Angry Birds Crash the Party

Angry Birds are all the rage right now! More so I think with kids even. Trevor loves to play the game on anyone's phone....I know better than to keep it on mine or I would never get my phone back!

Trevor's buddy from school, Parker, had an Angry Birds party and I was asked to make cookies. Figuring out which cookie cutters to use for each bird and the pig took some creativity on my part. All in all I was pleased with my attempt on them. They weren't the easiest to do and they were quite detailed. The beaks were the hardest part in my opinion.

 The pig shape was made from a bunny head with the ears cut off a bit.

I used an balloon cookie cutter for the red angry bird.

 Above is Trevor and Parker at his party! I think they all liked the cookies. I had fun making these! Something new and different for me.
Happy Baking, 

Jennifer

Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

If you like Peanut Butter like I do, then these cupcakes are for you. I found there here. On Ming Makes Cupcakes website Cupcake 17. Very easy and very tasty. I even used lower fat peanut butter and they were tasty.

 The frosting has peanut butter in it so you can't do much decorating with it - pretty thick to spread on. But with a big glass of milk, these are perfect!

 Trevor enjoyed them too!

Happy Baking!

Jen

Happy 4th of July and Happy Birthday to Pat

Happy 4th of July! Happy Independence Day! And also Happy Birthday to my husband Pat! On the biggest national holiday for us, the United States is turning 236 years old. My husband is not quite that old....only 41! What more could you ask for on your birthday - a paid day off from work (providing you aren't a firefighter or other service employee that has to work on holidays like Pat), fireworks and the whole USA celebrating on that day!

For this round of cookies I wanted to make something other than the plan sugar cookie. I hardly venture out and can only do so when they are just for us. I decided to make some Peanut Butter Sugar cookies and found the recipe from Lizy B here.

Lots of fun ideas for the holiday - like these Bomb pops that I found on Sugarbelle's blog here . Who doesn't like a cookie on a stick?

I saw these stars on hearts on The Baking Sheets website and thought they were fun!

In honor of Pat's birthday I made some 4th of July themed Birthday cookies.

Simply Sweets by Honey Bee made this fun butterfly for the 4th of July. I thought it was fun and different and had to try it. My cutter for the butterfly is a little off-kilter as you can, but I think that adds to the artistic value! You can find a tutorial if you click here.

Cookie Crazie and Ali Bee's Bake Shoppe had some fun firework cookies on their blogs that I used as inspiration and made them my own a bit.

Happy Baking!

Jennifer

Summer Time Fun

Well, summer has definitely arrived here in KC with the temperatures being in the high 90s and 100s this past week.

So definitely time to make some summertime cookies! 

Instead of plain sugar cookies, I made chocolate chip ones! Something for variety and a good time to test out a different recipe. I used Sugarbaker's Chocolate Mini-Chip Cookie recipe that I found here. I was quite pleaesed with the taste and the way it rolled out nicely when shaping them. This is definitely a recipe I would use in the future.

Last year The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle had some great ideas on her blog. One of them was to use a butterfly cookie cutter to make a pair of flip flops. That blog always has great ideas of how to use cookies cutters outside in an outside of the box way.

Here are your swim trunks, bikini and one piece swimming suits! That's about all you can do right now in the KC heat  - swim!

Another neat idea Sugarbelle gave me last year was to use a cross cookie cutter to make a palm tree. I just trimmed off the top part of the cross. Isn't that clever?

Lots of bright colors and summer shapes! I'm having some girls over for dinner and I hope they enjoy them. I made them for a special cousin that is in town and hasn't had any of my cookies yet.

Happy Baking! And stay cool.

Jen

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Let's go KC Hawks!

What would our baseball season be without some baseball cookies?

They are a pretty good looking team, don't you think? The boys have all doing really well this season with Machine Pitch.

 OF course I think this little guy is the cutest!!!

Our summer baseball season is almost over, but have no fear....fall ball beings only a few weeks after that and we don't even stop practicing!

Happy Baking, 

Jennifer

Soccer Time

When we started our soccer season I of course decided that I was going to make soccer balls for all the kids! I came to find out that soccer balls were much harder to make than I imagined!

The unfortunate thing about these was that I wanted to take them to our end of the season soccer event - all 50 cookies that I made. Pass them out and get a picture of all the kids because we didn't get any team ones this season. But the event was planned on a night that we had baseball (with only a few days notice I might add and more than a month after the season ended) and we couldn't make it. That really made me sad after all the hard work I had put into it. I sent the cookies with another parent though. I hope the kids enjoyed them!

We didn't get any professional pictures, but I took these of my soccer "kid" after his last game!

 The most we got to do with our cookies was deliver them to a friend that was going to the party. And you can see the little trophy all the kids got.

Happy Baking.

Jen

Father's Day Yummy Desserts

For Father's Day I made some Yummy desserts...that were super easy but WONDERFUL. I had my little helper for these...and he was a professional taste tester as well!

There is nothing better than being able to lick the icing is there?

My first creation was this Oreo Cookie Cake. I'm always very impressed when my cakes come out super easy and in one piece from the pan! Worked like a charm this time!

This recipe was super easy and delicious - everyone that had it LOVED it. I PINNED It from this website Veronicas Cornucopia here.

 You simply use a box of white cake mix (or your favorite recipe) and add crushed oreos. That's it. The icing is just as easy - cream cheese, powdered sugar, oreos and whipped cream. That's it! Everyone raved about it. A different kind of icing than I had made before and it was wonderful. You to have to keep it refrigerated until you use it though.

 My second reason was the result of another successful Pinning here. From Delish.com. A wonderful "Ice Cream Treasure". Very simple to make. The crust is made of rice krispees, cheerios and brown sugar. The website didn't say to bake it, but I did put it all in the oven for about 15 min at 350 and it seemed to work just perfectly. Not really sure what it would be like if you didn't bake it. Then you can take any kind of ice cream you like and add bits of toffee like Delish did. It calls for coconut and nuts as well but my guests weren't fans of either so I skipped all that jazz..but that would be fabulous in it as well. 

I totally recommend both of these recipes if you want something easy, wonderful and serves a big group. 

HAPPY BAKING. 

Jen