Combining Canada Day and 4th of July – Pinwheel swirl cookies (Picture heavy)
An awesome thing about Canada Day and Independence Day being so close together is that the color scheme is so similar that I could logically be lazy *and* resourceful all in one.
So on July 1st, Canada, I mixed up my colors and made half of my cookie lollipops into red and white Canada cookies, and the other half into American red, white, and blue ones. Score!
I have quite a few pictures, so I’ll try to keep the text minimal here. Check out SugarBelle for the original inspiration, although I didn’t try to make mine look exactly like hers. Where’s the fun in exact replicas? Anyway, pictures:
Breakage happens, shhhh….
Twist and shout! This whole process was so much like playing with Play-Doh. Except this I could steal bites of without grossing myself out. Did you ever eat Play-Doh? Yeah, not recommended…
A little rugged, huh? Oops!
Can you see the crystals? I ran out of flour and “floured” my countertop with sugar for half of them to keep ‘em from sticking.
Before and after shots….sorry for the sucky lighting…but look how much they grew:
Oh yeah, I ended up with a bit extra of the red/white, so I did some candy canes and a snail creature. No sense in wasting it!
I didn’t bring popsicle sticks with me, so I ended up using skewers, breaking them in half for some and leaving them whole for others. They would’ve looked better if I had bigger or flat sticks, but it worked.
And for my mini-lollypop swirl, I decided he looked kinda like a cross between a snail and a worm, but either way, he got a face and a toothpick base.
This one may have gotten a little, uh, crispy around the edges.
Am I the only one that looks at the bottom of cookies, too? Probably.
The red/white/blue ones ended up not looking too blue on the outside, but rest assure, the insides were much more equally distributed.
Yeah, probably the only one to snatch a cookie pop from the eater’s hands to go take a picture of the inside, too, huh? At the very least, I could’ve waited until I was eating my own cookie and taken a picture of that one, but nope, had to take theirs, hehe.
All in all, great success. This is the sugar cookie recipe I used, except I cut it down to 16 servings instead of 60, left out the vanilla, and split it into roughly 4 cookies (plus candy canes, and minus the dough I ate).
Find other red, white, and blue treats at Cupcake Apothecary.
Too many peeps? Make peep sushi!
This is one of those dishes that I’ve held onto a bookmark of for quite a while. I wanted to make my own, but well, I just never did and Carey, Erin, and Grace did such a good job that I never would’ve been happy with my own results in comparison.
I wouldn’t have been as funny writing about them either. Here’s some of the things Grace had to say about the process:
- There is no wasabi. Same goes for ginger. Peeps are sassy enough on their own. (We tried smashing up a green Peep for a wasabi-esque condiment, but decided against this.)
- With glossy spreads from Masaharu Morimoto‘s The New Art of Japanese Cooking book out for inspiration….
- Execute six Peeps of your color choice by decapitation. Cut off more neck than you think is appropriate.
- (In the “you will need” section) Nimble fingers. Man hands might find this a wee difficult.
There’s even a suggestion of what temperature water to drink to make these go down best. I can’t imagine a better tutorial for peepshi.
Baby chicks made out of baby chick wannabes?
With it being Easter, we always end up with several eggs whose shells crack ever so slightly, leaving the whites beneath colored as well. I’m picturing lots of punk rocker eggs with mohawks or hippie variations, too.
From the same blog, I love these: 
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