My Little Pony Party

With a bit of creativity you can make cookies of any character you like.  My daughter loves My Little Pony so I copied several designs, one with wings and one without. 

I cut the picture out, placed it on the unbaked cookie dough and then cut around it and baked it as usual.  This is how the cookies came out of the oven.

Then I outlined the main areas in edible marker so the children have a guide for icing.

The hardest part about making the cookie look like a My Little Pony is the eye.  As you can see on all of my cookie designs, I’m no artist!! If I can make the cookie look like a pony, so can any child over the age of about 4 or 5.  A younger child will still have fun, but the older the child; the more realistic the pony will look.

Winged Ponies - Rainbow Dash

Fluttershy

Unicorns and Earth Ponies

I followed the same process for the other ponies.

Rarity

Pinkie Pie

With these templates your child can create their favorite pony even if it’s not shown above.  They can even let their creativity run wild and create a pony from their own imagination. 

For older children they can make the Equestria Girl to match their four legged pony.  These are much harder to make look good, but still a lot of fun.  By printing the faces they look like Equestria girls, even if their clothes aren’t perfect.

Rainbow Dash

Fluttershy

Rarity

Pinky Pie

Every Pony needs a cupcake with their ‘cutie mark’ made from icing!

Rainbow Dash

Fluttershy

Pinkie Pie

Rarity

Or they can just make a Royal cupcake with a crown or star of their own design topping it.

Easy Easter Bunny Cupcakes

I’m going to make these cupcakes for my daughters class as they are so quick and easy, and use Peeps, which every child seems to love!

Take a chocolate cupcake (so it looks like dirt) and cut the center out with a knife.

Make sure you leave enough cupcake around the edge so you can ice it with green icing to look like grass.  Save the cupcake that you cut out.


Rough ice around the whole in the cupcake with green icing and then pop the rabbit in the hole. 

Crumble some of the left over cupcake center around the rabbit to look like dirt it’s burrowed up.

Then because I love sprinkles I added a few flowers around the rabbit and a butterfly on it’s ear. 

They were really quick and easy so they make the perfect cupcakes for a class party.

Monster Cupcakes

You don’t have to have anything fancy to have fun with cupcakes, just cupcakes, icing and some candy.  My children are pretty good at icing with a spoon now and we were having a ‘monster’ day, so we decided to make monster cupcakes.

Tootsie roll horns, M&M eyes and banana runt horns created this monster.

M&Ms, banana runts and a candy melt made this friendly looking monster.

Hershey’s kisses and M&Ms made the monster below, but give your children any kind of candy and some icing, and they will come up with wonderfully creative things.

Baby Shower Cookies

My project last weekend was making 7 dozen baby shower cookies for sister of two of my favorite people.  I just about gave myself carpel tunnel with all the piping I had to do, and although some of the cookies weren’t as perfect as I’d have liked, the overall impression was cute.  Most importantly they tasted great.

Making Cupcakes Cute

I saw the suggestion in a Martha Stewart cupcake book to cut out pictures, stick them on toothpicks and use them as cupcake toppers.  I’m very lucky because I have a Cricut so I can custom cut shapes to top my cupcakes with, but you could just as easily cut out pictures from wrapping paper or print out clip art to use instead.  These were for the dinosaur party I hosted recently.

Also at Christmas I couldn’t find any Christmas sprinkles that tasted good enough to serve on cupcakes for adults so I cut out ‘Merry Christmas’ and some Christmas trees and used those as toppers and they looked just a bit different from your regular cupcakes.

Swirly Iced Cupcakes

If you ever have several colors of icing left over and you can’t be bothered to wash out your piping bag, don’t.  If you just keep filling the piping bag without cleaning out the previous color it looks so pretty.  My camera makes the colors look much brighter than they actually were but the cupcakes made a really cute display.