Cinnabunnies - Bunny Shaped Cinnamon Rolls

 

This idea is all over Pinterest and I just loved it. But what I don't love? When I click on a picture on Pinterest and it takes me no where! It just goes to the picture. I want the website and a tutorial on how to make said awesome idea. Ugh! So I had to click on a TON of pictures on Pinterest before I finally found the source of this.  Thank you to the one person who actually pinned the website and not just the picture!

So, what are they?  Cinnabunnies!  Cinnamon Roll Bunnies!  Thanks to Betty Crocker for this "pinspiration"!  =o)

What you will need:

* packaged cinnamon rolls from a tube.  I bought the big ones.  I would recommend buying the regular sized ones that have 8 in a can.  That will make 4 Cinnabunnies.

* raisins or M&Ms for the eyes

* almond slivers for the teeth

Keep one cinnamon roll intact and place it on a silpat or cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Unroll one of the cinnamon rolls and make ears.  Once you shaped the ears, make sure you pinch them to the head.

I didn't have any raisins for the eyes so I used M&Ms.  (No complaining from this house.)  But I didn't have anything for the teeth.  Crud.  Slivered almonds are not something I keep around my house.

 

 

Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes. 

Once they are cooled, frost the ears and give them a little sprinkling of sugar.

 

 

Mine aren't nearly as cute as the ones on the Betty Crocker website.  I'm going to blame it on the fact that I used Grands Cinnamon Rolls.  Yep.  That's what I'm sticking too =o)  But the kids didn't care.  They loved them!

There you go.  The perfect Easter treat!

 

Looking for other fun Easter treats to make?  How about:

 

Carrot Patch Cookies

 

 

Easter Egg Hunt Cookies

 

 

Brownies Baked in an Egg Shell

 

 

These Dye-ving Dudes are so much fun to make with the kids!

 

 

 

 

 

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Spring Time Candy Holders

 

I saw this idea years ago and thought it was pretty cute. Simple (which always catches my attention) and different. It's a candy holder. Cute, right?

 

I bought these little feeders at Wilco. Yep, you read that right. Feeders! They are chicken (or chick) feeders. At least I think that's what they are called. I'm not really a country, farm animal girl. Don't get me wrong.  I'll take a good looking cowboy anyday =o)  But knowing my way around a feed store is totally foreign to me.  So you should be proud of me for knowing what these bad boys even are.

 

Back to the candy holders...  You can buy them in plain metal (or is it aluminum?  Dang.  See?  I know nothing.)  And then you can spray paint them all sorts of fun colors.  Or you can buy these plastic ones in fun, Spring time colors.  We went for the plastic ones.   

 

 

They come with a plastic container thing.  (It's all so scientific in my house.)  But you can also use a canning jar if you want it smaller and/or clear. 

 

 

Take them home and clean them.  (You never know what strange farm animal nosed their way around them.  It's a feed store after all.  And then fill them with your favorite candy.  We went with Easter M&Ms because they were so pretty.  My daughter, of course, wanted hers to be filled with gum balls.

 

 

Mine is going on my desk at work.  The kids at my work will love it!

 

 

 

 

 

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Edible Easter Baskets

I'm always looking for fun ideas of things to make for teacher gifts.  Nothing huge, but little "you are awesome" type gifts so they know how much we appreciate them.  This was perfect.  Easy (super easy) and fun and made of candy.  Is there anything better?

Edible Easter Baskets

Source: Mrs. Happy Homemaker

* glue gun

* card stock

* 4 boxes (or bags) of Easter type candy

* Easter "grass" or shredded paper

* Easter candy to fill baskets with

You can either tape the boxes together or use a hot glue gun.  I opted for the hot glue gun because it's so darn strong.  If I had used bags of candy, though, I might have used packing tape.

Glue the boxes together.  When the glue dries, flip over the box and tape a piece of card stock on the bottom.  You don't want everything falling out =o)

I cut a piece of card stock to use as a handle and glued that in place as well.

Now fill with whatever you would like.  You can make it as full and elaborate as you want.  We just wanted a little Happy Easter Basket (nothing huge) so we just did this.

What do you think?  If one of my students brought me something like this I think I would probably feint.  My students don't bring me treats =o(  The joys of being a school counselor.

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Funny Bunny Nutter Butter Cookie Pops

Normally when I look at Sue's blog I sit back and think "Man, why can't I do that?!"  She is amazing and so talented when it comes to baking and decorating the cutest cookies ever.  Then I saw this post and thought "holy smokes, I can do that!"  I was so excited!  I'm always looking for fun treats to make for my kids (and some of my co-workers.)  These were perfect.

Funny Bunny Nutter Butter Cookie Pops 

Source: Munchkin Munchies

* Nutter Butter Cookies

* Vanilla bark

* Popsicle sticks

* pink M&Ms

* black food marker

Melt the vanilla bark following the directions on the package.  (I cut it up into small pieces and microwave it in 30 second bursts, stirring after each one, until it's smooth.)

Open the Nutter Butter cookies and place a blob of the white chocolate on the end of a Popsicle stick.  Place it on the inside of the cookie and place the other cookie on top to close.  Let the chocolate cool.  (This keeps the stick from falling out.)

 

Holding onto the Popsicle stick, dip the cookie into the melted chocolate.  Tap off any excess.  Add a pink M&M for the nose.  You can place the sticks at this point in a styrofoam block.  I just layed them on a piece of waxed paper to harden.

 

When the chocolate is hard, use your black food marker and draw on a cute bunny mouth.  Mine aren't as cute as Sue's but my kids loved them!

 

You can add a bow with a glue dot or a small dab of melted chocolate or tie a ribbon around the stick.

Aren't the adorable?!
 

Enjoy!

 

 

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Fun Easter Cards

My friend and I got together to make cards again. Making cards = therapy.

Here's the amazing Easter card she brought for me to make. I just LOVE it!!!

My daughter and I had some fun with our Cricut machine over spring break and this is the Easter card we made for family.   Simple but cute.

Do you send out cards for Easter?

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A Great Treat For My Egg-Cellent Teacher

What better way to say thank you to your teacher than with chocolate. Seriously. I work in a school. Chocolate it always good =o)

I found these great printable labels over on Detail-Oriented Diva. I love when I can find printables because I'm so not capable to creating anything like this.

My kids filed up plastic eggs with Easter candy and put them in an egg carton. 

We tied on a ribbon and added a tag.  Viola!  Some treats for an Egg-Sellent Teacher!  Cool, right? 

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Fun Easter Lunch for the Kids

I had all these grand plans to do great things this Easter. Some of them got done but a lot of them are still in my "to do" pile. Crud. At 6am when I was getting ready to pack my kid's lunch for school I remembered I wanted to pack their lunch a little differently. Lame-o planning on my part. I quickly checked out my recyclables in the garage (for craft projects, of course) and found 2 egg cartons. I filled the egg cartons with plastic Easter eggs and filled each egg with a small portion of my kid's lunch.

I made a pb&j sandwich and cut it into small cubes. A peeled cutie orange in a couple of eggs. Two quarters went into one egg for them to buy milk. A few pieces of candy for dessert went into a few eggs and a couple of potato chips.

I wasn't sure what my kids would think. But at this point I'm thinking this looks pretty cool.

When I dropped my kids off at before school CARE my daughter went into her backpack to get out her notebook. She looked up and had this strange look on her face and asked "what's this?" I told her it was er lunch and she screamed "NO WAY!" and then threw her arms around me. I can't believe I almost didn't do this thinking I didn't have the time. Yeah!

Wouldn't your kids love to sit at the table on Easter as you served them breakfast or lunch in this?  Thank you Gluesticks for this great idea!

Happy Easter!

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Chocolate Pastel Mint Cookies

I saw these on Pinterest before Christmas and immediately pinned it. Don't they look yummy? I just love, love, love those pastel mints. I have only seen them at the Pepperidge Farm stores but my co-worker tells me they are available in the store. But I've never seen them =o(

They were delicious!  I mean seriously - how can you go wrong with chocolate and mint, right?  And perfect for Easter (I thought.)

Chocolate Pastel Mint Cookies
Source: Land o Lakes

* 1 cup sugar
* 1/2 cup butter, softened
* 1 egg
* 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
* 1 1/2 cups flour
* 1/2 cup unsweetend cocoa
* 1/4 tsp. baking powder
* 1/4 tsp. baking soda
* small pastel mint kisses

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

Combine sugar and butter and beat in mixer for about 5 minutes.  Add egg and vanilla.  On low, add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.  Beat until combined.

Shape dough into 1 inch balls and place about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 9-11 minutes or until set.  When done, set pastel mint kisses on top of each cookies and transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Enjoy!

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M&M Cookie Cups

Whenever I go to my Dad's I bring treats.  He loves them and I love baking for him!  I wanted to make something Eastery but not too complicated.  I love all the Easter cookies out there but I'm not a decorator (sigh.)  I wish I were but it's sooooo hard and I don't have the patience to do all that work.  So this is what we made.... M&M Cookie Cups from Something Swanky.  I used the Easter M&Ms to make them look more springy.  I think they are cute.  (Is a cookie cute???)

M&M Cookie Cups
Source: Something Swanky

* 1 cup butter, softened
* 3/4 cup sugar
* 1 tsp. salt
* 2 tsp. vanilla
* 2 cups flour
* melting chocolate
* M&Ms

Cream the butter and sugar in a stand mixer.  Gradually add the salt, vanilla and flour.  Scoop by teaspoons into a mini muffin pan.

Push the middle down with your thumb to make a well.

Bake in a 300 degree oven for 20 minutes.

Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30 second intervals.  I put mine in a zip lock bag to melt.  Then cut a small piece of the corner off and it's easy to squeeze out. 

When the cookies are done, let cool slightly.  Fill the wells with chocolate and top with M&Ms.  Let cool completely before eating.  Delish!

And... because I can't leave well enough alone... ever!  I loved the chocolate but I wanted something that didn't completely harden.  So we used chocolate buttercream frosting =o) 

Enjoy!



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