A Christmas Tea: Teapot Ornaments

Another sleepy little Christmas visitor! This sweet mouse is from the Leisure Arts book 101 Christmas Minis Book 2. He's stitched on 32 ct. red/natural petit point linen with DMC.

How about some tiny teapot ornaments? These couldn't be simpler. All you need are some small Christmas ornaments, some pipe cleaners, some embellishments, and a hot glue gun. The teapot lid is a couple of tiny buttons with a crystal bead on top.

Time for more Tiny Baking! I found a 3-cup bundt pan at Wal-Mart a while back, and launched a search for recipes. This recipe for Vanilla Pound Cake from Nordic Ware makes this adorable baby bundt:

Isn't that just the cutest? It's the perfect size for you and a friend or two. The slices are teeny tiny and precious. I don't know what brand my baby bundt is, but there's a link to a Nordic Ware 3-cup bundt pan on the recipe page. Two notes: 1) If you go looking for recipes, be aware that most references to a "mini" bundt pan are talking about a 6-cup pan (regular is 10-12 cup), not a 3-cup pan, which are sometimes called "baby" bundts; and 2) I baked this one for the full 35 minutes, placing some foil around the outer edges at about 25 minutes to keep them from getting too brown. I used this recipe for the Vanilla Bean Glaze, scaled down to 1/4.

Since it's a lot easier to find recipes for 6-cup cakes than 3-cup cakes, the obvious solution is to get two 3-cup pans, bake two little cakes, keep one, and share the other!

Come on back tomorrow for the last day of my Christmas Open House.