Jessi Rose

Monster Truck Birthday Cake -4

My nephew came for a visit over his 4th birthday so I made him a #4 Monster Truck cake.

Ingredients:

Yellow Cake Mix
Eggs
Oil
Chocolate Mini Donuts
Chocolate Frosting
Oreo’s
Green Icing
Monster Trucks
#4 Candle

Directions:

Bake the yellow cake according to directions in a 9×13 baking pan.
Let it cool and cut the cake in half longwise so you have 2 long pieces of cake. Then cut one of the pieces in half. Shape on your cake board in the shape of the number 4.
Cover the cake with chocolate frosting.
Crush up some Oreo’s to create a Monster Truck track on top of the cake.
Place the donuts around the side of the cake and us the green icing to add some grass between the donuts.
I also used the green icing to write “Happy Birthday”.
Place the number 4 candle and the Monster Trucks on top of the cake.

Chocolate Freezer Pies -13

My son just loves his grandma’s family recipe for Chocolate Freezer Pies. He doesn’t like cake very much, so he usually prefers pies for his birthday.

Ingredients:

8 oz. Hershey’s bar
8 oz. Cream Cheese
16 oz. Cool Whip
2 Prepared 8 inch Graham Crust
1/4 cup milk

Directions:

Heat the chocolate and 2 tablespoons of the milk in a saucepan over low heat, stirring until melted.
Beat the cream cheese and add the remaining milk. Add chocolate mix and beat until smooth.
In a bowl, fold the chocolate mix into the cool whip and blend until smooth.
Spoon the mix into the crusts. I decorated the pies with some extra cool whip and shaved chocolate bar for my son’s birthday.
Freeze for 4 hours.

NERF BOY

He still loves all things Nerf, so he had a few friends over the play Nerf again this year!

We saved the kids art work at our after school program and put on an art show for the community. We has art stations set out along with displaying the kids art work. We had cookies and juice for refreshments too.

Art Work Display

We folded the tables up and hung up the children’s artwork that we has been saving.

We also displayed 3-D artwork onto boxed that I covered with colored paper.

Family Art Stations

We had 6 stations set up. Each station took up half of a table.

Living Photo Frame

I painted a living photo frame out of 2 large cardboard boxes that I found. I put chairs in it so that kids can sit there while they get their pictures taken.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Halloween

We dressed up as a family for Halloween this year. We chose the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

4th of July Tie Dye

My youngest son and I tried to tie dye some 4th of July shirts for our family.

Materials:

Tie Dye
Paper Plates
Rubber Bands
Plastic Bags
Something White to Dye
Bucket of Water
Plastic Gloves
Paper Towels

Directions:

Place the shirt in the water and squeeze out all of the water.
Twist or tie the shirt with the rubber bands.
Put on gloves and pour different colored dye onto the shirt.
Place the shirt in the plastic bag and keep it there for 2 hours.
Rinse it out in the sink before washing alone for the first time.

Independence Day Fruit Pizza

Ingredients :

Crescent Roll Dough
Cream Cheese 8 oz.
Marshmallow Cream 1 can
Banana’s, Strawberries, Blueberries

Directions:

I spread the Crescent Roll dough on a rectangle baking pan.
Then I baked it according to the directions on the can.
Mix together the Cream Cheese and the Marshmallow Cream to spread on the Crescent Roll.
Slice the fruit and place it on the pizza in the shape of the American flag.

Laser Tag Birthday -8

My boy is 8!!! He took some of his buddies to play laser tag and then we came home for chocolate “8” cake.

Laser Tag Cake

I baked a 9 inch and an 8 inch chocolate cake with a cup in the middle to create a donut shape for each circle cake. Then I put them together and added chocolate icing. I used blue icing to write on the cake and added glow sticks to look like laser tag! AND of course 8 candles too.

Valentine’s Day Lunch

I tried to make the boys special lunches for Valentine’s Day since it’s on a school day this year! I cut out cantaloupe hearts, had heart candy and cakes, wrote cute sayings on the bananas, and made a special peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a heart cur out and sprinkles added!

Nerf Display Board

The boys scrounged up all of their change and went to the hardware store to buy a piece of peg board. Then we hung it up in the basement (where they mostly play Nerf) and added some hooks. They hung their Nerf guns on both sides of the board.

Christmas Cakes & Crafts

I participated in a Christmas Craft & Bake sale this year at a local church. Here are some of the things that I made and sold…

Snowy Wonderland Trees

I baked a cake and some cupcakes according to the directions on the box. Then I made my own buttercream frosting; 1 cup butter, 1 cup Crisco, 4 cups powdered sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 1 tablespoon milk (if too thick). I frosted the cake and cupcakes and added coconut to look like snow. For the trees, I got thin dowel rods, candy melts, and sprinkles. I melted the candy melts and placed in piping bags; then I placed the dowel rods on wax paper and squeezed out the melted candy back and forth across the dowel rods to look like trees. I added the sprinkles before the melts hardened.

Hot Cocoa Cupcakes

I baked Devils Food Cake box recipe into cupcakes. Once they cooled I topped them with my buttercream icing. Then I added mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, and crushed candy canes. I placed a small candy cane on the side to look like a handle to a mug full of hot cocoa.

Peppermint Lollies

I placed the hard peppermint candies with a lollie stick on some wax paper on a cookie sheet. Melted them in the oven at 250 degrees, waited for them to cool and put them into bags with a cute red ribbon.

Candy Cane Forest Cake

I baked a white cake according to the box directions and placed a few drops of peppermint extract in the cake mix. I topped the cake with my buttercream icing and then added crushed peppermints, and candy canes.

Holiday Pretzels

I covered pretzels in white chocolate and milk chocolate. I used hot glue to attach buttons and a scarf to my Snowman Jar. And I attached eyes, red nose, and antlers to my Reindeer Jar.

Melted Snowman Ornament

I filled clear glass ornaments with fake white powder snow. Then I added buttons, a carrot nose, tiny twigs, and a red scarf in the ornaments. I used letter stickers to spell out, “Some People are Worth Melting For”, on the outside of the ornaments. These turned out soooo cute!

Poinsettia

I added gold stars and cute poems to these poinsettia’s and gave them as gifts to co-workers and neighbors!

Christmas Tree Cake

I made a chocolate cake with my Giant Cupcake pan. I dyed my buttercream icing green and used it to decorate the top of my Giant Cupcake. I used yellow and red candy melts to make a star and bows to decorate the Christmas Tree Cake.