Hearts are okay for weddings... a little like a valentine though for my taste. How do I make a bad-ass version of these that are wedding appropriate... hmmm....enter the Thinking Cat face....
Then I found it! Inspiration on the Weddingbee Boards, shocking I know! I found the most beautiful wonderful idea and I wondered why others hadn't jumped on this idea....
Unfortunately we couldn't find the mini-wedding cake pans in any local stores. So whilst we waited for them to arrive in the mail we found a Christmas-related substitute. Enter a 64 pack of crayons and some spare time at Christmas with the 2 ring bearers and 1 flower girl. Well we needed activities... and I needed fodder for my blog. So child labor be damned!
The wax content and the type of pan you use will increase or decrease the bake time. With our $1 knock-off crayons the wax content is fairly high (much higher than a Crayola crayon) and our silicone pan the bake time increased to 25 minutes. At that time, I looked into the oven and noticed messy brownish/greyish colors in each tree.
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First the kids broke the crayons and put them into a silicone cupcake pan in the shape of pine trees. Then we baked them (as the directions above said).The wax content and the type of pan you use will increase or decrease the bake time. With our $1 knock-off crayons the wax content is fairly high (much higher than a Crayola crayon) and our silicone pan the bake time increased to 25 minutes. At that time, I looked into the oven and noticed messy brownish/greyish colors in each tree.
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Thinking that I had burned them I sat down dejectedly and the fiancé tried to cheer me up by prying them out of their silicone shells. Much to my surprise they came out quite lovely...
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It seems that the brownish/greyish mess was actually the wax which had floated to the top during the baking process. So if this happens to you, DON'T PANIC!
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The trees would be great for stocking stuffers, Christmas-wedding favors, or even personalized Christmas Cards. But here are our wedding crayons...
4 comments:
OMG! Those are so cool! I'm thinking I might steal this!! What better way to use up my old crayons than to do this! I'd probably need to go out & find some heart molds to fit with my slight Valentine's theme! :) Thanks for posting about this!
No problem! But I suggest NOT using Crayolas. They have very good quality glue and paper and it's very hard to tear off.
Ahh, Maybe I'll just go buy some Roseart ones then. They're pretty cheap.
Those are suppppeeerr awesome! I love it! I hope kids show up at our wedding so I can borrow this idea, lol!
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