Showing posts with label cookies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cookies. Show all posts

Friday, November 28, 2014

Christmas Food "Hacks"

I hope that you all had and awesome Thanksgiving yesterday with your family and loved ones! I know we sure did at our house. I'm still cleaning up from it! :)
However, it's officially Christmas time!!! I adore this time of year! Everyone is always so cheerful and nice and the weather is wonderful (in my opinion) and then don't get me started on all the Christmas decorations that we get to put up and see!! I love it! Along with all those wonderful things comes a busy, busy few weeks as well... Especially for moms. We are constantly planning and prepping and cleaning and cooking and entertaining and wrapping and the list goes on. 
So, to make lives a smidgen easier this holiday season I've found some pretty creative hacks to share with you all! Some of these we've all seen before and some of them I've never even thought of doing! (And those that I haven't thought of before, were pretty spectacular in my opinion.)

Here you freeze chocolate into tree shapes and then add some icing to the backs and place them on a flat white cake to make it shine a little!

Fill empty condiments bottles with icing for decorating sugar cookies with the kids!

Dip cookie cutters in flour first to help the sugar cookies retain their shapes!

Look at this simple center piece! White candles and peppermints! Love it!

These are frozen dollops of coolwip/whipped cream to put in your mugs of hot cocoa! Such a great idea!

Three small candy canes glued together makes the perfect place card holders for your holiday tables!

Use the bottom of a crystal glass to make a unique design in your sugar cookies.

These were just a sampling of the hacks that I found on Buzzfeed
You can check out the rest of them over here: 38 Christmas Hacks
I hope that some of these come in handy throughout your busy holiday season this year and help you cut some corners!

-Stephanie

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

A Candyland Kind of Halloween

Such cute ideas to add to your Halloween parties this season!! I adore the skeletons they made here! Maybe some of these will inspire y'all to get super creative with your Halloween festivities!! This is from a "Halloween Candyland" party on Catch My Party!! The rest of the photos on there are to die for!!! Seriously wish I had thought of this one first... I love the party theme and their decorations for it are so cute! I am loving all the bright colors they used here, too!

Go check out the rest of these incredible decorations here: http://catchmyparty.com/parties/whimsical-halloween-candyland

-Stephanie

Monday, October 14, 2013

Halloween Updates!

Okay, like I promised.... Here are some of my photos from all my Halloween decorations that I said I would share. I decorated on last Tuesday and it took me a good while, mainly because I had to detail clean the stairwell for the rats to go up!! But I enjoyed it and love how everything turned out!!
I hope your homes are filled with festive decor as well! :)

 I "made" cookies to celebrate!
 I adore mini pumpkins... They're so cute and kind of timeless seeming in a way. :)
 My full potions brew kit!!! I love this piece!

 I did have some store bought ones that I'd had and just added to the home-made ones for some color!

 I love my ghosts! Both bought at Wal-Mart for under $3!!!


 The jar is one of those "pet bat" things... Joc loves it! It's really cute!

 My place settings!
 Full table view for the holidays!

 One of many glitter webs I have!


I really like how my stairs turned out!! :)

-Stephanie

Monday, September 30, 2013

Cookie Mummy Pops

These yummy mummies look like so much fun to make with your kids for Halloween!! I found them over at Catch My Party and they are just adorable!!


All you need to make these cute cookies is:
Sugar cookie dough
Vanilla icing
Fondant
Candy eyes
Lollipop sticks

And you put them all together and you create this super cute Halloween treats for you kids or party or classroom!!

The full tutorial for these cookies can be found on Catch My Party here: http://catchmyparty.com/blog/easy-mummy-cookie-pops-diy
All I need to make these happen are the eyes and sticks!! Seriously thinking about going out to find those two things to make these in a few weeks for Jocelyn and her classroom, maybe!!

- Stephanie