Friday, March 28, 2014 at 1:37PM Happy Friday! I wanted to share these fun baby cake pop rattles I did for a a friend's sister's shower. She doesn't know what she is having so we went with neutral colors.
Have a great weekend!
Baby Shower, Cake pops Monday, March 17, 2014 at 2:57PM Hope everyone is having a fabulous St. Patrick's Day! I made Savanna sugar cookies with earth balance butter :) Don't you just love the hat my Aunt sent her!
Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies
Yield 12-14 medium size cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
4 ounces (1 stick) butter (I used Earth Balance Dairy and Soy Free)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
1 egg (seperated)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Sanding Sugar or Sprinkles
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
3. In the bowl of your electric mixer cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
4. Add egg yolk and vanilla and mix until fully incorporated.
5. Add dry ingredients and beat on low speed until just combined.
6. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and let rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
7. Roll out dough (¼ of inch thickness) and cut desired shape (4 leaf clovers).
8. Gather up the reserved dough scraps and gently press them into a disk. Repeat the cutting and rolling process with the scraps.
9. Place cut cookies about 1 inch apart on baking sheet (for a medium size cutter should fit about 12 cookies per sheet).
10. Brush cookies with egg white and sprinkle on desired decorations.
11. Bake 12-15 minutes until lightly golden brown at the edges.
12. Let cool for 3 minutes on the sheets and then transfer to a rack or parchment paper.
Baking Recipes Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 3:12PM Happy Wednesday! I hope you enjoyed the nice weather yesterday as much as we did. It felt amazing. The one park that was not covered in snow was over flowing with kids in the afternoon.
Savanna still loves her toy stroller and loves just pushing it around outside. If you are looking for some healthy mid-week cookies, we made these last week and they were sooo good! Savanna does not seem to love chocolate so I made half the batch without chips and added in some more spices. They are soy and dairy free so were perfect to have around as snacks for all!
I also wanted to share these "G" (for Garnets) cupcakes I did for an event in Rye. The school colors and logo are red, white and black so I did Red Velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing and a black G on top.
Enjoy the rest of the week!
