Peeps Centerpiece Cookies
Peeps Centerpiece Cookies
Today is the perfect day to hop around the web for fabulous Peeps recipes, crafts, creative ideas & even a Peeps giveaway. Christi from Love from the Oven and Michelle over at Sugar Swings! Serve Some, organized an amazing group of women to help you get creative with your favorite set of Peeps. I can not wait to share with you these easy, yummy, and fun Peeps centerpiece cookies.
Here are a few items that you will need to get started to make your Peeps centerpiece cookies.
Peeps Centerpiece Cookies
- 1 batch of your favorite sugar cookies
- a package of your favorite Peeps
- 8 oz. semi-sweet chocolate {yields 8 cookies}
- unsweetened coconut {I love Bob’s Red Mill}
- 1 ziploc bag
- green food coloring
- pastry bag or ziploc bag
If you are not married to a particular sugar cookie recipe, I would recommend Alton Brown’s recipe. When you make the recipe instead of using 1 cup of sugar, use 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of brown sugar. I love how brown sugar transforms plain sugar cookies.
Place one cup of unsweetened shredded coconut in a plastic bag with a couple of drops of liquid green food coloring. Shake the bag making sure all the coconut is covered. I like to use unsweetened coconut so that the cookies do not become overly sweet. Once your “grass” is colored set the bag aside.
Next, trim off the bottom of your Peep. This will help the Peep stand up nice and tall on the cookie.
Place your chocolate in a small bowl over a pot of simmering hot water. You do not want to heat or melt the chocolate too quickly. If you would like the thin the chocolate just a little, add 1/2 tsp. of shortening. Once the chocolate is melted, let it cool just a little. Then pour into a piping bag.
Now you are ready to put all the pieces together.
Snip the bottom of your pastry bag or plastic bag. In a circular motion cover your cookie with the chocolate. Do not go all the way to the edge or the chocolate will spill over.
Place the Peeps in the center of the cookie. Then sprinkle the coconut mixture around the Peeps. Let the chocolate set.
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Ready for more fabulous PEEPS recipes and ideas??? Visit the following websites, each is sharing an amazing PEEPS post for you today, so hop on over and check them all out! Don’t forget to enter to win the fabulous PEEPS Prize Pack as well! Happy Spring!
Ready for more fabulous PEEPS recipes and ideas??? Visit the following websites, each is sharing an amazing PEEPS post for you today, so hop on over and check them all out! Don’t forget to enter to win the fabulous PEEPS Prize Pack as well! Happy Spring!
Vonny Bags Giveaway
Vonny Bags Giveaway
I’m teaming up with Around My Family Table and some other great bloggers to bring you this fabulous giveaway from Vonny Bags. I don’t know if you noticed my nifty new button over on the right hand menu bar but I am now contributor over at Around My Family Table. I have admired Wendy and her blog for so long. I am so excited to contribute to her beautiful blog.
Vonny launched her line of carriers and totes in 2009. Her line includes beautiful pie carriers, egg carriers, casserole carriers, and several tote bags. All are made with a durable (and washable) laminate canvas that is easy to clean! I am quite smitten with her pie totes which can also double as a cute way to transport cookies.
We are giving away a matching set today…the egg carrier and casserole tote, both in the sweet tea print (a $112 value). The deviled egg carrier has a non- slip surface, holds 11 eggs (22 halves), and comes with the egg tray. The casserole tote fits a standard 9×13 inch casserole pan and has a pocket for holding serving utensils.
You can find her products online in her shop, a small selection on Amazon, and in stores around the country.
Cookies Are My Lucky Charm
Cookies Are My Lucky Charm
What’s your lucky charm? Do you even believe in lucky charms? Some people wear their socks inside out because they think they will play better and some people wear the same shoes on a certain day because they believe it will give them good luck. There are athletes who listen to music and do a routine in a certain order believing that it is the magic to their game. Then there is me. The fun sucker. You know the one who believes the closest thing I have owned that would be considered a lucky charm would be cereal. Then my son reminded me that it would be his “lucky” day if there was a sugar cereal in the house. In fact, this was my son’s reaction upon walking in the pantry, “What on earth, you bought a sugar cereal?” ”I thought we were detoxing?” He totally believes the box of marshmallow goodness is taunting him while we are detoxing the sugar out of his system from his birthday sugar palooza. {Try to say that sentence 5 times fast}
When Melissa, from Simply Sweets by Honeybee asked me to be a part of this blog collaborative I was so excited. I am a huge fan of her blog and wanted to be a part of the collaborative. I jumped in with both feet. But then it hit me about a week later, I have never had a lucky charm. What on earth am I going to do? Am I going to be the wet blanket of the group? Should I drop out? But I decided not to. Do you know how those “lucky” little marshmallows came about? I sure didn’t. Did you know they represent stuff?
Lucky Charms was created in 1962 by John Holahan. He came up with the idea when he decided to mix Cheerios with bits of Brach’s Circus Peanuts. Originally the cereal was not sugar-coated and sales were low. Once they added sugar-coated oats the sales increased. Imagine that? Here is the line up of marshmallows in the box of lucky charms and what they represent:
- Hearts – power to bring things to life
- Shooting Stars – power to fly
- Horseshoes – power to speed things up
- Clovers – luck, but you will never know what kind of luck you’ll get
- Blue Moons – power of invisibility
- Rainbows – instantaneous travel from place to place
- Balloons – power to make things float
Now all I need them to do is add a piping bag marshmallow for when I am having a bad decoarating day.
Have fun popping over to some of my friend’s site’s and reading about their “Good Luck Charms” and the story behind them. You might find some fun surprises and a some cool ways that people view luck.
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Let me introduce myself, my name is Melissa Barbakoff and I have a passion for baking, nutrition and creating beautiful, edible gifts. I have loved to bake since I was a little girl but it wasn't until recently that it became a full time pursuit. The Baked Equation was born as a way to raise funds for our charity, Micah 6:8 Sudan. Our dream is to help train pastors and to build a sustainable farming community in Southern Sudan. So it all started with a "Bake Sale" and the sale has never quite ended. Sponsors
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