Turquoise and Purple Bridal Tea: planning continues...

The Bridal Tea planning continues. I am completing trials of the food I want to serve so hopefully everything will turn out just right for this Tea. You may wonder why I am putting so much effort into a 1 1/2 hour event. I think it is because I am so busy at work, and it has taken up so much of my mental and physical energy for the past year. I just want to put my mind on something else for awhile.

Over Easter weekend I made Lemon Blueberry cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting. These things were DeLiCiOuS!! The only thing is...I didn't take photos. I would say I don’t know why I forgot to do this, but the fact is I do know. I am of the generation that didn’t grow up taking pictures of my food. We had film for cameras, and the film itself plus the cost of developing was way too expensive to waste on taking pictures of food. The only foodies then were the food critics that visited the fancier restaurants, and even they didn’t take photos of the food they ate.

Last weekend my daughter and I made cake pops with a purple Candy Melt coating. Once again, I forgot to take photos of the process, but I'll share the finished result. I snapped a couple of pics before my other daughter gobbled them up!

We actually tried the Duncan Hines Blue Velvet cake mix with these. The mix made a beautiful turquoise color...

but this particular turquoise and purple combination does NOT go together well at all!

Still, the youngest daughter has enjoyed each and every one.

But this weekend I tried the turquoise covered Oreos. And I remembered the photos!

I used a combination of Wilton Candy Melts: 1 green to 16 blue melts. I used the ones labeled, “blue,” not royal blue. I also used the ‘bright white” candy melts for the W’s I made to go on top of the Oreos. 

Follow the instructions on the Candy Melts bag to melt the candy.

Since I am just trying out this refreshment option, I used exactly one green and 16 blue melts. I put them in a small bowl and melted them at 50% power in the microwave, 30 seconds at a time and stirring after each. 

Then, I just dipped one Oreo at a time in the shallow bowl of melted candy. I covered two Oreos completely and covered just the top of two more.

I laid them on parchment paper to set.

I melted a few bright white Candy Melts in a zip top bag. I had planned to use a cake decorating bag with a decorating tip but, once again, since this is only a trial I decided I wouldn't go to so much trouble. After melting the white candy in the zip top bag, I snipped the tiniest bit off the corner of the bag to make a writing tip.

 I had printed some W's (the initial of the happy couple's last name) using a variety of script style fonts. The one on the top left and the one at middle right were my favorites.Plus, they fit on the Oreos without me having to print out another sheet in a smaller font size.

 I slid the paper underneath the parchment and traced over the letters. The melted candy was a very thin consistency and I think my bag had a leak in the seam. This, plus the fact that I am left-handed, caused me some trouble in controlling the candy to make pretty letters. By the time I got to the last two, I started working right to left so my left hand wouldn't get in my way. Still, the first two W's turned out to be two of my best.

To get rid of the excess candy coating that dripped from the edges of the Oreo, use a micro plane and just file it off!

I carefully peeled the W's off the parchment and laid them on the covered Oreos. I decided I would just drizzle some of the leftover melts on one of the Oreos that didn't get covered completely.

IF I decide to do these for the Tea, I will either have to "glue" the W's to the Oreos with tiny dots of white Candy Melts, or I will have to make all the W's first and place them on the Oreos as soon as I dip them in the turquoise candy and lay them out to set.

 Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with this attempt!