m&m the sweetest things: Super Saturday

Once a year my ward holds an ultimate arts and crafts/service day filled with delicious food, treats, classes and service projects, but best of all - its just for ladies!

As Phyllis from The Office says, "I love girl talk!" and there was most definitely a lot of that goin' on!

We learned how to make Oreo pops!

I'm totally doing these for one of our kid's birthday parties. These were so fun to make!

Then, a Scottish lady taught us how to make authentic British scones and quick raspberry jam (We're talking like 20 minutes for both!)
They just melted in your mouth. Mmmmm...

The wee Scottish Lass taught us an awesome trick that I want to share with y'all. So, who here has ever used a pastry cutter. Yea, that one contraption that seems pretty cool until you start using it, and all the butter gets clumped onto it and makes your arm tired in about 2.5 seconds. That ridiculous thing is why I never make pastries, until now!

Here's the trick, and it is so simple! Freeze the butter, then grate it (while still frozen) on a large setting and store until needed. That's it! The little bits of frozen butter will mix in with the dry ingredients as though you had used the abominable pastry cutter. Try this, I dare you! You can use it for biscuits, pie crusts, scones or anything that requires butter to be cut into dry ingredients. Ew, which reminds me of the even worse option of trying to cut the butter in with knives! When you throw out your pastry cutter for good you can give me a call and we'll celebrate.

My favorite class of the day was learning how to make these monsters of deliciousness!

Let me introduce you to the Monster Caramel Apple!

Why are they called Monster Caramel Apples? Well, because the apples are huge to begin with, but mostly because they have not two, but 4 layers of deliciousness:

1) Caramel

2) Toffee Bits

3) Chocolate (it must be Ghirardelli Chocolate, darn!)

4) And last but not least, Pecans

I'm already craving one!

This next lady introduced us to the wonderful delight of Mocktails, which are simply cocktails without alcohol. These drinks are perfect for us since we don't drink alcohol in our faith, but would be great for any family friendly event with kids and pregnant ladies. I love how she put it, "Just because we are Mormon doesn't mean we can't have fancy and yummy drinks!"

I totally agree sister! This particular one had ginger, cinnamon and lemon zest in it, but in others she used spices like cardamom, star anise and even black pepper in one! They were all out of this world good!