Last month I made my own colored pasta as an experiment, and I have to say it turned out AMAZING! I knew I wanted to have a stockpile of craft "stuff" for rainy days and times when I just couldn't get out of the house. Well that time came when our kitchen floor had to be replaced. I plugged Christopher into his chair and gave him a lesson on patterns, sorting, counting and necklace making! All in all... a success!
I also had to make a dessert for my bunco group! This was the first one I had been to in a while when I wasn't HUGE pregnant! So I decided it was time to put some effort into it! The theme was St. Patrick's Day so I made rainbow cupcakes! They turned out so awesome! Everyone at the party thought they were regular cupcakes until they peeled them open! For all of you asking me to show you how I did it... here you go! Complete with help from my little monster!
Here is what you will need. I use icing food coloring because it is VERY bright and doesn't water down the batter!
Cupcake Monster!
I used plastic cups to keep from dirtying so many dishes.
Follow the recipe as per the directions and then separate evenly between the six cups.
Start adding your coloring to the desired brightness.
For some reason I didn't take a picture of the next step, but basically I spooned a little bit of each color into each muffin cup. REMEMBER to start with purple and work backwards or you will end up with backwards rainbows like this one.
I iced them and topped each one with a golden chocolate coin.
And VIOLA! Rainbow cupcakes! And the were a huge hit!
Nana sent Christopher and I a set of 101 cookie cutters. YES you read correctly. 101!!!! We were so excited we just had to make salt dough crafts to break em in! Christopher is really getting into helping me in the kitchen, which I LOVE! So here you go! I mixed the dough and rolled out the first set and then after that, I let him go to town!
