Summer boredom setting in? Play games and eat. Always a good motto. For a quick and easy idea to get kids to eat their candy (um… wait, um, you can substitute veggies, too), play edible tic tac toe. Find the idea HERE at Cute Food for Kids.… Read More ...
Frozen Dum Dums
This is such a simple, smart idea, and it’s amazing what a little Dum Dum lollipop can do to an ice cube. Make Frozen Dum Dums HERE at Family Chic.… Read More ...
Apple Gumballs and More Back to School Treats
Maybe the cutest thing ever to happen to gumball? But wait! There’s more back to school treats. Like this adorable pail of “chalk” (marshmallows). Find these ideas and how to make the apple gumballs HERE at Crissy’s Crafts.
Seashell Cupcake Toppers
Still a few weeks left of beach time to enjoy some seashells (though truth be told, my favorite time at the beach is after the season ends). Find the how-tos to make these gumpaste seashell cupcake toppers–including the sparkly personalized letters–HERE at tikkido.… Read More ...
Key Lime Treats in Flip Flop Boxes
What simultaneously grown-up yet still adorable, perfect for summer, packaging for a yummy-sounding dessert. Find the recipe for Key Lime cookie and frosting mounds and a link to the flip flop box tutorial HERE at My Own Ideas.… Read More ...
Bug Juice and Critter Snacks and Dirt Dessert
How utterly perfect for a creepy, crawly, critter-filled party. I’m loving the dressed-up bug juice and crazy adorable ladybug and ant crackers. Find the recipes for the buggy crackers HERE at My Own Ideas. And you’ll of course want to have these worm filled dirt cups for dessert, too. Find those HERE.
Smartie Marshmallow Pops with Free Printable
And part two, the last and final part, I promise, of my using-Smarties-for-back-to-school (remember the Smartie pants cookies?)… Smarties marshmallow pops. Even easier to make. And I include a free printable for the stick or straw flags. Find them all HERE at the decorated cookie.… Read More ...
Bear Pop Snack Cakes and Bunny Twinkies
More from the snack cake world of goodness… Super easy black bear pops and bunny Twinkies. It’s a menagerie of snack cakes from the now-declaring genius of snack cake coolness. Make the black bear snack cake pops HERE and the bunny Twinkies HERE at Hungry Happenings.
School Bus Twinkies
OK everybody, get ready for a snack cake explosion. Well, a couple posts, anyway. This trend of turning store-bought snack cakes into even cooler stuff is now firmly established, seeing as I keep saying the trend is firmly established. Turn Twinkie
s into school buses HERE at Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons.… Read More ...
Fairy Bread Update
I first discovered fairy bread (and bemoaned the lack of popularity of this simple and magical tradition in the US) HERE over two years ago. Little cookie cutters
are such a clever, simple way to dress up fairy bread. Find the idea HERE at Sugar and Cloth.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cake Pops
I may or may not have gasped at this one, because you see, my greatest candy weakness is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. And to turn them into other desserts? No, to turn them into other, cute-as-can-be desserts? Yep, might have gasped. Make Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup cake pops HERE at Mighty Delighty.… Read More ...
How to Make Swirly Candy Lollipops
These how-tos for making little (sparkly) swirly lollipops seem quite doable even for those of us scared of candy thermometers. Find the how-tos for this sucker cuteness HERE at Cakewalk Baking.
Rice Krispies Treats Olympic Torches
Believe it or not, I still make Rice Krispies Treats rarely enough that I always check the recipe before making them, usually at the insistence of my daughter who also insists I make them. So when searching the site for the basics, I stumbled upon these Olympic Torch treats. Find the recipe for Rice Krispies Treats Olympic Torches HERE.… Read More ...
Candy Melt Ice Cream Cones
This is one of those super simple, very smart ideas that finds the cute in the details. Dress up ice cream cones with melted candy melts HERE at Sugar and Charm.… Read More ...
Wimpy Kid Cupcakes
Pure genius here. The technique to make these edible notebook paper cupcake toppers with the Wimpy Kid and all, that is. You’ve got to see the how-tos for these Diary of a Wimpy Kid cupcakes HERE at Confessions of a Cookbook Queen.
