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Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls

April 10, 2017

So I jinx’d myself.

I have been all “oh pregnancy is no problem! I feel great. I’m a bit more tired, but it’s same old same old!” Because it really has been great. I’m one of those (annoying) people who just feels great when pregnant. I get tired but do not experience any significant pains (I don’t count my on again, off again hip pain since that is not related to being pregnant) or sickness or whatever.

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Easter Chicks Cupcakes

March 31, 2015

Easter Chicks Cupcakes

Are you ready for Easter?!?!  I am so ready.

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I have lots of Easter-y stuff around to make a super, super cute Easter basket for Autumn. I had been hitting up the Target Dollar Spot and the local Dollar Tree to get lots of fun random things to include in her Easter Basket. Which might actutally be a bag, but you get the point. Lots of stickers, some barrettes, crayons, mini board books, and a flipping toy chick. And the ‘big’ toy is a pair of Doc McStuffin’s light up clogs. They are way too big but are super cute. I couldn’t resist because she loves to play dress up at daycare so, so much.

Plus, I picked up a bunch of eggs to dye with her this weekend. I’m sure it will be just one big mess but I think it will be a fun experience.

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We painted some plaster eggs over the weekend and that was a great activity. Granted, she tried to crack them at first as we cracks the eggs for me when I make something. But once I explained they aren’t eggs to crack she got the point and got to painting. I’m going to have to keep those half painted eggs forever. So cute!!

Those eggs will last forever, but these Easter Chicks Cupcakes won’t!

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These Easter Chicks Cupcakes are really Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes with some Green Vanilla Buttercream Frosting topped off with some green coconut ‘grass’ and Peeps chicks. But Easter Chicks Cupcakes sounds cuter.

I used a chocolate brownie cupcake base as I wanted the cupcake to look like the earth. The green frosting is the glue for the green coconut grass. And then the marshmallow Peep Chick finishes it off.

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I used the traditional yellow Peeps Chicks but the Peeps Bunnies are just as cute.

I brought these cupcakes to daycare and the kids loved them.

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Easter Chicks Cupcakes

Makes 24 Cupcakes

Ingredients

For the Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes

  • 1 pound semi sweet chocolate, use a bar that your break into pieces or chips
  • 12 Tablespoons butter, at room temperature
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 Cups dark brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 1/4 Cups all-purpose flour

For the frosting

  • 16 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 8 Cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 Tablespoons milk
  • green food coloring

For the ‘Grass’

  • 2 Cups shredded coconut
  • green food coloring
  • 24  Chicks Peeps

Process

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line your muffin pans with paper liners.
  2. Melt the chocolate and butter together in a double boiler. Set aside to slightly cool.
  3. In a large bowl, beat the eggs. Add the brown sugar and beat until incorporated. Add the vanilla extract.
  4. Add the flour to the brownie batter and mix until just combined.
  5. Evenly divide the brownie cupcake batter between the 24 liners.
  6. Make for 25-30 minutes, or until the cupcakes are firm to the touch while the center is still moist.
  7. While the cupcakes bake, make the ‘grass’. Put the coconut into a small bowl. Add about 10 drops of green food coloring and mix to color all of the coconut.
  8. Make the frosting by beating the room temperature butter until it is light and fluffy. Slowly add the powdered sugar and beat on slow speed until just together. Add the vanilla extract, milk, and enough food coloring to achieve a rich green color.
  9. Once your cupcakes have baked and cooled, frost the cupcakes with just a bit of frosting. You want it to be a pretty thin amount over the whole cupcake.
  10. Sprinkle the dyed coconut on the frosting. Insert a toothpick into the bottom of the Peep and then push the toothpicked Peep into the cupcake.

Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes adapted from The Cupcake, Frosting slightly adapted from  Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook

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Filed Under: Cakes and Cupcakes, Recipes Tagged With: brownie cupcakes, coconut, coconut grass, cupcakes, easter, easter cupcakes, Easter Peeps Chicks, Peeps, Peeps Chicks, Peeps Cupcakes

How To Make Adorable and Affordable Mini Easter Baskets

March 30, 2015

Mini Easter Baskets

I really love the daycare that Autumn goes to. The teachers and kids are the best. Plus, it’s about a minute’s walk from our house.

It’s an family daycare so it’s a nice small group of kids that love to be around each other. They play hard and love hard. When we bring Autumn the kids greet her loudly. And when she goes they say “BYE AUTUMN!!!!!”. Everything is loud and filled with the best kind of enthusiasm. I love it.

I also love baking up special treats for the kids. It’s fun to give them sweet treats every now and then. And if it’s something that is too rich or tart, like the Meyer Lemon Pudding Cake I recently made, I share with the 2 teachers there.

I have some super cute Easter cupcakes planned for this week but I wanted to give the kids little Easter baskets too.

My goal was so make something that was unisex, functional, tasty, healthy, fun, and affordable. Thankfully, I found everything I needed at a recent trip to Target. I needed to make 9 baskets for 3-4 year olds so I hit up their Dollar Spot section as it’s the bees knees.

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I grabbed 5 packs of mini storage bins. I thought they were cute and functional as they could have a life after being an Easter basket. 2 for $1 (I could have put in some grass but I figured the parents would kill me when it got all over their cars on the way home!)

I saw card games that were age appropriate for the kids so I grabbed them. $1 each

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Kids love crafts so I grabbed some pens for their baskets as well. 4 pens $1

And what’s a basket without some treats?!? So I moved on to the grocery section and found a box of yummy strawberry fruit rope. $2.99 for 10 treats.

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As well, Rice Krispie treats are kid favorites. $4.19 for 16 treats.

Lastly, I filled some plastic eggs with some M&M’s to finish it off. $.89 for 12 eggs and $2.89 for the bag of M&M’s

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And that’s how I made 9 adorable Mini Easter Baskets for the kids at Autumn’s daycare for just $2.61 each. I only spent about $28 for everything and I have some extra goodies leftover to incorporate into the Easter Basket I’m making for Autumn. Woohoo!

Hop over to Target or your favorite stores to make some great Easter baskets for the kiddos in your life. xoxo

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What are your favorite things to include in Easter Baskets?

Filed Under: Baby & Kid Tagged With: candy, daycare easter baskets, dollar store, easter, easter baskets, kids easter, mini easter baskets, Target Dollar Spot

Happy Easter

April 20, 2014


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HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

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I tried to get Bunny in the pictures but she was feeling camera shy so just Jack was featured with Autumn. Maybe another time.

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Wants to eat the bunny!!!!

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Autumn enjoyed her first time meeting Jack. But maybe she enjoyed eating her tights just as much… ha!

Filed Under: Baby & Kid, rabbits Tagged With: Baby and Bunny Pics, Baby and Rabbit Pictures, Baby Bunny, Baby's First Easter, easter, Easter 2014, Happy Easter

3.29-31: Weekend Recap

April 1, 2013

{Friday night} empanadas for dinner | watch Grimm | fire down the road | bed

{Saturday} make ham and eggs for breakfast | take Kemper to the vet | yard work and clean up | mac and cheese for lunch | I took a 2 1/2 hr nap while Price kick ass in the backyard | ‘Cuse game | get ready | fugakyu for dinner to celebrate Price’s new job | finish DVR’d ‘Cuse game and other games| bed

{Sunday} we went to Home depot (not yet opened) | Starbucks | Market Basket (closed for Easter) | back home | cinnamon rolls for breakfast | Home Depot | take Kemper to the beach | give Kemper a bath | watch You’ve Got Mail | make pasta for lunch | brush and trim rabbits nails while Price cleans their cage | fold laundry | watch Louisville vs Duke game| photo edits & punchlist write up| Price picks up Emily | Indian take out for dinner | watch Walking Dead season finale | Price drives Emily home | bed

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fuzzy bunnies ham and eggs kemper at the vet

sleeping kemper

date night at Fugakyu sushi at Fugakyu

Price at Fugakyu lounging around

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Price and Kemper at the Beach kemper at the beach

Kemps sitting

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: back yard, cinnamon rolls, easter, home depot, Kemper, Market Basket, rabbits, revere beach, starbucks, weekend, weekend recap, weekend warriors, yard work

Thirsty Thursday: Chocolate Cadbury Egg Milkshakes

March 21, 2013

Chocolate Cadbury Egg Milkshakes

Like O.M.G.

My favorite parts about Easter are all the rabbit themed goodies I see around and Cadbury Creme Eggs. The best thing ever is catching the classic Cadbury Bunny Tryouts commercial. I love it so much. Plus I’m still ease-dropping on my rabbits waiting to hear them cluck like a chicken. No success yet 🙂

So I took my love of my Cadbury Creme Eggs and went a little crazy this year and whipped up some cavity inducing recipes. First things first is the shake!

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I was inspired by the Cadbury Shake in The Good Stuff Cookbook by Spike Mendelsohn. I thought it was all so much fun to make a Cadbury Creme Egg shake. I prefer a thinner constancy shake so I added some milk to the ice cream before blending. Adjust the amount of milk and butterscotch or chocolate sauce depending on preference.

Enjoy your own or pour the shake into a big glass and share with someone who loves Cadbury Creme Eggs as much as you!

Chocolate Cadbury Egg Milkshakes

Makes 2 8-oz milkshakes

Ingredients

  • 3 generous scoops of chocolate ice cream
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup butterscotch sauce, plus more for drizzling
  • 1/4 cup chocolate sauce, plus more for drizzling
  • 1 Cadbury Creme Egg
  • whipped cream

Process

  1. Halve the Cadbury Creme Egg by cutting lengthwise, set aside.
  2. Drizzle some butterscotch sauce and chocolate sauce onto the sides of the glasses. 
  3. In a bender, combine the ice cream, milk, and the butterscotch and chocolate sauces. Blend until smooth, about 30 seconds.
  4. Pour the blended shake into the prepared glasses and top with whipped cream. Place a half of the Cadbury Creme Egg into the whipped cream and then drizzle some more of the sauces on top for good measure.

Filed Under: Drinks Tagged With: butterscotch, butterscotch sauce, Cadbury, Cadbury Creme Eggs, chocolate milkshake, chocolate sauce, Chocolate shake, easter, Easter Milkshake, milkshake, Thirsty Thursday

Spring Time Bird’s Nest Cookies

April 4, 2012

Easter is my favorite holiday. I don’t go to church so I love everything else that has been slapped onto Easter. Dresses are pretty and frilly. Pastels are everywhere. There are no gifts- except candy. Cute animals decorate everything. I just about *squeee!!!* every time I see a cute little bunny on something. Plus flowers are blooming. I love how (to me) Easter celebrates spring and a new beginning. Everything is shedding winter’s greys and is layering on color. Flowers are starting to bloom everywhere from beneath your feet to above your head from overarching tree branches. And on those branches sit nests that have lovely speckled eggs on them.

These nest cookies are a perfect way to celebrate spring time! They are so easy too! The coconut part is super easy to bring together. The baking time might sound like a long process of checking them every 5 or so minutes or so but it’s just to ensure they will achieve a nice golden brown color while not letting the bottom burn. Other than that it’s super easy and so good. Coconut and chocolate go together so well so it ends up being a perfect pairing.

Spring Time Bird’s Nest Cookies

*makes 15 cookies*

Ingredients

  • 1 14oz package of shredded coconut
  • 1 14 oz can of condensed milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 stick unsalted butter
  • 1 cup confectioners sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 bag Cadbury Mini Eggs

Process

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Line baking sheets with aluminum foil or parchment paper
  2. Combine the shredded coconut, condensed milk, and vanilla extract together in a large bowl.
  3. Create 15 mounds of the coconut mixture. Using a spoon or your fingers, create each mound into a bowl shape to resemble a nest.
  4. Bake for 10 minutes, turn the oven down to 325 and bake for 5-8 more minutes, until golden brown. Turn the oven off and then let them sit for another 5 minutes prior to removing from the oven. Gently remove the cookies from the sheet to let them cool.
  5. As the nests are cooling, mix the frosting together. Using a mixer, beat the butter until light and fluffy. Sift the sugar and cocoa powder into the butter and continue mixing. Add vanilla extract and the water and mix until completely incorporated and the frosting is fluffy.
  6. Put the frosting in a small piping bag or a sandiwch bag and cut the tip so you can pipe the frosting onto the coconut nests.
  7. Pipe approximately 1 tablespoon of frosting into the nests. Then place 4 mini eggs into the frosting to secure them into the nests.

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Happy Easter!

April 24, 2011

So I had a whole blog post written up about Easter, what it means to me, it’s origins, how I was happy I was not bribed to go to church, how I spent the day, rabbits, how i think someone is a jerk for posting about ‘celebrating’ Easter by eating rabbit, and much more. I got to the end, proof read it, and then deleted the whole damn thing. I was just not in the mood to get preachy about religion, why giving rabbits as gifts is a bad idea, and eating rabbit. I’m too tired to go there.

Instead I will leave you with this:

Hope you had a great Easter!

Thanks for visiting. Please leave me a comment to provide some feedback. I appreciate all the comments I receive.

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Easter Brownies- Mini Cadbury Creme Egg Brownies

April 22, 2011

These brownies make for a fantastic Easter treat. The brownie is individually sized so it makes for a great to go treat. The kind of goodie that is easily wrapped and slipped into an Easter basket. Or if you are ‘too old’ for a basket, you can just enjoy them because you are an adult and should have nice things.

 

I really truly love Cadbury Creme Eggs. I love that they are around for such a short period of time. It makes them even more desirable. I stick to the classic creme eggs, just can’t get me to touch their caramel egg. I don’t get the point. It’s like a caramel milky way… oh don’t you mean a caramel filled chocolate bar that is no way similar to a milky way?!? I think that classics should stay classics. So that is why I indulge myself with the creme eggs for this short period of time.

 

The brownies are best eaten right away because it will allow you to bite into the ooey gooey creme egg. The brownie is rich and dense, so the egg will not sink to the bottom. The egg remains intact and is perfect to cut in half. It just looks so sweet.

 

Typically, you test the readiness of a baked good by inserting a tooth pick and if it’s clean upon removal the cake it done. However, you can’t insert a tooth pick into the center of this treat because it would provide an inaccurate picture of it’s doneness because you would be testing the melty egg, and not the brownie. The brownies are so small that gently touching the top will be a good enough indicator.

 

Mini Cadbury Creme Egg Brownies

*makes 6 brownies*

Ingredients

  • 4oz bittersweet chocolate
  • 6oz butter
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup self-rising flour
  • 6 mini Cadbury creme eggs

Process

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Line 6 muffin cups.
  2. Melt the chocolate and butter together in a double boiler, or over very low heat. Cool.
  3. In a medium size bowl, combine the sugar and egg
  4. Slowly add the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture.
  5. Add in the flour and gently combine.
  6. Divide the batter evenly into the 6 liners. Put 1 egg inside each brownie, slightly less than half should remain exposed.
  7. Bake for 13-15 minutes. Top should appear done while egg is soft looking.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: brownie, Cadbury, chocolate, cupcake liner, easter, holiday, mini Cadbury Creme Egg

Happy Easter

April 4, 2010

The bunnies hope that you had a great day.

 

Filed Under: rabbits Tagged With: bunnies, easter, easter day, rabbits

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