Catching Up!

It’s been a long time since I have blogged. I’ve been busy at work, and I update my Facebook page more than this blog. Sorry!

It’s a new year, 2014, and I will be on here more often instead of watching YouTube videos all day.  j/k, but seriously, what better way to unwind after a hard day on my feet at work than to watch funny videos? :-D 

New things I made last year or plan to make before Valentine's Day:

• Star Crackers, both savory and cinnamon sugar
• Chocolate-covered peanut butter Ritz cracker cookies
• Red Velvet cookies dipped in White Vanilla Coating
• Chocolate Boxes (soon - maybe tonight)

I love to make all kinds of peanut brittle, so I offered a workshop on how to make peanut brittle in December. I may do that again this year. 

I also saved my mom’s life in July when I rushed her to the hospital in the middle of the night. The surgeon said she could have died. That was the scariest thing ever! She got to come home 9 days later, and I took good care of her. Don’t worry. She’s okay now. 

I won tickets to go up in a helium balloon last fall, so we went to Pigeon Forge and did that. It was so fun! I won a grocery store gift card that I used for Christmas dinner. :-) 

Send me an e-mail if you want me to make you something, or check out my Blue Ribbon Treats page on Facebook!

Two Days Till Valentines Day!

I put an order for three red heart soaps in the mail this week. That made me happy! Each soap had a different scent - jasmine is my favorite. It's so me! lolz

Anyway, I got a local order to make up a platter of cake balls and deliver them to an office. So I'm making triple chocolate, confetti, and strawberry cake balls. Cake balls rock!!!

Valentine Cake Balls!

Okay, so my mom got all excited about cake balls, and I didn't even know what they were! She had some at her high school reunion and didn't bring any home. But she found a recipe and decided that I needed to learn how to make them. It sounded like fun, so I did, and it took forever! But they are so worth it, you would not believe how good these are, but trust me!


These are red velvet cake balls dipped in milk chocolate and drizzled with a little bit of white mint. I ran out of milk chocolate and had to use dark chocolate to finish dipping the cake balls. I love dark chocolate!


I'm thinking about taking little bags with 4 cakeballs in them to youth group and selling them to my friends for a dollar apiece. What do you think?

Naked Cake Balls

Dressed Cake Balls

I think these will be great for Valentine's Day!


Update: The red velvet cake balls are all gone now. So are the confetti cake balls I made. NOW I have triple chocolate goodness cake balls! Next on the list is lemon cakeballs! I bet they will be so good!


You can get six cake balls for $3.00 or a dozen for $6.00. 

Valentine Treats!

I'm having snow days! I still have to do school, but I don't have my voice classes, so I have had time in the kitchen to make candy! I made some yummy red vanilla coated peanut brittle and some cherry-flavored lollipops. I experimented with the centers on the flowers. The snow sprinkles just melted and don't look special, but the colored sprinkles worked. I'm going to try different colors in the center of the flowers. (Chocolate is also available, of course, but it won't be red.)

Dipped peanut brittle is $7 per half pound. If someone wants a mail order, the total with shipping & handling would be $12, and I will add three Valentine lollipops for free!

Lollipops are 50 cents each for local deliveries, and I can make what you want - flowers or hearts. I have the face heart, LOVE heart, plus a Hugs n Kisses heart and plain heart that aren't pictured.  

Chocolate-covered Peanut Brittle!

Buy my peanut brittle! :-)

I have made all kinds of peanut brittle since 2003. I entered a candy competition in 2004 and won a blue ribbon! Because of all the blue ribbons I got over time, I started calling my candy "Jasmine's Blue Ribbon Peanut Brittle." I dream about having my own candy shop some day. I make original, cherry-flavored, orange-flavored, and cinnamon. Then I have made red hot peanut brittle, jelly bean peanut brittle, and fruity marshmallow peanut brittle.

After a lot of experimenting with chocolate, this weekend I made some great chocolate-covered peanut brittle!

So here's the idea. I want to sell chocolate-covered peanut brittle. Father's Day is Sunday! My dad loves my peanut brittle. I bet other dads would love it too. I will package it in half-pounds and pounds. It's $7 per half pound. I can deliver for free too in a ten mile radius from Greer.

If someone wants to order one of my other peanut brittles, they are $6 per half pound.

Thank you!