Krispie Treat Christmas Trees

1511000_10152620994798248_6070309528705059267_nSimple – us your hands with food safe gloves and use oil to coat. Mold the Green Krispie Rice mixture around ice cream cone (died by adding food coloring to butter and marshmallows). When the mixture has dried use icing to make garland and M&M’s for ornaments. These can be added to a gingerbread house landscape or on top of cupcakes.

Gingerbread Men Cupcakes

63463_734382249987724_3566914932014110287_nWhat a creative idea. Bake chocolate cupcakes and attach circle (for head) and two arms of a gingerbread cookie to it with chocolate frosting. Colorful and your guests will love it.

Marshmallow Snowmen Christmas Cupcakes

1958531_10154826106915094_8576458493085774230_nThese are super easy to make and look and taste so good! Make chocolate cupcakes (or any flavor that is your favorite) and ice with frosting. The above shows two versions one is left alone at this point and the other is now topped with coconut. Shown is a snowman melting and a full snowman for ideas.

For melting snowman: Use a pretzel stick and insert into the bottom of a marshmallow and insert into cupcake. Add black icing for eyes, mouth and arms. Use green icing for buttons and orange for nose.

For full snowman: Use a pretzel to join two (one small and the other large) marshmallows together and insert another one in the bottom of the largest and insert into cupcake. Top with fondant icing hat (and make one with icing). Add pretzels for arms, red liquorice for scarf. Use black icing for eyes and mouth, Orange icing for nose and blue for buttons.

This is a lot of fun and the kids can help you make each one have its own individual personality.

Valentines Day / Halloween Devilish Cupcakes

1004093_401012536736295_1432199126_nSimply devils food cake or red velvet cake cupcakes made in red cupcake liners topped with red frosting and make horns from frosting or fondant.

Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes

1396962_621732474539941_1862622456_oThese turkey cupcakes are so cool to make for Thanksgiving and even though they look like a whole lot of time went into them it was simpler then you think.

~Make you favorite cupcakes and cool.

~Melt candy melts or chocolate chips and dip top of cupcakes into it and allow to harden. (If you use chocolate chips are a small spoonful of corn syrup to make the chocolate easier to work with.)

~The head – the picture shows fondant being used but lets use half of a Nutter Butter cookie dipped into the melted chocolate and then leave to dry on the side.

~Start with yellow icing and make a rippled edging along one half of the cupcake. When done squeeze the icing back into a bowl and add more coloring to that icing to get layers of yellow, yellow-orange, orange, orange-red, red, and a maroon color (by adding a very small amount of black or purple food coloring to the red).

~Top with Nutter Butter cookie that has pipped eyes, nose and goblet.

Would be great for an extra special treat for your Thanksgiving dinner party – the kids will especially love them.