Valentine’s Day Heart Cookies – New Designs – Plus Creamsicle Cookie Recipe!

NEW!  VALENTINE’S DAY COOKIE MOLDS! Handmade Stoneware Valentine Heart Cookie Molds Recipe: Creamsicle Cookies | Etsy Shop: More Cookie Molds | Which Valentine? My Stoneware Valentine Heart Cookie Molds are made for baking and crafts. Each cookie mold is individually handmade in my studio in Connecticut. To create these designs, clay is hand-formed around my [...]

Blueberry Lattice Butterfly Pie

Blueberry Lattice Butterfly Pie Check out the recipe and more images on the Zanda Panda website.  Remember, summer’s not officially over until September 23rd – and you wouldn’t want to wear white when eating blueberry pie anyway Here’s where we picked the berries for the pie: This is Rose’s Berry Farm, in Glastonbury, CT.  We [...]

GIVEAWAY! Win a ZANDA PANDA Kaleidoscope Heart Mold

VALENTINE’S DAY GIVEAWAY! Giveway has ended.  Thank you all for your wonderful comments! Congratulations to the winner of the Kaleidoscope Heart Mold, Russ Podgorsek! Winner was chosen by RANDOM.ORG, a Third-Party Draw Service and is entrant-accessible.  Details of the drawing can be found at: http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5039 Entrant identifier is your e-mail address. ♥ ♥ ♥ I’d [...]

Make Any Day Valentine’s Day with Embossed Hearts on a Cherry Pie

Spicy Upside-Down Cherry Pie with Embossed Hearts Why wait for Valentine’s Day? When crusts are sealed, cut small vents in top center of pie. Upside-Down Kaleidoscope Heart Cherry Pie in Mold, Unbaked Bake pie at 350 degrees F /180 degrees C / Gas mark 4  for about an hour.  Pie is done when filling begins [...]

New Video, New Chocolate Technique!

Kaleidoscope Heart and Kaleidoscope Butterfly Molds Make two-tone chocolate cake toppers or No-Bake Backwards Cakes™ I’m very excited about this new chocolate technique!  I had been making multi-colored chocolate cake toppers by filling just the hearts or butterflies with a separate color.  I realized, quite by accident, that the scrollwork and flowers could also be [...]

Valentine’s Day Kaleidoscope Heart Chocolate Cake Topper

Kaleidoscope Heart Cake Topper for Valentine’s Day See step-by-step instructions below. Watch the VIDEO to see how easy it is! This Kaleidoscope Heart Cake Topper is very easy to make and is perfect for Valentine’s day. All you need is: ♥  Silicone spatula ♥  Gel food coloring ♥  White chocolate I used Ghirardelli’s Candy Making [...]

New Technique! Marbled Cameo for the Kaleidoscope Butterfly Cake Topper

I’m so proud of myself! I’ve just thought up a ridiculously quick and simple way to make absolutely gorgeous cake toppers using two colors of chocolate. So all I did was take melted Ghirardelli molding chocolate, put it on the surface of a Kaleidoscope Butterfly Mold, pull a flexible silicone spatula across it, let it [...]

Got a great ‘heart healthy’ cake or cookie Recipe?

I’m putting out a call for ‘heart healthy’ cake and cookie recipes. Partly because I’m donating part of the profits from the Kaleidoscope Heart cake/cookie/craft mold to the American Heart Association, so I think it’d be appropriate, but I also really like the idea of putting healthier alternatives on the blog and website.  Recipes suitable [...]

Go Red for Women

I’m very pleased to announce that ZANDA PANDA Specialty Bakeware will be donating a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of the Kaleidoscope Heart cake/cookie/crafts mold to the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement. I’m on the lookout for ‘heart-healthy’ cake recipes for the website. If you have a favorite that’s easy, [...]