Chocolate Handbags and Platform Shoes

Perfect Gifts for Mother's Day!  Jacques Torres Chocolate offers these sensational chocolate platform sandals. Pick up a couple for Mom for a sweet time! I love that they come in pairs! Available at Jacques Torres stores.

Jacques Torres Chocolate also offers matching handbags that resemble the classic Chanel bag. They're molded in chocolate and handpainted. Available at all Jacques Torres stores. Not available to be shipped.

Neiman Marcus has a Zebra-Striped Handbag Cake.
Inside: Chocolate cake layered with caramel toffee and chocolate buttercream.
Outside Chocolate.

Or you could pick up some more traditional chocolate shoes and purses from Frances Cooley at Clifton Cakes (Bristol, UK)

Mixmaster Cake Genius: Retro Devil's Food Cake

So yesterday I posted a Mother's Day Sunbeam Mixmaster Ad and recipe for Chocolate Cake. The Mother in that ad looked more like my grandmother. It got me searching, and I found this Sunbeam Mixmaster Ad from May 28, 1945 (below).  The woman in the advertisement looks more like my Mother. Don't you think?

Of course, I just kept digging for a clearer version of the recipe for Devil's Food Cake, and I found this handy dandy little cake pamphlet from Sunbeam: How to be a Cake Genius with your Sunbeam Mixmaster. Pretty fabulous, huh?

So here's another recipe for Mother's Day Chocolate Cake: Mix Easy Devil's Food. You know you were a little devil, so make Mom this Devil's Food Cake to repent.

Happy Mother's Day, Mom! 

May 28, 1945

My Mother c. 1942

Retro Mixmaster Mother's Day Ad: Chocolate Cake Recipe

I adore Retro Advertisements and this one is particularly close to my heart. My mother had a Sunbeam Mixmaster. So many cookies, cakes and brownies were made with that Mixmaster. I don't have my mother's Sunbeam Mixmaster, but I have my mother-in-law's--the same model with all the attachments. I use my Kitchenaid Mixer mostly, but I love the functionality of the old Mixmaster War Horse. It still works, and I'll bet my mother-in-law got it in the 40s or 50s.

So, for Mother's Day, here's a Sunbeam Mixmaster Mother's Day Advertisement from Life Magazine, May 1, 1950, complete with Chocolate Cake recipe. What are you making for Mother's Day?

Girl Scout Cookie Candy Bars

TODAY.com reported in February, that Nestle was going to be making Girl Scout candy bars. The wait is almost over.

The 'limited edition' Nestlé Crunch Girl Scout Cookie Candy Bar will be available this summer at participating retail stores nationwide, beginning June 1 through September, the Girl Scouts organization confirmed. The bars will be available in the three most popular cookie flavors – Thin Mint, Peanut Butter Crème, and Caramel & Coconut (or Samoa, as they are known in in some parts of the country). Cookies make up most of the bars, with layers like coconut caramel crème and crunchy crispies filling in the rest.

Thin Mint: taste of Thin Mints, the Girl Scouts’ top-selling cookie, paired with additional dark chocolate, mint chocolate creme, and those airy crispies from a Nestlé Crunch bar.

Caramel & Coconut: based on the Samoa, the Girl Scouts’ second best-selling cookie. More wafers, but layered with coconut caramel creme, more caramel, and more coconut.

Peanut Butter Creme:  inspired by the Tagalong. More cookie wafers, accompanied by peanut butter creme, coated in chocolate, and sprinkled with more of those Nestlé Crunch crispies.

Happy 100th Anniversary, Girl Scouts!