tracey, I'm one of those who isn't too keen on Pinterest...
but, that is just too stinkin' CUTE!

Fabulous. You would be a heroine with my g-kids.

/tricia

Very cute!
I was charged with bringing an outrageous dessert to our between game cookout. I have to thank Pinetrest for my "dessert for a group". It was a winner according to my ball players--Butterfinger No-bake Cake.

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Cute cake and Cathy you can't sat it was a winner without posting a link !?!?!

Tracey, I'm not wild about Pinterest either, I'm too impatient, but that is just too cute, my grandkids would love it too!

Annie

Thanks guys! Full disclosure on Pinterest, I have had some total recipe DUDS from there so now I mainly use it for inspiration and ideas unless I am familiar with the site the recipe came from.

I agree, the Butterfinger cake sounds great!

Annie, I bet your grandkids could handle making this. The girls helping me were 13, 11, and 6 and they did great. It's just a layer cake with chocolate frosting on the sides and ganache on the top. I made the fondant for the pigs the day before.

Tracey

Tracey, I thought that looked like a layer cake, surrounded by KitKat candy bars. I do like that little pig with the tummy up out of the mud, LOL.

I think that idea could easily become a baby in a bubble bath, or some ducks in a pond or a redneck hot tub...

Annie

It was quick to make. Here are the adjustments I made:
doubled the recipe
used Reeses Peanut Butter wafers
doubled the layers
topped with Butterfinger crumbles
made it in a 16" loaf pan
served it on a gallery tray

I think mine looked better than the one pictured on Pinetrest but I was happy for the last minute dessert for a crowd idea.

The sweet freaks loved it.

Here is a link that might be useful: No-Bake Peanut Butter Cake

Tracy, that is a cute cake for kids. I've seen many good ideas on Pinterest for kids. It's one way to get kids interested in cooking.

There are many people on Pinterest who have one of their boards devoted to kids, grand kids, etc. I just did a quick search for some and it looks like there are thousands.

Annie, get with it GF!!!! Just this morning, Kim and I were trying to think of something different to make with chicken for dinner tonight. We looked at over 200 pins for chicken in a very short time, checked out a few recipes and found something we both agreed on. I don't think it took more than 10 minutes. It would take hours to look at the many ideas in cookbooks. We both like the visual speed.

Nancy

Nancy, I just don't like it. I see a picture, but there's never a recipe until I click four or five links, and go to blogs that I don't care about and read countless paragraphs of information bout people I don't know that I'm not interested in.

It's one of those things that I've tried to like. Ashley loves it, gets craft ideas on it. Elery likes it. I just don't like it, don't find it user friendly and can't find anything specific that I'm looking for. (shrug)

Of course, I also just detest Facebook..

Annie

One trick I've learned, is to find a pic/description I like the looks of, and then if the clicking to get to the recipe is too onerous, I just google the name of the recipe - it often takes you to the original recipe. Then I pin THAT source or bookmark it into my recipe file.

That pig cake is adorable!

That cake isfabulous! I love pigs!

Amazing work!

A very good friend has many pigs bakes a lot.

I e. mailed a picture to her. Got some really laughs from her family!

dcarch

Love this!

Thanks again guys! Cathy, the no bake cake looks awesome. I am a peanut butter fanatic so that is right up my alley.

Annie, I hear you on the Pinterest thing. I hate when I click on a pin and there's nothing there or it's just an ad so like Olychick I make sure and track down the original source if I pin something.

Thanks for passing on the pictures Dcarch! I'm glad your friends got a kick out of it. Like I said, it was one of the cutest cakes I'd seen in a long time so I had to try it!

Tracey

My biggest Pinterest problem is my anti-virus software hates it. If I spend, as example, an hour fussing around clicking on all the pictures...you can bet I'll get the, "OOPS, are you SURE you want to go there?" screen at least 3-4 times. I hate viruses, therefore, I hate Pinterest. I use McAfee.

/tricia

On an earlier thread, I said how great Thumbnail Zoom Plus is for Pinterest. It's a Firefox add-on that makes small pictures bigger. With it, I cruised over all those Pinterest thumbnails and could actually see them well without clicking. But a little while ago it stopped working. I emailed the developer and he said Pinterest had made some changes, but he was going to fix it. And now he has!
So if you upload the latest version (for some reason this did not happen automatically for me) it will greatly improve Pinterest and many other sites.

Thank you CC... I tried the Firefox add-on when you mentioned it on the other thread...it's wonderful and works on some (not all) of the other sites I visit.

Yesterday Pinterest rolled out their new setup. Seems to work just fine and has some neat features.

Nancy

You're welcome, Nancy! I love that bunny bread you pinned.