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Fun Cupcake Ideas: Bunny Cupcakes

Wendy Piersall — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:46:12 +0000

The other day I mentioned I was trying to make easy bunny cupcakes. I wanted them to be easy, but not lame. I figured it couldn’t be that hard, and it isn’t. They are almost as easy as my flower cupcake idea.

Fun Bunny Cupcake Idea

Related Pages: Easter Mad Libs, Printable Easter Crafts, Easter Kids Poems, Easter Coloring Pages

What you Need to Make Bunny Cupcakes

Pre-made cupcakes frosted with white frosting

Bunny gummy candies

Large white marshmallows

Small pastel colored marshmallows

Chocolate syrup, mini chocolate chips, or other tiny round candies /sprinkles for the bunny eyes

How to Make Bunny Cupcakes

Honestly, decorating with gummy bunnies is pretty self-explanatory. I put four onto the cupcake and then added an extra dot of white frosting in the middle.

Make Bunny Cupcakes

For the bunny face cupcake, I cut large white marshmallows in half, then in half again so that it was cut in quarters. (You can cut marshmallows with a butter knife or plastic knife, don’t let the big steak knife fool you!)

Place two of the marshmallow quarters onto the cupcake, sticky side down. Place a small pink marshmallow onto the bottom of the bunny face for the nose. I then took a toothpick and dabbed a tiny bit of chocolate syrup on the end, and placed the dots for the bunny eyes. This was my improvisation because I didn’t have any sprinkles or chocolate mini morsels laying around (what kind of cook am I that doesn’t have mini morsels in her kitchen?!).

(Check out more Easter cupcakes at Hoosier Homemade!)

Halloween Treats and Halloween Party Food Recipes

Wendy Piersall — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:25:19 +0000

A few years ago, we threw a Halloween party for my daughter’s birthday party. I’m not normally a great party hostess, but this one was probably the best party I have ever thrown! We had all sorts of Halloween themed party food, and I spent 5 hours (I kid you not) making this haunted gingerbread house for her.

I’ve collected 16 awesome-looking (and much, much easier!) Halloween treats and party food recipes below. I have put together similarly large collections of Halloween Rice Krispie Treat recipes and healthy Halloween treats, too!

Be sure to check out our Halloween handprint crafts and Halloween paper bag crafts, too!

Halloween Party Favors

Spooky Halloween Party Favor Kit
Price: $4.99
The Spooky Halloween favor kit for one guest includes: (1) Halloween Pumpkin Container, (1) Plastic Bat (comes in black or glow in the dark white, our choice please), (1) Beaded Necklace w/Trick or Treat Medallion, (1) Pumpkin Squeeze Ball, (1) Rubber Band Bracelet, (1) Bounce Ball.

Halloween Celebrations

Halloween Celebrations: Everything you need for a fabulous Halloween party shown in 120 photographs–recipes, costumes, decorations and games for the whole family
Price: $9.99
Pages: 64, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Southwater

Halloween Parties

Halloween Parties: How to Throw Spook-Tacular Soirees and Frighteningly Festive Entertainments
Price: $14.95
Pages: 80, Paperback, Harry N. Abrams

Halloween How To

A Halloween How-To: Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations
Price: $16.15
Pages: 272, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, Pelican Publishing Company

Peanut Butter and Jelly Recipes

Wendy Piersall — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:30:48 +0000

Most of us grew up on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch – although I always hated it when the jelly soaked through the bread (and I didn’t realize until I was an adult that you can just put PB on both pieces of bread first to keep that from happening!!). Now that the kids are back in school (woo!!!), coming up with cool lunchbox ideas is easy with these brilliant PB & J recipes from around the web.

When cooking with peanut butter, I recommend using an all-natural variety so that you can limit the added sugars and fats. I used to have the hardest time finding natural peanut butter, but these days most grocery stores carry several brands. Santa Cruz Organics sent me some samples over the summer that would be perfect (if only they were still around in my house – my hubby is a peanut butter freak!).


Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars	Warm PB & J Dip	Peanut Butter and Jelly Shortbread Wedges	Peanut Butter and Jelly Parfait

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sushi Lunchbox Rolls	Peanut Butter and Jelly Thumbprint Cookies	Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins	Peanut Butter and Jelly Cake Recipe

Peanut Butter and Honey Recipes


Honey Cinnamon Peanut Dip	Honey Peanut Balls	Honey Peanut Butter Cookies	Peanut Butter and Honey Fudge

Peanut Butter and Banana Recipes


Peanut Butter and Banana Smoothie	Peanut Banana Bread Pudding	Peanut Banana Lunchbox Rolls	Peanut Butter and Banana Crepes

For more back to school fun, check out 10 awesome kids lunch boxes, back to school review worksheets or all of the content on the newest Woo! Jr. Network site at Classroom Jr.!

Easter Desserts: Easiest Flower Cupcakes Ever

Wendy Piersall — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:04:28 +0000

I’m what you would call a lazy cook. If it comes in a box, it’s likely I’ve made it. But then a few times a year, I get this unnatural domestic urge to cook something from scratch and spend all day in the kitchen.

But today was not one of those days. *grin*

Today I was in a rush and I was trying to figure out a way to make easy bunny cupcakes. I did, and they are quite cute… but then I looked at the almost-full bag of colored marshmallows and the last few undecorated cupcakes and I was inspired.

So viola – the easiest flower cupcakes on the planet:

Easter Dessert Flower Cupcakes

How to Make the Easiest Flower Cupcakes Ever

Quite honestly, these are so easy they are almost self-explanatory.

Bake cupcakes from a mix.

Frost them with store bought frosting.

Pop colored marshmallows on top.

Done.

For the flower leaves and the pointed yellow petals, all I did was cut the cupcakes in half diagonally like this:

Cut marshmallows

Even a little kid could cut the marshmallows, because you could use a plastic knife to do it.

By the way – my kids devoured them so fast I didn’t get to try one. So if you make these Easter cupcakes, please let me know how they are!


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