A Robot Birthday Celebration

Celebration a 4 year old's birthday party with everything robot. Now, when I look back at what I did, I feel that there were not enough decorations…I will have to remember that for next year's party.

Some airplane sugar cookies (recipe found here) decorated with royal icing (receip from Sweet Sugar Belle). I tried a flooding technique this time around and was pretty impressed with how it all went. I can see how decorating cookies can become addictive.

It seems that no birthday is complete in my house without cake pops. I use my all time favourite recipe for these, lemon poppy seed sour cream cake.  I then used the Wilton candy melts, swirled it on with a bamboo skewer and topped it off with some decorative balls. Yum.

And finally the cake. I made a white cake from Butter Baked Goods and coloured half the batch orange. I alternated the white and orange batters for a fun cake piece once cut.  I used cream cheese icing from Martha Stewart and made a few colours. I got a little carried away with the grey pipping but I guess that is what can happen when you make too much icing. 

The robot (transformer) is standing on oreo cookie crumbs.

And finally, the goodie bag. I don't really like the typical goodie bags very much so I try to create something that is different. I think I succeeded, robot rice krispies. 

the marshmallow making continues

I've been really enjoying making marshmallows and I have made more batches than I really care to admit. Thank goodness for friends who are willing to eat them.  I made a batch of lemon marshmallows with real lemon juice, they are super yummy but I found that they did get sticky feeling after a day or two.  

Also as a side note, when the recipe calls for a 9x9 pan, you really should use a 9x9 pan. I tried putting the batch into an 8x8 with this recipe and the marshmallows turned out huge, so had to cut them into thin slices instead.  The advantage to having thinner marshmallows is that they are the perfect smokes thickness for pure melted gooey marshmallows.

a sweet fluffy marshmallow treat

I recently made marshmallows for the first time and I think I found a new favourite thing to make. The kids love them but then what kid doesn't and even the adults quite them as well. This is definitely going to be at the next birthday party.

it's that time of year ... blueberries

It's that time of year again for blueberries. We did not pick any but did buy a big box of them. Since we've had so much sun this summer the blueberries were super big and super sweet, such a treat. I made a batch of blueberry orange muffins, so yummy.