How to make Leprechaun cookies – SugarBelle
How to decorate your own St. Patrick’s Day cookies
I love cookies, but I rarely make them and when I do, you better believe that there will be chocolate involved, so no fancy cookie decorating skills here. SugarBelle has more than enough to compensate for me, though. I’ve only been subscribed to her for a few months really, but it always amazes me to see what she can do with regular old cookie cutters.
St. Patrick’s Day is just begging for more of these to be made. Adorable.
The wattle waddles…er, wobbles – Thanksgiving turkey cheeseball
That was one of my Thanksgiving dinner contributions.
I can’t even remember which cheeseball recipe I used, but it was delicious, rolled in a mix of chopped walnuts, almonds, and pecans. What? I couldn’t decide.
The wattle is made of a tiny piece of spaghetti, soaked in red food coloring. The neck and head piece are from a Slim Jim that I forced to hold its shape with a clip for a while.
The beak is a bit of cream cheese colored yellow, and the eyes are the same concept. I did my icing with the tiny corners of ziploc bags like this:
And the tailfeathers? They’re a combination of pretzel sticks in the front and larger sesame sticks in the back row. By the end, only a few tail feathers remained, and even those didn’t make it through the night. Delicious.
Facts About Food Friday – Heart cake without a special pan
Yay, Of Home and Muse had a picture example. Easy enough, right?
FAF #4
Who needs a heart-shaped cake pan if you have a square one and a circle one? Bake a cake in each, cut the circle one in half, turn the square so it’s facing like a diamond, and then add each circle half to the top sides. Yay, a heart!
I don’t bake cakes often, but I wish I would’ve thought of this one a long time ago. I’ve been lugging around a large awkward shaped heart cake pan for many years now, just because I thought maybe I’d need it at some point. It’s had a few uses over the years, like the time my mom made a Mickey Mouse cake using a heart as the base. But you have no idea how much of a pain in the butt it is to stack in a cabinet. It would never lay flat. Boo. :(
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