Showing posts with label Food Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Fun. Show all posts

6.10.2015

not just nourishment: MINI COURSE food fun


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Yesterday was like the best day.

The last week of school is a “fluff week” including all kinds of fun activities like mini-courses, a field day, an all-school picnic and an awards ceremony. But yesterday was mini-course day, and as I spent the year doing the Food Fun after school activity, I chose to do a baking mini-course. I was excited because I had more time and freedom to do the things I love to do in the kitchen. So we baked cupcakes from scratch, something we could never do at school.
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After making the mini-course a competition like Cupcake Wars, six sixth graders (two teams) and I headed to the grocery store to pick up the essentials and decorations to fit into the chosen theme: Summer. Fifteen minutes of searching the aisles and brainstorming resulted in some super fun, creative and delicious results.
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The misshapen (though scrumptious) chocolate cupcakes became the canvases for summer scenes and warm-weather themes. There were marzipan suns with rainbow sprinkle features, Swedish fish surfing on sweet boards, and fish swimming in clear blue waters dotted with marshmallow fluff foam lined by graham cracker  beaches.
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Sour red and white gummy life preserver rings rested on waffle cone sand, while summer drink inspiration led to pina colada cupcakes with tropical pineapple skewers and rich butter cream frosting slid down the wide waffle cone like ice cream melting on a hot summer day.

I was supposed to declare a winner. But I couldn’t. They all won at summer!

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4.03.2015

not just nourishment: EASTER food fun


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Yesterday was magical. I brought in 24 naked sprinkle-speckled funfetti cupcakes for the kids of Hudson Food Fun to decorated to celebrate the last day before spring break and Easter. Jelly beans rolled in bowls, Robin Eggs colored their tongues, chocolate and vanilla frosting made their fingers sticky, and sprinkles got everywhere. Pure magic.
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Despite all the sugar, the kids were responsible (as they usually are with cupcakes and candy); I, on the other hand, was not. Yesterday I was sugar drunk from eating too many cupcakes and absurd numbers of marshmallow peeps.
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What will you make for Easter? It’s practically here!
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12.30.2014

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Christmas has come and gone, but the flavors still hang heavy in the air as our perfect little tree stands tall, Christmas dinner leftovers morph into delicious sandwiches, and cookie crumbs continuously dust our lips. It has been a super tasty holiday with new cookie recipes (1, 2, and 3) to add to our list and batches of sugar cookies for my Food Fun kiddies, family holiday gatherings and butter bake-a-thons, and a smattering of sprinkles.
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I love Christmas like any 5-year-old princess would and the countdown until next year’s festivities has already begun. We want to hear about your Christmas traditions and additions! Don’t forget to follow facebook, instagram, twitter, and yelp!
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