The Rainbow Cake FINALLY!

The kids and I were FINALLY able to try our hand at this gorgeous dessert! I made it for the Easter celebration we had with my Mom's side of the family. The kids and I had a BLAST!

I used box cake mix for a WHITE cake and then seperated the batter into 6 bowls.

I used one bowl for each color. The kids really had fun mixing these. It was like magic watching the colors appear!

After all the colors were mixed I took my greased round cake pan and took a ladle (sp?) of red and scooped it into the middle of the pan. Then I went on to the next color. You put each color right on top of each other, they spread out on their own. I ended up being able to do two rounds of this, just kept piling it all on top of the other.

Then I just followed the directions on the box for baking and after the cake was cooled I frosted it with cool whip so it looked like a big fluffy cloud!

When we sliced the cake it was SO neat to see how the colors actually STAYED seperate! You would think that by slopping them all on top of each other they would get mixed up but they didn't.

Everyone just kept raving about how gorgeous and bright and YUMMY it was! It's just a simple white cake people! But my Nana even said, that even though it shouldn't taste any different the colors somehow really add to the taste! HEHEHE I am so not a good cook and defintely not a good baker so it just tickles me so to make a tasty treat for all my family to enjoy.

We will DEFINTELY be making this one again! I'm thinking Lakers! Fourth of July! Zebra! The possibilities are endless!

I am SO making this!

Photo Courtesy of Hostess With the Mostess Blog

I can not wait to try my hand at this amazing cake! I'm thinking St Patrick's Day? If I can wait that long! You can find even MORE gorgeous pictures and a tutorial over at the Hostess with the Mostess blog.

Hug-a-Boos

I got this recipe from Becky Higgins. She calls them Pretzel Hugs and I did make them last Christmas if you'll remember. I decided to make them this week when I saw the new Halloween M&Ms and their fabulous colors! Then I came up with the cute name :) BOOS get it hahaha So cute :)

And since I'm SO nice, here's the recipe for all of you (in case you don't wanna click over and search Ms. Higgins' site :) ):

• The ingredients are pretzels (the twisted kind), Hershey's Hugs, m&ms, and 2 adorable helpers!
• I always cover my cookie sheets with foil - a fabulous tip from my fabulous mother - it cuts down on clean up lemme tell ya!
• Preheat oven to about 200 degrees or so
• Lay out your pretzels, leave a lil room in between em - be sure to eat the broken ones!
• Then top pretzels - right in the center - with 1 HUG
• Put in the over just until the HUGs are soft
• Top with 1 or 2 m&ms
• Cool in fridge for a few hours**

**This is a very important step! The HUGs need to re-harden so setting them out on the counter will not suffice!

There ya go! I'd love to hear if any of you try this recipe! :) Enjoy!

MMM COOKIES

**Still working on adding pics to my previous post**

I also got this from my mother in law on Mother's Day and I can NOT wait to use it!

The dedication reads "To the Cookie Monster in each of us". Isn't that darling!

Baking Day!

Can't believe I am BARELY getting around to posting these pics! Sister was a VERY big helper to me this day. The hubs helped a bit too for sure, and Brother too but he was mostly interested in taste testing! :) I made 7 different goodies and filled 10 plates - 1 for us and 9 others for gifts to some family & friends. That's alot of cookies!!!!! They were all very yummy though if I do say so myself!

The ingredients!!!

Snowman Droppings

Smores Cookies
Drum Cookies

Sister helping me out
These are called Pretzel Hugs LOVE THEM!
Tex-Mex Snack Mix - SPICY!
Brother helped out too
The finished products
I sent recipes of all the treats too :) I'd be happy to share with any of you if you're interested!

I didn't get pics of my Rocky Road fudge, Peppermint Chews, or snickerdoodles but they were yummy too!

Exhausted!!

Oh my gosh! I am completely wiped! I need about 2 more hours in this door or at least 1 more day in this weekend to get my house cleaned up after the baking & laundry craziness that was today! I have no idea how I am going to run my daycare and function tomorrow! EEK! But on the bright side baking day is OVER with very few tragedies and I can now cross 3 more things off my list! :)
PS Pictures to come soon!