Candy Corn Mousse

Throwing a little get together tonight? Then I have the perfect last minute Halloween treat for you! These Candy Corn Mousse Cups are not only decadent, but adorable too!

Ingredients
1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
½  cup powdered sugar
¼ cup milk or cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 small container (8 oz.) Cool Whip, thawed
orange and yellow food color
candy corn
Directions
Beat cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer until fully smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar, add milk and then vanilla. Continue mixing about 1 minute on medium speed. Fold cool whip into cream cheese mixture; stir until fully combined.  Scoop about 1/3 of the cheesecake mousse into a bowl; mix with orange food coloring. Color another third of the mixture yellow. Leave the remaining third white. Beginning with the yellow mousse, pipe or spoon the mixture into each glass. Repeat with the orange and white. Garnish with candy corn.
Yield: 8 mini servings.

 Source: Glorious Treats

Hello Kitty Macaroon time!

These unbelievably kawaii Macaroons come to us via www.i-heart-baking.blogspot.com

Sure, they look easy, but i'm sure that's not the case! I'll have to try these out for myself one day. 

They are too cute to resist!

"I thought about using cocoa powder to create Hello Kitty's face, but in the end I drew on the eyes, nose, and whiskers with edible "Foodwriter" pens.  And for the bow, I attached heart-shaped sprinkles (glued on with a dab of the filling).

I loved the end result.  I only wished that I had made more!  Next time, I will make an entire batch of these!"

source

DIY: make your own Hello Kitty cookie cutters / stencils

You can search high and you can search low, but sometimes the cookie cutter you want is simply not in existence.

Making your own custom shaped cookie stencil is pretty self-explanatory and I’m sure there are plenty of ways to do it, but here’s a quick step-by-step, peppered with one or two wisdoms I’ve gained from some failed and ugly cookies.

 

For this cookie, I only wanted her head. Sorry Kitty, may your soul rest in peace.

When I don’t conveniently have the physical printed image of a shape I want to make on hand, I just turn off all the lights in the room and trace an image straight off of my laptop screen.  A regular 8.5″ x 11″ paper does just fine, but cardstock is too thick.

It’s also important that you back your stencil with cardstock or some other thick paper so that you can lean your knife against it the edge without it crinkling up and generally #$!@ ing it all up.

Going around the edge of the stencil, I like to STAB, not DRAG the knife.  The dough tends to stick to the tip of the knife and dragging causes little rips in the dough (see below). Stabbing results in a much cleaner cut.

The top kitty was dragged. The bottom kitty was stabbed.  Sorry for the morbid descriptions.

You would think small imperfections like that would disappear in the oven, but it it doesn’t.  You can always try to smooth the edges with your fingers before they go in the oven, but I like to take preventative measures against tedious tasks like that.

 

And there it is!

tutorial courtesy of  bake greek

Tea Time Cupcakes

 

 

photo source unknown. sassyNpunk does not claim ownership of the above images.

rainbow pudding fun!

Is this the most fun pudding you've ever seen, or what? Who wouldn't love eating this...but it's almost too pretty to eat! Super cute recipe for Double Rainbow Pudding below:

 

Ingredients

1  5.1 oz box vanilla instant pudding, prepared per package directions
red, yellow, blue, green and purple liquid food coloring
whipped topping and rainbow sprinkles, for garnish 

 

 

Directions

1. Separate the prepared pudding into 6 individual bowls.

2. Add 2 drops of food coloring to each bowl to make the rainbow colors. For orange, use one drop yellow and one drop red.

3. Layer the pudding by adding 2 tbsp of the first pudding color into four small, thin parfait glasses (about 8 oz volume works well). Tap the bottom of your parfait glass gently on the counter after each layer to make the layer flatten. Repeat with remaining pudding colors.

4. Refrigerate per the pudding package directions, until fully set.

5. Immediately before serving, top with whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles.

 

 

 Courtesy of www.tablespoon.com

Lucky Charms Cookies

This is a really cute idea i found on www.cuteeverything.com . I can't believe I never thought of this before! These are just simple sugar cookies covered in colored sanding sugar. What a great idea!  

Pretty Cupcakes

blueberry waffle cupcake - available from Jellytots & Dollymixtures

 birthday cupcake - available from New York Cupcakes

Valentines Day cupcake - available from New York Cupcakes

wrapper available from Bella Cupcake Couture 

 anti Valentines Day - available from Mom and pops

all images provided by Cupcakes Take the Cake