Happy Holidays!

It's almost here!! 6 days till Christmas! Time to make that fruit cake, wrap those presents, and get yer butts into church. :) Christmas for my family means several things: the smell of shortbread cookies, decorating the Christmas tree together, and sitting around the t.v. watching Christmas specials. "The Grinch" (both the original and the Jim Carey one are awesome), "A Charlie Brown Christmas", and "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation" are usually the top faves.

So anyway, from my family to yours,

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc... in other words,

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Live, Love, Laugh,

MissyA

Easter Wishes and Cupcakes!

Happy Easter everyone!

Remember how I said that I made cupcakes yesterday? Well I thought I should show you how they turned out. We made both bunnies and chicks. The bunnies look a bit strange in my opinion, but they're still amazingly cute!

The Bunny Cupcake:

To make this you'll need:

Sweetened coconut

Large marshmallows for ears (cut in small round sections)

Pink Sprinkles for coloring

Blue Smarties for eyes

Pink chocolate wafer for nose (cut to make triangles)

Small marshmallows for cheeks

Thin black licorice for whiskers.

Just roll an iced cupcake in the coconut and add features as you like. The whiskars are shoved into the cupcake rather than glued on with icing for our cupcakes; we found they stayed on longer. Extra frosting may be needed to hold some stuff on. (we learned that the hard way...)

The Chick Cupcake

To make this you'll need:

Sweetened coconut

Yellow food coloring

Brown Smarties for eyes

Orange baking gummies for beak

Dye the coconut with the food coloring and roll an iced cupcake to coat. Cut the gummies into halves for the beak. Add features as you'd like. Extra frosting may be needed for this as well.

So once again, hope everyone has a safe, fun and Happy Easter.

Until next time,

Live, Laugh, Love,

-Missy A