#mcc green geckos

[kratergate]

so . mcc huh

[theglitternet]

Specimens 17-20. GREEN: INDECISION.

MCC skin submissions for the Green Geckos. Downloads and PNGs below the cut.

– Oli (3px) [ lhttps://www.minecraftskins.com/skin/21460775/theorionsound-mcc-scuffed--indecision--green/ ]

– Punz (3px) [ https://www.minecraftskins.com/skin/21460781/punz-mcc-scuffed--indecision--green/ ]

– Krinios (4px) [ https://www.minecraftskins.com/skin/21460791/krinios-mcc-scuffed--indecision--green/ ]

– Beky (3px) [ https://www.minecraftskins.com/skin/21460796/bekyamon-mcc-scuffed--indecision--green/ ]

[okaioh]

somethings wrong with my streamer guys....

[heroes-feasting]

Green Guardians: Peppermint Patties

Did you know? MCC 7’s Green Guardians hold the current record for most coins scored in a single event, with 25’346!

Time for another MCC dessert: Green Guardians Peppermint Patties!

They may be the Green Geckos now, but my idea for this predates the change so I’m considering it valid lmao. This was a lot of fun to make and introduced me to coloured melting chocolate and candy food dye.

The white chocolate makes these a little sweeter than you would expect for a peppermint patty and they go great with a hot cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate!

Check out below for the recipe to make some of your own, and, of course, thank you Scott Smajor.

(Inspired by the peppermint patties from B. Dylan Hollis’ TikTok)

Prep: 20 mins*            Cook: 1h 40mins            Total: 2 hrs     

* Can vary based on how fast you can trace the pattern at the end. I recommend doing this before you start.

Ingredients (makes ~28):

½ cup (120 ml) sweetened condensed milk

½ tsp. (2 ml) peppermint extract

2 ½ cups (300 g) powdered sugar

2 cups (340 g) bright white melting chocolate wafers*

3 tbsp. (44 g) all-vegetable shortening

40 dark green melting chocolate wafers**

7 orange chocolate melting wafers**

10 white chocolate melting wafers**

Black candy colouring or ~6 black chocolate melting wafers

* I used Sweet Tooth Fairy brand.

** I used Merkens brand.

Prepare a baking tray with a piece of parchment paper.

Combine the sweetened condensed milk and peppermint extract in a medium bowl (left).

Using an electric mixer on medium-low speed, add the powdered sugar until it comes together into a non-sticky workable dough (right).

NOTE: The dough cannot be sticky at all for this. Any amount of stickiness will make it a nightmare to cut out the circles in the next step. This should take most if not all of the 2 ½ cups of powdered sugar.

Lay out a piece of parchment paper as a work surface and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Place the dough on the parchment and sprinkle a little more powdered sugar on top.

Roll out the dough into a ½ -inch (~1.5 cm) thick circle. Using a 2-inch (5 cm) diameter circular cookie cutter, cut out as many peppermint circles as possible (top).

Transfer the peppermint circles to the prepared baking skeet (bottom left). Cover and place the tray in the freezer to chill for at least 10 minutes.

After chilling, cut each patty in half (bottom right).

While waiting for the patties to chill, melt the bright white melting chocolate wafers and shortening using either a double boiler or microwave-safe bowl. To melt them in the microwave, follow package directions.

Dip each patty in the chocolate one at a time. To dip them, submerge the bottom half of one in the chocolate and drizzle more on top. Lift the patty out of the chocolate with a fork and tap the side of the bowl to create a smooth surface. Scrape the fork against the lip of the bowl to remove excess chocolate. 

Return the dipped patties to the prepared baking sheet (left). Once they’ve all been coated, return the tray to the freezer until the chocolate has set, ~15 mins.

Once the chocolate has set, trim the edges of the patties using a knife (right).

Flip the parchment with the traced pattern (see end of post) over so side with the pen/pencil/sharpie is on the bottom. Lay it flat on a movable (if possible) lighter surface so the pattern is visible and tape down the corners to keep it from moving.

To make the dark green: melt together 30 dark green, 6 orange, and all black chocolate wafers in the microwave in 10 second bursts for 30 seconds, stirring each time.

If using black dye instead, melt the dark green and orange wafers together and then stir in 7 drops of black candy dye (top left).

Let the melted chocolate sit for 10 minutes to cool down and let the colour set. After cooling, transfer 2 tbsp. into a decorating bag or into the corner of a ziplock bag. Snip the bag just enough for the chocolate to flow easily when you squeeze the bag, then snip off a little bit more.

Keeping constant pressure on the bag, trace the pattern on the template, going around the edge first. For a smooth look, try not to spread the chocolate too much with the piping bag. Instead, once the border has been traced, pipe a larger line of chocolate in the middle and lightly tap the parchment paper to let the chocolate spread (top right).

You’ll likely still need to spread the chocolate a little using the piping bag, but try not to do it much.

Transfer the parchment paper, and the surface it’s on, if possible, to the fridge to set while you prepare the light green.

To make the light green: melt together 10 dark green, 10 white, and 1 orange chocolate wafers using the same method as the dark green (bottom left).

Let the melted chocolate sit for 10 minutes to cool down and let the colour set. After cooling, transfer all of it into a decorating bag or into the corner of a ziplock bag. Snip the bag just enough for the chocolate to flow easily when you squeeze the bag.

Keeping constant pressure on the bag, trace the pattern on the parchment with only one line of lighter green (bottom right).

Return the parchment paper, and the surface it’s on, if possible, to the fridge to set, about 5 mins.

TIP: You can try and use a toothpick to smooth the ends of the line of light green against the dark green.

Remove the patties from the freezer and dip just the edge of the flat side in the remaining dark green, re-melting the chocolate in the microwave if needed (left).

Attach the chocolate irises to the rest of the eye using a little bit of melted chocolate (right).

And then you’re done, enjoy!

I’m really happy with how these turned out! It’s surprisingly easy to make peppermint patties and I loved being able to put my spin on them and make another dessert for MCC.

The dark green I made is a little darker then I would like, but I think I fixed it in the instructions given.

The pattern to trace:

Formatted for 8 ½ x 11.

[bee-813]

In case you missed it earlier, here is Grian’s pov of the MCC Party: green geckos!

[amethyst-allium]

MCC IS NOT IMMUNE BITCHES

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

[glowinggayduo]

TINKREEEEBEELLLLLL

[muffindoesstuff]

JOJO GOT FIRST FEMALE #1 IN MCC LETS GOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[draphty]

MCCTOBER DAY 8: Blue Bat, Purple Panda and Pink Parrot playing RSR; Cyan Coyote, Red Rabbit, Orange Ocelot and Green Gecko playing PT; Aqua Axolotl, Lime Llama and Yellow Yak

During the month of October (and November) I followed the list of prompts of MCCTober, posted originally in r/MinecraftChampionship, and I made fanart for every day/prompt. Here’s for day 8: If the mascots played MCC

[tcmecho]

My roomies and I watched pink parrots pov but switched to green for dodgebolt, that win was amazing!! (We yelled a lot)

[risibledeer]

I've wanted shane and joel for liek so long now and you're telling me it's the WEEK BEFORe MY EXAM WHY SCOTT WHY DO YOU MAKE ME SUFFER SO i wanna cry, but my tears have already run out on my biology textbook lol

[cherrijuice]

The prettiest of them all

[theglitternet]

JOJO GOT HER S-TIER CRITERIA IN ONE EVENT (AND FIRST CANON WIN)

SCAR FIRST WIN

JOEL FIRST SEASON 2 WIN

SEAPEEKAY 4 TIME WINNER

[okaioh]

GREEN GECKOS GOT 8TH WAHOO!!!

They may not have won the tournament but they won being the silliest team (real) !!

[heroes-feasting]

Adventures In Dark Green Chocolate

“i sure would like too” - saved snip title

I started planning MCC’s Green Guardians dessert back in July and little did I know that acquiring dark green melting chocolate would end up being the hardest part of the project. A real Indiana Jones style adventure lmao. 

(Click keep reading for The Adventure)

Not only does dark green happen to be the only colour Sweet Tooth Fairy doesn’t stock, but Wilton’s candy melts aren’t sold here (although apparently they taste bad now so *shrug*) and Bulk Barn only stocks Merken’s seasonally.

Really wanting to make this, I decided to try Wilton candy dye with white chocolate instead of using coloured wafers. However, the green dye ended up being too light, even when adding a lot, and mixing in black desaturated the colour. Not to mention that the black dye had turned into a paste in its container before I’d even opened it and made it near impossible to measure the amount being added.

Fortunately for me, Jay (chocolate crow) and Autumn in Philza’s chat were kind enough to help with the colour saturation issue (ph1lLove catKISS).

Unfortunately for me, after some trial and error, the Green Guardian’s dark green turned out to be more yellow-green then blue-green. Double unfortunate for me is that Wilton does have a candy dye pack with yellow, but those weren’t available.

Now back at square one, I headed to Micheal's, bought a box of Satin Ice candy dye since they looked darker and… walked into Bulk Barn for white chocolate to find they’d started stocking the Merken’s dark green wafers ahead of the holiday season. Yes, it was November by this time. Yes, it was pain and suffering to see them.

The Merken’s wafers were still more blue-green then expected, but adding some orange wafers (also in stock) helped keep the colour from becoming too light while turning it yellow-green. After that, all I needed to do was make it darker. 

The black melting wafers weren’t in stock (and, with my luck, probably won’t be until Halloween), but I still had the Satin Ice colour I’d bought. Although I might have been able to try melting some Sweet Tooth Fairy black wafers, I was worried that mixing brands would cause the chocolate to separate.

But, ta-da!, I got the dark green I was looking for! … Well kinda. The colour looked perfect in the candy mold, but was way too dark when piped or dipped into. At this point, though, MCC was set for December 3rd and I really wanted to share this, even if it wasn’t exactly right.

However, I do still think I was on the right track and that the edits to my process will net a more accurate colour.

So, what did I learn from this? Aside from Canada’s apparent hatred of dark green chocolate wafers /j. 

I don’t know… I think if there's one thing it would be patience? Even when I was lamenting back in July that the wafers weren’t in stock now, I had reason to assume they would be later. And waiting to see would have saved me money on the candy dye and white chocolate.

So, I guess the thing to bring into future projects is to really think about if what I’m looking for is likely to be in stock/back in stock before trying a workaround - even if I’m really excited. Especially if the season for that thing to be in stock is close(ish) and not after when I’m hoping to have something out for.

[npcdragonboi]

Ended up not sleeping and watched the gay Olympics that is MCC. I AM SO HAPPY FOR SCAR (and Jellie) FIRST WIN!

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO THE GOODTIMES!

Maybe I will draw the whole Green Geckos