Category: Sweets
Our St. Patricks Day
A peek at our St. Patricks Day fun. We had thin mint green sandwich cookies, green frosted rice crispy treat bites, & homemade shamrock shakes! Did you celebrate today?
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St. Patrick’s Day Treats For Kids
I’m not Irish, but I do love this holiday. SO-MUCH-FUN! In honor of St. Patrick’s Day I thought I’d share 4 GREEN treats that may be fun to try with your children this weekend. Or perhaps bookmark for the next rainy day?
* GREEN Velvet Cupcakes
* GREEN Eggs & Ham using pretzel sticks, white candy melts, & green M&Ms
* Spinach Ice Cream
* Emerald Mint Milkshake.
I’m making the emerald mint milkshakes for our Sunday afternoon dessert. The recipe is super simple:
1 pint (2 cups) vanilla ice cream
1 cup of milk
McCormick Pure Peppermint Extract
1/4 teaspoon green food coloring
green glitter sprinkles or green candy topping
Place ice cream, milk, peppermint extract and green food color in blender container; cover. Blend on high speed until smooth. Pour into glasses. Top with whipped cream and sprinkles, if desired. Serve immediately.
For more fun food ideas for children check out my Pinterest Board: FOOD 4 CHILDREN
Marshmallow Faces
Leave it to Color Me Katie to come up with this clever idea! I’m hoping to make some cute Marshmallow Faces for our hot cocoa this weekend. The weather has been BRUTAL this week!
Katie used a paint brush + icing + food coloring. If you involve your kids in this activity it may be easier to use Edible Color Markers
Ice Cream Cone Christmas Trees
I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought it would be really fun to make a bunch of these for dessert table decor. If I did it again I would probably melt white chocolate chips instead of frosting because the frosting never fully dries.
& be sure to slide a clean piece of paper under the cones before you shake the sprinkles on. A lot of sprinkles will fall off & this way you can re-sprinkle using the ones you collect on the paper.
I prefer my cones with simple glitter sprinkles, but the decorating methods are endless!
Pillsbury Snowman Cookies
Rex, Harper, & Grammy were busy in the kitchen last night. These easy bake snowman cookies were all ready to eat by the time I got home!
Peggy Porschen Baby Shower Cake & Cookie Heaven From Baby Blog UK Here Comes Baby
Peggy Porschen creates the most magical and heavenly baby shower cakes and cookies that look too pretty to eat! Peggy’s baby shower culinary goodies are irresistibly pretty and elegant with delicate touches that ooze style. Peggy has a bespoke cake company in Belgravia, London, which has a loyal fan following including celebrities Kate Moss, Sting and Trudie Styler, Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow to name but a few.
You can hold your baby shower at their elegant ‘Peggy Porschen Parlour’ in Belgravia in their private function room, or order cakes and cookies for your own baby shower party. If you are feeling particularly creative you can follow her recipes from her stunning book ‘Peggy’s Favourite Cakes & Cookies’
To create your own sweet baby shower at home you can bake cakes and cookies using Peggy’s recipes, then decorate the room in an intimate tea party theme with soft pinks or blues with chic porcelain and crisp white table cloths. Then fill vases full to brim with fresh flowers, beautiful roses with complimenting coloured flowers are perfect for this. Why not send your guests home with a sweetly packaged baby shower cookie favour, or with a little kit to make their own cookies at home with, or why not a selection of fine teas packaged elegantly in a small favour box.
Bakery or “Homemakery?”
Lets talk birthday cake for a second…
Have you noticed the fancy, themed cakes at children’s birthday parties lately? A lot of them have more tiers than my wedding cake!
Whatever happened to home made cakes? Growing up my mom always whipped up something pretty delicious. It was usually from a box & I’m pretty sure never cost more than $5-$10! Betty Crocker makes it sooo easy… I guess nowadays we have so little time. It is a lot easier to leave it up to the bakery, right?
When Harper turned 3 last December she asked me for a PURPLE & PINK cake. I knew that I wanted to make her something in my own oven. After buying all of the ingredients she offered to be my assistant. So, we decided that she would get to decorate her OWN cake. It was her birthday after all!
I covered the cake with purple frosting, then she helped squeeze out the yellow piping. She also wanted an Elmo face. ((do i dare take credit?)) After that she went at it with glitter & sprinkles.
She did a fabulous job & enjoyed cake decorating so much that we’ve decided to make this a birthday tradition!
So, what about you? Are you Team “Bakery” or Team “Homemakery“?
Ice Cream Scoop Pops
Snazz up your vanilla ice cream this summer. Thank you, Betty Crocker! Harper & I will definitely be trying this this summer. via lilmissbossy.com
Fabric Covered Lollypops
One Charming Party always has the most clever (but do-able) party ideas. This is one of my favorites (& so so easy!) Match your lollypops to your party decor by wrapping them in small squares of fabric in different patterns. Then tie with bakers twine… easy as that!
Piñata Cookies
Have you seen these? She Knows posted this cool tutorial on how to make them (for 5 de Mayo)…
I’m thinking that you could try this with any of your cookie cutters. I may use my balloon cookie cutters.
P.S. my rainbow cupcakes
Surprise Cake
Did you/are you going to have a surprise cake? I love this simple one with 2 jumbo question marks on top! Via tinywarbler.blogspot.com
Ice cream day
It is HOT here on the east coast. We are going for FREE ice cream at the farm! I’m going for chocolate, what is your flavor? ice cream images via pinterest.
Rainbow Favors + a FREE Printable
I cannot resist a good RAINBOW party favor. Anyone party planning? Visit bethproudfoot.blogspot.com for all kinds of cute & FREE printables.
Halloween Fun Food!
Just 2 of my favorite Halloween treats from agoisfoto.com. I also LOVE the hot dog ideas but not a fan of hot dogs!
Halloween Desserts
Do you have a favorite Halloween dessert? I thought this was super clever…the kiwi looks like a really gory eyeball…so funny! Maybe for older kids. I don’t think my toddlers would have a clue 
recipe via kitchentablescraps.com
Rainbow Cake
A little rainbow cheer for you this morning via cosmocookie.blogspot.com. Wouldn’t these be fun to incorporate into your birthday party dessert table? You could make them with a Donut Pan
How to Make Sesame Street Cupcakes
For Harper’s 2nd birthday last December we had Elmo & Cookie Monster cupcakes, but I would have LOVED to have had a tutorial for Big Bird & Oscar as well! Annie’s Eats teaches you how to make the Sesame crew as well as how to make your own cupcake tower. I LOVE how she used red, yellow, green & blue cupcake wrappers for each character.
found via pbs.org
Rainbow Heart Cake
I am such a kid when it comes to anything rainbow colored & was completely in awe of this fabulous cake by bakingdom.com. The step by step instructions make it seem doable…Do you dare try?
Birthday Cake Cookies
I love fun birthday treats. These Birthday Cake Cookies look especially yummy, and much more fun than a slice of birthday cake! I think they would be just perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.
Do you make a traditional birthday food/recipe?
1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix
1/4 cup rainbow candy sprinkles
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 tablespoon milk
1 egg
1 can Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
1/4 cup confetti candy sprinkles
1. Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir cake mix, rainbow candy sprinkles, butter, milk and egg until soft batter forms. Scoop 20 tablespoonfuls of batter onto ungreased large cookie sheet.
2. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or just until cookies are set. Remove from cookie sheet; cool completely.
3. Spread frosting on bottom of 1 cookie; top with second cookie, bottom side down.
4. Roll edges of frosting in confetti candy sprinkles. If desired, top each with a birthday candle.
Fruit Ball Cones
What do you think of this idea? Can you fool your kids into thinking they are eating something much more fun than plain fruit? I know Harper will totally go for it, although she loves fruit to begin with!
P.S. all the mamas at the birthday party will love you for this!
Ice Cream Birthday Party
Pretty pastels, polka dots, hoola hoops, and lots of vintage details at this ice cream birthday party.
The best part is that you can create a similar version of this party…
Victoria offers free downloads of the ice cream labels & juice box labels. Your friends and family will be so impressed!
photography by Jackie Wonders
For Your Little Party Animal: Circus Celebration
Clockwise from top left: bunting, invitation, balloon cake, mustaches, snack boxes, cookies
Clockwise from top left: swirl lollipop, bunting, clown crayons, labels, food toppers, printables, confetti + tickets
A simple and fun photobooth:
Decorate with this cute and colorful toy train:
Dress your little party animal in this adorable romper:
Happy party planning!
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Violet’s First Birthday Party
I thought I’d share a few photos from Violet’s first birthday party with all of you today. We ended up having a great day despite the threat of rain! If you’d like to see more photos or know sources, head over to my blog with two cats – I’ll be posting photos throughout the week!
Hope you had a festive weekend!
Bunny Ear Cupcakes
there is still time to try these adorable bunny cupcakes. i spotted some bunny ear cookie cutters at our Wegmans (local grocer) on Wednesday. get the “how to” over @ sweetsugarbelle.blogspot.com
Rainy Day Baby Shower
a sweet rainy day baby shower. get all of the DIY details at fiskars.com
p.s. i think this would be a really cute 1st birthday party idea for baby girl. especially those with spring birthdays 
Easter Peeps Treats
Peeps Chocolate Covered Pretzels
Christi has dedicated an entire week of baking and blogging to PEEPS! she has included all of the recipes for these adorble treats. i’d go for the cupcake pushpops – so yummy!!
Baby Shower Ideas
mini cupcakes via Amy @ shewearsmanyhats.com. for the flags she printed the text, cut flag shapes, and attached them to toothpicks with a little craft glue.
Ducky Punch via Cheryl @ tidymom.net. the blue Kool-Aid makes it look like bath water and the sherbet mixed with the ginger ale gives it “bath bubbles”.
Rainbow Cupcakes
have you ever tried making these? yesterday harper and rex both decided to nap at the same time (AMAZING!) so, i decided to use up the food coloring from the homemade playdough i made over the weekend.
this was so much fun and easy-peasy! the directions:
*mix up a box of white cake mix. (i used Betty Crocker) preferably a recipe that uses egg whites and oil instead of butter (your colors will come out better and cupcakes will brown less.)
*divide batter into bowls
*add your food coloring. i used McCormick’s neon pack for my pink, green, blue, and purple. then i mixed the neon pink with the yellow from the original pack to get my orange. this is really just a guestimate until you get the desired colors.
*line your muffin pan with cupcake wrappers. i used silver cupcake wrappers to make “surprise” cupcakes and white/clear wrappers for the rest of the cupcakes:
*using a fork or spoon drizzle each color on top of the next. i used forks because i found that it gave me more control. do not try to spread the colors out on your own (it will cause your colors to mix).
*purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink
bake (as directed on your cake mix-i baked about 21 min.) let cool and frost them if you like.
even the wrapper is pretty!
enjoy!
Snow Ice Cream
are you getting a ridiculous amount of snow this year? this is my 4th winter in NJ/NY and we have had more snow than the 3 previous winters combined!
check out this mama’s creative snow day snack idea. all you need is a bowl of snow and some milk, vanilla, sugar, food coloring, and sprinkles. for the entire recipe visit back to her roots
Fall Acorn Cake
a simple acorn cake to celebrate fall! yum yum!
Prep Time: 10 Min.
Bake Time: 50 Min.
Decoration Time: 20 Min.
Difficulty: Easy
Yield: Makes 2 Acorn Cakes (Each Acorn Serves 15).
2 boxes (18.5 oz. each) Devil’s Food Cake mix
1 container (16-ounces) prepared vanilla frosting
Brown food coloring (or green and red to make brown)
1 ½ cup prepared chocolate frosting
3 cups SNICKERS® Brand Miniatures
2 pieces TWIX® Brand Caramel Cookie Bar Minis
colorful M & Ms
1 1/2 quart oven-safe glass bowl
1 (9″x13″) cake pan
Waxed paper
1. Prepare both cake mixes according to box directions. Divide batter between buttered oven safe glass bowl and buttered and waxed paper lined oblong cake pan.
2. Bake both cakes in a preheated 350°F oven for approximately 40 to 50 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans for 10 minutes, then remove and cool completely.
3. Cut both cakes in half. Use photo as guide to cut the flat cake into bottom portion of acorn. Use half moon shaped cake as acorn top. Push cake against the straight edge of flat cake to form acorn.
4. Tint vanilla frosting beige with several drops of brown food coloring. Cover bottom of acorns. Cover acorn tops with chocolate frosting. Arrange SNICKERS® Brand Miniatures around acorn tops, using a TWIX® Brand Caramel Cookie Bar Minis for the stem.
Gumdrop Turkeys Thanksgiving Project
LOVE these! definitely the cutest turkey food creation that i have seen!!
supplies: 1 large gumdrop, 7 small gumdrops, 6 toothpicks, nerds candy, gummy worm, marshmallow, scissors
instructions:
1. attach a small gumdrop to the end of 5 of the toothpicks, and poke into the large gumdrop to form the turkey’s tail and body.
2. cut a gumdrop in half and attach to the turkey body as wings.
3. create the turkey head by first cutting two small pieces of marshmallow and attaching them to a gumdrop as the whites of the eyes (the sticky marshmallow adheres quite well!). push a small candy nerd into the center of each eye. poke a larger candy nerd in the center to form a beak, and then trim a small chunk of the gummy worm to form the snood (red flap that falls along the beak).
4. cut the last toothpick in half and use it to connect the head to the body of the turkey.
Gobbled-up Cupcakes
now that Halloween has come and gone, we can talk about my favorite holiday! i love Thanksgiving- delicious food and football! here is a cute and simple turkey cupcake recipe. your kids will think you are genius
Prep Time: 10 Min.
Bake Time: 20 Min.
Decoration Time: 25 Min.
Difficulty: Easy
Yield: Makes 24 Cupcakes.
1 box (18.25 oz.) yellow cake mix
36 pieces STARBURST® Fruit Chews
3 cups prepared chocolate frosting
24 thin chocolate wafers
24 pieces thin pretzel sticks
24 TWIX® Brand Miniatures
¼ cup M&M’S® Brand Chocolate Mini Baking Bits
Fall-colored paper cupcake liners
Small rolling pin
Scissors
Resealable plastic bag
1. Prepare cake batter according to instructions on box. Divide batter evenly into paper-lined cupcake cups.
2. Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for approximately 18-20 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely.
3. Meanwhile, soften STARBURST® Fruit Chews (about 6 at a time) in the microwave for 2 to 3 seconds. Flatten them with a rolling pin and immediately cut into feathers using scissors. Use any red STARBURST® Fruit Chews scraps to make the waddle.
4. Frost the top of each cupcake. Using the scissors, snip a corner off of the resealable plastic bag and spoon 1 cup of chocolate frosting into the bag. For the tail: Pipe a line of frosting across the chocolate wafers and arrange three feathers on each one. Press pretzel stick to support wafer and press it into the cupcake. For the head: Pipe 4 dots on the short end of a TWIX® Cookie Bars candy to stick on the M&M’S® Brand Chocolate Candies eyes, nose and STARBURST® Fruit Chews waddle.
recipe and photo from brightideas.com
1st birthday party themes
photos by livetpaalandet.com
are you having a 1st birthday party theme? i usually like to stay away from themes but i kind of like the idea of having a party decorated around a cute cake. wouldn’t it be fun to decorate around this cute pirate or choo-choo train cake?
by the way, did you notice the Oreo Cookie wheels, Kit Kats, and other fun candies on the choo-choo train? how fun!
the Little Cupcake Lover stand
the cupcake obsession has hit the streets of NYC! here is the Little Cupcake Lover street stand on Broadway between Bleeker and Houston on our walk today. there is nothing like a cheerful cupcake on a chilly, rainy day in the city! (photo via my iPhone)
finished the cookies :)
stop over on Spearmint Kitchen today to see the cookies i made with my new cookie cutters!
working on some fall sugar cookies
i am in the kitchen this afternoon working on some cookies. my cookie cutters arrived and as soon as i chill this dough i will get started. stop by Spearmint Kitchen tomorrow to see how they turn out!
fall cookie cutters
this fall weather gets me in the mood to bake! i just purchased this set of cookie cutters from Wee Waldorf. the set is called “forest friends”- so cute for fall. kind of reminds me of Rexford’s new forest fun outfit
a cake with a bunting
a mini bunting for the cake?? i am bunting obsessed as it is, but this might just be the cutest little bunting ever! for more visit rosinahuber.blogspot.com
source: oneprettything.com
apple cookies
these apple cookies look so delicious!
they were made by hello Naomi for a customer who ordered the adorable imprintables apple of my eye invitation:
doesn’t an apple party sound refreshing? you can see more apple party inspiration here
source: True Love Found
how to make a butterfly cake
i LOVE creative food ideas (in fact i am going to start another blog soon so i can bookmark all my favorites for future use). this butterfly cake is so easy and you don’t even need a fancy cake pan.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Make the cake batter according to the directions on the package. Bake in a greased 9-inch cake pan. Once baked, remove from pan and cool.
2. Cut the cake in half. Arrange the cake on a serving platter, turning the halves so that the rounded sides touch. To shape the wings, cut out a 1-inch triangle from each straight side, 2-inches from the bottom.
3. Completely frost the cake with the icing. Design a mosaic pattern with M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies for Easter, and then press them into the top of the cake.
4. To make the butterfly’s antennae, unwrap and soften the STARBURST® Brand FUN SIZE® Fruit Chews for Easter in the microwave for approximately 5 seconds. Then roll the candy into thin ropes and place them at the top of the butterfly.
easy, right? for more details visit brightideas.com
Ice Cream Sundae
while reading blog.modernfrills.com i saw this yummy ice cream treat:
…and now i am hungry! mmmmm
anyone else watching the Bachelor Pad while flipping back and forth to the Miss Universe Pageant?…and blogging too?
Lil’ Cake Lover
i was talking to my sister last night and she brought up her childhood friend, Cindy. she has always been an amazing artist and is now in the cake making business! her cakes are gorgeous and about 1/3 of what they cost here in NYC! while i was uploading these photos my daughter went crazy when she saw ELMO pop up on the screen. (“Momo, Momo, Momo, Momo!!!”) if only i was in MN i would order that little ELMO cake for her birthday. for those of you in Minnesota, here is her contact info:
lilcakelover@gmail.com
612-743-4956
and some of my fav. cakes:
for more, including pricing info visit Lil’ Cake Lover
Cupcake #30
here are my cupcakes for the Bake-N-Blog. they are #30 - Coconut Rum Cupcakes with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe from Ming Makes Cupcakes). they turned out delicious, but i have learned that i don’t like coconut on my cupcakes (i love coconut flavor, but the actual shredded coconut on top not so much!) i added some fun cupcake wrappers from the etsy store The Cupcakery (from blogger growingupanjwife.com). for photographing purposes i sat the cupcakes up higher on the cupcake wrapper (so you can see the entire top of my cupcakes- and i actually think they look really cute this way too!) i am including a MckLinky for all Bake-N-Blog participants. feel free to add you name so we can take a look at your cupcakes!
and of course, my daughter wanted the blue one!
photos by me!
recipe by Ming Makes Cupcakes
lovely cupcake wrappers by The Cupcakery
my rainbow cupcakes on yumsugar.com!
my rainbow cupcakes were chosen as a savory sight on yumsugar.com today! they were also featured on Made By Girl last week! thanks, Jen!
updated Bake-N-Blog list
here is the updated Bake-N-Blog list. thanks, Staci for keeping up with everyone’s cupcake choice! there are still cupcakes left for any others who want to join (click here for more information.)
Message-in-a-Cookie Cutters (Williams-Sonoma)
have you seen these? i love the “it’s a boy!” and “baby girl” cookies. what a great idea for a baby shower. the set comes with three shaped cutters, seven premade words, and three sets of alphabet letters (plus extras of vowels and other commonly used letters. check out williams-sonoma.com for more info and a video about the cookie cutters.
Girl Baby Shower
one of the prettiest and most delicious baby showers i have ever seen!! for more visit justcallmechris.blogspot.com.
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