Recipe 18: Winter Olympic Shape Sandwiches

Finally the last post about the things I made for the Opening Ceremonies party. This last thing was winter Olympic sports themed shaped sandwiches. I made the shapes by tearing the bread mostly. I did the circles by using a Diet Coke can as a guide. Some of the shapes I made were hockey pucks, hockey sticks, curling stone, and bobsled.

Recipe 17: Ice Skating Pond

This was another recipe I made back on February 12, 2010, for my Opening Ceremonies party. It was a really easy thing. Basically just blue jello with some candies. The candies I used were Sour Patch Kids as hockey and curling players, a Gobstopper as a curling stone, and a Reese's pieces as a hockey puck.

Recipe 16: Olympic Rings Mini Bagels

This recipe I made up on Friday while making stuff for my Opening Ceremonies party. The Olympic Rings Mini Bagels are made with a variety of toppings. The blue I did with blue colored cream cheese. The yellow was done with honey. The black I did with blackberry jam. The red I did with strawberry jam, although my jam was more orange than red. The green I did with mint jelly. I also did some green ones with cream cheese and green olives. Very easy and fun Olympic themed snack.

Recipe 15: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Cookies

Okay, so I used refrigerated cookie dough bought at the grocery store to make my cookies for my Opening Ceremonies party, but I am counting as a recipe, as I made new shapes and it involved creativity. I mostly made Olympic rings. I also made the Vancouver 2010 Olympics logo out of five cookies. Other shapes I made included a bobsled, skates, hockey pucks, and skates. I made all the shapes by forming them by hand and did not use any cookie cutters.

I decorated them mostly with gel icing. I could not find any black icing. My grocery store does not even carry black icing. I had an old one around and only got enough out to do one ring before being annoyed at how hard it was to use since it was almost hard. They seemed to have a slot for black gel icing, but they were sold out of it. The closest thing I could get was spray decadent fudge icing. It is not the same thing and is impossible to control to come out without being a big fluffy mess. Okay, so it could be done stylist and not a mess, but not without still being large lines of icing due to the big opening. Not to mention it is expensive for what it is. I guess I could have just colored white frosting in a tub, but I stink at spreading frosting and barely can even do the squeeze icing stuff.

Recipe 14: Croutons

On Friday I made a lot of things for snacking on while watching the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremonies. Part of it involved making shaped sandwiches, which I will post about later. The extra parts of the bread I broke into pieces and made into croutons using this recipe. It was really easy and so much cheaper than buying croutons.

Recipe 13: Celery Bobsleds

I was working on an article for my Tucson Children's Crafts Examiner page today and decided to make the Celery Bobsleds to have a photo to go with it. I was planning to make them on Friday along with other stuff I am making to eat while watching the Opening Ceremonies, but made a few early to have a photo of them. They are basically ants on a log, but made to look like 2 and 4 man bobsleds with the raisins as the helmets.

Recipe 12: Blueberry Pudding

A few weeks ago I stocked up on blueberries when they were on sale for $0.99 a pint. I ended up with 8 of the pints and froze them all right away to keep them fresh. I have been meaning to try some of them in a Blueberry Pudding recipe I found in the Frugal Gourmet Cooks American cookbook for a while. Today I finally got around to trying the recipe, which is Native American in origin.

The recipe was somewhat simple in tasks. The result, though, was me simmering it for almost an hour and it not being thick. I added more flour and finally got it to thicken. I think I did end up with about what it should be. The disappointment, though, is that it is not that great tasting. I love blueberries, but the honey diminished the blueberry flavor and also made it way too sweet. I like the idea of using honey as a sweetener over very emptiness of sugar, but the 1 cup ended up being way too much. I am also not much into the odd texture of it, although I think it might be good as an ice cream topping, but I currently only have Mint Moose Tracks and that does not sound good with blueberries.