Walter Knoll Florist Donates all Date Flower Sales to Salvation Army Haiti Relief Fund
Posted by Di in Uncategorized, walter knoll floristWalter Knoll Florist to Donate 100 Percent of sales of date flowers for the next 3 weeks to Haiti Relief
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Jan
21
2010
Walter Knoll Florist Donates all Date Flower Sales to Salvation Army Haiti Relief FundPosted by Di in Uncategorized, walter knoll floristWalter Knoll Florist to Donate 100 Percent of sales of date flowers for the next 3 weeks to Haiti Relief thoroughly enjoyed by the neighbors!
Jan
17
2010
Red Velvet CakePosted by Di in BAKING RECIPE, Cake, Flower Sculpture, Hershey's Cocoa, RECIPE, birthday, chocolate cake, custom floral arrangements, walter knoll florist, walter knoll flourist, tags: Happy BirthdayLast fall Robin Knoll gave me a copy of an old typed recipe from a great aunt. “Will you make it for me?” Finally got around to making it, strange recipe, no butter in the cake and granulated sugar and flour in the icing! It was delicious though I thought it kinda skimpy in size and volume of icing so below is my revamped version of Robin’s great aunt’s ¾ c shortening Grease two 9” cake pans, line bottoms with greased parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350F. Sift together the flour and salt on a piece of waxed paper. Make a loose paste of the food coloring, vanilla and cocoa. In standing mixer, cream shortening and sugar until fluffy, add eggs all at once, beating to combine. Divide batter evenly into the two prepared pans. Allow to cool in pans on rack. Make cooked part of frosting while cakes are baking and set aside to cool or refrigerate) FROSTING Cook flour and milk until thick, whisking constantly. This will only take a minute. It will be the consistency of that gravy you get with biscuits. Remove to bowl and set aside to cool and then refrigerate. Press plastic wrap on top of flour/milk mixture to avoid a skin on it. Add cold cooked mixture and beat again until the icing is the consistency of whipped cream. Carefully split the each cake into 2 even layers, ice between each layer and the top. I think next time I make this cake I’ll cut off the mounds on top for even layers – those mounds will be good snacking! Want to send a zero calorie birthday cake? Walter Knoll Florist has just the cake for you! SUV Drive into Walter Knoll Florist O’fallon, Makes a mess but no one is hurt. Video and Pictures. Walter Knoll Florist Flowers for the 2009 Veiled Prophet Ball – Saint Louis MO
Dec
20
2009
Toxic Neighbor Soup & Grammy’s Chocolate WaffiesPosted by Di in BAKING RECIPE, Chocolate, Hershey's Cocoa, Holiday Gifts, RECIPE, christmas, holiday fun, kids, walter knoll florist, tags: HolidayOh my neighbor kids and parents all have the swine flu, croup and/or ear infections! Poor mama! Yesterday while I baked off cookies for the holidays I thru together some chicken soup for them. I gathered together celery, onions, carrots, garlic and ginger in the food processor and chopped it all pretty fine in case there is any throwing up going on! I think little kids have got to have noodles in their soup so I broke up about a cup of hollow macaroni sticks into 1/2 to 1 inch pieces. I cooked the macaroni in a separate pot then added it to the soup. Took the whole pot over and plopped it on their stove. Feel better soon! especially with Grammy’s Chocolate Waffies! 2 cups all-purpose flour Preheat Oven 350 I made my dough a week ahead and refrigerated it in a bowl with plastic wrap pressed to the dough and a lid on the bowl – worked great to let it sit on the counter to soften a bit while I prepared the veggies for the soup! Speaking of cookies . . . I just love this Merry Memories arrangement we are featuring this year – the container could be a great cookie jar kinda gift container next year! So a great gift for that baker friend of yours! Speaking of cookies . . . Our Italian Cookies offering from our baker friends on the hill are selling like hotcakes this year! We also have their pies! The Cherry Pie is as good as my own!
Dec
19
2009
Fun With Flowers – Poinsettia Painting with Chuck KnollPosted by Walter in walter knoll floristPoinsettia Painting with Chuck Knoll See Walter, Chuck and David on our 2009 Holiday TV Spot
Dec
02
2009
WKF does Holiday Magic at the STL Visitors & Convention Center this weekend!Posted by Di in 2009, Activities, Garden Center, Holiday Arrangement, Holiday Gifts, What's New, children under 12, experienced staff, gardening advise, holiday fun, holiday season, plants, poinsettia, st louis, unusual flowers, walter knoll florist, tags: Christmas Decorations, Christmas Poinsettias, Christmas Trees, Holiday Magic, Poinsettias are not toxicThere’s a NEW holiday tradition being added to St. Louis’s social calendar this year! “Holiday Magic” comes to America’s Center, December 4-6, and it promises to be an exciting and entertaining event for families and shoppers. Enjoy wood carving demonstrations and hands-on crafts, a dazzling light show with over 40,000 holiday lights choreographed to holiday music, and a full-scale indoor carnival. It’s gonna be great – we’ll have hundreds, maybe thousands of white poinsettias for kids to paint – as well as protective gear to keep their little outfits tidy – so come on down and get in the Christmas Spirit! As we prepare and set up our booth for the big show we are also installing over 75 real live Christmas trees around the center-complete with lights! And our booth will have lots of fully decorated trees and ideas as well as special “show” pricing – there will be ornaments and garland and wreaths and swags you can buy and take with you and we will also have on display our Holiday Arrangements (you may have seen them on our Holiday Unwrapped 2009 brochure we mailed out last week) – so come on down, bring the kids (and $5 of course-proceeds benefit Mathews-Dickey Boys and Girls Club). Tell ‘em Di sent you! Speaking of poinsettias – you know it’s an old wives tale about them being toxic, don’t you? Well, although we don’t recommend you eat them, they are NOT poisonous. Here is a pic of a poinsettia painted by a 73-year old! ![]() How about a blue or purple poinsettia? Can’t get down to the Convention Center this weekend? Don’t despair – visit our garden center at California and LaSalle and see all our poinsettia varieties – here’s a sampling!
Last week we had a great girl scout troop come in to learn about flowers and flower arranging! They all had a great time and so did we! You can bring your troop in for a field trip! Just click on our bus tours link
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