{"id":9033,"date":"2010-09-20T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T02:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=9033"},"modified":"2013-08-10T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T01:53:55","slug":"nana-fun-spaghetti-and-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/nana-fun-spaghetti-and-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Fun&#8211;Spaghetti and Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13802\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Nanafunspaghetticupcake.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13802\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13802\" title=\"Nanafunspaghetti~cupcake\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Nanafunspaghetticupcake.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Nanafunspaghetticupcake.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Nanafunspaghetticupcake-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is NOT pasta and meatballs. It is cake!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having just returned from a week with my grandchildren, I am more eager than ever to do things simply to delight them.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier post, I featured some cupcake fun from my friend Suzanne Sawko (see Nana Fun category).\u00c2\u00a0 This is another of her bakery delights, inspired by the same books shown in\u00c2\u00a0 that article.<\/p>\n<p>Note the realistic sunflower cupcakes.\u00c2\u00a0 They were actually made for the grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>The spaghetti, however, was made as a birthday cake for her adult daughter Amy.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you believe\u00c2\u00a0this Italian pasta dish\u00c2\u00a0is cake and frosting?!#$!???<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As per directions in the book, Suzanne baked a single layer cake in the blue dish.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, using a pastry tip and ivory colored frosting, she created the spaghetti.\u00c2\u00a0 The &#8220;meatballs&#8221; are doughnut holes smothered in a sauce made of thinned raspberry jam.\u00c2\u00a0 Grated coconut passes for Parmesan cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine the glee a child would experience at taking a bite of this spaghetti?\u00c2\u00a0 I love it.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe the next time my grandchildren are here overnight, I&#8217;ll whip up some spaghetti for them. Being a Nana surely is fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just returned from a week with my grandchildren, I am more eager than ever to do things simply to delight them. In an earlier post, I featured some cupcake fun from my friend Suzanne Sawko (see Nana Fun category).\u00c2\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/nana-fun-spaghetti-and-cupcakes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9042,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}