Ring in a sweet New Year tonight with Marshmallow Pebbles Slabs! Just looking at the pictures makes my teeth hurt. haha. You can find the recipe at the Post Cereals website.
Did you know Marshmallow Pebbles cereal even existed? It was news to me!
Ring in a sweet New Year tonight with Marshmallow Pebbles Slabs! Just looking at the pictures makes my teeth hurt. haha. You can find the recipe at the Post Cereals website.
Did you know Marshmallow Pebbles cereal even existed? It was news to me!
Inspired by those sugar cubes that sit on the rim of your mug, Meghan of normartha.org came up with this beautiful idea for creating miniature gingerbread houses that sit perched on the rim of your mug. These might look complicated but if you look at the great step-by-step photos/instructions on her blog, you’ll see how simple they are to make!
I love making edible goodies for holiday gifts. It’s a great thing for people on your list who either don’t need more stuff or for whom you just don’t know what to buy. These cherry mice look so easy too! All you need is: meltable chocolate, maraschino cherries, chocolate kisses, and almond slivers. Check out the awesome detailed step-by-step tutorial at omnomicon.com.
Looking for some adorable baking ideas for Thanksgiving? Here are a ten absolute gems that I found. They like lots of fun to make with kids or, heck, have fun making them all by yourself!
1. Nutter Butter Turkey Cupcakes
In my mind these are winners of most ingenious use of nutter butters cookies. Oh and let’s not overlook the clever use of colorful fruit roll-ups for the feathers. Find this recipe and instructions at familyfun.go.com.
2. Nutter Butter Turkey Pops
Not to be outdone by this clever use nutter butters cookies, we have turkey pops! Find the instructions for these cuties at thepartyanimal-blog.org.
3. Realistic Turkey Cupcakes
OK, let’s just come right out and say it… These are both creepily realistic and awesome! I included a closeup because the use of tiny green nonpareils as peas is just plain genius. These pictures are from a great tutorial at saucysprinkles.com and the original idea came from the cookbook What’s New, Cupcake?.
4. Simple Candy Corn Turkey Cupcakes
I love how devilishly simple and yet very cute these candy-corn-encrusted cupcakes are. The creator of these cupcakes says that the sugar “eyes” are from a local bake shop but I bet there are lots of fun things you could substitute in if you can’t find them. Find the instructions at cookingwithmykids.com.
5. Candy Corn Turkey Sugar Cookies
And if the idea of packing away en entire cupcake after your Thanksgiving meal is just too daunting, these sugar cookies are just as sweet. Read how to make them at thetribunenews.com or where the recipe originally came from at pillsbury.com.
6. Miniature Single Serving Pies in a Jar
Single serving pies in a jar. Need I say more? You can find great instructions at inchmark.squarespace.com and at ourbestbites.com. Now excuse me while I try to insert my spoon right into the screen so I can take a bite of that whip cream-topped pumpkin pie.
7. Cherry Pie Cupcakes
Just to throw your Thanksgiving guests for a loop, confuse them with some cupcakes that look like miniature cherry pies. These might look complicated but you’ll be surprised at how simple they are to make when you read the instructions at cake-decorating-corner.com.
8. Oreo and Peanut Butter Cup Turkeys
How can you go wrong with a dessert made from oreos and peanut butter cups? You pretty much can’t. Read the instructions for these by Flickr user Coopet Photography.
9. A Slice of Pumpkin Pie on a Cupcake
This cute cupcake requires you to use fondant icing but it looks well worth it. It’s adorable and beautiful. Read the instructions at thefrostedcakencookie.blogspot.com.
10. Sweet Potato Casserole Cupcake
A cupcake that tastes and looks like sweet potato casserole complete with toasted marshmallows? Yes please. Find this recipe at ironcupcakemilwaukee.com.
That’s my kind of 1 serving of fruit per day! This cupcake was made by flickr user sewingstars and she got the idea from the awesome cupcake cookbook What’s New, Cupcake?.
Oh, Babble Family Kitchen Blog, you had me at mini pop tarts. And then you had to go and put them on sticks. Learn to make these yourself here!
(Psst… If you like these, check out my blog posts on cake pops and ice cream pops!)
Feeling blue about the end of summer and the end of yummy summer corn? These cupcakes might just cheer you up! They are made with jelly beans as the kernels and starbursts as the pats of butter.
Read more about them at Hello Cupcake’s blog.
Some lucky lucky Star Wars lover is about to bite into the head each of his or her favorite characters.
Oh fondant how I love thee. You may not taste all that great but without you people wouldn’t be able to make cupcakes like these. (Via Epicute)
Heidi Kenny of My Paper Crane blogged about these hysterical TV dinner cupcakes she made. The idea of these is from the awesome cupcake cookbook called Hello Cupcake.