Fun with Oreos

I know it has been a month since Christmas, but when I had this idea this morning... I just had to share! I had found quite a few packs of holiday Oreos on sale after Christmas and I bought all I had found since my family loves them. Needless to say... we still have a few packs of Christmas Oreos at my house. While I was decorating cookies this morning, my son was eating a few and a light bulb when off in my head! There are already deigns on the Oreos so why not use that as a pattern and decorate the Oreo with icing! Here are the four designs that were in the pack:

Here are the same four decorated with royal icing:

If you don't have a recipe for royal icing, one can be found on my friend Sweet Sugarbelle's blog.

Royal Icing Recipe

These only took a few minutes to do since the design was already there!

I know of two other times of the year they produce holiday Oreos... Spring and Halloween. 

Don't let the designs limit you though!! With Valentine's Day coming up, you could pipe hearts, lips, "X" & "O", etc. The possibilities are endless!!

Wow! It's been a while!!

SO much has happened since I last posted! Two of the biggest of all these would be that I quit full time job and will now be able to stay at home with my kids and I hit 1500 fans on my facebook page! Both are like a dream come true!! So lets just get straight to the point and catch up where I left off!

let's start with some of the birthday platters from October

Here are a few of the Halloween cookies I did

I was lucky enough to be able to participate in a fall cookie swap with some of my cookie friends. I was the host, so I wanted to include a little "gift" for each of my friends. I let my four year old son draw on a cookie and send it to each of them. Here was my submission for the swap followed by the cookies my son drew. 

 I really enjoyed being a part of this swap and all the cookies we received were beautiful and delicious!!

Next up we have some Thanksgiving cookies

My next platter is one of my favorites! It was for a shabby chic first birthday party

The cookies in the above photo were inspired by my good friend Sweet Sugarbelle! I am hoping she will be putting a tutorial on her blog about them soon.

Next up is Christmas!! I decided to offer cookies trays with drop cookies and sugar cookies this year. My husband also agreed to dress like Santa so I was also able to offer Santa delivery. It was a huge hit!

Here are a few of the Christmas platters I did... along with the minis that I sent to my son's class to hand out to his friends.

 I really liked that reindeer in the above photo. I used a bunny cutter for him! :)

That is all for the rest of 2012... so let's move on to 2013 starting out with my New Year platter!

  The skyline photo was inspired by my friend Anne at Flour Box Bakery! If you haven't seen hear cookies... head over NOW! Okay... well not right this second, because you need to stay a little longer to finish looking at the rest of my cookies! ;)

These were done for a winter "One"derland party

 I made these for some friends 50th wedding anniversary! What a huge accomplishment for them!!

My husband is part of a company called American Milsim. They are an airsoft company. They traveled to Shot Show in Vegas this week, so I made them some special cookies with their logo.

Okay... so these cookies were a first for me! I have never seen Star Wars (I know I am probably one of the few that haven't) so I had to have major help from my friend Callye aka Sweet Sugarbelle. I had to replicate her cookies so please don't be too harsh when you look at hers compared. She is super human... I can't compete! ;)

And finally... the last cookies for me to be caught up!! These are for my sister in laws grandchild. Her theme was Enchanted Unicorn. I made the unicorn for the cake topper. Sticks were put on some of the other cookies as well. I will try to add a photo of the entire cake when I get one. 

Well... if you have made it through this whole post.. THANK YOU!! I will try to be better in keeping up with this blog! I will soon be doing my 1500 fan giveaway... so stay tuned for that!! 

Small Flash Giveaway

I know Halloween has already passed... but I found these little cutters and decided to pick them up for YOU! If you want a chance to win them, just leave your email address and where you are from in a comment! No reason to ask for your locations... I am just curious where my fans are located :)

I will used random.org to choose a winner tonight around 8:00 pm cst so you don't have much time to enter!!  I will drop them in the mail tomorrow morning and hope they get to you before thanksgiving so you can use the pumpkin!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

****WINNERS****

I decided to give away two sets! Here are the numbers random.org came up with:

Congrats to the winner! I will email you for your address! :)

New Addition!!

I am SO happy to announce a new addition to Kookie Kreations by Kim!! Please welcome this beauty:

Yep... its a Kitchenaid Professional 600 Stand Mixer!!!

I got a REALLY good deal and what to share how!! Kohl's is having a sale on on the mixer right now. $449.99. I used the code HARVEST30 to get 30% off. I had $10 in Kohl's cash from a previous purchase, so I applied that to this order. You can also earn $10 Kohl's cash for every $50 you spend right now so I earned $60 in Kohl's cash that I will spend on Christmas presents. AND I am going to receive a free Ice Cream Mixer attachment after mail in rebate! A $79.99 value! I also have an account with Ebates.com. If you have never heard of them and do a lot of online shopping you HAVE to get an account! Go here to sign up for a FREE account Ebates.com. I have been a member since 2005 and have earned over $300 cash back for doing nothing at all! You just shop like normal, but you just have to make sure you have clicked the site link from the ebates website. I just clicked to go to the Kohl's website from the ebates site and I will earn around $10 back. 

After all the math is done, The mixer will cost me around $258 for a 6 qt. mixer!! How awesome is that?!?

Here is a link to the mixer if you would like to take a look at it!

Kitchenaid Professional 600 Stand Mixer

The past couple of weeks...

The past couple of weeks have been pretty hectic which is why I am just now getting to this blog post. I have had it in a draft for a couple of weeks now, so I just added all my recent pictures to the draft I had already started.

My church has an auction to raise money every year. Last year was my first year to be able to donate something for it. Cookies!! People seemed to like them last year, so I decided to do it again this year. I donated two trays.

These two platters were made for some ladies that gave me lots of hand me down clothes for my new baby girl. I really appreciated what they did and wanted to let them know!

I tried a new frozen yogurt place and my family and I loved it! The owner and manager were really nice, so I decided I wanted to make them a set of cookies to try to help promote their new store! You can visit their facebook page at SweetFrog Lake Charles

These were made for a vintage party. It was nice only having to mix two colors! :)

I have not posted these on my facebook page yet because I was not happy with them. I had to rush to get them done and they did not turn out like I had envisioned. They are airbrushed with three colors and then painted with gold (but is hard to be able to tell either one). I mailed them off anyway because they are for a great cause and I feel honored to be able to be a part of it. It is for the Go Bo! Foundation. Unfortunately, Bo recently lost his battle, but his message still lives on. I think it is amazing that a 13 year old boy was able to bring everyone together! Please go to the facebook page and read more about him.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope as things settle down, I will be able to keep up with my blog a little better.

Also, keep an eye on my facebook page to find out about a Christmas special I will be having! They won't be full trays of the sugar cookies, but the cookies will still be very delicious and will include a couple of sugar cookies too! I hope to have all the details in the next couple of weeks!! I will even offer the option of Santa delivering the cookies to you!! :)

Mason's Magic Party: Part Three

The Food:

His cake is usually amazing!! We have had the same lady make it every year... until this year :( Since she wasn't able to make it this year, I decided to give it a try! Since I had to many other things to make for the party, I decided to order a cake with white icing and piping. I then took candy and cookies I had made and decorated the cake with those. It turned out pretty cute!

I tried to make the food for the party magic themed also.  

For the main entrees we had Disappearing Dogs (Hot dogs), Abracadabra PB and Alakazam PB&J (Peanut butter and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches cut in the shape of a bunny head with a cookie cutter), Hocus Pocus Nachos, and Shazam Chili. 

I also made food tags for each item. Here are a few:

I had a small veggie tray (rabbit food) and Magic Snack Mix. I made this mix by combining pretzels, cheerios, baby goldfish, peanuts, and m&ms. You could throw in or omit anything you want.

I also wanted to do chocolate cupcake since the cake was white. I made Rabbit in the Hat Cupcakes. I will be posting a tutorial on how to make these soon.

The other desserts I had were Magic wands (braided pretzels dipped in chocolate), Top hat cookies (fudge stripe cookies with a chocolate covered marshmallow on top and a twizzler pull and peel around the bottom), and Magic Rings (mini donuts made with my mini donut maker). Store bought donuts could also be used but I wanted an excuse to pull out my maker ;). 

We also had magic potion to drink (lemonade).

We had almost 80 people RSVP to say they were coming to the party, but ended up only having about 1/3 of them show up. Needless to say we had A LOT of leftovers. My poor family was sick of nachos and hotdogs after about day 3. I didn’t want the leftovers to go to waste, so I decided to change things up a bit. I boiled some noodles and put them in a large Pyrex dish. I mixed the cheese and the chili with the noodles. I cut up some of the weenies and mixed those in as well. I prepared 2 boxes of cornbread and poured that over the top then baked it until golden brown. My family really like it and was happy to not have the same thing they had been eating for days! 

How about I end with one more picture of my cuties!!

Thanks for reading!! I will have one more part with my first tutorial on how to make the rabbit in the hat cupcakes! 

Mason's Magic Party: Part 2

The Costumes, Games, and Activities

The parties I like to plan for him take a while to put together. I usually start preparing around April, but that didn't happen this year because of the pregnancy. I still managed to get everything together in time though. I always design the invitation in Photoshop and always include a picture of him. I decided to include the "rabbit" this year too.

I always like for him to "dress the part" at his parties and this year was no different. I ordered a cape, wand, and gloves (which we forgot to put on for the picture). The hat is one that I had ordered also but I will get to that in a little bit. The cape, wand, and gloves were all ordered from Amazon. 

If you don't want to have to buy everything separate, you can just purchase a costume like this one:

"Jr. Magician with Top Hat Costume"

I had an extra little one and she couldn't be left out! I decided she would be the rabbit so I bought a onesie, piece of pink felt, and a big pompom from Hobby Lobby. I cut the felt and sewed it on the belly. I then sewed the pompom on the bottom area of the onesie. She also had a crochet hat with ears, but since it was hot we just put a bow in her hair. 

If making costumes aren't your thing but you would like for your kids to dress the part, try this costume:

Precious Pink Wabbit Infant Costume

I like to do games and let the kids win prizes that match the theme. This year I decided to do three games:

Pin the wand on the magician. 

They won wands at this game. I printed a 16x20 photo of my son from Sam's Club (cost was around $6) and taped in on a foam board. I made wands out of photo paper and cut them in strips. I then put painters tape on the back so they could easily be reused. The wands were also homemade. I bought some packs of dowel rods at Michael's. I painted them black and let that dry. I then put a piece of painters tape about 3/8 from the end and painted the ends white. Thirty of these wands cost less than $10 to make. 

The second game was Pull the Rabbit out the Hat. 

I had a top hat left over from a Halloween costume last year so I filled it with random small toys from my son's toy box. I made sure to also include a small rabbit. I covered the hat with a black dish towel. The kids had to feel around and find the rabbit without looking. They won a hat at this game. The hats can be ordered from Oriental Trading. 

Magic Match was the last game.

I just used 6 playing cards and had them flip them over until they found a match. They won a bag of  "Magic Trix". I just filled a sandwich bag with Trix cereal and attached a tag to the bag.

I always like to have some sort of craft project at the party also. This year I decided to combine the craft project with the favors. I made "coloring book cookies". I iced a cookie with white icing and drew a picture of a rabbit coming out of the hat with a black edible marker. The kids were able to color the outlined cookies with food coloring markers. I then bagged each cookie and attached a bag topper.

 What is a magic party without a magic show???

My husband put on a magic show for everyone with the magic kit I ordered from Amazon. I also ordered a cape and gloves for him from Amazon, but you could get them from anywhere. For example, this cape would be awesome and then could be used for Halloween:
Vampire Cape
It is a little expensive, but they always have sales!

Next up... Part Three: The Food