Fall Tasting Round-Up

So this week has been full of recipes, crafts, favors and coffee from our Fall tasting event! What a fun week it's been. Posting, social sharing and hearing from all of you. I have a feeling this is the start of something special.

Here's a round-up of all our postings this week so you can find them in one place. Please continue to visit these lovely ladies blogs (My Life at Playtime and A Simply Raw Life) and come back here for more coffee, lots of baking along with local and travel adventures.

The Coffee Tasting

Hosting a Coffee Tasting 

The Savory

Black Rice Salad with Sweet Potato, Kale and Avocado

Goat Cheese, Honey, Rosemary and Pine Nuts Crostini 

Proscuitto, Manchego Cheese, Fig Jam Crostini 

 The Sweet

Pumpkin Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting

Double Chocolate Cookie Dough Tartelettes

Acorn Shaped Sugar Cookies

Dark Chocolate Cups with Hemp Seeds 

Raw Apple Pie Crumble

The DIY

Coconut Vanilla Body Butter

Painted Pine Cone Garland

Products Featured

Minted, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Artisana Foods, Manitoba Harvest, Bake It Pretty and Navitas Naturals. You all made it for a fantastic evening. Hope to work with you all again in the future. Enjoy!

Acorn Sugar Cookies

Believe it or not I've never made sugar cookies. But we decided we wanted to do this for the party, it sounded like a nice Fall goodie. I went searching online and texting a few friends that have made them before to get ideas. I finally settled on Food52's blog.

With a cute Acorn cookie cutter provided by Bake It Pretty and an awesome Sugar Cookie recipe from Food 52, these were some tasty goodies!!!

They ended up being THE palate cleanser for the coffee tasting, not intentional, but who doesn't like a good cookie with their coffee. Stephanie pictured below, with cookie in hand, would agree!!!

To me what makes the Food52 sugar cookie recipe so good is the three different types of sugar you put in them. White and brown sugar for the dough and rolling it in turbinado sugar just before baking. The only adjustment I did for this recipe was add 1/2 cup more of flour. This was because I knew I'd need to roll the dough to cut the shapes out. I might add a little more next time as it was still hard to roll out, but that might have been better, you really don't want to over work this dough.

For the Acorn shape I just coated one side and laid them on the cookie sheet ready to bake. I have to say these cookies were really good. I'd made them two days before to see what I thought of the taste and well SB ate them all. That's a good sign, he's a picky cookie customer. Enjoy this delish recipe. #mylifesimplysweet

My Life Simply Sweet

This past weekend two of my fellow bloggers and Alt Summit attendees planned a Fall tasting event called My Life Simply Sweet. This week we will be sharing all the festivities from the event, which included our first ever Coffee tasting with Stumptown Coffee Roasters as our sponsor mixed in with a few local roasters in the L.A. area that I gathered up. You'll also see a recipe for another easy appetizer, as seen below.

Now let me introduce you to these ladies, first up is Felicia, a wife and mom of one, from A Simply Raw Life. Felicia features wonderful raw food recipes from smoothies to desserts to just about anything you can think of in the raw food category, and let me tell you her food is delicious. This week she'll be sharing her recipe's made from the great sponsors and products of Artisana Foods, Manitoba Harvest and Navitas Naturals. Check out her blog this week for those post and make sure you click on the links for these goodies: Green Smoothies and Raw Chocolate Tartelettes.

Deborah from My Life at Playtime is a wife and mom of 3, who shares all her family adventures, art lessons, diy decor and handmade goodies. She lent her lovely home for this event and will be sharing a few posts sponsored by Minted and Bake It Pretty. You'll get to see the details on how to make the garland and body butter below. She might even share her first time making cream cheese frosting for her pumpkin muffins.

Together with It Sweet & Savory we hosted this lovely event we called My Life Simply Sweet, get it? It's perfect for us. Check out our hashtag on Instagram and just about every other social network this week as we share the details #mylifesimplysweet.

And doesn't that table garland below just scream Fall, look for that this week on Deborah's blog.

Image above courtesy of Deborah.