Reagan's Birthday Treats: Part 1

Reagan had her first "friends" birthday party this year and so she planned for cupcakes for the party, cake pops for school treats and an ice cream cake (which I didn't have to make) for her family party.

She worked hard and helped me to make the cupcakes, which were a Funfetti cake mix with chocolate (I was surprised by this!) icing and sprinkles!  She picked out some adorable purple tulip muffin cups to use!

The finished Product

Past Pops

I made these cake pops in the shapes of apples (with pretzel stems) and pumpkins (with tic tac stems).  I made a lemon cake and a spice cake and took these for the bake sale at Wil's preschool fall festival fundraiser.

Teacher Appreciation

I decided to give the traditional teach appreciation gift a face lift.  I made apple shaped cake pops!  I made them with a lemon cake/lemon frosting mix and they turned out tasting great.  I was planning to use a spice cake to hint at the fall theme of apples, but I didn't get the mix thawed in an unexpected time crunch to get them made.

You can see I used both a red (which I created using some red and pink melts - due to lack of red) and I used a lime green and I think both shades looked good on my apples!  I also used the ends of pretzel sticks to make the stems on the top.

Cinco de Mayo pops

I had some cake just lying around so I decided to try to make some chili pepper cake pops in honor of Cinco de Mayo.  They turned out really cute, but I think next time I will choose to coat them differently.

I started after I shaped them (using my mini cookie cutters from Pampered Chef) I dipped them into the lime green color on the tops by hand.  After they rested and firmed up I dipped them into the red melts and added the stick to them.  I think in the future I will just dip the entire pop with the stick in the red candy melts and then I will go back and redip the tops in a green color.  If I had had easy access to a darker green I would have just used that, but I was using the lime green for another pop project so I added the green sanding sugar to give them some pizzazz and also to darken the color up.  They turned out great and I am so glad I made them, but have learned a little something for next time too!  Win...win in my book!

Strawberry Cookie Pizza

I bought a bunch of fresh strawberries and wanted to come up with a new way to fix them and we ended up with strawberry pizza.  It is a sugar cookie layered with some fresh strawberry puree and cream cheese, then topped with strawberry slices and tiny chocolate chips.

It tasted really yummy but it didn't last until day 2...the toppings really caused the cookie to get soft and mushy (by the 3rd day!).  Next time we will just layer the cream cheese and then add the puree over it more like tomato sauce, rather than mixing the 2 ingredients ahead of time...Reagan made comments about it looking like vomit (cracking me up!!!) even though she liked the way it tasted!

Reagan's Daisy Scout Vest

Reagan finally decided what type of uniform she wanted for her Daisy scout uniform!  She picked the vest over the smock/apron so now it is time for Mommy to decorate it up with all her insignia and patches.  Thankfully most of them are iron on, but I will be doing a little over stitching to make sure nothing comes off.



Before

Time to Dye the Eggs

I fixed up 1 dozen hard boiled eggs for the kiddos to color so they were happy that they each got 6 and there 6 colors to choose from.

At my Mom's house I fixed up one of the deviled eggs to look like a chick just hatching and it was the centerpiece of the deviled egg platter.