Had a very successful little tea today... here's what I made:

[marilynfl]

Delightful keeping the theme going with tasty food and decorations. Lovely.

 

[dawnnys]

The skewers look so pretty and good! Thanks to you and Sylvia for posting.

 

[dawnnys]

What are those little red hearts to the left of he cake server, cheezz? Never saw candy like

that before. They'd be great on a cupcake.

 

[barbara-in-va]

Cheezz, your tea table looks georgous! What a great job! Thanks for sharing the pics too.

 

[patbastrop]

Very nice! Beautiful cake. mmmmm wish I had a cherry tassie right now!

 

[pat-nocal]

Lovely cake, cheezz.

 

[cheezz]

Those were the sugarless cookies I made.... am throwing the recipe away --

you'd have to really like the taste of sugar-free jello to like them. They were pretty, though. Shoulda stuck with my linzer hearts.

 

[cheezz]

Only once in a decade do I make a dessert totally chocolate-free *g*

 

[cheezz]

yes, I think you can say it, but you have to leave the 'n' off the end...heehee

 

[cheezz]

The top quilt was made by mom... I think of her when I use it.

 

[cheezz]

Instead of the usual crowd, we only had 13... hence all the leftovers in my fridge.

 

[cheezz]

Thanks Pat... and PatB *g* -- I just love the color of that cake and it always goes over big.

 

[luisa_calif]

Worst cookies I ever made was early WW. Coconut cookies used whole wheat bread for the flour, and

saurkraut flavored with coconut extract, Yum!

 

[marilynfl]

You're making that up!

 

[marilynfl]

Aren't you????

 

[angak]

cheezz, I made the shortbread cookies from Ina Garten with Splenda for a friend in chemo, and they

were actually good. She said she can usually tell if it's splenda, but not with these. I made hearts with cutouts and sandwiched them with no sugar jam.

 

[cheezz]

uh, I think I could have figured that out before I made them... saurkraut... REALLY???!

 

[cheezz]

That's good to know... the sugarfree jello is made with asparatame... yuck.

I'll go look up Ina Garten's recipe - thanks!

 

[cheezz]

Is this the recipe? >> And how much Splenda did you use in place of reg. sugar?

http://www.starchefs.com/features/holiday_baking/volume_03/html/recipe_01.shtml

 

[luisa_calif]

Sadly,no...did you want the recipe??