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Chuck – Angry Birds Cookies Tutorial

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If you’ve followed me for any time at all you know I love making cute sugar cookies for themed parties, they are easy to personalize to any theme, and taste great!  The kids love them.

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When deciding which bird got to be what food the shape of the birds played a big part.  The triangle shape of Chuck didn’t lend itself to a ton of options, but was perfect for cookies!  And who doesn’t have a triangle shapped cookie cutter??? oh right, me… I used a house shaped cookie cuter I had and cut the roof off!  You can find my recipe for sugar cookies and frosting on my bumble bee sugar cookie post.

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So after they were all baked and cooled I made the frosting.  To get black I add some dark cocoa powder to the frosting and then add black powder food dye.  Also I work in VERY small batches for the black(this is a half batch and I had a TON left over), you don’t need a lot since we’re just piping the outlines.  notice I offset the triangle outline a bit, that’s to leave room for the hair and tail tufts!  (I used a tip 5)

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Once that was dry I added the beak shape and eye shape, leaving the eye’s open as Chuck doesn’t have black eyebrows!  Also no pupil, yet.  Once your done with the black there will be more left, we want to use it again, but we don’t want it to dry out, so wrap a damp paper towel around the tip, and place it in a ziplock back to keep it from drying out.

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An even smaller batch of the frosting in red, (actually I had leftover red candy melts after diping all of the “Red’s oreo pops” so I used that, but it was a MAJOR pain, it would be too runny, or too hard, I don’t recommend it) pipe on some thick red eyebrows!  I  used another tip 5 and just squeezed more, but a larger tip would work too.

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Now make another batch of the frosting, this time thinned out (thinning directions on the airplane cookie post) and fill in the eyes, and create a soft tummy.

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And now dye the rest of the batch yellow and color flow fill in the rest of the triangle (leaving only the beak left) the airplane cookie post has more step by step images of this smooth color flow technique.

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Dye the rest of the thinned icing orange (just add some red to the yellow) and fill in the beaks!  Take the black you had to the side, squeeze out a bit (it will be wetter near the tip where you had the damp paper towel) and then pipe on little dots for the eyes!  Voila, your done!  These take a bit longer because of the dry time, but they are always a hit and make a great impression!

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See the rest of the Angry Bird’s Party
Invitations
Angry Birds Cake
Chuck’s Cookies
Red’s Oreo Pops
Matilda’s Cake Pops
Full Angry Bird’s party and printables

Red – Angry Birds Oreo Pops Tutorial

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Yesterday Lego Boy turned 8!  EIGHT! I can’t even believe it, I have 3 kids over eight, insanity I tell you.  Anyway we threw his party the last day of school to try to *up” attendance.  Because we attend a charter school so many of the kids live far away that we don’t often get very many kids at the parties.   So throwing them at a park near the school seems to help.

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Instead of another Lego themed party this year he picked “Angry Birds”, no real shock. So I came up with foods representing the 5 first, or main, birds (there are like 9 now) and the pigs and went from there. Today I’m sharing the first one, Red’s (did you know the birds all have names?) Oreo Pops!

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These are really simple!  Start with double stuffed oreos (easier to get the stick to stay in with the extra filling) and shove a lollipop stick inside (whatever length you want).  If they break when you push the stick in just toss them and move onto another cookie.  Add the hair (licorice laces) and then dip them into red candy melts, shake it off a bit and move fairly quickly…

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I have all the rest of the parts ready to go at this point for easy access, candy eyes, more licorice laces pre cut into various sizes and yellow M&M’s cut in half with kitchen scissors!

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So working while the Candy coating is still wet add the eye’s, eyebrows and beak… then add the last bit, the tail!  I work in an assembly line, first putting in the hair and sticks on all the oreos, then dipping, shake, eyes/eyebrows/beaks and tails on each one.  Some turned out better than others, but for the most part they all look pretty similar!

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Lego Boy loved these, I have done cake pop’s in the past, but these were my first oreo pops, I did have some trouble with the sticks coming out of some.  I ended up taking some apart, dipping the stick in the candy melts, placing them in the center and closing them again, letting them cool before dipping.

See the rest of the Angry Bird’s Party
Invitations
Angry Birds Cake
Chuck’s Cookies
Red’s Oreo Pops
Matilda’s Cake Pops
Full Angry Bird’s party and printables

Baby Boy’s 18 Month Pictures

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Baby Boy is actually already 20 months old, but I totally spaced sharing these pictures!  We took them the week before his big 18 month birthday!  I sound like a broken record, but I seriously can’t get over how fast the time has gone!   If anyone finds a “slow down the growth” machine I’d love it.

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Thank you again to my AMAZING photographer – Chelsea Peterson Photography – who also happens to be my lovely baby sister, and an incredible aunt to my kids.  Not everyone takes the time to know and love my Aspies, to see the strengths in them, so I appreciate it so much.
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History of Civilization Cake – architecture

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Back in the Fall my college attending cousin called and asked if I would teach her some cake decorating (yes I’m the oldest of all my cousins, I have 3 cousins younger than my 2 oldest children)! I always love teaching AND spending time with family! So I was really excited. She was taking “history of Civilization” and wanted an awesome final project. So we had a few basic informal classes, worked out a design and this is what we came up with!

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It got a bit bigger than we were first thinking but I LOVE the way it turned out. She decided to focus on architecture, which is good because she was leaning towards religion at first and i have NO idea how I’d translate that to a cake design! But buildings we could do!
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