Cake Pops by Cakin' Around

I have to do a little bragging here about my Great Niece Kennedy Mae.

Yes, in addition to being a great Aunt, I am indeed a Great Aunt. Yikes! That really makes me feel old.

How cute is she and how cute are those cake pops? She recently celebrated her 2nd birthday and instead of a cake my sister ordered these cake pops from Cakin' Around. Obviously the Birthday Party theme was Toy Story which is one of her favorite movies.


I cannot believe the detail that went into these cake pops. Everything except the arms on Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head where edible.


Although these cake pops were almost to cute to eat we seemed to manage and I must say they were yummy. I loved the different candies used to decorate and since I really do not eat candy anymore, these brought me back to my childhood.



This was a fun and unique way to celebrate the birthday. Not to mention the ease of dishing up as compared to a cake with cutting and serving.


Cake Pops can be made into all different shapes and characters and prices start at $18.00 a dozen with prices varying for specialty Pops. Contact Tiffany at 816-213-0480 or Tiffany@cakinaround.com. To see if she can create some cake pops for your next event. For more information visit: www.cakinaround.com.

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In Good Taste,
Sharm

What You're Missing Wednesday - Westport Food Truck Festival

This What You're Missing Wednesday features the Westport Food Truck Festival. This event will be held Friday, July 8th 5pm to midnight and Saturday, July 9th 3 pm to midnight.

Food Truck vendors will include:
3 Girls Cupcakes
CoffeeCakeKC
Curbside Cuisine
Franks/Fresh Squeezed
Gary on the Go
Good You
Grub Tub
Guerilla Gourmet
Holy Crepe!
Indios Carbonsitos
Los Tules Mexicanhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Mad Jacks on Wheels
Magical Meatball Tour
Pocos on the Boulevard
AND MORE!

For more information visit: http://www.westportfoodtruckfest.com/

If you have a great food find, restaurant or event in KC you think I am missing, email me.

In Good Taste,
Sharm

New Summer Flavors From The Sweet Tooth

I recently received a box of cupcakes from the Sweet Tooth that contained their new summer flavors. The timing could not have been more perfect as I was hosting a birthday celebration for my sister.

The new summer flavors are Key Lime Pie, Pina Colada and Creamsicle Sunrise.

While the kids just gobbled them down, the adults had a fun time tasting and deciding our favorites. We cut them in pieces so we had a chance to taste all the flavors.

If you have read some other posts on this blog, you may know I am a huge fan of Key Lime and this cupcake did not disappoint. Inspired from a recent trip to Florida, The Sweet Tooth incorporates real Key Lime juice, a unique graham cracker crust at the bottom of the cupcake and a key lime cream cheese frosting sprinkled with lime zest.

The Pina Colada cupcake was almost too cute to eat. This cupcake is topped off just like the classic cocktail with a straw and umbrella. Chopped pineapple is added to the batter before baking and the frosting contains coconut cream and a non-alcoholic rum flavoring which makes it both kid and adult friendly.

The Creamsicle Sunrise may just become a new breakfast staple. This cupcake has fresh squeezed orange juice, fresh orange whipped cream frosting and garnished with orange zest.

I had a great time sharing these cupcakes with my family and want to thank the Sweet Tooth for sharing them with me. We had a blast cutting them into pieces and taste testing all the flavors. The favorites were split down the middle with half of us choosing the Key Lime as our favorite followed by the Creamsicle Sunrise and finally the Pina Colada. The other half voted the Creamsicle Sunrise at the top then the Key Lime and the Pina Colada coming in third.

These cupcakes are delicious, fun and worth checking out! The Sweet Tooth of course has many other flavors to choose from as well so check out the contact page on their website to place an order. For more information visit www.sweettoothkc.com.

If you have a great food find in KC you think I am missing, email me.

In Good Taste,

Sharm

What You're Missing Wednesday - Turkey Pesto Sandwich

This What You're Missing Wednesday features the Turkey Pesto Sandwich from Waldo Pizza. In addition to their great pizza, they also offer some amazing sandwiches and other goodies. This one is filled with smoked turkey, artichokes, asiago cheese, red onions, pimentos and basil pesto on a toasted ciabatta bread roll. To read more about all the amazing offerings at Waldo Pizza check out this link.

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In Good Taste,
Sharm

2011 Urban Farms and Gardens Tour

Get ready for GREAT FOOD – both growing and eating it – at the 2011 Urban Farms & Gardens Tour!

Urban agriculture is about feeding people good food – and the 2011 Urban Farms & Gardens Tour, a 12-day celebration of urban agriculture in Kansas City, offers several tasty opportunities to munch on locally grown food. Designed expressly to bring together growers and eaters, two of the events invite farmers and gardeners to celebrate the pleasures of cooking with locally grown produce. The Eat Out Local nights give a shout-out to the local restaurants which make amazing meals out of urban and locally-grown food. All in all, the week leading up to the tour is a going to be full of GREAT eating!

Sunday, June 19: Gather, Share, Feast! A local food dinner by Chef Celina Tio

Chef Celina Tio, owner/chef of JULIAN Restaurant, contestant on Bravo's Top Chef Masters and recent runner-up on The Next Iron Chef, will host Gather, Share, Feast! A local food dinner by Chef Celina Tio at her restaurant. If you are a gardener or farmer, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to get your name on this celebrity chef’s menu as she turns produce fresh from your land into a delicious feast. Visit www.urbanfarmstourkc.com for information on how to contribute your produce to the meal. Call 816-214-8454 to make your reservation at JULIAN Restaurant for 5:30, 7:00, or 8:30 seatings – this is a great Father’s Day treat for your foodie dad!

Friday, June 24: Get Your Grow On! Cook-Off!

Want to show off your home-grown cooking? You can enter your favorite recipe in the Get Your Grow On! Cook-Off: A local food picnic on Friday, June 24^th from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Loose Park Pavilion. You can enter a Local Appetizer, Local Side Dish, Local Main Dish, or Local Dessert to be judged by Ethne Clark, Editor of the national publication “Organic Gardening,” Gordon Roe, publisher, tastebud magazine, Kansas City’s own eating-well magazine, and Mary Pepitone, writer of the Kansas City Star’s beloved food column, “Come into my Kitchen.” Only 30 entries will be accepted ($10 per entry) and the winners and runners-up in each category will win fabulous prizes! To enter your dish in the Local Dish Cook-Off, go to www.urbanfarmstourkc.com under the pre-tour events tab.

Share your food with others potluck style

If you don’t want to compete, you can still join the fun of the June 24 picnic! Chuck Robinson of the Garden Center Association of Greater Kansas City, co-sponsor of this event, says, “You can share your food with others potluck style, or just eat your own food and brag about how wonderful it is to other picnickers! This is a community event celebrating the wonderful food produced in our city.” The event is free for all picnickers.

June 20-23: “Eat Out Local” Nights

Restaurants are an important component of the local food system and many are joining the effort to support local food production, as well as the local economy, and to use the freshest, tastiest products on their menu. Many restaurants will be participating in “Eat Out Local” Nights in conjunction with the Urban Farms & Gardens Tour, on the evenings of June 20-23^rd. Katherine Kelly, executive director of the Kansas City Center of Urban Agriculture, which hosts of the Urban Farms & Gardens Tour, encourages resident to get out on the town. “You can eat local, eat well, and support the growing of good food in city neighborhoods.” Eat at any of the participating restaurants listed on the tour website and they'll make a donation to the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture.

Urban Farms & Gardens Tour

We ALL eat, and more than ever in recent history, people are interested in knowing where their food comes from, who grows it, and how it is produced. The two day, self-guided tour allows you to go see Kansas City’s farms and gardens, meet the farmers, and ask them how they grow the food you eat.

The Urban Farms & Gardens Tour, hosted by the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture, offers you exciting new ways to connect with the good food growing in the city. On June 25 and 26, thirty-eight urban farms and gardens across the Kansas City Metro will open their fields and garden plots for people to explore on the fourth biennial Urban Farms & Gardens Tour. Attendees are encouraged to visit as many sites as they like from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday to connect with the farmers and gardeners that feed our city with fresh, delicious, healthy food.

Information and details

For information about tickets and further event details visit www.urbanfarmstourkc.com, or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/KCUrbanFarmsTour or on Twitter @KCFarmsTour. New information is coming in every week, so stay tuned for the latest updates! See complete list of pre-tour events below.

Hop Fest Craft Beer Festival

HOP FEST CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL

PRESENTED BY: The Well Bar Grill & Rooftop and Lew’s Grill and Bar in Waldo

DATE: Saturday June 18, 2011

TIME: 1:00pm to 5:00pm

LOCATION: Tented Beer Garden in the parking lot one block east of the The Well (207 West 74th St.)

WHAT: 20+ Craft Breweries and 250+ Craft Beers from breweries all over America, Belgium and beyond. Brewery and distributor reps will be on site to answer questions and entertain with stories about the beer.

"Hopfest is the single largest sampling selection of craft beers in Kansas City history," said Chris Lewellen, Owner of The Well Bar Grill & Rooftop and Lew’s Grill and Bar. “We will also have truly unique beers that have never been offered for sale to the public, like Boulevard Test Sour Love Child #2, Southern Tier- Gemini, Imperial Bended Ale, Tommy Knocker Hop Strike (BlackIPA) and more.”

Complete list of beers not available in stores or bars:

Boulevard Test Sour Love Child #2

Southern Tier - Gemini, Imperial Blended Ale

Crispin - oak aged Pear and Apple Ciders - only eight in the state of MO

Lagunitas Brown Shugga 2010 -keg

Boulevard Hoppy Wheat - keg

Troubador Magma -keg Blgian IPA

Monk's Café - keg Begian Sour

Southern Tier - Oaked Aged Unearthly (Imperial IPA)

Tallgrass - Velvet Roster (Belgian Triple)

Southern Tier - Jahva (Imperial Coffee Stout)

Tommy Knocker - Hop Strike (Black IPA)

Sample list of beers available during the festival:
Boulevard, Lagunitas, Big Sky, Fox ‘n’ Barrel Cider, Capital, Boulder, Buffalo Bill, Pyarmid, Magic Hat, Popperings, Monk's Cafe, Petrus, Troubador, Cherish Kreik, Bilken, Delirium, Witterkerke, New Holland, Founders, Left Hand, Ska, Bear Republic, Grand Teton, Hebrew, Brother Theionius, Southern Tier, Tommyknocker, Tallgrass, Doodle, Shilling Bridge, Stone, Schlafly, New Belgium, Firestone Walker, Avery, Great Divide, Chimay, Bridgeport, Anchor, Sam Adams, McCoy’s, Ameristar Brew Pub, 75th Street and more!

TICKET INFORMATION:

Purchase tickets at The Well Bar Grill & Rooftop and Lew’s Grill & Bar or call 816.361.1700

General Admission tickets – $30.00 in advance (limited to 750 tickets)

VIP Entrance Tickets – $50.00 in advance (only 100 tickets available)
• VIP tickets get entrance at noon (one hour early access to the fest)
• Get up close and personal with the brewers
• Five special release beers available only during VIP session

Ticket includes a tasting glass, program, and hours of unlimited sampling! Rare and unusual beers to be released every thirty minutes during the festival Tickets also includes free admission Saturday night to The Well and Lew's, where there will be live music and additional new craft beers available for purchase.

MUST BE 21 TO ATTEND

What You're Missing Wednesday - Margartiaville Cupcakes

A new feature here on What You're Missing KC! Will be "What You're Missing Wednesday." On occasional Wednesdays I will post a photo and a short sentence about my most recent food find. A longer post may be written in the future about it, so if you want more information certainly keep your eye out or just contact me.

OK well enough about that I am sure you get the idea. The first "What You're Missing Wednesday" are these Tequila infused Margaritaville Cupcakes from Stefanie Speers of Pin- Up Pastries. Pin-Up Pastires has these and many other adult and non adult flavored cupcakes. To place an order or get more info check out www.kcpinuppastries.com

If you have a great food find it KC email me.

In Good Taste,
Sharm