in the greased muffin pan at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
I made the above mixture and it filled the muffin pan exactly.
The muffins are a very generous size. As soon as they achieved the desired golden brown color, they were removed from the oven.
The muffins just lifted right out of the pan without any problem or sticking. The muffins were beautiful, big, and airy.
Add some butter and enjoy!
Don’t they look delicious?
I give this pan and the John Wright Company 2 thumbs up! I think I am going to have to try their cookie pans next. They have great cookie pans that have lots of neat designs like: Alphabet Cookie, Sweetheart Cookie, Sleigh Full O’Toys Cookie and many more. Their molded cookie recipes with these pans, I just have to try. All of the John Wright molds are coated with their exclusive non-stick coating, “Ironclad Non-Stick Coating” If you would like to purchase one of their pans you can call their toll free number for the nearest store, 1-800-444-9364. You can also order from their website at http://www.jwright.com
I hope you give their pans and recipes a try. I am telling you these are the most delicious corn muffins I have ever had. Try it, and see if you do not agree.
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Some Cake Pop After-Thoughts!!!
Can you believe it? I am writing about cake pops once again. Over the hours I have had to reflect after making them yesterday, I have had a lot of thoughts. First, since I wrote my review last night right after making them, I do not think I was far enough away from the process to truly form an evaluation. We all know that recipes are trial and error and that we often come away with things we would do different next time to improve the process. So now that I have had the proper time to contemplate everything, I can say that I will attempt to make cake pops again. I have to give it at least one more shot. I think I will try the mold inventors recipe of using 1 package of Oreo cookies and one brick of cream cheese. I do not think I will ever make cake balls again with red velvet cake. It is not that the cake did not taste good but being they were on traveling sticks and having 5 kids that include two toddlers, it had its problems. Since the cake balls can fall off the sticks and some little children may then accidentally step in the fallen cake balls or go to pick them up and accidentally make contact with my walls, there are some issues. See, my kitchen tile floor and the hallway look like they would in the aftermath of a mob hit. There is even a red hand print on the window of my side door. Looks like the person fought until the end. So today as I have been scrubbing up the evidence of the cake ball massacre, I have come to the conclusion that said children will only be allowed to eat the cake balls in their appropriate chairs. Beyond that, I have found that it would have been easier if I had thinned the dipping chocolate with Crisco. I hate using Crisco so I don’t have it in the house but after researching the web it seems that it is the thinner of choice. Also, I think I would use different dipping chocolate. I spent twice the price getting some premium brand and it seems I would have been better off with one of the more inexpensive choices out there. So I guess we live and learn and I am no exception. Sometime this week I will get to the store to get some more supplies and try this adventure again. As I look at some of the alternatives to how others get a cupcake shape on the stick using a series of cutters and molding, I can safely say the “My Little Cupcake POP Mold” is a much easier and friendlier option. You can also use powdered sugar on your hands to make handling the mixture less sticky. So with all this said, I will indeed embark down this road again with my newly gained knowledge. I will of course let you all know with pictures and words how it goes. So yes, there will be more posts about cake pops in the future. I certainly hope the winner of the give-away mold will send me some pictures of their creations so I can post them for you all to see as well. Hope you all are enjoying Superbowl Sunday. Jimi made a huge spread of goodies, wings, spiedies, dips, veggies, and more. I love being married to a man who can cook.
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