Christmas Chocolate and Peppermint Mini Cupcakes - December 2014

Why did I make an army of mini cupcakes you ask?  Well... we gave some to my daughter Carissa's two teachers.  My husband took some to one of his clients at work and used some for part of his gift he was bringing for a gift exchange at work.  We gave our good friends a container of them, and a container of them went to a bake sale my son's band was having.  We kept the extra ones for us to enjoy at home and to share with family.  In total there were 114 mini cupcakes!

The next two pictures were taken before I put the leaves on the cupcakes with the red sixlets on them, but the first one shows the cute part of the white cupcake liners.  It gets hidden when you use them. 😕  These pictures also show the cupcakes with the white and green sixlets on them a little closer and better.  And of course you could choose not to put the leaves on and just leave it topped with the red sixlet.

I put the cupcakes in some plastic Christmas themed containers and attached little peppermint labels that I'd made to the lids.

Everyone loved the cupcakes!  Yay!  😄

More details coming soon... 😊

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Have a Holly Jolly Christmas Cupcake - December 2014

I made these chocolate and peppermint holly berry cupcakes for my husband to give to his employees for a Christmas treat.  

All boxed and ready to go!

I had some batter left so I made some for us to have at home and share with family.  I used some poinsettia cupcake liners that my sister Valerie had bought me, and I played around with some different decorations for these.

More details to come... :)

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Homemade Christmas Cookies - December 2013

My son's band was doing a Christmas cookie sale at one of their concerts.  I made the music note cookies (and some of the circle ones) for the fundraiser, and then I used some of the extra cookie dough to make some Christmas cookies for home.

To make the cookies I just followed a recipe for cut-out sugar cookies.  After the dough was mixed, I separated it into two bowls.  I used green food coloring to make the dough in one bowl green, and I used red food coloring for the other.

For the music note cookies I took red and green cookie dough and rolled them into fat snakes.  Then, alternating the colors, I put them together and rolled them out into a long strip.  I used a music note cutter to cut the notes out of the striped dough.  

After I got all the notes I could cut out of my striped dough, I gathered it up and rolled it out again.  The  notes on the top row (below) were cut from that dough, and they had more of a marbled look.  I also cut out some circles and stars to finish getting our amount of cookies we needed to bring.

The cookies below are what I made with the remaining dough.  I used some cutters and did some freehand.  For some (like the wreath) I treated the cookie dough like Play-Doh, rolling it into balls or snakes to make the various cookies or cookie parts.

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For the candy cane cookies below I made a long snake of red and a long snake of green, twisted them together, and then formed the twist into the shape of a candy cane.

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Merry Christmas!

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