"Life Surrounded by Color" Challenge...

I have found myself in this one color mode lately, I think it is my way of changing from all the rich, dark beautiful colors of Fall and Christmas to the fresh pastel colors of Spring and Easter...
So in honor of my one color status your challenge is to take your one, (yes one!) favorite color and scrap a page or a card using only shades of that color. And to help you with your challenge I have posted my favorite one color dessert... (just like on the Truffles, white embellishments don't count).

I will be giving away blog candy and PRIZES to those who play.... Deadline is midnight (12:00) East Coast Time, March 31st, 2009 (please post page link as comment or upload to SCS)
Keyword for SCS upload is FTP09MT

Chocolate Mocha Truffles

Ingredients
• 2 packages (12 oz. each) semisweet or milk chocolate chips

• 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened at room temperature.

• 3 tablespoons of instant coffee or hot chocolate granules
• 2 teaspoons warm water
• 1 pound chocolate coating or use chocolate Ice Cream Topping
• 1/4 cup white chocolate chips melted (optional)

Instructions
Melt the chocolate chips (microwave or double boiler). Add cream cheese, coffee or hot chocolate and water; mix well. Chill until firm enough to shape. Shape mixture into 1 inch balls and place on a waxed paper-lined cookie sheet. Chill for 1-2 hours or until firm Melt the chocolate coating in a microwave or double boiler. Dip the balls in the chocolate and place on the waxed paper to harden. To save time you can use the chocolate ice cream topping that goes hard when you pour it over cold stuff. Optional: Melt the white chocolate and drizzle over the truffles.

"From The Pantry" Challenge #4

This is the "From the Pantry" Challenge#4 for our SCS: 52 Week / Thursday Challenge #11

I am going to call this challenge... "A Hint of Irish Green"

When I contemplate St. Patty's day memories of my childhood, I think of my Grandmother Irish Stew and homemade Soda bread. My Grandfather use to drink Irish Coffee that smelled so good but tasted so bad. My Great- Grandma use to make a huge stacked white cake with green sprinkles (coconut) that had just a hint of mint or lime. She always decorated the top to look like a shamrock. Recently, on Kraft.com, I came acrossed the recipe and picture for this cake and so in honor of my Irish Heritage, I would like to use that as our Challenge today. Here is the recipe and you will find the Challenge below...

Lucky Shamrock Cake

Ingredients:
2 2/3 cups Baker's Angel Flake coconut
Green food coloring
3 baked 9-inch round cake layers, cooled
1 teaspoon of lime juice or mint flavoring per cake mix
1 2/3 cups vanilla butter cream frosting (Bottom of page)
Green decorating icing

Directions:
Tint coconut with green food coloring and add few drop of fresh lime juice or mint extract.
Leave 1 cake layer whole; cut 1-inch slice from remaining 2 cakes so that cake fits along curve of whole cake.
Prepare vanilla butter cream frosting. Using small amount of frosting to hold pieces together, arrange whole cake at top of serving tray. Place other 2 cakes along lower edges of whole cake, fitting cut ends along curve. Place 2 small slices between 2 layers as stem.
Frost cake with remaining frosting. Sprinkle with coconut. Using decorating icing, outline the cake.
Makes 12 to 16 servings

***Vanilla Buttercream Frosting***
1 (16-oz) package powdered sugar (about 4 cups)
1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine or butter, softened
3 Tbsp. milk
2 tsp. vanilla
Beat sugar, margarine, milk and vanilla with electric mixer on low speed until smooth. If frosting becomes too thick, beat in additional milk by teaspoonfuls, until of spreadable consistency.
Makes about 2 1/2 cups frosting

My Challenge to you is to use the Irish Colors of Green & White to create a page, LO or DPS. You can use sprinkles of green, shamrocks or anything else to show an “Irish Blessing” (hint.... hint)

Please remember to upload using the keywords.... SCS52WK11

You can find my samples here... "Blessed By The Irish"

"A Touch of Spring" - Inspirational Challenge

I was asked to be the Guest Host for today's Inspirational Challenge... So no food today, I get to share with you all another one of my loves... And at this time of year, I get really bored with the drab colors of Winter and I start to get the itch to get out in my garden and fill my heart with the touches of Spring. Also at this time of year, my Irish heart starts longing for new tapestries to hang on my walls.

So my challenge to all of you is for you to create a wall hanging (LO, page or DPS) using any the spring style colors, designs and/or inspiration that you get from my favorite tapestries at the following web site: Simply Tapestries

You can view my LO here.... B's Birthday Bash

Don't forget to upload your treasures using the keyword: IFC29
And you can view the Gallery here...

Remember to come back here and post a reply with a link to your page so that we can leave you lots of comments! I can't wait to see all of your inspirational Touches of Spring....