Budget Holiday Party Tips and Snowflake Meringues Delicious links for 12.03.08

Budget Holiday Party Tips and Snowflake Meringues
Delicious links for 12.03.08

Looking for more tips on throwing a budget holiday party? Here are a few common sense ideas from the Boston Globe.

Today's Delicious Links

• Meringue snowflakes at Better Homes and Gardens.

• Monogrammed kitchen towels at Martha Stewart. Also see this idea for potato stamping towels at Apartment Therapy.

• Party with a plan - Tips for budget holiday parties from professional party planners. At the Boston Globe.

• Christmas mice from reader MaggiesMomma in yesterday's thread on favorite December treats. So cute! (And if you don't want to make them, you can buy them straight from her and Saltbox Cakes in Connecticut.)

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Comments (2)

I can't find the directions to make those little mice.... :(

posted by KrapArtist on December 3rd 2008 at 7:26pm
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KrapArtist,
The mice are really simple. You need:

Dipping chocolate
Maraschino cherries with stems
slivered almonds
Hershey's Kisses
gel icing

Melt the dipping chocolate. I lay the cherries out on a paper towel to dry a bit. Dip them in the chocolate by the stem. Lay them on their side on some waxed paper. As you do that push a hersheys kiss on the front for the mouse head. Slip the slivers of almonds in for ears. Let chill till chocolate has hardened. Use gel icing to make a dot for nose and eyes.

These have been a huge hit at parties, and really simple. You can make a few or make a lot.

posted by K8 in Maine on December 4th 2008 at 6:56am
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