Star of the week at school again – this time for the older sister of the butterfly cookies. Pink was a must, and daisies were the shape of choice.
I love my daisy cutter! (Found at an antique fair.)
I planned on doing centers like the purple daisies I did awhile back, but after just one cookie my hand was killing me and it didn’t look as cute. The swirl lets you see all the sprinkles anyway! (Kids love sprinkles!)
All bagged up and ready to go!
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This is the first thing in a long time that I could not stop eating.
It’s not hard.
Just fun, easy, and yummy. Very yummy.
Oh and I made it look fancy.
If I had had more time, or if I wasn’t moving right now and had a ton of my kitchen packed up, I would have done colored candy melt drizzles too…
I also made some small ones…
I just skewered them on toothpicks. They were a little harder to dip/roll in the chocolate, but they came out so cute!
The white ones above are dipped/rolled in white candy melts then covered in sprinkles, then drizzled like the chocolate ones.
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It was “star of the week” at school for a 3 year old girl. Star cookies? Nope, she wanted butterflies!
Pink and purple are the only colors acceptable. Fine with me!
All bagged and ready to go!
Have I ever mentioned how much I love to use pink? But now I have a craving to make stars…
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Anyone can do these.
Seriously.
You don’t need a rolling pin, cookie cutters, or any fancy tools or whatever.
I just have one request. Make the dough from scratch.
This is the recipe I use. It makes a huge difference! Now that I found such a good and easy sugar cookie recipe, I will not ever make cookies from a bag or tube again.
I am addicted to sprinkles. I just cannot help myself when I see an awesome color combination, or a shape or something that I haven’t see before. I have to buy it. I have a lot of sprinkles. These were fun cuz I got to use a bunch of different kind of sprinkles too.. and they all came out so pretty!
I actually made these because I had a ton of leftover dough, didn’t want to spend a ton of time rolling stuff out that I would not have time to frost for a while,, and because a friend of mine can’t have dairy right now and she wanted some cookies! (My icing uses milk.)
I just rolled out the dough like a fat snake (you remember this from play-doh, right?), then cut ever inch or so to make 1″ – 1 1/2″ chunks. Roll the chunks into balls, then smash flat to make a little disc. Put your sprinkles on a plate and press the little dough disc on top of the sprinkles. Place the sprinkled discs about an inch apart on cookie sheets and bake at 350 for 10 min. (The sugar cookie recipe I use does not spread. If you use a different recipe you might want to place them further apart.)
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Made these cookies last week for a coworker’s 50th birthday party. Black icing is a little intimidating so I stuck with just black details…
Recently bought some sprinkles (my serious addiction), and my purchase included a sample pack of sprinkles… while I was getting ready to decorate these I realized there might be black sprinkles in that pack.. so I did a few like this. I love these!
I searched for over the hill cookie ideas and came across a lot of tombstone cookies. Well that’s easy enough, and I already had a tombstone cookie cutter.
Didn’t want to do them all the same, so I had to come up with another saying. I knew they would be appropriate for the birthday dude, because his wife was asking for “old man” or something like it. I think this is fun and “funny” to go along with the over the hill theme!
Hope the birthday dude loved them!
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OMG Yum!
A friend is about to go back to school to Chicago in about a week. She was sad that we didn’t get to make anything while she was here all summer, so I told her to come on over Sunday and we made cake pops together.
I must have gotten lucky the first time I make cake pops, cuz I didn’t have any issues. These were much more difficult but we learned a lot so hopefully next time will be perfect again.
Lesson 1 – I think we put too much frosting in them because it was very wet. They just didn’t harden up enough and kept falling off the sticks. And they are WAY sweeter than last time. Almost too much for me to handle. Almost… 🙂
Lesson 2 – I think some of them were just too big. They started to crack while sitting upright. The smaller ones are okay, so I’ll just have to watch the size next time.
Lesson 3 – Mixing red candy melts with white candy melts does not make pink. I guess we could have just colored the white ones, but we really thought it would turn pink. Oh well.
The purple was fun.. it’s hard to tell here but it was like a neon purple color.
We made a few stars and hearts… they didn’t come out too great, I think they were just too big.
The white candy melts actually have colored dots all in them. SUPER cute.
I have a LOT of different kinds of sprinkles. Super fun. 🙂
The best part about these? I made them with STRAWBERRY cake!!
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My little brother and a good friend of mine graduated college this weekend. My friend asked for cake, and I had been dying to make these jar cakes ever since someone told me about them. I thought it was the perfect time to make a little personal cake for a couple of people!
School colors are (dark) green and gold (yellow-gold, really) so I decided to do green cake and golden-yellow buttercream. I couldn’t get my green very dark with the colors I had. I was too scared to try to add black or something.
I filled the jars about 2/3 the way up, and the cake actually puffed out way more than I was expecting.. good 2 inches above the rim of the jar. One of them actually spewed down the side of the jar. I had read that this might happen a little, and so I just scooped the top off to make room for the frosting.
I wasn’t really happy with how these turned out. They browned from baking and pulled away from the side of the jar a lot. Not pretty looking, but at least they will taste delicious.
I had enough batter left to do 2 more jars, so I picked my favorite colors and was going to do layers…
It just turned into 2 layers really, and kind of boring. Oh well. They looked cool from the top:
But I covered them with buttercream of course!
After the buttercream hardened up a bit I put the lids on. They looked pretty ugly so I added cute little bows.
At least they will look pretty once the lid is taken off!
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