Maybe it's the fact that I just had surgery so I knew there wasn't a chance of a baby or maybe it's that I've been very focused elsewhere but this year seemed very different. Could it be I'm maturing a bit and I'm not having a bunch of pity parties over things I can't control? Hopefully. Life is to short to constantly feel that down.
Surgery went well. I still look a bit like frankenstien but that's okay. I expected I would. I get my stitches out tomorrow and I'm sooooooooooo ready for that to happy. They hurt and itch and just make my face not happy to look at. I've decided to wait until July to do my other eye. I want a lot of healing to happen and I need to go back to work for a bit before my next round of mandatory time off hits.
Anyway, part of why I wanted to post, I wanted to share my little mother's day project I did. I'm reviving my love of cake decorating. So here are some sunflower cupcakes I made to brighten the day up a bit.
These goofy rays of happy are so easy to make. I want to share with anyone who reads this just how fun it is. Maybe some of you could do it with your kids or who knows. :)
The supplies you'll need are:
Cupcakes (duh I know.0
Oreo cookies
Red m&ms or orange reeces pieces
vanilla frosting.
About 1/2 cup yellow
About 1/2 cup green
About 1/4 cup black
A piping bag with a leaf tip. This is for the yellow frosting.
A piping bag with a writing tip. This is for the black frosting.
(note: they make a spray can with the tips included in various colors. These will also work just make sure you are using the correct tip.)
First bake your cupcakes. Any flavor will do. These happen to be orange. It just seemed to fit with the bright nature of the decorations. Frost the cupcake with green frosting. Then break apart the sandwiched oreo cookies. It doesn't matter if the white filling stays on a particular side. You can scrape it off if you want but I don't think it was necessary.
Place the oreo flat on the cupcake with the oreo writing up. It may look funny to you at first but it gives a little texture and fun to the project. Then taking the yellow leaf tip pipe around the outside band of the cookie little petals. Then do a second row more inside of the cookie just off balance of the first row.
Now take your black frosting and writing tip and pipe a bit of frosting anywhere on the cupcake or flower. Then take either your m&m or reeces candy and place it on the spot you piped. Using your black frosting draw a line down the middle of the candy and put dots on either side to make a lady bug.
Top off with some colored sugar and wa-la!
I cleaned a potting plant and put some of the cupcakes in those as a gift. I only had paper towels on hand but you could use some tissue paper and it would be really pretty. Another thing I didn't have but would make it really cute is green colored cupcake liners.
Hello easy visiting teaching gift, neighbor gift, or fun family home evening project right?
The total time it took me to do this from starting my mix to taking the picture was about a hour and a half. Not to bad. :)
Hope you all had a great day too!
Heather
