{"id":1213,"date":"2014-02-25T17:20:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellapamella.com\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2018-10-05T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:05:39","slug":"idea-68-stay-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/idea-68-stay-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEA 68: STAY POSITIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1214\" title=\"Chocolate_Butterfly_cake_top\" src=\"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chocolate_Butterfly_cake_top-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate_Butterfly_cake_top\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chocolate_Butterfly_cake_top-1.jpg 351w, https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chocolate_Butterfly_cake_top-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">We all have our coping mechanisms, and it&#8217;s a good thing we do. Here in Minnesota, winter brings a boat-load of snow and this year, record below zero temperatures to boot. That&#8217;s why I was so delighted to see this sweet extra-curricular project my daughter fashioned. Here, in the midst of snow days and the occasional power outage, she didn&#8217;t just bake a cake. She baked a pink-and-chocolate-and-white cake with a lacy chocolate butterfly on top. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The cake is tiny, only about four inches across. It&#8217;s white cake, covered in chocolate buttercream frosting, with rolled white chocolate over that. She piped a ring of frosting around the bottom into which she pressed alternating light and dark pink m&amp;m candies. But the true genius is the butterfly. After melting the chocolate, she folded a piece of parchment paper and placed it, unfolded, onto an open book. The parchment paper took the shape of the curved pages underneath, as did the chocolate, drizzled in a butterfly shape. Once cooled (in the fridge), the resulting winged creature stands 3-D atop the cake as if it just alighted temporarily before moving on to the next posy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">I can&#8217;t decide which was the more gratifying winter escape: The beautiful butterfly, or gobbling it up! Yum!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1215\" title=\"Chocolate_Butterfly_Cake_side\" src=\"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chocolate_Butterfly_Cake_side-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate_Butterfly_Cake_side\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chocolate_Butterfly_Cake_side-1.jpg 351w, https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chocolate_Butterfly_Cake_side-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have our coping mechanisms, and it&#8217;s a good thing we do. Here in Minnesota, winter brings a boat-load of snow and this year, record below zero temperatures to boot. That&#8217;s why I was so delighted to see this sweet extra-curricular project my daughter fashioned. Here, in the midst of snow days and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,30,34,35,38,49,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}