PINK SATURDAY & BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

Hello and Welcome to Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly of How Sweet the Sound. You can visit her for a list of all the other participants. Thank you Beverly for hosting this fun event!
Today I have some pinkness that my daughter Jen of Jen's Petal Palace made me for Valentine's Day. If you click on the picture you can get a larger view.
The picture above shows all my gifts and even a pretty pink gift bag that was full of pink faux pasteries!

Some close ups. Above is a pretty cake made using a box as a base! So pretty!

Some pretty pink and white cupcakes.

One of Jen's pretty pink sugar cookies on a lolli stick. How cute!

A cute little nut cup filled with candy.

Jen also painted this pretty little frame with hand painted roses. It's made like a locket and you can put a picture inside. So cute! Thank you Jen for all this pretty pinkness!

I made Jen this pretty little Tea Towel. I saw this print and thought of her right away. I also had another gift for her that I was making earlier in the week and lost it. Can you imagine loosing something in your own house. Have you ever done that? Well it was half done, I'm thinking my newest rescue cat Mr. Gray the Stray might have taken off with it. He is the friskiest cat I've ever seen. The crazy cat had a whole pile of valentine ornaments from the valentine tree all piled up one day. He's like a crow with shiny things so I'm thinking he has Jen's other gift hidden some place in this house. Oh well when it turns up Jen will get a late Valentine gift. Sorry Jen!

Last week I had some Valentine cupcakes with buttercream frosting posted and had a few requests for the recipe.

I've been using this frosting recipe for about a year now since I found it on the blog of my dear sweet friend MaryJane of The Bee Hive Cottage. A wonderful light and fluffy frosting. Just the perfect frosting everytime!

With her permission I am printing it here.

ButterCream Frosting

1 cup Nucoa margarine (no other!)*
1 cup Crisco
3 boxes powered sugar (apx. to desired thickness)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon CLEAR vanilla
about 3/4 cup water
Mix together and frost away!**
***Make sure you leave a little in the bowl for yourself!
*I use Parkay Light because I can’t find Nucoa in my area. Real butter did not work for me.
It seemed to be too heavy and did not get light and fluffy!
**I beat mine on high for about 15 min. till light a fluffy.

Well that is it for today's pinkness! Thank you so much for stopping by, it was nice to visit with you. I'll be back on Monday for Blue Monday with Smiling Sally! Have a great weekend and go visit Beverly for some more pinkness!

Bless you, Shirl