Butterfly Cake Pops

Butterfly Cake Pop

This is an example of another treat that I am making for my kid's recital this weekend!  I just made the basic cake pop, as seen on bakerella.com, but instead of making the dough into balls I made them into cylinders.  After the shape was set in the fridge with the stick, I dipped it in chocolate, added licorice sticks for the antennae and added heart marshmallows for the wings.

The Cylinder Cake Pop

The "Flock" of Butterflies!

Diane

Spiral Flower Cookies

A "Garden" of Mike and Ike Spiral Flower Cookies!

Once again I just made some sugar cookies and decorated them.  These ones are to sell for snacks at my kid's recital for their gymnastics and karate club Power and Grace, in our small little town in Washington!  I melted some chocolate, put it in a Ziploc, cut the corner off and "piped" a spiral of chocolate onto the cookie.  The chocolate has 2 purposes.... 1) for decoration and 2) for 'glue' for the candy.  After I piped on the chocolate I put a mini jawbreaker in the middle to represent the middle of the flower and Mike & Ike candies for the petals of the flower.  Overall, a cute little treat to help make money for our gymnastics club!

A Close Up of an Orange Flower

Diane

Sunshine or Flower Cookies

A collection of sunshine cookies

I made blue sugar cookies yesterday to try to make Canucks logo cookies, well....that did not work out too well so I just decided to try to make a different cookie tonight.  I decided to make 'sunshine' cookies since we have had such beautiful weather so the blue cookie represents the blue sky.  My husband thinks that they look more like flowers but I am still sticking to sunshine cookies!

Butterscotch Candy, Orange mike & Ike's, Shoestring licorice

Butterscotch Candy, Red and Orange Mike & Ike's

Banana Saltwater Taffy, Yellow & Orange Mike & Ike's

Banana Saltwater Taffy, Yellow & Red Mike & Ike's

Banana Saltwater Taffy, Yellow Mike & Ike's, Shoestring Licorice

Diane

Butterfly Cookie on a Stick

Butterfly Cookie on a Stick

I am not a huge fan of these cookies, but I decided to post them anyway!  I started off with a 'roll' of brown coloured cookie dough on a popsicle stick.  My husband told me it looked a terd:)  I baked them and when they were in the oven they spread out a lot, as sugar cookies always do.  I took them out of the oven, let them cool and then used melted chocolate to 'glue' the marshmallow hearts and licorice sticks for the wings and antennae.

Brown Dough on a Stick

A 'flock' of Butterflies

Diane

Butterfly Cookies

4 of the butterfly cookies - 2 with marshmallow wings and 2 with conversation heart wings

I wanted to add another blog post so I just decided to whip up another sugar cookie dough to try to make more butterfly cookies.  I just made drop cookies and put them on the cookie tray, flattened them slightly and then put a 'rod' of  brown coloured cookie in the middle of the dough, which will become the body of the butterfly.  Put the tray in the oven and cook as usual.  Once the cookie has cooled I 'glued' on heart marshmallows and/or conversation heart candies to be the wings and licorice sticks for antennae.  As always, I use melted chocolate as the glue.  I like the cookies with the marshmallow wings better.

Before they went in the oven

All Baked

Close up of one with marshmallow wings

Close up of one with conversation heart wings

Diane

Marshmallow and Chocolate Butterflies

A "bunch" of chocolate and marshmallow butterflies

 We were making s'mores this weekend and then at our awesome liquidation store, Grocery Outlet, I saw these cute little pink heart marshmallows.   I bought the marshmallows because I knew I could do something with them.  When I came home, I came up with an idea as I looked at the chocolate that was still sitting on our counter - butterflies!  For one of the butterflies I used a Hershey chocolate and for the other four I used 1/4 piece of our World Famous Chocolates that are still leftover from our kid's leftover fundraising chocolate sales!  All I did was take a piece of chocolate, 'paint' melting chocolate along the side of the piece, put the heart marshmallows in place and set in the fridge to harden.  Then, I put 2 chocolate 'blobs' of 'paint' on the top side of the chocolate piece and placed 2 licorice sticks to be an antennae.  I put some eyes on some of them but I think they look better without!

The chocolate!

The heart marshmallows

No eyes

Cake confetti eyes

Non-pareil eyes

Diane

Heart Flower Cake Pops

Side View of Red Pop

Top View of Lilac Pop

I was in a store after Valentine's Day and happened upon a bag of heart shaped Gobstoppers that were on sale, I picked them up knowing that I could do something with them.  Four heart shaped candies make a perfect flower shape.  These cute cake pops can be for many occasions....Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, A Garden Party or just because!  The centre is a mini jawbreaker and then the flower is made from 4 heart shaped Gobstoppers but you could use any heart shaped candy!

 

 

Diane

Flower Cake Pops

Flower Cake Pop

 We are having our big fundraiser for Young Life tomorrow and I wanted to help out by making cake pops to sell.  Our entertainment night and auction is our big money maker to help kids go to camp.  I decided to make these flower cake pops to sell tomorrow night.  I just made the basic cake pop and then I used a mini jawbreaker as the middle of the flower and Mike & Ike's for the petals!  Simple to make and nice and 'springy.'  Perfect for a spring treat!

The Whole Bunch

Diane

Easter Basket Cupcake

Easter Basket Cupcake

The easiest, and probably most common, Easter treat is to make an Easter basket cupcake.  I made them last year and I am sure I will do it again.  Last year I used my re-usable silicone cupcake holders which make for a perfect basket.  I made a whole batch of cupcakes (I use box caked) and I iced all the cupcakes but let all of our kids decorate their own baskets.  All you need for this very simple, but cute, Easter snack is a cupcake, icing, green coconut (optional), egg shaped candies (we used jelly beans) and a piece of licorice for the basket handle.  The kids loved making it and of course, they liked to eat it.

Diane

Flower Pretzel Snack

The final flower/pretzel product

For the first day of spring this year I whipped together a quick flower snack.  I looked in my pantry cupboard and came up with a pretzel flower made with candy melts.  Easy, fun and yummy, of course.  I just placed 4 knot pretzels together and put the coloured candy melts in the centre and in the loops to make it look like a flower.  For the stem and leaf, I just used a straight pretzel and a piece of the knot pretzel.  I always do these treats on parchment paper because then it does not stick and it stays together.  I made a pink flower for my daughter and an orange one for my son. 

First, place the 4 pretzels in a circle

Next, add candy melts to make the centre of the candy

Then you add the petals of the flower

Diane

Chicken Nest Easter Treat

Peep sitting on jelly eggs and the chow mein/chocolate nest

I have not looked on-line for this idea but I am sure there are pictures of snacks a lot like this but I still wanted to try and create something fun for Easter/Spring.  Super easy to make.  When my daughter saw it she said, "That is so cute."  Melt some chocolate and mix some chow mein noodles in it.  You could use crushed pretzels and coconut instead of chow mein, I am sure!  'Blob' it on parchment paper and I then put it in the fridge to set it quicker.  After that all you do is place some type of egg shaped candy (I used jelly bean eggs) and top it off with a Peep.  You could also make your own bird marshmallows but I can buy these at the Dollar Tree so it ends up being cheaper and easier.  Cute, simple and a yummy sugar rush for the kids!

Diane

The chow mein/chocolate nest

Jelly eggs on the nest

Spring Is Here Snack

Last weekend I wanted to make a 'fun' lunch for the kids and since it is finally spring I wanted to celebrate that a little bit.  I looked in our freezer to see what we had and I had a loaf of English muffins and a pack of frozen wieners.  In the past when I have been playing with food colouring in water I realized that you can make noodles any colour your heart desires as long as you have food colouring in the boiling water.  So, I thought.... can I make wieners coloured too?  The answer to that is YES!  So, all I did was cut wieners in half and then sliced those halves in 4 lengthwise pieces.  I put some burgundy colour in the water and cooked them.  I was left with curled, red hot dog bits.  I guess if you do not want them to curl you need to cook them whole but I would guess that then the colour will not go through the entire hot dog.  Then, all I did was put cheese on the bread, placed the hot dog on top and then cut a cross section of hot dog for the centre.  I envisioned making a flower but when I made the green stem it looked too weird.  I then just put the whole thing in the toaster oven and now we had a 'spring' grilled cheese.  My daughter called it a flower, my son thought it looked like a sun and my hubby and I decided it looked like a pinwheel.  Whatever you think it looks like, it is easy and another fun food idea.  You could be creative and make an assortment of sandwiches.  I know I will be trying more designs with different colours!

Diane