Category: Dessert – Yum!

Bumble Bee Twinkies

Celebrate Spring with this fun snack!

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Hostess Twinkies Snack Cakes
White modeling chocolate
black food coloring
frosting (or use Nutella, peanut butter, or corn syrup)
powdered sugar
rolling pin
pizza wheel or knife
a ruler is also helpful
small round (1/2″) and oval/egg (1″) metal cutters
#8, 9, or 10 round pastry tip
fine tip paint brush (used for food only)
clay extruder with round insert, optional, but very helpful
toothpick or skewer

Click HERE for the instructions

Koala Cookies

These Aussie favorites are called biscuits in their native land, either way, they are super cute!

Arrowroot biscuits (or another oval shaped plain cookies, or sugar cookies cut with an oval cookie cutter!)
Basic icing (1/2 C icing sugar, 1 tsp soft butter, water – about 1 tbsp)
Mini-Marshmallows
Chocolate coated peanuts or raisins
Black food coloring; like Black Gel Paste

Click HERE for the instructions

Strawberry Pistachio Sugar Cookies

Looking for something different? Try these!

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Cookies
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ cup freeze dried strawberries ground into fine powder
  • 1/4-1/2 cup chopped pistachios
Glaze
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • ¼ cup milk
  • Pink food coloring optional – I used Wilton’s pink gel color
Garnish
  • Additional freeze dried strawberries and pistachios

Click HERE for the instructions