Minion Candy Bars

I found this awesome free printable at halegrafx.com. I did adjust it and take out the yellow (if is where the white bars are) to save on ink.

This was perfect since its at the beach and I'm making snore packs!

Minion mini-candywrappers

Real quick, this is my current project for my daughter's upcoming birthday. It's supposed to be immediate family only, but I can't help but make these!

So I measured dimension, found the eye goggle and mouth graphic and placed it myself in Photoshop. I printed it on yellow paper. I then decided to add some text for the back of the wrapper

I sized this for the mini butterfingers.

I may add the images I created for this in a later post but not sure on the demand for it.

Apple, Strawberry, and Kale Smoothie

This morning I made smoothies with whatever I had in my fridge.  It ended up looking like green machine.

I gave it to my girls and they downed it fast and I had to make refills.

For a portion for them to split:

Half an Apple (cut into cubes with skin on)
5-6 Strawberries (mine were Frozen)
2 Tablespoons of yogurt or 1 big heaping tablespoon
Orange Juice (just enough for the blender to run it smoothly)
Kale (Handful with no stem)

I blended it up and it looked like this. And they loved it!

Spinach and Apple Muffins

With the struggle of feeding a toddler, I decided to make Spinach and Apple Muffins.

I used this recipe as a guide but had to make adjustments for my own:  http://www.mamasaywhat.com/spinach-muffins-recipe/


Here is what I did:

• 1 cup of leftover Apples in sauce from Thanksgiving (pureed it)
• 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cup fresh spinach, packed (I did two overflowing fistfuls)
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 5 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
• 3 cups Bakers Flour
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt

The recipe is similar to mamasaywhat in the sense that I doubled a lot of the recipe.  I was looking for a recipe to use leftovers from Thanksgiving and something that needed Spinach.  I didn't double the sugar however because I also didn't know how much sugar was used in the leftover apple sauce (we got it from Lucille's).

My toddler still thinks its cake.  And she loves vegetables so this was a hit for me.  My one-year old also loves it!

Waffle Christmas Tree

Hi! Sorry for being MIA.  I had my second kid in November, and even though my husband and I are making a lot of stuff, I either didn't take pictures of just haven't posted stuff I do have.

Christmas morning, we made green waffles and made this:

I've seen on pinterest just laying out the squares, but my husband wanted to make it stand up.  So he did.  I liked it.  

I used this recipe:

http://www.emerils.com/recipe/6640/Waffable-Waffles

I do not take credit for the recipe! But I got a lot of compliments from guests from Costa Rica.  I really wanted to make this for my toddler and for my nephew who was coming that morning.  They both seem to love waffles and berries!

For the food coloring, I just used blue and mixed in a little yellow to the batter.  As you can see though, especially on the bottom waffles, I didn't put enough food coloring.  So it's safe to say you can go into a really dark forest green color when mixing it.

So there it is!  

Tigger Tails - not chocolate dipped

I was determined to have "Tigger Tails" at my daughter's birthday.  If you've been to Disneyland you've probably seen them.  They're marshmallows dipped in orange chocolate with a Tigger zig zag.

Well, I've tried the chocolate covered mashmallows and to me they are just way too sweet.  So...I looked up if there was a way just to dye the Marshmallows...and there was!

So I googled and I used this as a reference:

http://www.dashrecipes.com/blogs/dashboard/2012/06/29-how-to-dye-marshmallows.html

I made my dye really dark though.  That was by accident.  It almost looked like it was on the verge of red.  My husband told me to try a batch and it worked, I just didn't have to submerge it as long.

 

 I used the short lollipop/cake pop sticks instead of skewers.  I didn't want kids poking themselves.  I dipped 3 marshmallows.  The stick became orange as well, but I was okay with that and honestly, I just didn't have time to dye the marshmallows before putting them on the stick.

I then used melted chocolate and piped it through a ziploc bag.  I didn't do this for a few hours though.  I let the marshmallows dry in the refrigerator for about 4-5 hours.  I piped the chocolate on and then put them back in the fridge to make sure it hardened faster. 

The final part came when I took the foldable sandwich bags and cut the side that was folded...put them in and tied ribbon around it.  And that was it.  I actually got a lot of compliments on it.  Some people didn't know what it was exactly but just said "this is good."

Tigger, Piglet, and Eeyore themed cupcakes

Someone once told me...Keep it simple stupid...

I wasn't planning on fully decorating the cupcakes.  It just happened.  I was just going to put plain white cream cheese frosting with some Winnie the Pooh picks.  You know, a picture of the Winnie the Pooh that's on a stick/toothpick and you shove it in the cupcake?

Well I didn't end up doing that...I ended up doing this...

Eeyore's Tail Cupcake

Tigger's Tail Cupcake

Piglet's Body Cupcake

My husband accidentally dyed the one of the frosting batches orange.  He was trying to make a honey gold for my daughter's smash cake.  I told him I would use whatever he "messed up" on for the cupcakes because I didn't care about the color of the icing.  It just so happen that I had leftover chocolate in a ziploc bag that I "tubed" out for the marshmallow dyed tigger tails...so I got the bright idea to do Tigger on the cupcakes.  Then i couldn't help but do Piglet so I added a little bit of red food coloring to white frosting...and you get the story right?

So there it is...my Winnie the Pooh Friends themed cupcake...