Homemade Creme Horns

Growing up in the Ironton area, most folks were familiar with Tipton’s Bakery and Grocery Store. This was one of the best bakeries around. You could get many kinds of sweats, but I loved bon-bon cookies, and would love to have one today. Their chocolate eclairs were to die for. Oh, and the creme horns were so good.

A friend and I were talking about the creme horns the other day. My husband always loved Tipton’s creme horns, so I decided to try and make them. Here is a picture of one of the first six I made. Below is the recipe. Just write and ask if you need any help. It actually ended up being simple, and his words, “Sweetie, you hit the nail on the head!” Meaning they were good. Must have been, he ate a total of 12 out of the 24 I made.

Have a great day and Happy Baking or Stamping!

Toota-loo,
Karen


Homemade Creme Horns

You buy your pastry in the frozen section at Kroger or Walmart (preferably Kroger).

Grease each horn, dust work area with flour. Roll out pastry in a rectangular shape. Cut strips about 3/4-1 inch wide, about 14-16 inches in length. Brush the strip with ice cold water, and start wrapping pastry strip from the bottom of the horn up to the top, overlapping just slightly. Brush one side with ice cold water and dip in sugar. This will be the top. Lay it on the cookie sheet. Repeat until all horns are covered. Bake about 9 minutes in a 400 degree oven.

Make fluffy white filling:
1 cup of corn syrup
1/3 cup of sugar
1/3 cup of water

Boil this to 235 degrees. While cooking this beat two egg whites with 1/4 teaspoon of cream of tartar until stiff. After the mixture has reached 235 degrees, slowly add it to the egg whites and slowly beat it until all is mixed together. I beat it on high then, and you will see a glossy film-like texture to the fluffy stuff. It is ready to place in a pastry bag.

Once you take the horns out of the oven, remove them immediately from the cookie tray, and place them on a cool plate and let them cool. Remove the horns. Using your pastry bag, fill each creme horn with the fluffy stuff filling, and you are finished. YUM!

I love Whipper Snapper Stamps

Thought I would post today. Would like to post everyday, but I have the worse time making myself stay up with my blog. Help me! Does anyone else have this issue. I really want to do it, tell myself to get to the computer and do it, and then get off in the house doing something else and totally forget that I was going to do this.

Well, today I’m posting a little card I made for a swap. It is a cute kitty, a Whipper Snapper, design stamp, and it was so fun to color. I loved the colors for the card, and I actually got the colors and lay-out from an email I received from another persons blog. Loved that lay-out. I have another Whipper Snapper card to post, which I believe I will post in the next few days.

Hope you enjoy your day! I’m back to the craft room for some fun! Happy Stamping!

Toota-loo,
Karen

Recipe for Pecan Tarts Page and Interesting Story of a Stolen Hearse

Hi All!

Well, I can’t help but say this again . . . It is another beautiful day here in Southern Ohio. We have had some rain, but there seems to be a little bit of sunshine in every day for a few days now. The sky is so blue with those big fluffy clouds.

Today, I’m posting another picture from the recipe book I’m putting together for my daughter. This is for pecan tarts. Sounds wonderful! The imagine is a download but for the life of me I cannot remember where it is from. I’m terrible about forgetting things. The paper is definitely Stampin’ Up. Even the big orange flower is cut outs from SU that I have had for quite sometime.

I can’t help but think of something that happened in our Tri-State area recently. It is not really funny, but then I am flabbergasted to the fact that someone can do this kind of thing. Here is the news article from the WSAZ TV news site:

BECKLEY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- One of the most bizarre crimes they've ever seen -- that's how police describe the case of a woman who drove off in a hearse with a body inside. "I am very sorry to everybody involved," suspect Angela Dehart said Wednesday morning on her way to jail. Beckley Police Capt. Jeff Shumate said, "It's very bizarre. I've been a policeman 22 years, and I have never seen anything like this." Shumate said the incident started early Tuesday morning at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor .Police say Dehart was walking home when she saw a hearse -- engine running and ready to go -- and decided to take a drive. "We found the employee had left the car running while unlocking the funeral home when someone walking by had jumped in the car and left the area," Shumate said. Stealing the hearse was bad enough, but police say inside that hearse was a body just delivered to the funeral home. "The concern was, if we were not able to recover the vehicle in a timely manner, was the emotional stress it would been put on loved ones and family if the corpse could not have been located," Shumate said. But just hours later, police tracked down the hearse but say the body inside was damaged from a wild ride. "The corpse did receive some injuries, and it appears to be from the body being thrown from the gurney from reckless driving by the suspect," Shumate said. Dehart said she didn't know there was a body inside the hearse, but police say she should have known there was a chance. "She would have had to suspect there was a possibility of a corpse being in it due to it being a hearse, but I do not think the corpse being in the vehicle had any bearing on whether she stole the vehicle or anything," Shumate said. Shumate said Dehart was not on drugs -- at least not that he was aware. He also said she does not have a criminal history. Police spoke with the family of the deceased. They say they're pretty upset about the situation. Surprisingly, though, they've also been understanding. Dehart was taken to the Southern Regional Jail.

Hope you didn’t mind the story. Just something I really cannot shake. Perhaps my heart goes out to the family of the deceased, since we recently lost my father-in-law, and I think of how it would feel to us to have this sort of thing happen.

Well, I will go for now. Hope everyone has a wonderful evening. Come back again and often.

Karen

Perfect Mashed Potatoes and A Beautiful Sunday

Hi All!

Okay, so this is another beautiful day in Southern Ohio. Fall in Ohio, is beautiful. Nothing else can be said about it. But, this day was absolutely great. I didn’t do much outside, but I enjoyed the view from my family room, which has 15 long windows. I watched movies all day, because it was a free preview weekend for Max and HBO on DirecTv. Didn’t really feel like doing much more. My husband is on midnight turn, so when he got up from sleeping he sat down in the chair and watched movies with me. We watched Couples Retreat and Knight and Day. Both were great for a boring but wonderful Sunday afternoon. Now, he is watching a football game. I can do without that.

Now, I’ve fixed dinner and gotten it out of the way, and getting ready to mosey down to the craft room. I want to post a new page for you. This is another page to the cookbook I’m making for my daughter. Today’s page is just pretty with the colors I chose when making it. I don’t know, however, if it is all that pretty, but I do love the colors. Hope you like it, too.

Thanks for stopping by. Come by again and often. Have a nice Sunday evening!

Karen