Edible Confetti

So I mentioned the edible confetti in my earlier post today.  I made the fondant and let it sit for a couple hours.  I just rolled some out and used the #12 Wilton tip to make jumbo size confetti and then played around with other shapes.

I am no longer afraid of fondant!  Now I just need to find some super small alphabet cookie cutters, any ideas where I can find them???

Now they just have to dry over night and then I can store them in a container and put them in my "sprinkle" cabinet.
 
 
 
 
 

Wilton Color Chart

Have you ever tried to mix gel food colors to get a color that you needed? I am getting things together in my head for Victoria's birthday party. This year it is "Mod Monkey" and the colors are lemon yellow and aqua. I am going to frost 1/2 the cup cakes lemon yellow and put on aqua M&M's and the other 1/2 of the cupcakes will be frosted aqua with yellow M&Ms.

So this morning at Walmart I picked up the yellow M&M's and light blue M&M's. Then I started wondering what color Wilton gels would make the aqua color. I found a link on their site!

ANTIQUE GOLD Add just an extremely small touch of Leaf Green to Golden Yellow

AQUA Sky Blue and Leaf Green

AVOCADO Use Moss Green color

BLACK Our paste color or Royal Blue, Christmas Red, Orange and Lemon

CHARTREUSE 9 parts Lemon Yellow, 1 part Leaf Green

CORAL Creamy peach and a touch of pink or orange and a touch of pink.

FLESH Add just an extremely small touch of Copper to white icing. Ivory can also be used. Light pink with a small amount of brown.

GRAY Add just a touch of Black to white icing.

HUNTER GREEN Kelly Green and a touch of Black

JADE Leaf green, Royal Blue and a touch of Black

LAVENDER Pink and Violet

MARIGOLD Lemon Yellow and Orange

MAROON Burgundy and Red Red

MAUVE Touch of Burgundy with very little Black.

MISTY GREEN Leaf Green, Royal Blue and a touch of Black

MOSS GREEN Our paste color or Violet and Lemon Yellow

MULBERRY Mix Rose with a touch of Royal Blue.

NAVY BLUE Royal Blue and Black

PERIWINKLE Royal Blue and Violet

PLUM Use violet with a touch of Christmas red.

RASPBERRY Pink and Red Red

RUST Orange, Red Red and Brown

SILVER We do not advise attempting to simulate silver color in icing. Instead, add silver leaves or other silver accessories to the cake.

TEAL Use teal paste color or Lemon Yellow and Sky Blue

TURQUOISE Sky Blue and Lemon Yellow

WARM GOLD Use Golden Yellow with just a touch of brown.

Shamrock Cookies

I had the cutest conversation last night with Victoria. She said that all the valentine cookies were gone and we should make some new ones and would like St. Patricks day cookies. Off we went to the laundry room to see what cookie cutters I had, hmm no luck. Since I had to run to walmart this morning I found a St. Patty set and some more SPRINKLES!

So when I was telling Marcel about our little conversation he laughed and said it sounds like when I go to him and say "I have been thinking" or "I have an idea" LOL

Butter Cookie Dough

1 cup salted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
2 tablespoons whipping cream (I just used light cream)
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract (I didn't use that, today I used Lemon extract)
3 cups unbleached flour (I had to use a bit more)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

In a mixer combine butter and sugar. Add egg, cream, vanilla, and almond extract all at once and thoroughly blend.

In a separate bowl stir together flour and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and blend.

Roll out to a thickness of about 1/4 inch and cut with a cookie cutter. Bake on a greased cookie sheet 8 to 12 minutes and cool on a rack.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies. (Dough does not need to be chilled before using.)

As you can tell from the pictures, I tinted half the dough with some Wilton Kelly Green and Leaf Green.

Pink Heart Shaped Rice Krispy Treats

I am the room mom for Victoria's class and when it comes to parties I like to ask some of the kids what they want for snacks. One little boy wants me to make chocolate cupcakes all the time. This time when I asked Victoria said rice krispy treats and so did one other little guy. So her Valentines party is today and I made two trays of rice krispy treats at like 6:30 am!

I colored one pan with Wilton Rose and one with Wilton Pink. I also decided to cut them into hearts which wasn't easy with plastic cookie cutters. I did some small ones and some a little bit bigger. I also added some sprinkles to them. I think they came out cute and I really need to stop eating the scraps!

I took a picture of the first layer, I ended up by having two layers. I put parchment between them or I would have a sticky mess.

1/2 stick of butter
1 bag of mini marshmallows
5 cups Rice Krispie Cereal

Spray a 13x9 glass dish with cooking spray.

Put the butter in a large pan and melt on low. Add the marshmallows and melt. Make sure to keep stirring the mix until it is all melted. Do not let it get browned!

Remove from heat, then add in the cereal and stir until well mixed.

Spread the mixture into the prepared dish. Press it down with your hands. To keep your hands from sticking wet them a little with cold water.

Cut into squares when it is cooled.







Yummy!!!

Got an addiction, um I mean sprinkles?

A fun look into my "sprinkle cabinet", yes that is what I call it.

I think I seriously have an addiction to cute Wilton sprinkles, jimmies, colored sugar, and luster dust.

The bottom shelf is for baking ingredients like baking powder, baking soda, salt, meringue powder, color flow. I also have a square gladware container filled with different extracts.

Above that is my "sprinkle" shelf. Self explanatory...LOL

Next shelf up is tubes of decorators icing container and a container of Wilton Gel Food coloring, piping gel and toothpicks.

Next shelf up is loaf and muffin pans that I don't use all the time.

Can you figure out what is missing? I kind of (blush) ran out of space in this cabinet for all of my cookie cutters and muffin liners. They are in shoebox size containers on the laundry room shelf. The cookie cutters are even organized into groups like; Halloween, Valentines Day, Autumn, Christmas and a miscellaneous bin.

So there is a fun look into my "sprinkle" cabinet.

Valentine Heart Shaped Cookies

I decided to make some Valentine Cookies this morning. I normally use the Wilton rolled cookie recipe but some times it can be difficult because of the weather. Today I decided to try a new recipe that some Lucky Charms Mom's use. You can find the link here, or just follow the same directions with my notes below. I did color the dough with a bit of Wilton Rose Gel coloring.

Butter Cookie Dough

1 cup salted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
2 tablespoons whipping cream (I just used light cream)
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract (I didn't use that, I subbed 1/2 tsp peppermint extract)
3 cups unbleached flour (I had to use a bit more because it is a bit humid today)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

In a mixer combine butter and sugar. Add egg, cream, vanilla, and almond extract all at once and thoroughly blend.

In a separate bowl stir together flour and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and blend.

Roll out to a thickness of about 1/4 inch and cut with a cookie cutter. Bake on a greased cookie sheet 8 to 12 minutes and cool on a rack.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies. (Dough does not need to be chilled before using.)


I made them into large hearts so it only made 2 dozen cookies and the peppermint flavor is not over powering at all.

I love Wilton sprinkles!

I think I may have an addiction to pretty sprinkles.

Some time I will have to share a picture of my "sprinkle" cabinet.

Grinning Gingerbread Cupcakes

Oh wow! I totally forgot to post these little cuties that I made for our neighborhood Christmas party!

I found the idea for Grinning Gingerbread cupcakes on Wilton.com

They were almost to cute to eat.

Gingerbread Men

I just made a couple dozen Gingerbread Men to decorate later tonight or tomorrow. I love the Wilton recipe because there is no chilling involved.


3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup molasses
1 egg , beaten
Makes: Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

Preheat oven to 375°F.

In large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and spices. In large saucepan, melt shortening; cool slightly. Stir in sugar, molasses and egg; mix well. Add 2 cups flour mixture; mix well. Turn mixture onto lightly floured surface. Knead in remaining flour mixture by hand. Add additional flour, if necessary, to make firm dough. Roll out on a lightly floured surface to 1/4-in. thickness.

Bake on ungreased cookie sheet until lightly browned on edges, about 10-15 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet placed on cooling grid 3 minutes; remove from cookie sheet and cool completely.

*Substitute 3/4 cup light corn syrup for molasses to make Blonde Gingerbread.

I will add some pictures after they are decorated.

Wilton Cookie Exchange Book

Anyone that knows me, knows that I love baking especially cookies. I picked the Wilton Cookie Exchange Book a few weeks ago at Walmart. It has loads of recipes and loads of pictures of cookie decorating ideas. I am going to make some this week for Santa. You will have to check it out the book.

Dracula Cupcakes

Victoria helped pick out what kind of cupcakes for her Halloween Party.  I found these cute Dracula cupcakes on the Wilton site.  I couldn't follow the directions completely since I am missing a couple tips and was running out of time.