A Tea Party for Gisele
Hello, Invisible Friends! Queen Bitty here to welcome you to the Tea Party for our newest Pond inhabitant.
For days, the Pond has been in a tizzy. The Flying Pigs flew in…
The Land of the Flowered Bed has been baking and cleaning for days…
The pink penguins have been making pink passionfruit sorbets…
King Baylor has been practicing jokes for days…
Even Booger the pie eating lobster came.
You see, King Baylor had a good reason to be so nervous. The tea party wasn’t just for anyone. It was for Gisele.
It’s a quite charming love story, you see. They met on magic.com, a site for all enchanted stuffed animals and toys looking for love. He was smitten by her pink horn, she loved his sense of humor…
Rumor is they are getting married in the fall.
Of course, we had to celebrate.
We feasted on Joanne’s chocolate raspberry tart…
And Megan’s zucchini and mushroom tart. Her dog Mario brought a fabulous appetizer…
Caramelized blue cheese and pear crostini.
Along with dozens of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (and peanut butter, strawberry jam and cream cheese sandwiches…)
Chips and artichoke dip…
and Jennifer’s famous spinach puffs (recipe below).
We also dined on key lime tartlets Liz and her lab Miss Lambeau brought…(recipe below!)
It was a lovely tea.
Gisele, the unicorn stick horse, agreed.
Jennifer’s famous spinach puffs
10 oz frozen spinach, thawed
1/2 cup diced onion
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1/3 cup blue cheese salad dressing
2 Tbsp butter, melted
1/8 tsp garlic powder
1 package corn bread mix (Jiffy Brand, 8.5 oz)
Squeeze the liquid out of the spinach and combine it with the rest of the ingredients, mixing well. Chill the batter at least 30 minutes.
Preheat your oven to 350° F and line a couple of cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Drop by rounded spoonful (I like to use a cookie scoop) onto the prepared cookie sheets, leaving 2 inches between each. Bake 10-12 minutes or until the edges of each puff are golden brown.
Key Lime Tartets…adapted from my friend, Lisa, at Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives
Crust:
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons sugar
Filling:
1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup fresh lime juice (Key limes preferred)
1 teaspoon Key lime zest
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
Preheat oven to 325º. Mix together melted butter, graham cracker crumbs and sugar till well combined. Pat crumbs on bottoms and sides of openings in a Lift and Serve Tart Squares Pan. Remaining crumbs can be pressed into 2 4-inch tart pans. Alternatively, press all crumbs into a 9 inch pie plate.
Chill for about 10 minutes then bake for 10-15 minutes till just golden. Cool.
Mix filling ingredients and pour into tart pan openings. Raise oven temperature to 350º. Bake for about 12-15 minutes for tarts and 15-20 minutes for pie or till just barely set. Cool to room temperature, then chill before serving.
Serve with sweetened whip cream and garnish with Key lime slices.
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May 10th, 2012 at 2:33 am
Aw this is so cute!
May 10th, 2012 at 3:34 am
Congrats to the happy couple!!! Love the delicious spread
May 10th, 2012 at 3:50 am
Hi Blond Duck .. looks good to me. Cheers Hilary
May 10th, 2012 at 4:00 am
Sounds like the perfect teat party! Thanks for including my tart, love!
May 10th, 2012 at 5:00 am
Congrats on the new addition and best wishes to the happy couple!
May 10th, 2012 at 5:39 am
What a great party! Sorry we’re the rude crashers with empty hands… Welcome, Gisele! You’re a beauty.
May 10th, 2012 at 6:19 am
Oh, what a marvelous Tea Party – I absolutely love this Duckie!
May 10th, 2012 at 6:23 am
Congratulations for King Baylor and Gisele. They look like a happy pair. Lovely tea party, Duckster.
May 10th, 2012 at 6:50 am
This was the most adorable thing ever! AND this post made me soooo hungry!!
May 10th, 2012 at 7:19 am
Congrats I wish I would have been invited but we all know how it goes with royal blood.
May 10th, 2012 at 7:31 am
Delicious. And welcome Giselle.
May 10th, 2012 at 7:57 am
This is cause for a celebration! What a pretty unicorn. The key lime tartlets sound perfect for the tea!
May 10th, 2012 at 8:08 am
You have great taste, all of that food looks so good!
May 10th, 2012 at 9:06 am
What fabulous news and a perfect party to celebrate the loving couple. Wishing them the brightest future together!
May 10th, 2012 at 9:43 am
Yo always post such GREAT recipes.
May 10th, 2012 at 9:55 am
what a great party! best wishes to the happy couple!!
xx
May 10th, 2012 at 9:55 am
great recipe, too.
xx
May 10th, 2012 at 10:03 am
What a spread! I want to come!
May 10th, 2012 at 10:57 am
For once I can get behind a tea party!
Raise a cup (raising pinky optional) for the happy couple!
May 10th, 2012 at 11:14 am
How sweet is your little Giselle? She is a little princess!
xo Mary Jo
May 10th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Giselle is a beautiful addition to the pond! Thanks for letting me and Mario attend. We had a fabulous time!
May 10th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
sounds like a fab tea party + there are some mighty tasty snacks in there. yum!
May 10th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Queen Bitty is a lovely and gracious tea party hostess! Happy Thursday, dear Duckie!
May 10th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
I want to come to your tea party!
May 10th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
How fun!
May 10th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
All so happy! Excellent recipes!
May 10th, 2012 at 9:39 pm
It sounds like a lovely party and it seems they all had a good time. Have a great day. Blessings…Mary
May 12th, 2012 at 12:49 am
i can’t think of a better way to consume spinach.
May 12th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
This is so cute and those spinach puffs look so delicious!
May 13th, 2012 at 11:43 am
What a party! Great foods, great friends & fun, fun, fun!!
May 16th, 2012 at 9:14 am
Gisele is so cute! And everything so yummy! Moon and I are sorry we missed it!