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How To Make Your Own Filled Chocolates/Bon Bons/Truffles + White Chocolate Peanut Butter Ganache

February 12, 2015 by Steph Powers 10 Comments

I didn't realize making your own filled chocolates was this easy! I'm definitely going to be doing this.

Last week I showed you how to make your own chocolate shapes using candy melts. This week, I wanted to show you how to make your own filled chocolates. I'll be filling these with a white chocolate, peanut butter ganache, but you can use any number of your favorite fillings.    Some people might call these truffles, others bon bons, others just filled chocolates. If you want to get ...

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Filed Under: Cooking Tips, Gluten-Free, Holiday, Recipes, Sweets, Vegetarian Tagged With: bon bons, candy, candy making, chocolate, diy, gift ideas, peanut butter, truffles, valentiens day, white chocolate

Food Photography Friday: Build A DIY (Lowel Ego) Tabletop Softbox for Under $30!

January 16, 2015 by Steph Powers 36 Comments

Build A DIY (Lowell Ego) Tabletop Softbox for Under $30! Great, thorough tutorial with lots of step by step images.

Build A DIY (Lowel Ego) Tabletop Softbox for under $30! I am super duper excited to share this tutorial with you today! For the longest time I have been forced to make my meals according to when the best natural light was available to photograph it. This meant either not photographing the foods we eat for dinner, making dinner at 2 pm so I could photograph it before reheating dinner at dinner ...

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Filed Under: Blogging, Food Photography Friday Tagged With: diy, food photography, lowel ego light, photography, product photography, softbox, studio light

Retro Re-pin Party #14!

October 14, 2014 by Steph Powers 3 Comments

It's Retro Re-pin Party time y'all!   I was realizing today that I should probably have my Halloween decorations up by now. I went out last year just after Halloween and managed to score some great stuff on clearance, so I should probably get it down from the attic and put it out before it's time to take it down again. Are you ready for Halloween at your house? Do you have ...

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Filed Under: Link Party, Retro Repin Tagged With: bloggerswanted, craft, diy, linkparty, pinterest, recipe, retrorepin

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I'm Stephanie. I'm an Austin, Texas native living in Denver, Colorado who blogs about my favorite Tex-Mex and travel-inspired recipe creations, food photography tech resources for bloggers. I want to make it easier for you provide sustenance to your family and show hospitality to others. Click here to learn more about me.

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