Dirt Brownies

I had left over dirt; well actually chocolate cookie crumbs. I made chocolate brownies for an Easter gathering. My six year old had fun spreading chocolate frosting on them and sprinkling the brownies with dirt AKA chocolate cookie crumbs.

I added some carrot sugar cookie I made and my three year old and six year old added gummy worms. My boys rarely get gummy anything. They were SUPER excited to eat some and add some worms to the dirt!

These Treats Look Amazing!

These look so yummy to me right now! Of course I looked at them minutes before lunch. If you want to win a sample package of Donsuemor goodies go to: New Age Mama!

Dirt Cookies

I made some spring sugar cookies. Usually I make carrots, bunnies, eggs and chicks. This year I still made the usual and added in some squares and circles.

There are cupcakes on Jolly Mom that inspired me to create my Dirt Cookies.

I crushed up chocolate cookies I bought. 

Next I took the circle and square sugar cookies, frosted them with chocolate frosting, dipped them in the crushed chocolate cookies. There dirt was easy to create. My three year old loved helping me.

I then frosted my carrot cookies. Instead of only adding orange frosting, I added some more chocolate cookie crumbs into the frosting. I used green frosting and grass sprinkles for the steam. The back of the carrot had a touch of chocolate frosting added, just so they would in fact stick. Then they were pressed into the circles and squares.

 
I thought with some I could have bought gummy worms to add to the tops. Not this time though.

Typography

I heart typography. It's truly an art form in my mind.

The TypographyShop is gives away a free tee on Fridays. That is only if they have 25 entrants. Please enter today!

Typography is an Artform!

I love typography, especially since I teach about it.

This site called Typography Shop .com is giving away a t-shirt every week as long as they get 25 + entries. Go here to enter.

I Scream For Ice Cream!

I've never tried Cold Stone Creamery. They do offer frozen yogurt if you are not into or can't eat ice cream.

I'd love to take my kids there sometime. New Age Mama is have a sweet giveaway going on for one winner to win a $20 GC to Cold Stone Creamery!

Very Cherry

Flirty Aprons are so sexy and cute! Mom Spotted is giving away one. If I were to win, I'd love their apron called Very Cherry!

Do you wear an apron in the kitchen? I do sometimes. Usually when it's a baking day.

Today I Made Heart Cupcakes

I took in my 2 nephews a lot this weekend. I wanted to make something Valentines{ish}. Since public schools do not allow homemade treats, I made them for the smaller boy's private preschool.

We decided to make Red Velvet Heart Cupcakes.

We piped in cream cheese frosting. Then we added chocolate frosting with a single chocolate chip. Each boy got to have one for a snack and there are plenty still for preschool. Win, win for everyone!

Want to Win a Valentines Package?

I do! I think this would be a great gift to my kids! What does it include?

• A fun Valentine’s Day heart box
• Iced honey vanilla heart cookies
• A complete assortment of Godiva truffles

How to win? Go to Mommy to the Max to enter!

Christmas Treats

My sugar cookie snowmen are always the first to go. This year I make some with cereal buttons and others with small m&m buttons. The nose is a small orange m&m cut up with a pill cutter. The eyes are brown m&ms cut into quarter pieces. The pill cutter works great!

Just a star sugar cookie with gold sprinkles,

 These chocolate malt cookies were the next to go. Some were hesitant. They are not as Christmas(y) as the snowmen. They certainly have the flavor!

The chocolate roll out cookies are fun to. The first year that I made them I decorated them a lot. My sister's and mom sampled them and said they taste better plain. I just added a blob of chocolate frosting and added a pearl sprinkle to the angles and an m&m to the others.

I love orange slices. Since it was Christmas time, I went for the cherry slices. They taste really good dipped in dark chocolate melt. This is probably the easiest thing I made. It totally added color to the dessert table.

The round pretzels taste good with dark chocolate melt poured in them and a single mint chocolate kiss. Just don't put them on too fast. They can melt and make a mess.

These pre-bitten Gingerbread Boys were fun to make. My sister bought me cookie cutter Gingerbread Men a few years ago. One has an arm off, another has a foot off and the last one has his head off. They are fun, but I think they look best on a plate full of them. Then people get the humor of them.

I also made Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls. I guest posted about them here. They are so good made with Coconut Oil! I also loved them dipped in dark chocolate!

KitchenAid

I remember when I was registering to get married, I didn't have a KitchenAid mixer on my list. My Aunt said, "Alissa you need to have one of those." She convinced me that I needed one. It's one of my top items in my kitchen. I make breads, cookies, cakes and bars with this thing.

Mom Spotted is giving away one $550 KitchenAid Mixer!

Thanksgiving Day Parade

We have Christmas in November with my husband's side of the family. I decided to make some Thanksgiving cookies to take on our journey.

Meet Mr. Tom Turkey: 

He was so easy to make. I love how I found one last bag of candy corn on clearance! I totally think they should sell them into Thanksgiving time! The colors totally say, "Halloween" and "Thanksgiving"!

Not my forte, but my husband says that part of Thanksgiving is about football. So I made some footballs for this Turkey day.

Reindeer Food

It looks like I have a few more carrot cookies to make! I have to cover all the reindeer!

This was my Grandma's giant plate. It has all kind of scratches in it that I rubber stamped out of the first image. I just love the plate {scratches and all}! 

These are now in my freezer waiting to be set out on Christmas Eve for Santa's reindeer.

I Heart Wilton Even More

Want to win this prize package by Wilton?

I do! I just love Wilton! They have such creative ideas. This is indeed the time of year I like to bake.

You can win this at Baby Loving Mama!

I Heart Wilton!

Do you want to win all this stuff?

You can win all this from Wilton by going to Mom Spotted to enter! This is the time of year for baking! The oven warms up your house.