Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sweets & Treats, LorAnn, and Dixie Crystals,  #ChristmasSweetsWeek sponsors.  I received complimentary product for the purpose of review and recipe development,  but all opinions are honest and  they are my own.  This page may contain affiliate links. Well, we're almost at the end of #ChristmasSweetsWeek! Much gratitude to Terri of  Love and Confections  and Christie of  A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures  for coordinating this amazing event. Not only did they keep all of us bloggers organized, but they lined up some great sponsors. Please visit  my kick-off post  for information about the prizes and to enter the giveaway. You may also enter at the bottom of this post. Good luck! One of the event sponsors - Sweets & Treats - offered us some festive sprinkles and I immediately picked their Reindeer Food collection which includes gingerbread man quins, red sugar pea...

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of  Sprinkle Pop, a  #ChristmasCookiesWeek sponsor. I received complimentary product for the purpose of review and recipe development, but all opinions are honest and they are my own.  This page may contain affiliate links. Prizes + Giveaway Here we are at the final day of a fantastic event helmed by Ellen of  Family Around the Table   with help from Christie of  A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures . These talented ladies are tireless and inspiring. They not only wrangled all of us foodie bloggers, but they lined up some amazing event sponsors who donated to us for recipe creation and also for prizes. Go to  my kick-off post  to read about the prize packages and to enter the giveaway. Or you may enter at the bottom of this post. You won't want to miss out. Seriously. Your holiday baking will be kicked up more than a few notches. The Final Cookie Tray Chocolate-Dipped Almond Biscotti by Ho...

  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sprinkle Pop, a  #ChristmasCookies sponsor. I received complimentary product for the purpose of review and recipe development, but all opinions are honest and they are my own.  This page may contain affiliate links. I'll start with this: I'm a sprinkle novice. I mean, I've purchased sprinkles before, but I haven't used them often enough. Clearly. But, when Sprinkle Pop* signed on to be an event sponsor for a December event, I selected the sprinkle collections I wanted to use and waited for the shipment. And when they arrived, I jumped right in.  I had an idea of what I wanted the cookies to look like and made a batch of simple sugar cookies; I covered the top with the sprinkles - before baking. Needless to say, the cookies flattened, as I expected, but the sprinkles melted, unexpectedly. Whoops. They tasted good, but they weren't pretty. And, in my mind, the whole point of sprinkles is pretty! S...

When I tore open the envelope from  Quirk Books  and saw  Jackie Alpers' Sprinkles! Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts , * I'm pretty sure that I squealed. A full-blown, high-pitched girlie squeal. Being surrounded by boys - my husband and my two sons - I delight in all things glittery. And sprinkles, well, they're just edible glitter. Jackie inspired the Kitchen Elves and me to up the fun factor on breakfast one morning with  Pearly Belgian Waffles   and to serve up some decorated snacks with our  Hollywood Stars Party Popcorn . Three words: What. Delicious. Fun. Sprinkles! is a guide to creating foods with a colorful twist: sprinkles! You can scatter them over cakes and fold them into pie crusts. But you can also swirl them into waffle batter, “embroider” them onto cookies, and freeze them in pretty popsicles. Jackie Alpers shares dozens of creative and colorful recipes, quick-and-easy projects, holiday treats, and sprinkles c...

 As we launch into cooking our way through Jackie Alpers' Sprinkles! Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts , I thought we'd start with something a little less sugary. Or so I thought. At least it has a savory base: popcorn. Here's our Hollywood Stars Party Popcorn, slightly adapted from Sprinkles! As Reluctant Kitchen Elf is our resident popcorn maker, I put him to work. He popped us two bowls' full of corn. One bowl was for the recipe; the other bowl was for if the recipe wasn't a hit. Thank goodness for Bowl B. While the popcorn popped, Enthusiastic Kitchen Elf looked at all of the sprinkles we'd gotten on sale this evening. Cupcake gems in gold and silver, rainbow stars, dots, and more. Honestly, I didn't pay that much attention to them. But he carefully compared the photo in the cookbook to our options and selected three different jars. 5 C popped corn 1/2 C white chocolate chips 1 T butter silver cupcake gems rainbow star quin...