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Vol
One
Cooking with
Mickey and
Friends
Table of Contents
Hakuna Matata in the Kitchen p. 4
Cakes p. 8
Cinderella, Teatime Table Cake p. 10
Fairies, Gumdrop Garden p. 11
Fairies, Fanciful Fairy Village p. 12
Finding Nemo, Dory's Jellyfish Cake p. 14
Little Mermaid, Ice Cream Castle Cake p. 16
Little Mermaid, Towering Sandcastle p. 18
Little Mermaid, Under the Sea Cake p. 19
Peter Pan, Captain Hook Cake p. 20
Pirates of the Caribbean, Jacks Pirate Skull p. 22
Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirate Hat Cake p. 23
Princess and the Frog, King Cake p. 24
Toy Story, Buzzs Crater Cake p. 25
Sleeping Beauty, Auroras Cookie Crown p. 26
Tron, Tron Light Cycle Cake p. 27
Winnie the Pooh, Rabbits Pumpkin Patch p. 29
Winnie the Pooh, Sweet Beehive Cake p. 30
Tiny cakes p. 32
Aladdin: Abu Cupcakes p. 34
Alice in Wonderland: Cheshire Cat Cupcakes p. 35
Alice in Wonderland: Mad Hatters Teacakes p. 36
Beauty and the Beast: lumieres Candle Cakes p. 37
Beauty and the Beast: Cogsworth Cupcakes p. 38
Beauty and the Beast: Strawberry Rose Shortcake p. 39
Cars: Tow Mater Cupcakes p. 40
Cars: Lightning McQueen Cupcakes p. 42
Fairies: Ever Blossom Cupcakes p. 43
Fairies: Tinkerbelles Shoes p. 44
Fairies: Ladybug Cupcakes p. 45
Fairies: Dragonfly Cupcakes p. 46
Fairies: Spring Flower Cupcakes p. 47
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Tiny Cakes Continued
Finding Nemo: Squirts Turtle Cakes p. 48
Handy Manny: Handy Manny Capcakes p. 49
High School Musical: East Sides Bake Sale p. 50
Jungle Book: Baloo Cupcakes p. 51
Lady and the Tramp: Spaghetti and Meatballs p. 52
Lion King: Pumbas Worm Cakes p. 53
Little Mermaid: Ursulas Octopus Cakes p. 54
Little Mermaid: Sebastian Cupcakes p. 55
Mickey and Friends: Mickey Mummy Cakes p. 56
Mickey and Friends: Just Ducky Cakes p. 57
Mickey and Friends: Mickey Mouse Cakes p. 58
Mulan: Panda Bear Cakes p. 59
Nightmare Before Christmas: Jack Skelllington Cakes p. 60
Phineas and Ferb: Phineas Surfboard Cake p. 61
Princess and the Frog: Prince Naveen Cakes p. 62
Pocahontas: Pocahontas Tepee Cakes p. 63
Pirates of the Caribbean: Zombie Tattoo Cupcakes p. 64
Sleeping Beauty: Tiny Teacakes p. 65
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Forest Eyes p. 66
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Poison Apple Cupcakes p. 67
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Apple Meringue Tarts p. 68
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Seven Little Pies p. 69
Tangled: Rapunzels Tower Cakes p. 70
Tangled: Pascal Cakes p. 72
Toy Story: Alien Cupcakes p. 73
Toy Story: Christmas Hamm Cakes p. 74
Toy Story: Green Alien Cupcakes p. 75
Toy Story: Mr. Pricklepants Cakes p. 76
Toy Story: Bo Peeps Sheep Cakes p. 77
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Tiny Cakes Continued
Toy Story: Squeeker Cakes p. 78
Up: UP Cakes p. 79
Winnie the Pooh: Valentine Cupcakes p. 80
Winnie the Pooh: Rabbits Easter Cakes p. 81
Winnie the Pooh: Heffalump Cakes p. 82
Winnie the Pooh: Owl Cupcakes p. 83
Winnie the Pooh: Buzz Worthy Bee Cakes p. 84
101 Dalmatians: Dalmatian Cupcakes p. 85
Cake Toppers
Alice in Wonderland: Alices Cake Toppers p. 86
Mickey and Friends: Valentine Toppers p. 87
Mickey and Friends: Valentine Cupcake Doilies P. 88
Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirates Cupcakes Toppers P. 89
Villains: Halloween Toppers P. 90
Cookies p. 92
Aladdin: Gold Sugar Cookie Coins p. 94
Aladdin: Tiger Stripe Cookies p. 95
Alice in Wonderland: Curiouser and Curiouser p. 96
Cars: Professor Z Cookies p.97
Cars: Cars Cookies p. 98
Cars: Tow Mater Cookies p.99
Cars: Whitewall Tire Cookies p.100
Cinderella: Cinderellas Mice p.101
Fairies: Button Cookies p.102
Fairies: Tink Christmas Slippers p.103
Fairies: Candy Acorns p. 103
High School Musical: Troys B-Ball Cookies p. 105
Lady and the Tramp: Tramps Dog Bones p. 106
Lion King: Lion Paw Print Cookies p. 107
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Cookies Continued
Little Mermaid: Ariels Starfish Cookies p. 108
Little Mermaid: Sand Dollar Cookies p. 109
Mickey and Friends: Donalds Candy Corn p. 110
Mickey and Friends: Mickeys Cookie Shorts p. 111
Mickey and Friends: Minnies Polka Dots p. 112
Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirate Skull Cookies p. 113
Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirate Brand Cookies p. 114
Pirates of the Caribbean: Mermaid Tail Cookies p. 115
Prep and Landing: Gingerbread Scanners p. 116
Princess and the Frog: Tinas Heart to Hearts p. 117
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: poison Apple Cookies p. 118
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Sleepys Energy Nugget p. 119
Toy Story: Cowgirl Hat Cookies p. 120
Toy Story: Woodys Badge Cookies p. 121
Toy Story: Three-eyed Alien Cookies p. 122
Toy Story: Hamming it Up p. 123
Tron: Light Cycle Wheelie Pie p. 124
Winnie the Pooh: Honey Bee Mines p. 125
Winnie the Pooh: Poohs Honey Tarts p. 126
Pleasant Pops p. 128

Beauty and the Beast: Mrs. Potts Cake Pops p. 130
Lilo and Stitch: Stitch Cake Pops p. 132
Mickey and Friends: Mickey Mouse Cake Pops p. 134
Mickey and Friends: Minnie Mouse Cake Pops p. 136
Mickey and Friends: Sorcerers Hat Cake Pops p. 138
Toy Story: Hamm Cake Pops p. 140
Toy Story: Mr. Potato Head Cake Pop p. 142
Winnie the Pooh: Pooh Cake Pops p. 144
Winnie the Pooh: Hunny Pot Cake Pops p. 146
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Meals and Snacks p. 150
Alice in Wonderland: Edible Tea Cups p. 152
Alice in Wonderland: Rotten Eggs p. 153
Bambi: Thumpers Wrap Sandwich p. 154
Cinderella: Cinderella Bento Box p. 155
Cinderella: Tempting Invitations p. 156
Cinderella: Potato Mice p. 157
Cinderella: Minnie Cheeseball Mice p. 158
Dumbo: Ear-resistible Treats p. 159
Fairies: Meringue Mushrooms p. 160
Finding Nemo: Spinach Squirt-tata p. 161
Handy Manny: Luigis Hot Dog Dipper p. 163
High School Musical: Zakas School Scones p. 165
Little Mermaid: Apricot Clownfish p. 166
Mulan: Mulans Breakfast p. 167
Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirates Bento Box p. 168
Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirates Skeleton Hand p. 170
Pirates of the Caribbean: Liars Dessert Dice p. 171
Pirates of the Caribbean: Edible Eyeballs p. 172
Pocahontas: Hummingbird Nests p. 173
Pocahontas: Baked Tortilla Leaves p. 174
Princess and the Frog: Tianas Pralines p. 175
Sleeping Beauty: Strawberry Rosebuds p. 176
Sleeping Beauty: Pretzel Rod Fairy Wand p. 177
Sleeping Beauty: Mini Fruit Pies p. 178
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Finger Sandwiches p. 179
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Fruit Flower Bouquet p. 180
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Apple and Chicken Curry p. 181
Tangled: Orange Biscuit Braids p. 182
Tangled: Squash and Hazelnut Soup p. 183
Toy Story Alien Bento Box p. 185
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Meals and Snacks Continued
Toy Story: Veggie Pizza Planets p. 187
Toy Story: Mr. Tortilla Head p. 188
Toy Story: Buzzs Mango Tango Salsa p. 189
Winnie the Pooh: Bee-Bee-Cue Sauce p. 190
Winnie the Pooh: Kangas Pita Pouch p. 191
Appendix A: Cake Templates

Peter Pan, Captain Hook Cake
Pirates of the Caribbean, Jacks Pirate Skull Cake
Princess and the Frog, King Cake
Sleeping Beauty, Auroras Cookie Crown Cake
Tron, Light Cycle Cake
Appendix B: Tiny Cake Templates

Alice in Wonderland, Mad Hatters Teacakes
Phineas and Ferb, Phiease Surfboard Cupcakes
Up, Up Cakes
Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland Cupcake Toppers
Mickey and Friends, Valentine Toppers
Mickey and Friends, Valentine Cupcake Doilies
Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates Cupcake Topper
Mickey and Friends, Disney Halloween Cupcake Toppers (Cuties)
Mickey and Friends, Disney Halloween Cupcake Toppers (Villains)
Appendix C: Cookies Templates

Cars, Cars Cookies
Cars, Tow Mater Cookie
Fairies, Tink Christmas Slippers
Little Mermaid, Ariels Starfish Cookies
Mickey and Friends, Mickeys Cookie Shorts
Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirate Brand Cookies
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Appendix C: Cookies Templates Continued
Pirates of the Caribbean, Mermaid Tail Cookies
Prep and Landing, Gingerbread Man Scanners
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Poison Apple Cookies
Appendix D: Meals and Snacks Templates
Bambi, Thumpers Wrap Sandwich
Cinderella, Tempting Invitations
Pocahontas, Baked Tortilla Leaves
Winnie the Pooh, Bee-Bee-Cue Sauce Labels
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Teatime Table Cake
Topped with a fondant tablecloth and miniature teacups and

saucers, this cake really sets the mood for a tea party. Plus the
tea set makes a nice bonus gift for the birthday child. If you
haven't worked with fondant before, don't let the thought of it
intimidate you. This recipe is made with marshmallows, result-
ing in a consistency that's easy to roll and will hold together
well when you drape it over the cake.
You'll need:
40 marshmallows
Instructions:
2 tablespoons water
1. Make a batch of marshmallow fondant. First, microwave the marsh- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
mallows for 30 seconds to 1 minute to melt them. Stir in the water 4 cups confectioners' sugar
and vanilla extract until the mixture is smooth. Then stir in the con- plus more for kneading the
fectioners' sugar a cup at a time. The dough will be sticky at this fondant
point. Turn it out onto a surface dusted with confectioners' sugar and 2 baked 8- or 9-inch round
knead it, adding more sugar until the dough is pliable, smooth, and no cakes
longer sticky (5 to 10 minutes). Pat the dough into a disk and wrap it Butter cream frosting
well in plastic. Refrigerate it overnight. Miniature tea set
2. When you're ready to decorate the cake, stack the layers with a layer
of frosting between them, and then frost the whole cake.
3. Let the fondant come to room temperature and then roll it out into a large circle (about 1/4-inch thick) on
a flat surface dusted with confectioners' sugar. Dust the rolling pin with sugar, too. Trim the fondant into
a circle that's 4 or so inches wider than the cakes.
4. Drape the fondant tablecloth over the cake letting the outer edges fall naturally into soft curves. If
needed, gently press down on the cake top, carefully smoothing the fondant so that it is flat.
5. Set the table with the miniature tea set.
To cut the cake, remove the tea set and use a sharp knife to slice through the fondant. Or, if you prefer, lift
off the tablecloth and serve the cake without it. The frosting under the fondant and between the layers
makes the cake plenty sweet.
Gumdrop Garden
It looks like a flower garden, but every single part of this Gumdrop
Garden cake is edible and completely delicious. Follow these simple
directions, then dig in.
You'll need: Instructions:

Pound cake or other loaf- 1. Ice the top and sides of the pound cake with chocolate frosting. Then
shaped cake trim the top of each ladyfinger into a point to resemble a fence
Chocolate frosting picket. Gently press the pickets against the frosted sides of the loaf
Ladyfingers cake.
Chocolate wafer cookies
2. Seal a handful of chocolate wafer cookies in a plastic bag and crush
Sugar
them with a rolling pin. Sprinkle the crumb "soil" on top of the loaf
Gumdrops
cake.
Green toothpicks
3. Plant a row of tulips: Sprinkle sugar onto a waxed-paper-covered sur-
face. Using a rolling pin, flatten gumdrops to a 1/4-inch thickness.
With kitchen scissors, cut notches in the tops of the flattened gum-
drops to create tulip shapes. Insert a toothpick stem into the base of
each blossom.
4. Make a pair of leaves for each tulip by trimming flattened green gumdrops into teardrop shapes. Spear
the base of each leaf with the toothpick stem and push it halfway up the stem. Now plant the tulips in the
cake.
5. For a fun finishing touch, sprinkle coconut tinted with green food coloring around the garden to resemble
grass.
Fanciful Fairy Village
This elfin hideaway is more than a treat it's a fun activity for a
fairy-themed birthday party, or for a nature- or garden-themed
gathering. Make it easy! Before the party, assemble a variety of
unadorned houses for guests to decorate later, then provide a vari-
ety of frostings, candies, and cookies and let the kids go to town.
We used two store-bought pound cakes a 16-ounce loaf and a
10-3/4-ounce loaf and one large cupcake for the five structures
here.
You'll need:
Instructions: 2 pound cakes (16-ounce loaf
1. Butter Biscuit Bungalow: Butter biscuit cookies (we used Lu Le and a 10-3/4-ounce loaf) and
Petit Beurre brand) make great roofing. Working from the lower one large cupcake
edge, gently press the cookies onto the frosted cake, then pipe on a Butter biscuit cookies (we used
line of frosting and add a jelly bean peak. White bark chocolate win- Lu Le Petit Beurre brand)
dows stand out nicely against dark frosting. For shutters, we used White and chocolate frosting
green Tootsie Rolls, quartered lengthwise. The door is a chocolate- Jelly beans
covered cookie (we used Keebler brand). Use jelly beans to give White bark chocolate
your cottage an earthy foundation. Green and yellow Tootsie Rolls
Chocolate-covered cookies and
2. Cozy Cupcake Hut: Chocolate-covered cookies and graham crack- graham crackers
ers make appealing chimneys and doors (we used Keebler brand). Is Nonpareils
it snowing in your fairy village? Try a roof of nonpareils! A founda- Mini marshmallows
tion of mini marshmallows might be in order too.
Sugar wafers
3. Sugar Wafer Chalet: We used sugar wafers and a pretzel rod for Pretzels
this simple peaked roof. To make the doors and windows, warm Starburst candies
Starburst candies in the microwave until they're just pliable, about 5 Flower-shaped decorator candies
seconds, then use a rolling pin to flatten them. Cut out the desired Biscotto-like cookies
shapes and press them in place. We pressed on a pretzel window Leaf-shaped butter cookies
box, then filled it with flower-shaped decorator candies. Miniature vanilla wafers
4. Birch Bark Abode: The marbling technique on this birch house is Chocolate and peanut butter
marvellously easy. Just frost the base white, then dip the tip of a table chips
knife in chocolate and drag it across the cake, gently swirling the col- Green food coloring
ors. The roof is made of a biscotto-like cookie (we used Stella D'oro Waffle cones
brand), and the chimney, a yellow Tootsie Roll. Chocolate wafers
1. Leaf Cookie Lodge: Butter cookie leaves (we used Bahlsen brand) are always popular with fairies. The
door is the unfrosted side of a half-dipped fudge graham. To round out your cabin, press on a pair of
miniature vanilla wafer windows. For a quick and easy foundation, alternate chocolate and peanut butter
chips.
2. Waffle Cone Trees: Use food coloring to tint white frosting green. Generously frost a waffle cone, then
use a fork to pull the icing into boughlike peaks.
3. Delicious Dirt: We used crushed Keebler-brand chocolate wafers for our forest floor.
4. Tiny Toadstools: Microwave a red Starburst candy until just pliable, then roll it into a ball. Flatten one
side, then use a dab of frosting to attach a marshmallow base. Pipe on frosting dots.
Dory's Jellyfish Cake
During their search for Nemo, Marlin and Dory bounced through a
sea of puffy, pink jellyfish. This cake helps to tell the story of their
high seas adventure.
You'll need:
7-ounce tube marzipan, found
Instructions:
in bakery aisle
1. To make Marlin and Dory, divide marzipan into five equal pieces and Gel food coloring (orange,
place each in a small bowl. Add a few drops of food coloring to four black, blue, yellow and teal)
of the marzipan pieces, making one piece orange, one black, one yel- 2 9-inch round cakes, baked
low, and one blue. Leave one piece of marzi- from your favourite recipe
pan natural white. Knead the food coloring into 2 12-ounce cans whipped frost-
the marzipan dough until fully incorporated. ing, white or vanilla
This can get messy, so be sure to wear an 3 to 4 dome-shaped, marshmal-
apron or smock, and wash hands when fin- low-covered, packaged cup-
ished. Have fun! Kids can roll marzipan just cakes (we used Hostess Sno-
like clay. balls)
1 can pink icing (we used Easy
2. For Marlin, roll half of your orange marzipan
Flow Icing, Betty Crocker)
into a ball, then pinch the ball into a teardrop 1 cup vanilla cookies, crumbled
shape with a flat end (as shown) for Marlin's (optional for garnish)
tail.
3. Tear small pieces from the remaining orange marzipan for Marlin's fins. Put a fin on
each side of his body and attach two small dorsal fins on top.
4. Pinch the rounded end of Marlin's body to make two small sockets for eyes. Roll
white marzipan into balls and place in sockets.
5. Add black marzipan pupils and a smile. Roll white marzipan into 3 small snakes
and lay across Marlin's back.
Dory's Jellyfish Cake
Cake
6. For Dory, roll blue marzipan into a ball. Pinch into a flat, oval shape (as shown).
7. Shape and press on a yellow tail fin and two yellow pectoral fins.
8. Pinch Dory's rounded face to make two small eye sockets. Roll white marzipan
into balls and place in sockets.
9. Add black marzipan pupils and a black marzipan dorsal fin.

Parent's job: Use a knife, to cut out a triangle for Dory's mouth.
10. For the cake, put white frosting in a large bowl and add a few drops of teal food coloring. Stir the frost-
ing as you add the color. A little bit of food coloring goes a long way, and you will only need a few
drops.
11. Place one 9-inch cake on a serving platter. Spread the top with frosting. Place the second layer on top
of the first layer and frost the top and sides of the cake with clean, smooth strokes.
12. Place 3 to 4 Sno-balls around the edge of the cake. These are the jellyfish bodies.
13. To make the tentacles, use Easy Flow icing to draw squiggly pink lines from the Jellyfish Sno-ball
down the side of the cake.
14. Use toothpicks to attach Marlin and Dory to the tops of the jellyfish. (Remember to remove toothpicks
before serving!)
15. Garnish your serving platter with crushed vanilla cookie "sand."
Ice Cream Castle Cake
Looking for a way to impress the little princes and princesses at your
family's next gathering? Give them their just desserts -- a majestic
ice cream castle decorated with cinnamon-sugar beach sand, candy
shells and beach pebbles, and gummy octopuses.
You'll need:
1 quart vanilla or coffee ice
cream
Instructions:
1 cup sugar
1. Allow the ice cream to soften for about 15 minutes at room tempera- 2 tsp. cinnamon
ture, then spoon it into your castle mold. Be sure to fully pack any Candy seashells, pebbles and
crenellations on the bottom of the mold. Tightly cover the top of the gummy octopuses (available at
mold with plastic wrap and keep it in the freezer overnight, or until most candy shops)
solid. A plastic sand castle mold, 5
inches tall and 5 1/4 inches
2. In a mixing bowl, toss together the sugar and cinnamon to make
wide (sold in most novelty
beach sand. If the color looks too light, add a little more cinnamon or
stores), or a rectangular or cy-
a teaspoon of instant hot chocolate mix. lindrical quart-size Tupperware
3. Cover a large tray with aluminum foil. Fold the edges of the foil into container
a lip for catching excess cinnamon sugar. A toy flag (just cut out a small
paper triangle and glue it onto a
4. At least 3 hours before serving (or up to several days ahead of time),
toothpick)
unmold the castle. Fill a 2- to 3-quart pot with hot tap water. Then
remove the mold from the freezer. Holding it open-end up, carefully and quickly (for no more than 2 sec-
onds) dip it into the hot water. The object is to warm the mold without melting more than the surface of
the ice cream. Immediately top the mold with the foil-covered serving platter, invert onto a flat working
surface and lift off the mold.
5. Working quickly, sprinkle a generous base coating of cinnamon sugar on the sides and top of the castle.
Gather and reserve any spilled cinnamon sugar to use later. Immediately return the castle, uncovered, to
the freezer until it is frozen solid (at least 3 hours). Then wrap the castle with aluminum foil until serving
time.
Ice Cream Castle Cake
6. Shortly before serving, spread the remaining cinnamon sugar on a flat, foil-covered surface. Remove the
ice-cream castle from the freezer, unwrap and roll the sides in the cinnamon sugar. Set the castle on a
serving plate and sprinkle the top with more cinnamon sugar. Spread the rest of the cinnamon sugar on
the plate to resemble a beach. Add the candy shells and pebbles and the gummy octopuses. Finally, top
the castle with the toy flag. Makes 8 1/2-cup servings. Party Idea! Create a personal fairy tale with a
Princess Birthday Party!
7. If you don't have time to custom build an ice cream sand castle like the one shown above, here's an easy
shortcut: Uncover and invert a pint of ice cream on a foil-covered tray. Peel away the cardboard con-
tainer and sprinkle on plenty of cinnamon sugar. Decorate with a graham cracker drawbridge. Serves 4.
Towering Sandcastle
This crumb-covered cake is "shore" to make a splash at any beach

- or sea-themed birthday bash. Scatter some candy seashells and
rocks around the base and prepare for a wave of compliments.
Instructions You'll
Youll need:
Need

8-inch round yellow cake
40 marshmallows
1. Use a long serrated knife to trim the top of the round cake flat, if
9-inch
2 tablespoons
square yellowwater
cake
needed. Cut a 5 1/2-inch and a 3 1/2-inch circle from the square cake,
2 (12-ounce)
1/2 teaspoon
cansvanilla extract
whipped va-
then stack all three pieces, spreading vanilla frosting between the lay-
nilla4 frosting
cups confectioners' sugar
ers. Frost the stack.
Vanilla
plus wafers,
more for12-ounce
kneadingbox
the
2. Use a rolling pin or food processor to crumble the wafers. With your 4 jumbo fondant
ice-cream cups
hands, press the crumbs into the frosting, completely coating the 2 small
2 baked 8- or 9-inch
ice-cream cups round
cake. Spread frosting on the bottom of each ice-cream cup, then set cakes
6 sugar cones
them around the cake. With a serrated knife, carefully trim 1 1/2 Graham
Buttercracker
cream sticks
frosting
(we used
inches from the top of 2 of the sugar cones. Set all 6 cones into the Nabisco
Miniature
Honey teaMaid
set Grahams
cups to complete the turrets, spreading a bit of frosting around the Honey Sticks)
rims to hold them if needed. Candy seashells and rocks
3. Press 2 graham cracker-stick doors into the middle cake layer and rim
the rest of the cake with graham cracker-stick halves. Sprinkle the remaining crumbs around the base and
add a scattering of candy seashells and rocks. Serves 12.
Under the Sea Cake
This whimsical underwater scene can be decorated in one swish

of a mermaid's tail.
You'll need:
Pound Youll
cake Need
or other loaf-
1 baked
shaped cake x 2" cake
13" x 9" Instructions
2 to 3 cups blue
Chocolate icing
frosting 1. Bake your favourite cake (13" x 9" x 2"). Frost the cake with the
Green apple Sour Belts
Ladyfingers icing.
Blue and/or green
Chocolate waferfruit leather
cookies
Candy rocks 2. To create plants, roll or twist various lengths of sour belts and fruit
Sugar
leather before placing them on the cake.
Candy seashells
Gumdrops
Gummy
Green sea creatures, such as
toothpicks 3. Place candy rocks and seashells along the bottom.
fish, sharks, and octopuses
Mini Swedish fish 4. Finish off your underwater scene by arranging schools of gummy
Sour tropical fish fish, sharks, and other deep-sea dwellers.
Captain Hook Cake
You could say Captain Hook's obsession to get revenge on Peter

Pan is way out of hand. But then again, had Peter not fed the pi-
rate's appendage to a hungry crocodile, he might not have lost his
grip. Inspired by the dastardly villain, this cake features a shiny
hook shaped out of ready-to-use fondant and is "polished" with edi-
ble gold dust (both of which you can readily find in the cake deco-
rating aisle at large craft stores and department stores).
You'll
Youll need:
Need
Instructions: Template for Captain Hook
40 marshmallows
Cake
2 tablespoons water
1. Print the template and cut out the pieces.
9- by1/213-inch
teaspoonbaked cakeextract
vanilla
2. Wearing disposable kitchen gloves pull three small hunks (about 2 Frosting
4 cups(any color you like;
confectioners' sugar
inches in diameter) from the fondant. Knead just enough black food purple looks especially
plus more nice) the
for kneading
coloring into one of the hunks to turn the fon- Ready-to-use
fondant white fondant
dant gray. Tint the second piece red, and leave Food coloring
2 baked (black
8- or 9-inchandround
red)
the third white. Confectioner's sugar
cakes
Edible
Butter
goldcream frosting
or silver fondant
3. Set a quarter size piece of the gray fondant Miniature
decorating powdertea andseta small pas-
aside. Then roll the rest of it into a rope shape, try brush (optional)
and set it atop the hook template piece. Rolling pin
Wax paper
4. Using the paper as a pattern, press and shape the fondant into a hook Kitchen knife
shape. Use a knife to taper the point.
5. To give the hook a real metallic look, brush gold or silver decorating powder onto
the fondant if you like.
6. Place the reserved gray fondant atop a piece of wax paper dusted with confection-
ers sugar and roll it out to about a quarter-inch thickness. Using the corresponding
template piece, cut a hook base from the rolled fondant. Likewise, roll out the red fondant and cut out a
jacket cuff.
Captain Hook Cake
7. Next, roll out the white fondant and cut a shirt cuff from it. Use your fingers to flute the top of the shirt
cuff to create a ruffled look.
8. Set all of the fondant shapes aside for a few minutes, leaving them uncovered so they will stiffen up a bit.
9. Meanwhile, frost the cake.
10. When you're ready to assemble the fondant pieces atop the cake, begin with the hook. Then cover the
blunt end with the hook base. Next, set the shirt cuff in place atop the hook base.
You'll need: 11. Finally, add the jacket cuff, overlapping the non-fluted edge of the
Pound cake or other loaf- shirt cuff.
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting
Ladyfingers
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Jacks Pirate Skull
Modeled after Jack Sparrow's Jolly Roger, this sheet cake pays trib-
ute to the most beloved pirate to sail the Caribbean. There's a print-
able template for the skull and crossbones, which are simply cut out
of marshmallow fondant and set atop black buttercream frosting.
You'll
Youll need:
Need
Jacks
40 marshmallows
Pirate Skull template
40 marshmallows
2 tablespoons water
Instructions:
2 tablespoons
1/2 teaspoonwater
vanilla extract
1. Make a batch of marshmallow fondant by microwaving the marsh- 1/2 4teaspoon vanilla extract
cups confectioners' sugar
mallows for 30 seconds to 1 minute to melt them. Stir in the water 4 cupsplusconfectioners'
more for kneading
sugar the
plus
and vanilla extract until the mixture is smooth. Stir in the confection- more forfondant
kneading the fondant
ers' sugar a cup at a time. The dough will be sticky at this point. Turn Thin2 plastic
baked 8- or 9-inch
kitchen round
gloves
it out onto a surface dusted with confectioners' sugar and knead it, cakes
Gel food coloring (red and
adding more sugar until the dough is pliable, smooth, and no longer Butter cream frosting
black)
sticky (5 to 10 minutes). Wearing the kitchen gloves, separate a quar- SheetMiniature
cake tea set
ter of the dough from the rest and knead red food coloring into it. Butter cream frosting (at least 2
Then pat the tinted fondant into a disk and wrap it well in plastic. Do cans of frosting)
the same with the remaining untinted fondant. Chill the fondant over- Sharp kitchen knife
night. Spatula
2. When you're ready to decorate the cake, tint the frosting black. Frost 4 colourful jelly beans and/or other
the cake. Let the fondant come to room temperature. Meanwhile, hard shell candies
print out the template and cut out the pieces.
3. Roll out the nontinted fondant about 1/4 inch thick on a flat surface dusted with confectioners' sugar.
Dust the rolling pin with sugar, too. Set the skull and cross bone template pieces atop the fondant and use
a knife to cut around them through the fondant. Use the tip of the knife to etch a few grooves in the ends
of the bones. Then lift the fondant cut-outs (with a spatula, if needed) and place them on the cake. Roll
out the red fondant, cut out the bandana pieces, and set them in place atop the cake.
4. For the finishing touch, press the jelly bean or hard shell candy "beads" partway into the frosting so they
appear to be dangling from the skull.
Pirate Hat Cake
Ask any birthday buccaneer if he wants a piece of this

swashbuckling cake, and you'll get a resounding, "Aye, matey!"
Surround it with chocolate coins for an even more treasured treat.
You'll need:
Youll
Pound cakeNeed
or other loaf- 1. Use a long serrated knife to trim the tops of the cakes to flatten them,
2 (8-inch)
shaped cake chocolate
round if needed. Spread a thin layer of chocolate frosting over the trimmed
cakes
Chocolate frosting side of one cake, then lay the other cake on top, trimmed side down.
2 (16-ounce) cans chocolate
Ladyfingers
fudge frosting 2. Cut one side from the stack, as shown. Cut this piece in half and as-
White decorators' frosting semble the hat. Spoon 1/4 cup of the chocolate frosting into a reseal-
Sugar
able sandwich bag, set it aside, and use the rest of the frosting to
Gumdrops
cover the cake.
Green toothpicks
3. With white decorators' frosting, add a skull and crossbones, and hat trim. Snip a corner from the bag of
chocolate frosting and pipe on the skull features. Serves 12.
King Cake
Mardi Gras wouldn't be the same without a King Cake. Not to be prepared
or eaten before January 6th, also known as Epiphany, Twelfth Night or
Three Kings' Day, it's a rich yeast dough most commonly filled with cream
cheese, shaped into an oval ring and topped with traditional Mardi Gras
colors; purple for justice, green for faith and gold for power. Whoever
finds the baby or pecan half baked within is to be the host of the next King
Cake party.
Instructions:
1. Combine milk, sugar and butter in a small saucepan. Heat over low You'llNeed
Youll need:
flame until just warm -- about 110 to 115 degrees F. 40 marshmallows
2 envelopes active dry yeast
cup
1/2 2 tablespoons water
granulated sugar
2. Mix yeast, 2 cups of the flour, salt and nutmeg in a large bowl. Add 1 stick
1/2 teaspoon
unsalted vanilla extract
butter
warmed milk and stir well. If using a stand mixer, beat for several 4 cups
1 cup milk confectioners' sugar
minutes with a paddle attachment. 3 largeplus more for kneading the
eggs
3. Add remaining flour, half a cup at a time, until dough starts to come fondant
4 1/2 to 5 cups all-purpose flour
together. Switch to a dough hook and knead for 5 minutes or until 2 teaspoons
2 bakedsalt
8- or 9-inch round
dough is smooth and elastic and begins to pull away from the sides cakes
1 teaspoon freshly grated nut-
of the bowl. If kneading by hand, this will take about 10 minutes. Butter cream frosting
meg
1 teaspoon
Miniature tea setoil
vegetable
4. Remove bowl from mixer and add oil. Turn once to coat and cover
8 ounces cream cheese sof-
loosely with a tea towel or plastic wrap. Let rise until double in
tened
bulk, about 2 hours.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5. Make the filling; Combine cream cheese and 2 cups of powdered 6 cups powdered sugar di-
sugar. Add vanilla extract and blend until smooth. Set aside. vided
6. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil sprayed 1 plastic King Cake baby or a
with cooking oil. half a pecan
4 Tablespoons lemon juice
7. Punch down dough and let stand for 10 minutes. Roll dough into a milk - as needed
rectangle about 20 inches long and 8 inches wide. Coloured sugars in purple,
8. Spread filling over half of the dough and add baby or pecan to green and gold or yellow
dough surrounding filling. Roll up from long side. Bring ends to-
gether and seal well. Set ring on prepared baking sheet. Let rise again until doubled, about 1 hour.
9. Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and cool for 30
minutes.
10. Combine remaining 4 cups powdered sugar with lemon juice and enough milk to make of spreading con-
sistency. Spread over top of cake and sprinkle with sugars, alternating colors all the way around the cake.
Buzzs Crater Cake
This moon is definitely not made of green cheese! In fact, it's a

very kid-friendly baking project. Your little assistant will love
crushing the cookies, mixing them into the frosting, and helping
create the moon's surface (which needn't be smooth or neat). If
you use chocolate cake, any crumbs that end up in the frosting
will blend right in!
Youll Need Instructions You'll need:

1 box cake batter, prepared ac- 40 marshmallows
cording to package instructions 1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Divide the 2prepared batterwater
tablespoons into 2
Shortening, butter, or cooking equal parts. Pour one half into a greased 2 1/2-quart oven-safe bowl
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
and the other into a greased 9-inch round pan. Bake both until a
spray for greasing the bowl and 4 cups confectioners' sugar
pan toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean,
plus moreapproximately
for kneading 40 the
7 chocolate wafers or chocolate minutes for the bowl and 25 minutes for the pan.
fondant Let the cakes cool
sandwich cookies thoroughly, then remove them from the bowl and 8-
2 baked pan.
or 9-inch round
16-ounce can white frosting cakes
2. Using a rolling pin, crush the chocolate cookies in a Ziploc bag
Necco candy wafers (we used Butter
(leave a small opening for air to escape). Emptycream
the canfrosting
of frosting
only the gray ones) into a bowl, then stir in the crumbs. Miniature tea set
DECORATIONS
3. Frost the top of the flat cake, then place the dome cake on it. (If
Plastic astronauts
necessary, first trim the bottom of the dome with a large knife so
Miniature American flag (buy a
that it's level.) Frost the rest of the cake.
tiny flag pick at a party or bak-
ing-supply store or make your 4. Push the Necco wafers into the frosting to form craters on the
own with paper and a tooth- moon's surface. Add the astronauts and the flag.
Auroras Cookie Crown
Perfect for almost any party theme, this jewel of a cake will make
your little princess feel like a birthday queen.
You'll need:
Instructions
Pound cake or other loaf- Youll Need
1. Knead the flour
shaped cake into the cookie dough to firm it up. On a floured Template for cookie pattern
surface, roll thefrosting
Chocolate dough into a 1/4-inch-thick rectangle. Using the
2/3 cup flour
template,
Ladyfingers as many cookies as you can. Keep rerolling the
cut out
16 1/2-ounce roll refriger-
dough scraps and
Chocolate cutting
wafer until you have 12 cookies -- 11 for the
cookies ated sugar cookie dough
cake plus
Sugar a backup. Transfer the cookies to a foil- or parchment-
lined baking sheet and sprinkle them generously with yellow sugar. 4 tablespoons yellow deco-
Gumdrops rating sugar
Bake them according to the package directions until they're golden
Green toothpicks 2 (16-ounce) cans white
brown around the edges. Transfer them to a wire rack to cool com-
pletely. frosting
Candy decorations (we used
2. Spoon 1/2 cup of the frosting into a resealable plastic bag. Snip off a regular and mini M&M's,
corner of the bag and pipe designs onto the cookies. Add candy and Stardrops hard candies)
decorations as shown above. Allow the frosting to set for at least 1 2 (8-inch) round cakes
hour before handling the cookies.
3. Use a long serrated knife to trim the top of one of the cakes flat, if needed. Place it on a serving platter,
spread a thin layer of frosting on the top, then lay the other cake on it, rounded side up. Generously frost
the stack and use a spoon to draw the frosting on top up to a point as shown. Carefully press the cookies
around the side of the cake, piping lines of frosting between the cookies to secure them. Serves 11.
Tron Light Cycle Cake
Turn a birthday cake into a Tron Light Cycle arena using fondant
and frosting. Orange and blue Light Cycles with trails of fondant
color race across this chocolate cake, sure to be a winner with Tron
fans.
You'll need: .
Pound cake Need
Youll or other loaf- Instructions:
shaped
Light Cyclecake
Cake template
2 eight-inch
Chocolateround
frosting
chocolate 1. Place white frosting in a small bowl. Add 3 to 5
cakes,
Ladyfingers
baked from your fa- drops of neon blue food coloring. Stir until desired
vourite
Chocolate
recipewafer cookies color is reached. Set aside.
Sugar
16 ounces white frosting 2. Place cooled round cakes side by side on waxed
ounces
16 Gumdrops
chocolate frosting paper.
NeonGreen
bluetoothpicks
food coloring
Ruler 3. Frost the top of one cake with neon blue frosting.
Waxed paper
White decorator frosting 4. Place the second cake on top of the cake with
Black, neon orange, and white neon blue frosting.
fondant (Wilton brand)
5. Put chocolate frosting in a microwave safe bowl
or measuring cup and microwave for 5 to 10 seconds until it is a thick
liquid, like ganache.
6. Pour chocolate frosting on top of stacked cakes, letting it drip over the sides. Place the cake in the refrig-
erator so that frosting firms.
7. While the chocolate frosting is firming up, remove the fondant from the packaging and knead it into a ball.
If it's too sticky, a little bit of flour will make it more pliable.
8. Place white fondant in a bowl and add a few drops of the neon blue food coloring. Knead the fondant to
distribute the color. Note: Adding food coloring to fondant can be messy. Use rubber gloves or wash
hands promptly to avoid staining.
9. Roll out black, orange and blue fondant on waxed paper. Print Light Cycle Cake template onto cardstock
and cut it out.
Tron Light Cycle Cake
10. Place the bike template on the black fondant and trace using a sharp knife. You will need two black bikes
and 4 small black circles.
11. Cut remaining shapes from the template and use them to cut the Light Cycle
wheels and details from the orange and blue fondant.
12. When you have all of the detail pieces cut out, design your Light Cycles.
13. To attach wheels and fondant details to the Light Cycles dab a bit of water on the
back and press them onto the fondant bike.
14. To makeYou'll need:

the grid lines on top of the cake, wrap a piece of waxed paper around a
Pound
ruler. cake or other loaf-
shaped cake
Chocolate
15. Use white decorator icing to trace over the completed grid pattern.
frosting
Ladyfingers
16. Finally, place one
Chocolate waferLight Cycle on top of the cake, and the other along the side. Use
cookies
leftover
Sugarfondant to make color trails.
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Rabbits Pumpkin Patch
The real pumpkin patch is fun for all ages, and so is this look-alike cake.
Serve it up at your next harvest party and everyone will 'dig in'. If you
can't find mini candy pumpkins, orange gumdrops work just fine.
Youll Need Instructions You'll need:

1 (18.5 ounce) boxed cake mix 40 marshmallows
1. Bake cake as directed on box using 2 square 9x9 baking pans that
prepared 2 tablespoons water
have been prepared with cooking spray. Cool 5 minutes, remove
1 (16 ounce) can dark chocolate 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
from pans and cool completely.
icing 4 cups confectioners' sugar
1 (16 ounce) can white icing 2. Trim cakes so they are flat and place on aplus
largemore
platter. Frost the top
for kneading the
1 (22 ounce) bag small candy of the bottom layer with dark chocolate icing.
fondantTop with remaining
pumpkins 2 baked
cake and frost sides only with dark chocolate icing.
8- or 9-inch round
10 chocolate cream sandwich 3. cakes
Tint white icing with green food coloring and frost the top of the
cookies Butter
cake only - leaving the sides covered with cream frosting
dark chocolate.
32 pretzel sticks Miniature tea set
orange and green gumdrops 4. Place cookies into a large resealable plastic bags and crush fine.
optional 5. Sprinkle crushed cookies evenly over the top of the cake to look
like dirt.
6. Set candy pumpkins into the 'dirt'.
7. Piece together 4 pretzel sticks with small dabs of icing to resemble fencing. You will need 8 lengths of
'fence'. Let dry well before placing around the edge of the cake. Add a small sign attached to pretzel
sticks if wanted.
8. Surround cake with more candy pumpkins and gumdrops if desired.
Sweet Beehive Cake
Create some buzz at your little honey's garden-, flower-, or bug-

themed party with this simple cake and its cookie swarm.
You'll need:
Instructions
40 Youll Need
marshmallows
1. Use a long serrated knife to trim the tops of the round cakes flat, if 8-inch
2 round cake water
tablespoons
needed. To get the smooth look of our cake, first stack the three 6-inch round cake vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon
cakes on a wire rack over a cookie sheet. Heat 3 cups of the yellow Half-sphere
4 cups cake baked in asugar
confectioners' 2-
frosting in the microwave until it liquefies, about 20 seconds. Stir cup ovenproof
plus morebowl
for kneading the
the frosting, then slowly pour it over the top of the cakes, as shown, 3 1/2 fondant
cups yellow frosting
covering them completely. Refrigerate the stack for about 30 min- 13 round cookies
2 baked 8- or(we usedround
9-inch
utes to harden the frosting. Keebler Sandies
cakes Pecan Short-
bread)
Butter cream frosting
2. Meanwhile, frost 12 of the cookies light blue and place a Twix in 1 1/2 Miniature
cups light-blue
the center of each. Use scissors to cut the ends from the marshmal- tea setfrosting
12 Twix Minis
lows and press on these ends, sticky side down, for wings. 12 marshmallows
3. Carefully transfer the cake to a platter. To add a door, trim one edge Chocolate frosting
of the remaining cookie, as shown, cover both sides with chocolate
frosting, then press it onto the hive. Spoon the rest of the yellow
frosting into a resealable sandwich bag, snip off a corner, and pipe markings onto the bees and hive. Top
the hive with the gumdrop and arrange the bees around it. Serves 12.
Abu Cupcakes
Aladdin's pet monkey Abu tended to take things that didn't belong to
him, a habit that got the two of them into some serious fixes. In the
Cave of Wonders, for instance, he helped himself to a ruby, after
which the cave began to collapse. Still, it was Abu's quick antics that
foiled Jafar's attempt to steal the lamp from Aladdin. With a handful
of candy and nuts, you can create a batch of monkey-face cupcakes
that look every bit as mischievous as their namesake.
Instructions:You'll need:
1. Frostshaped
the cupcake
cake and set it aside while you create the monkey's facial A chocolate cupcake
Chocolate frosting
features. Chocolate frosting
Ladyfingers
2. Microwave a caramel candy for up to 6 seconds to slightly soften it. A caramel candy

Then sandwichwafer
Chocolate cookies
the candy between two pieces of waxed paper and use Waxed paper
Sugar
the rolling pin to flatten it to about 1/8 inch thick. Rolling pin
Gumdrops Toothpick
3. Cut
two ovals
Green (about 1 1/2 inch by 1 inch) out of the flattened caramel.
toothpicks
Trim the upper edge of one oval to resemble the top of a heart. Now 2 white chocolate chips
create the monkey's face by arranging the two ovals so that the upper 2 mini chocolate chips
edge of the untrimmed one overlaps the bottom of other, as Red decorator's frosting or
gel
4. Press two white chocolate chips, tips down, onto the caramel where the A gum drop candy
eye holes are. Top each white chocolate chip with a mini chocolate 2 almond slices
chip, using dabs of frosting to stick them in place.
5. Now place the face on top of the cupcake and use red decorator's frosting or gel to add a mouth.
6. Cut a small strip from the remaining scraps of flattened caramel and scrunch one edge slightly to resemble
a bit of fur for the top of the monkey's head. Gently press it in place. Then slice a gum drop down through
the center and use one half for a hat.
7. For the finishing touch, add a pair of almond sliver ears.
Cheshire Cat Cupcakes
Of all the characters Alice meets up with during her adventures in

Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is undoubtedly one of the most intrigu-
ing. This mischievous feline has a habit of materializing at will, first in
the Duchess's kitchen, then on the branch of a tree, and later in the
Queen's croquet court. Inspired by the crafty cat that bemuses Alice,
this cupcake is all grins and likely to disappear in the blink of an
eye.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
shaped cake
A chocolate cupcake
Chocolate
Cupcake frosting
frosting, tinted light
1. Frost half of the cupcake top, spreading the frosting in a wide arc
Ladyfingers
purple or lavender that resembles a grin.
Chocolate
Sour waferring
apple gummy cookies
Sugar 2. Flip over the sour apple gummy ring so the white side faces up. Cut
Kitchen knife
Gumdrops a small section away from the top of the ring, as shown (an adult's job).
Skittles candies, 2 yellow ones
for Green toothpicks
the eyes and 1 purple one 3. Now score the candy to create wide teeth (again, adults only).
for the nose
Black decorator's gel or icing 4. Place the gummy teeth on the frosted portion of the cupcake, press-
A few chocolate sprinkles ing down lightly to stick the candy in place.
Black or purple gumdrop
5. Set the candies for the nose and eyes in place, centering them on the
cupcake at the upper edge of the frosting. Top each eye with a small dot of black decorator's gel or icing.
6. For whiskers, arrange a few chocolate sprinkles on both sides of the nose.
7. For the finishing touch, cut two matching triangles from the gumdrop and use dabs of frosting to stick
Mad Hatters Teacakes
Designing a patriotic top hat that outdoes Uncle Sam's is one tall or-
der, unless perhaps making hats happens to be your specialty. This
sweet Fourth of July topper, courtesy of the Mad Hatter, features red
candy stripes and a price that's right. The original 10/6 (shillings/
pence) tag has been marked down to 7/4 in honor of the holiday.
You'll need:

Instructions: cake or other loaf-
Pound Youll Need
shaped cake Mad Hatters Fourth of July Tea-

1. CutChocolate frosting
off the tops of the cupcakes level with the upper edge of the cakes Template
Ladyfingers
paper cupcake liners so that they better resemble the flat top of the Batch of cupcakes baked in blue
Chocolate
Mad wafer cookies
Hatter's hat. paper cupcake liners
Sugar Small red candies (such as
Gumdrops
2. Frost the trimmed cupcakes and press red candies in place to create M&M's Minis)
Green toothpicks
stripes. Scissors
Scrapbook paper (red, white, and
3. Print the template and use it as a pattern for cutting out a set of brim blue)
and hatband pieces for each cupcake from the specified colors of Glue dots
paper. Glue the top brim circle atop the bottom brim circle and then Sticker numbers (optional)
curl the outer edge of the paper slightly with your fingers to give Marker
the brim a little more dimension.
4. Now shape the red hatband piece into a ring and secure it with a glue dot. Ideally, the ring should be just
wide enough for the bottom of the cupcake to fit into without actually allowing it to rest on the tabletop.
This will create the illusion that the hat is taller than it actually is.
5. When you know the ring is the right size, remove it from the cupcake and stick it to the brim using a cou-
ple of glue dots
6. Set the cupcake in place.
7. For the finishing touch, use number stickers or a marker and

a small square of white paper to make a 7/4 date tag -- tuck
the bottom of the tag behind the hatband.
Lumieres Candle Cakes
Come Christmastime, even Lumiere has company. That's because it

takes a lot of candles to properly light up the Beast's castle for the holi-
days. Inspired by the enchanted candlestick holder and his bright man-
tle-top guests, these festive cupcake candles are lit with candy flames.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
Youll or other loaf-
shaped
Yellow cakemelts (or you can Instructions:
candy
Chocolate
use frosting
melted white chocolate 1. Melt a cup of candy melts in a small bowl according to the package
Ladyfingers
tinted yellow) directions. Now create a "flame" for each candle by dipping the top
Chocolate
Lollipop stickswafer
(soldcookies
in the cake of a lollipop stick in the melted candy. Let the candy set up (it won't
Sugar aisle at craft stores)
decorating
Gumdrops take long but you can put them in the refrigerator to hasten the proc-
Batch of baked cupcakes
Green toothpicks ess, if you like) and then dip the stick a second time. Repeat this step
Red frosting or cookie icing
another time or two.
2. Frost the cupcakes.
3. Working with one candy flame at a time, break a 1 1/2-inch length or so off the bottom of the stick to
shorten it. Then insert the stick into the center of the cupcake so that the flame is about 1/2-inch above the
frosting.
Cogsworth Cupcakes
No servant in the enchanted castle knew better than Cogsworth how

fast time was running out before his master would forever lose the
chance to change his sorry fate. So, it's little wonder this trusty
timekeeper didn't waste a second trying to convince Belle to give
the Beast a chance. For fun, you and your child can spend time to-
gether decorating a cupcake in Cogsworth's likeness.
1. Frost the cupcake
shaped cake and set it aside while you Peach-colored frosting (Note:
Chocolate
create Cogsworth's hair.
frosting to make your own, simply stir 1
Ladyfingers drop of red food coloring and 2
2. 2.
Microwave a Tootsie
Chocolate wafer Roll Midgee for up
cookies to 3 drops of yellow food color-
to
6Sugar
seconds to slightly soften it. Then ing into 1 cup of butter cream
sandwich
Gumdrops the candy between two pieces of frosting. This should be enough
waxed
Green paper and use the rolling pin to flatten it to about 1/8 inch
toothpicks to frost 1/2 dozen cupcakes)
thickness. Use a knife to cut two 1/2- by 2- A cupcake
inch strips from the flattened candy. Work- A Tootsie Roll Midgee
ing with one strip at a time, use a toothpick Waxed paper
to roll the ends in opposite directions, as Rolling pin
shown. Toothpick
An almond sliver
3. 3. Stick one end of an almond sliver into A mini marshmallow
the top of the cupcake and then press the A pinch of confectioner's sugar
rolled Midgee strips in place on the sides of 2 chocolate chips
it. Red Twizzler candy
Black decorator's frosting or gel
4. For eyes, slice a mini marshmallow in half A yellow Sweetie candy
and sprinkle confectioner's sugar on the
sticky sides. Flatten both pieces with your thumb. Then press a chocolate chip, tip down, into the center of
each. Press the eyes in place on the cupcake, leaving room to add eyebrows later.
5. For Cogsworth's mouth, press a 2 3/4-inch length of red Twizzler candy into the frosting, forming a wide
smile. Add short lengths of Twizzler to the ends of the mouth.
6. Use the black decorator's frosting or gel to pipe on eyebrows. Next, pipe on clock hands that extend from
the point where the nose will go to just below the mouth. For Cogsworth's nose, press a Sweeties candy in
place, covering the very tops of the clock hands.
Strawberry Rose Shortcake
In the Beast's castle, everyone was forbidden to enter the west wing, but
eventually Belle's curiosity got the better of her. When she climbed the
stairs and stepped inside, she discovered a beautiful red rose the Beast
kept under a dome of glass because he knew that when the last petal fell,
the spell he was under could never be broken. While the petals of this
strawberry rose shortcake undoubtedly won't last long, the good news is
that you can easily create another.
You'll need:
Pound
Youllcake or other loaf-
Need
shaped cake
A shortcake dessert shell Instructions:
Chocolate
Whipped frosting
cream 1. Fill the dessert shell with whipped cream.
2 large
Ladyfingers
strawberries
A mint
Chocolate
leaf wafer cookies 2. Wash and hull the strawberries. Slice one of them vertically into 5 or 6
Sugar pieces. Arrange the slices in a circle, tips pointing outward, atop of the
Gumdrops whipped cream to create the outer petals of a rose.
Green toothpicks
3. For the center of the rose, turn the other strawberry upside down and slice off the very tip. Next, make
four cuts three quarters of the way down through the fruit to create a row of petals around the middle. Place
the strawberry in the center of the fruit slices atop the whipped cream.
4. Garnish the rose with the mint leaf. For the finishing touch, add a decorative border of whipped cream
around the shortcake.
Tow Mater Cupcakes
A mixture of good ole boy, daredevil and know-it-all, Lightning

McQueen's sidekick makes a welcome guest at any preschool party.
These cute cupcakes will pull twice their own weight at your next Cars
-themed birthday bash.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake 1 box cake mix
1. Coat both pans with non-stick spray. Prepare
Chocolate frosting 2 16 oz cans of milk chocolate
cake batter and fill both pans about 2/3 full.
Ladyfingers frosting
Bake as directed
Chocolate wafer on the package and let cool.
cookies 16 oz can of vanilla frosting
2. Count
Sugar out 60 cookies and set aside. Place the 6 cup large muffin baking pan
Gumdrops 12 cup regular size cupcake
remaining cookies in a Ziploc bag and finely
Green toothpicks baking pan
crush them with a rolling pin or glass.
4.44 oz box of Keebler Fudge
3. Set aside 12 green and 12 white M&M's. (Use Shoppe Grasshopper Cookies
yellow if you can't easily find the white ones.) (100 Calorie Right Bites)
Ziploc bag
4. For Mater's teeth, cut each piece of gum into 12 White M&M's candies
two pieces so one piece is larger than the (headlights)
other. 12 Green M&M's candies
(eyes)
5. Cut the tops off of 6 of the cupcakes so you 6 Eclipse gum pieces (teeth)
can place them upside down for the truck bed. 6 inch cardboard cake boards
Before turning upside down, frost the sides Black edible ink pen
and bottom (now top) with milk chocolate
frosting and sprinkle with cookie crumbs
6. Place the cupcakes, cut side down toward the back of a 6-inch cake board.
Place a dollop of frosting on the board to help the cupcakes stay in place
7. Frost the sides of the larger muffin-size cupcakes. Sprinkle some of the crushed
cookie pieces on the sides and then place on the cake board right in front of the
other cupcake. Frost the top and sprinkle with more cookie crumbs. Attach one
cookie to the front of each muffin-size cupcake for the mouth.
TowAbu
Mater
Cupcakes
Cupcakes
8. For each tire, attach two cookies together using frosting and then attach two tires to the larger cupcake
and two in back to the smaller cupcake.
9. Place one more cookie on the top for the tire on Mater's hood. Attach the teeth to the cookie mouth with
a small amount of frosting.
10. For the top of the trucks, first frost about half of each of the remaining cupcakes with vanilla frosting.
You can place these in the freezer for a few minutes for the frosting to harden and then it will be easier
to frost over the vanilla edges with chocolate frosting to finish Mater's face. Frost the sides and top
with chocolate and sprinkle with cookie crumbs.
You'll need:
Pound cake or other loaf- 11. Attach two green M&M's in place for eyes and two white M&M's in
shaped cake place for headlights. Use a black edible ink pen to draw pupils on the
Chocolate frosting eyes and when dry, you can use a toothpick to dot a small amount of
Ladyfingers vanilla frosting for extra detail. Heat it slightly in the microwave and it
Chocolate wafer cookies will be easier to dot on.
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
McQueen Cupcakes
No one knows better than Lightning McQueen just how bumpy the
road to success can be. Add a few transcontinental twists and turns,
and you've got an edge-of-the-seat race to the finish. But rest assured,
Lightning's quick -- just watch how fast these cupcakes disappear!
You'll need:

Pound Youll Need
shaped cake Batch of frosted cupcakes
Chocolate
1. For frosting cut small rectangles (about 1- by 1.75-inches)
the windshields, White chocolate candy bar or
from
Ladyfingers
the white chocolate. Pipe a line of red icing trim along the bar of white baking chocolate
side
Chocolate
and topwafer
edgescookies
of each rectangle. Then use the tip of a tooth- Red cupcake icing
pick
Sugarto "drill" shallow holes where the eyes will go, and gently Toothpick
Gumdrops Mini chocolate chips
press mini chocolate chips (tips down) in place. Set the wind-
Green toothpicks Chocolate candies with brown
shields aside until the icing hardens.
shells (such as M&Ms)
2. Working with one cupcake at a time, frost the top with red icing. Small chocolate candies with
Gently press a windshield partway down into the center of the yellow shells (such as M&M
cupcake. Minis)Toothpicks
3. Press two sets of brown-shelled candies into the frosting on the sides of the cupcake for tires.
4. Add headlights by turning yellow-shelled candies on edge and pressing them into the frosting (a tooth-
pick comes in handy for this). For a mouth, press a small curve of white chocolate into the frosting at
the front of the cupcake.
Ever Blossom Cupcakes
Growing in the Spring Woods section of Pixie Hollow is a single
flower called the Ever Blossom. The nature fairies wait with great
anticipation for this bud to bloom, and when it does, they know it's
time to fly to the mainland to help change winter to spring. Pretend
fairies and their friends are sure to find these sweet Ever Blossom
cupcakes an equally welcome sight. And the good news is you can
enjoy them any time of year you like.
You'll need:
Pound cake
Youll Needor other loaf-
shaped
Batch cake cupcakes
of baked Instructions:
Chocolate
Vanilla butter frosting
cream frost- 1. For each Ever Blossom, frost the center top of a cupcake. Press six

ing Ladyfingers
Chocolate candy melts into the frosting to resemble flower petals, as shown.
Butter knife wafer cookies
Sugar
White candy melts 2. Arrange four more candy melts on edge to create another row of petals
Gumdrops
Candy Dots
Green toothpicks in the center.
3. Press a Candy Dot, top down, into the frosting at the flower center.
4. Add a few more petals (gluing them in place with dabs of frosting) to fill out the flower if needed.
Tinkerbelles Shoes
While it's true that fairies log more miles in flight than on foot, they
still appreciate a comfortable pair of shoes -- like Tinker Bell's dis-
tinctive lime green slip-ons. These sweet replicas, complete with
white pompoms, are made of fondant and are sized to fit perfectly
atop a cupcake.
Instructions:
You'll need:
1. Prepare
Pound the cake
fondant and set
or other a quarter of the batch aside. Tint the rest of
loaf- Youll Need
the fondant
shaped green.
cake Fondant, store bought or home-
Chocolate frosting made (see recipe below)
2. Make a pair of shoes for each cupcake. For each shoe, roll a bit of
Ladyfingers Batch of baked cupcakes
green fondant into
Chocolate a 3/4-inch
wafer cookies ball. Use your thumb to flatten the ball Vanilla butter cream frosting
slightly,
Sugar and then pinch the sides to create a simple slipper shape, as
Butter knife
shown.
Gumdrops Green food coloring
Green toothpicks Wooden spoon
3. Use the end of a wooden spoon to lightly tamp down the fondant
where an opening for the foot would go.
4. Now roll a pinch of the un-tinted fondant into a tiny pompom and place it on the toe of the shoe.
5. Chill the shoes on a plate in the refrigerator for 10 minutes or so to firm them up.
6. Frost the cupcakes and top each one with a pair of shoes.
Ladybug Cupcakes
Make a cupcake shaped like a ladybug.
You'll need:
Pound cake or other loaf- Instructions:
Youll Need
shaped cake
1 cupcake 1. Ice the cupcake.

RedChocolate
frosting frosting
1 chocolate
Ladyfingers 2. Carefully cut the chocolate wafer into two wings, then use a writing tip
wafer
Black whip licorice
to cover them with dots. Support the wings with blobs of frosting on
Sugar the edges of the cupcake.
1 black gumdrop
Gumdrops 3. Insert the liquorice antennae into the gumdrop head.
Green toothpicks
Dragonfly Cupcakes
In their flights around and about the English countryside where Lizzy
lives in Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, Tinker Bell and the
other fairies share the air space with a host of other winged creatures, in-
cluding honeybees, butterflies, and -- perhaps the most talented flying
acrobats of all -- dragonflies. Much like mini helicopters, these colorful
insects are most often found hovering alongside streams and ponds. Or,
in the case of this candy variety, sweetly perched atop a batch of cup-
cakes.
You'll need:
Instructions:
1. Frostshaped cake
the cupcakes. Batch of cupcakes
Chocolate frosting White frosting
2. Cut
the Sour Punch Straws into 2-inch lengths and place one length
Ladyfingers
atop each cupcake forcookies
the dragonfly bodies. Press the front of each Blue Sour Punch Straws
Chocolate wafer Brown M&M's candies
body a bit deeper into the frosting than the tail end.
Sugar Swedish Fish, red and/or orange
Gumdrops
3. Place an M&Ms candy at the head of each dragonfly body.
Green
4. Arrange fourtoothpicks
Swedish Fish candies behind each dragonfly head to re-
semble two sets of wings.
Spring Flower Cupcakes
Topped with vibrant red candy blossoms, these cupcakes make a great
pick for a fairy party.
You'll need:
Pound cake
shaped cake cupcakes Instructions:
Batch of baked
Chocolate frosting
White butter cream frosting
Ladyfingers 1. Frost the cupcakes.
Swedish Fish candies
Chocolate
Yellow wafer cookies
Dots candies 2. Gently press a yellow Dots candy onto the center of each cupcake to
Sugar stick it in place.
Gumdrops 3. Then simply press seven Swedish Fish flower petals around each of the
Green toothpicks flower centers.
Squirts Turtle Cakes
When Squirt meets Marlin and finds out how determined the clownfish
is to find his son, the young sea turtle's immediate response is "You
rock!" Let your birthday kid know you feel the same way about him by
serving up a batch of these candy turtle-topped cupcakes.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Cupcakes

1. FrostChocolate frosting
the cupcakes. Frosting
Ladyfingers Sour Peach Gummy Rings can-
2. For
each cupcake,
Chocolate slice
wafer off and discard the bottom half of a red gum-
cookies dies
drop. Place
Sugar the gumdrop top on the center of a Gummy Ring to create
Gumdrop candies (red and
a turtle shell. Set the shell atop the cupcake, pressing down slightly to
Gumdrops green)
Green
stick it in place.
toothpicks Spearmint Leaves candies
Mini chocolate chips
3. For fins, slice a Spearmint Leaves candy in half. Then use an oval fon-
Wooden kitchen skewer or
dant cutter to cut each half into two pieces, as shown. Use the outer toothpick
pieces for the front fins and the inner pieces for the hind fins.
4. For the head, use a kitchen skewer or toothpick to poke eyeholes in the sides of a green gumdrop. Then
press a mini chocolate chip into each hole, using a dab of white icing to help hold it in place. Set the head
in place, again pressing down slightly so that it sticks to the frosting.
Handy Manny Capcakes
Handy Manny's famous red and white baseball cap becomes a sweet treat
when it's constructed of a mini-cupcake nestled on top of larger cupcake.
You'll need:
Pound
Youllcake
Needor other loaf-
shaped cake baked Instructions:
12 mini-cupcakes,
Chocolate
from frosting
your favourite recipe 1. Remove cupcake liners from the mini-cupcakes and place them, bottom
Ladyfingers
12 regular cupcakes, baked
Chocolate wafer recipe
cookies -up, on waxed paper. Frost the bottom and sides of the mini-cupcakes
from your favourite
Sugar with red and white decorator icing, Frost half the cupcake white and
Red decorator's icing
Gumdrops
White decorator's icing half red, to create the look of a baseball cap. Place a red cinnamon
1 cup
Green
caketoothpicks
frosting candy in the center of each cap.
12 red cinnamon candies
2. While placing frosted caps in the refrigerator to firm them up, top regu-
lar-sized cupcakes with the frosting of your choice -- we used vanilla. Pre-
school step: This is a fun job for preschoolers. Let them use a small spatula -- whipped frostings are
light and easy to spread.
3. Use red decorator's icing to pipe a red half circle on top of the frosted cupcake -- this will be the bill of
Manny's cap.
4. Remove the caps from the refrigerator and place them, bottoms-up, on top of the larger cupcakes. Be sure
to line the white side of the cap with the edge of the red half-circle, creating a hat with a bill -- just like
Manny's.
East Sides Bake Sale
Wondering what to contribute to the classroom bake sale this year?

Here's an idea inspired by East High's star basketball players that
makes a lot of cents. Just whip up a batch of your favourite cupcakes
and have your child help top them with numbers worn by his or her
school's athletes. You can either pipe on the digits using tubes of deco-
rator's frosting, or shape them out of marzipan like the ones shown
here.
You'll need:

Pound Youll Need
shaped cake Small can marzipan (check the
Chocolate
1. First you'll need to tint the marzipan to match one of the school col-
frosting baking aisle at the grocery
Ladyfingers
ors. Start with a 2-inch ball and press your finger into the center to store)
Chocolate
create a small wafer cookies
well. Insert food coloring into the well and knead the Food coloring (preferably
Sugar
marzipan to evenly distribute the color. Repeat until you have the de- paste)
Gumdrops
sired hue. Paper or parchment paper
Green toothpicks Rolling pin
2. Place the tinted marzipan between two sheets of wax paper or parch- Kitchen knife
ment paper and roll it to about a 1/8-inch thickness. Then slice the Batch of baked white cupcakes
marzipan into 3/8-inch-wide strips. White frosting
3. Help your child shape the strips into numbers, working on a clean
piece of paper. Don't be shy about folding a strip or piecing together short strips, if a digit requires it.
Marzipan, like clay, is easy to mold. To make the number 3, for example, first form the upper curve; then
fold the strip back on itself and form the lower curve. For the number 4, simply fit together and layer
shorter strips. In both cases, finish by trimming any ragged edges with a kitchen knife.
4. Frost the cupcakes, tinting the frosting first if you need to create a second color other than white. Then
transfer the numbers to the cupcake tops. If the marzipan has softened too much to handle, chill it for a
few minutes.
Baloo Cupcakes
No birthday celebration would be complete without cake. In fact, you

could say it's a bare necessity. Topped with candy bears that resemble
the beloved Baloo from Jungle Book, these cupcakes have you covered.
Youll Need Instructions:

Cupcakes
Frosting 1. Frost the cupcakes.
You'll need:
Small white cake
Pound gumdrops
or other loaf- 2. For each bear, slice off the bottom and top of a small white gumdrop.
Crowsshaped
candies
cake small black
(or
gumdrops) Reserve the midsection and discard the other pieces.
Chocolate frosting
Large black gumdrops
Ladyfingers 3. Next, slice the top off of a Crows candy and press it onto the top of the
Mini chocolate chips
Chocolate wafer cookies reserved piece of white gumdrop to create the bear's muzzle and nose.
Wooden
Sugar kitchen skewer or
toothpick 4. Press the muzzle against the side of a large black gumdrop to create the
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks head.
5. Use a kitchen skewer or toothpick to poke eyeholes in the head. Then press a mini chocolate chip into
each hole, using a dab of white icing to help hold it in place.
6. Slice off and discard the very bottom of a Crows candy to create a sticky surface. Then slice the candy in
half from the top down to create a pair of ears. Stick the ears to the head.
7. For a neck, slice the top off another large black gumdrop, and then set the head on top of the cut surface.
8. Place the assemble bear head atop a frosted cupcake, pressing it down slightly to stick it in place.
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Tramp is quick to come to the little cocker spaniel's rescue.

First he brings her to the zoo where a beaver chews through
the leather to free her. Then, he takes her out for a romantic
dinner at his favourite Italian restaurant. Piled with a generous
serving of sweet spaghetti and candy meatballs, these saucy
cupcakes are certain to score points on Valentine's Day.
You'll need:
Pound cake or other loaf-
Instructions: Youll Need
shaped cake Batch of baked cupcakes
1. Working with frosting
Chocolate one cupcake at a time, first spread the top with a thin
Vanilla butter cream frosting
coating of butter cream frosting.
Ladyfingers Butter knife
Chocolate
2. Dust your handswafer
withcookies
powdered sugar. Pinch off a 1/2-inch lump of Fondant, store bought or home-
Sugar
fondant from the batch and roll it between the palms of your hand to cre- made (see recipe below)
ate athin,
Gumdrops
long rope that resembles a strand of spaghetti. Drape the spa- Powdered sugar
onto
ghetti Greenthetoothpicks
cupcake, curling and looping it just like the real thing. Round chocolate candies, such
Continue shaping and adding more strands of fondant spaghetti until the as malt balls, Junior Caramels,
cupcake is topped with a good "serving". or chocolate covered peanuts
3. Once all the cupcakes are covered with spaghetti, prepare the sauce 1/4 to 1/3 cup strawberry jam or
by whisking the jam in a bowl until smooth. Use the pastry brush to seedless raspberry jam
spread the sauce over the noodles. Whisk
Small bowl
Top each serving of spaghetti and sauce with a few chocolate meatballs. Pastry brush
Pumbas worm cakes
Make an earth cupcake with wiggly worms on top.
You'll need:
Pound cake
Need
shaped cake
1. Frost the cupcake and sprinkle on the cookie crumbs for dirt. Use a
Chocolate frosting
1 cupcake
Ladyfingers small knife to make holes for the worms.
Chocolate frosting
Sugar
Cookie crumbs
Gumdrops
2 gummy worms
Green toothpicks
Ursulas Octopus Cakes
If there's one undersea resident that's well armed to stir up some Hal-
loween mischief, it's the unscrupulous sea witch Ursula. Well here's a
fun trick that turns the table on this menacing Octopian -- a cupcake
decorating technique that proves octopuses can be super sweet.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Batch of cupcakes
Chocolate
1. Frost frosting
the cupcakes. Buttercream frosting
Ladyfingers Round lollipops
2. For each octopus,
Chocolate waferinsert the stick of a lollipop into the center of a
cookies
cupcake so that the candy rests just above the frosting (if the stick is Gummy worms
Sugar Kitchen scissors
too long, trim it first).
Gumdrops Toothpick
Green
3. Use toothpicks
the kitchen scissors to snip two gummy worms in half to create Mini chocolate chips
four equal lengths. Then carefully snip each piece in half lengthwise
to end up with eight legs.
4. Press the tops of the legs into the frosting around the lollipop and arrange the ends so that they curve and
dangle over the edge of the cupcake.
5. For eyes, use the tip of a toothpick to place two small blobs of frosting at the base of the lollipop and then
press in two mini chocolate chips, tips down.
Sebastian Cupcakes
Sebastian keeps the undersea kingdom jamming with catchy Caribbean

tunes. He's also Ariel's constant companion when she ventures onto
land to seek her prince. Little Mermaid fans will be thrilled to see their
favorite crustacean in cupcake form. Create a crowd of these cuties for
your next "Under the Sea"-themed birthday party.
You'll need:
Pound cake
Need Instructions:
shaped
Cupcakes, cake from your fa-
baked

vorite recipe frosting
Chocolate 1. Place marzipan in a bowl and add a few dollops of red gel food color-
Ladyfingers
Blue cake frosting ing. Knead the food coloring into the marzipan to incorporate. You can

Marzipan, store wafer
Chocolate boughtcookies wear rubber gloves to keep food coloring off hands, or wash hands im-
Sugar
Red gel food coloring mediately after mixing.
Gumdrops
White fondant, store bought 2. .Frost the cupcakes with blue frosting and set aside
Green toothpicks
Red candy melts
3. Pinch off a piece of red marzipan and roll it into a small oval. Roll a
Black confetti sprinkles
tiny piece of marzipan into a snake and cut it into two equally sized
Red decorator icing
pieces. The oval will be Sebastian's head. The two small snakes will form
Rubber gloves (optional)
Sebastian's lips.
4. Press the lips to the bottom of the oval head. Roll two small white
fondant balls for eyes.
5. Press the fondant eyes right above Sebastian's mouth.
6. Add black confetti pupils and roll two small teardrop shapes from the Marzipan for Sebastian's claws.
7. Place a candy melt in the center of the cupcake as Sebastian's shell. Add his head and claws.
8. Finally, draw on legs and connect claws to his body with the red decorator icing.
9. Serve cupcakes on a plate covered with brown sugar "sand."
Mickey Mummy Cakes
Need a cool and creepy treat to wrap up your Halloween party menu?
Here's one that features a special famous guest mummified in sweet
marshmallow strips.
You'll need:

Pound
shaped cake
Youll Need
Chocolate
1. Working atop frosting
wax paper dusted with confectioners sugar, use a roll-
Ladyfingers
ing pin to flatten a bunch of marshmallows.
Wax paper
2. Use kitchen scissors to cut the rolled marshmallows into thin strips. Confectioner's sugar
Sugar
Set the strips aside for now. Rolling pin
Gumdrops
Marshmallows
Green toothpicks
3. Frost the cupcakes. Press a pair of nonpareil candies (white side Kitchen scissors
down) into the frosting at the top of each cupcake to resemble White frosting
Mickey ears. Then add a pair of chocolate-covered raisin eyes. Chocolate nonpareil candies
Chocolate-covered raisins
4. Randomly place marshmallow strips over each cupcake, leaving the
eyes exposed, to resemble a mummy. Gently press the strips into the
icing just enough to make them stick in place. When the cupcakes are sufficiently covered, use the
kitchen scissors to trim the marshmallow around the perimeters, as needed.
Just Ducky Cakes
We all know Donald can be a cantankerous duck, but these cute candy-
billed cupcakes are inspired by his sweet side. Serve them at a birthday
party or make a batch for a quick-and-easy everyday dessert.
You'll need:
shaped cake Instructions:
Youll Need
Chocolate frosting
Ladyfingers 1. Frost the cupcakes, using the knife to pull the frosting up into a cou-
White frosting
Chocolate wafer cookies ple feathery peaks at the top of the head.
Yellow Swedish Fish candies
Sugar
Kitchen knife or scissors 2. For a duck bill, slice a yellow Swedish Fish candy in half length-
Gumdrops
Small black jellybeans wise. Then press the two halves into the frosting, separating them
Green toothpicks
Tube of black decorating icing slightly, at the very edge of the cupcake top (opposite the feathery
frosting peaks).
3. For eyes, press two black jellybeans into the frosting. Use the black decorating icing to pipe on curved
eyebrows about 3/8 inch above the eyes.
Mickey Mouse Cakes
Whipping up a batch of birthday cupcakes doesn't get much easier than

this. Just start with some chocolate sandwich cookies, add a little inspi-
ration from America's most ear-risistible mouse, and you're ready to
sing Happy Birthday.
You'll need:
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting
Batch of cupcakes
Ladyfingers
Frosting
Chocolate
2. Split wafer
each cookie into cookies
halves (you'll need a total of six regular cookies Chocolate sandwich cookies,
twelve
and Sugar mini cookies to decorate a dozen cupcakes).
regular size and mini size
Gumdrops
3. Push one half
Green of a regular cookie (with the unfrosted side facing for-
toothpicks
ward) halfway down into the center of a cupcake to create the top of the mouse head. For ears, set a pair
of mini cookie halves (again, unfrosted sides facing forward) right behind and to the sides of the head.
This time press the cookies into the frosting just far enough to hold them in place.
4. Use the remaining cookie halves to decorate the rest of the cupcakes
Panda Bear Cakes
During ancient times in Princess Mulan's homeland, Chinese

emperors sometimes kept Pandas as pets. They must have had
plenty of food on hand because these native black-and-white
bears sure can eat. Pandas are known to spend as much as 16
hours a day munching on their favourite food: the bamboo
that grows on China's mountainsides. Here's a treat that's sure
to satisfy the appetite of any Panda fan.
You'll need:

Pound
shaped cake
Youll Need
Chocolate frosting 1. Frost the cupcake and set it aside while you create the panda bear's
A chocolate cupcake facial features.
Ladyfingers
White frosting
Chocolate wafer cookies 2. Spread a sheet of waxed paper on a flat working space and then
A black gummy bear-
Sugar sprinkle the surface with granulated sugar.
Waxed paper
Gumdrops
Granulated sugar 3. Cut the gummy bear into five equal-size pieces and set one of them
Green toothpicks
Rolling pin atop the sugared paper. Sprinkle on a little more sugar. Then cover
Black decorator gel or icing the candy with another piece of waxed paper and roll it into a circu-
2 chocolate chips lar bear ear about 1/8 inch thick and 3/4 inch wide (you can use
your fingers to better mould and refine the candy once you've rolled
it). Make a matching ear from a second piece of the candy.
4. Roll out two more gummy bear pieces to create oval eye patches about 1 1/4 inch long and 3/4 inch wide.
5. Finally, roll out the remaining piece and cut out a triangular nose (about 3/4 wide and 1/2 inch long from
top to tip).
6. Arrange the ears, eye patches, and nose on top of the cupcake, as shown. Then top the lower portion of
each eye patch with a dab of white icing and press a chocolate chip, tip down, into each dab.
7. Finally, use black decorator's gel or icing to draw on a thin upturned mouth, and then to connect the cen-
ter of the mouth to the bottom of the nose
Jack Skellington Cakes
Much as he wanted it to be, Christmas did not turn out to be Jack Skel-
lington's fort. Still, with a bow tie that resembles a bat and a pet dog
whose nose looks like a glowing Jack-o'-lantern, Jack remains king of
Halloween. After all, who else do you know that can remove his own
head and put it back on again none the worse for wear? Inspired by this
remarkable trick, these cupcakes make a sweet, if nightmarish, Hallow-
een treat.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Youll Need
Chocolate frosting Batch of chocolate cupcakes
Ladyfingers White buttercream frosting
Chocolate
2. For wafer
each cupcake, cookies
use the tip of a toothpick to lightly etch the outline 2 toothpicks
Sugar
of two large Jack Skellington eyes in the frosting. Tube of black decorator's ic-
Gumdrops ing
3. Slowly pipe black decorator's icing onto the etched lines and then fill
Green toothpicks
in the inner circles. Use another toothpick to spread and smooth the
icing.
4. Pipe on two short lines for a nose. Next, pipe a long line across the bottom of the cupcake for the mouth.
For the finishing spooky touch, randomly top the mouth with a bunch of short icing barbs.
Phineas Surfboard Cake
No one in the tri-state area is likely to forget the day Phineas and Ferb
transformed their backyard into a beachside paradise. Not only was it
one of the few times that Candace actually joined in the fun, but Phi-
neas pulled off a spectacular winning performance in the surfing con-
test. Inspired by the bright orange and purple board he rode to victory,
these cookie-topped cupcakes make a great treat to "surf" up at a sum-
mer party. The beach sand at the base of the boards is crushed peanuts,
but you can use plain cookie crumbs if you prefer.
You'll need:
shapedYoull
cakeNeed
Template
Chocolatefor Phineas's
frosting Surf- 1. Print and cut out the template.
board Cupcakes
Ladyfingers 2. Wearing plastic kitchen gloves, knead orange food coloring into
Scissors
Chocolate wafer cookies half of the cookie dough and purple food coloring into the rest. This
Plastic
Sugar kitchen gloves (for is a fun job for kids. Wrap the dough in plastic and keep it chilled
kneading
Gumdrops food coloring into the until you're ready to use it. (Note: If you want to use cookie crumbs
dough)
Green toothpicks instead of crushed peanuts for the beach sand, reserve a small por-
Batch of sugar cookie dough tion of plain dough to bake and then crush when the cookies are
Food coloring cool.)
Rolling pin 3. To make the surfboard cookies, press equal portions of orange and
Flour purple dough into a single ball and knead the dough just a few
Wax paper times.
Kitchen knife 4. Cover your work surface with flour-dusted wax paper, and roll the
Spatula dough out to about a 1/4-inch thickness. You should see a random
Wire rack pattern of colors at this point.
5. Use the template and a kitchen knife to cut out a bunch of surfboard
Baked cupcakes
cookies. Bake and cool the cookies according to the recipe direc-
Frosting
tions.
Crushed peanuts or plain cookie 6. Frost the cupcakes and top them with small mounds of crushed pea-
crumbs nuts or cookie crumbs. Then press the base of a surfboard cookie
down into the center of each cupcake. Surf's up!
Prince Naveen Cakes
Looks sure can be deceiving -- just ask a certain monarch who hails
from the land of Maldonia. Like Naveen, this little frog may not be
suited in shining armour. Still, perched atop a cupcake throne and
sporting a candy crown, he truly is a sweet prince.
You'll need:
shaped cake
Instructions: Batch of baked cupcakes
Chocolate frosting Wooden spoon
Ladyfingers
1. Stir drops of food coloring into the frosting until you have the desired Green food coloring
Chocolate
shade of green.wafer cookies Butter cream frosting
Sugar
2. Spread a dollop of frosting on the center of each cupcake. Butter knife
Gumdrops Green jelly fruit slices
3. To
create
Greeneach frog, press a jelly fruit slice down into the frosting. For
toothpicks Large green gumdrops
eyes, slice a gumdrop in half. Then snip a mini marshmallow in two
Kitchen scissors
and press the halves against the cut surfaces of the gumdrop. Press a
chocolate chip into the center of each marshmallow half. Place the Mini marshmallows
eyes on the cupcake just behind the jelly fruit slice. Chocolate chips
Small kitchen knife
Yellow Starburst candies
Toothpicks
Pocahontas Tepee cakes
Kids will gather around for these tepee cupcakes.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
Instructions:
1shaped
cupcake cake
Chocolate
1 large cupcakefrosting
1. Unwrap both cupcakes and, with both upside down, stack the
Brown
Ladyfingers
frosting
smaller atop the larger, with icing in between.
3Chocolate wafer
thin pretzel cookies
sticks
Red
Sugar
whip licorice 2. Frost the stack.
Orange
Gumdropsfruit leather
Green toothpicks 3. Insert the 3 pretzel sticks at angles so they cross at the top, tying
them together with licorice.
4. Wrap the fruit leather "hide" around the cupcakes and, using a writing tip, decorate it with designs.
Zombie Tattoo Cupcake
No pirate adventure is worth its salt without a hair-raising encounter

with formidable foes. And when the quest is to find the Fountain of
Youth, who could have a better motive to thwart the mission than a
pack of zombies well beyond hope of eternal youth? Modeled after
one of their more eye-catching body art images, these cupcakes are
"fare" warning for all mates to keep their eyes peeled!
You'll need:
shaped cake
Instructions: Batch of frosted cupcakes
Chocolate frosting Several pieces of brown taffy
1. Roll flat the brown taffy between pieces of wax paper (if the candy is
Ladyfingers (such as Tootsie Roll Midgees)
too stiff, you can
Chocolate microwave
wafer cookies it for up to 5 seconds to soften it). Then Rolling pin
Sugar
cut the flattened candy into thin strips (about 3/8- by 3-inches). Wax paper
Gumdrops Kitchen scissors or knife
2. Cut some gummy
Green fruit ring candy in half so that you end up with two
toothpicks Gummy fruit ring candy (such
thin rings to use as irises. Turn the halves sticky-side-up and cover as Life Savers Gummies)
each of the holes with a pupil (small chocolate candy with brown Small chocolate candy with
shell). brown shell (such as M&M
Minis)
3. Working on wax paper, assemble an eye for each cupcake by arrang- Chocolate sprinkles
ing two of the brown taffy strips into overlapping semicircles, as
shown. Then slip one of the iris/pupils part way under the upper strip, leaving a gap between the iris and
the lower strip.
4. Transfer each eye to a cupcake top, and gently press down on the pupil to push the iris halfway into the
frosting. For the finishing touch, add chocolate sprinkle eyelashes.
Tiny Teacakes
They may have their magic, but from time to time, even fairies like
Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather look forward to relaxing over an old-
fashioned spot of tea. All the better if it's served with delectable tea-
cakes! You can prepare a whole tray full of these tempting morsels in
little more time that it takes to fill the sugar bowl and creamer.
You'll need:
Pound
Youllcake
Needor other loaf-
Instructions:
shaped
Several slicescake
of pound cake
Chocolate frosting quick
or your child's favourite 1. Cut the pound cake or quick bread slices into cubes.
Ladyfingers
bread (about an inch thick)
2. Make icing by combining the confectioner's sugar and the citrus juice
1/2 cup
confectioner's sugar
Sugar in the small bowl. Add water a teaspoon at a time, stirring until the
1/2 teaspoon lemon or orange
Gumdrops mixture is smooth and thin enough to drizzle.
juice
Green toothpicks
Water 3. Working with one cake cube at a time, dunk the tops into the icing and
Small bowl and spoon then set the tea cakes, right side up, on a piece of waxed paper.
Waxed paper 4.Sprinkle on decorator candies or sprinkles before the icing hardens.
Decorator candies or sprin-
kles
Forest Eyes
For Snow White, being abandoned by the Evil Queen's huntsman was
truly an eye-opening experience. The startled princess spent a terrify-
ing night under the watch of countless creepy peepers only to discover
in the light of day that they belonged to kindly animals that would lead
her to safety. Likewise, these eye-catching cupcakes may cause your
kids to pause -- but so too will they be a delightful sight.
You'll need:
shaped cake Batch of baked cupcakes
Instructions:
Chocolate frosting Buttercream frosting tinted
Ladyfingers black
Chocolate wafer cookies Yellow Starburst candies
Sugar
2. For each pair of eyes, place a Starburst candy between two pieces of Black jellybeans
Gumdrops
waxed paper and roll it flat to a thickness of 1/4 inch or so. If the Wax paper
candy
Greentoo
is hard to roll, you can soften it by heating it in a micro-
toothpicks Rolling pin
wave oven for 3 to 4 seconds. Use the fondant cutter to cut out a cir- Small round fondant cutter
cle from the rolled candy and then slice the circle in half. (about 1 1/2 inches wide)
3. Gently press a black jellybean onto the center of each candy semi cir- Kitchen knife
cle. If it doesn't stick in place, use a dab of leftover frosting to hold it.
4. Center each eye atop a cupcake. Then arrange the cupcakes in pairs on a serving dish or tray.
Poison Apple Cupcakes
Need a cool and creepy treat to wrap up your Halloween party menu?
Here's one that features a special famous guest mummified in sweet
marshmallow strips.
You'll need:
Pound cake
Youll Needor other loaf- Instructions:
shaped cake
1 cupcake
Chocolate frosting
Red frosting 1. Unwrap the cupcake and ice it with the red frosting.
Ladyfingers
1 mini pretzel stick 2. Dip the pretzel stick in melted chocolate, allow it to harden, then insert

Melted chocolatewafer cookies
Chocolate it for the stem.
Sugar
1 green gumdrop leaf
Gumdrops 3. Add the gumdrop leaf (or make one with green frosting and a leaf tip).
1 gummy worm
Green toothpicks Cut a small "bite" out of the cupcake and insert the worm or just half of
one!
Apple Meringue Tarts
These simple little apple tarts topped with meringue are tasty eaten
warm or cold. Serve them with vanilla yogurt or cream. This recipe will
make slightly more apple puree than you need for the tarts, but it keeps
for a few days in the fridge.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake 7 oz ready-made pastry crust
Chocolate frosting 2-3 apples
1. Preheat the oven to 400F. Cut 6 circles from the pastry using a 3-3
Ladyfingers 2 tbsp water
1/2 inch round cutter to cut out 6 circles of pastry and use these to
Chocolate wafer cookies 1 tbsp sugar
line muffin pan. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
Sugar 1 tsp lemon juice
Gumdrops
2. Peel, chop, and cook the apples in the water over a medium heat until 1 large egg white
Greenfairly
soft and dry. Remove from the heat, stir in 1 tbsp sugar and the
toothpicks 3 tbsp superfine sugar
lemon juice.
3. Let the apples cool a little, then mash them into small pieces. Spoon
approx. 1 tbsp of the apple puree into the pasty cases and bake in the oven for 15 minutes, until the pastry
is golden.
4. While the bases are baking, make the meringue. Whisk the egg white to stiff peaks. Whisk in 1 tbsp
sugar, then whisk in the remaining sugar. You should have a stiff, glossy meringue.
5. Remove the tarts from the oven and pipe or spoon the meringue onto the apple avoiding the edge of the
tin. Return to the oven and cook for a further 3-5 minutes until the meringue is lightly browned. Remove
from the oven and leave to stand for 10 minutes before lifting the tarts carefully from the tin (run a sharp
knife around the edge to loosen, if necessary). Serve warm or cold. Leftovers can be stored in the fridge
for up to 24 hours.
Seven Little Pies
Mining for rubies and diamonds, a dwarf is bound to work up a huge appetite. No wonder Snow White
Mining for rubies and diamonds, a dwarf is bound to work up a huge
appetite. No wonder Snow White set right to work preparing a full- set right to work preparing a ful -course supper complete with des ert. So what can a cook do when
course supper complete with dessert. So what can a cook do when
you've got a bunch of hungry mouths to feed and everybody likes a you've got a bunch of hungry mouths to fe d and everybody likes a dif erent kind of pie? Whip up a
different kind of pie? Whip up a batch of pint-size pie shells and let
each child fill one with her favourite flavour of jam or jelly. batch of pint-size pie shel s and let each child fil one with her favourite flavour of jam or jel y.
You'll need:
Pound
Youllcake
Needor other loaf- Instructions:
shaped cake
Refrigerated pie dough (store- 1. Heat the oven to 450 degrees. Meanwhile, use the cookie cutter to cut out fourteen circles
Chocolate
bought frostingrolled from the dough. Place seven of them on a plate in the refrigerator for the time being.
or homemade)
aLadyfingers
into crust about 10 to 11
Chocolate
inches wafer cookies 2. Use the remaining circles to create lower crusts for the mini pies by gently pressing each one
in diameter
Sugar
Round cookie cutter (2 1/2 to into the bottom of a lined muffin pan cup and then using a fork to poke holes in the center of
Gumdrops the dough to keep if from puffing up will it bakes. Cook the crusts until they turn golden brown,
3 inches wide)
about 5 minutes. Then transfer them from the pan to the wire rack to cool.
Green
Muffin pan toothpicks
Muffin cup liners 3. For the upper crusts, remove the dough circles from the refrigerator and use a fork to first
Wire cooling rack crimp the edge of each one and then to poke holes in the centers.
Cookie sheet
4. Place the muffin pan upside down on top of the cookie sheet and gently drape each dough
Fork
circle over the bottom of a muffin cup. Again, bake the crusts until they turn golden brown
Whisk (about 5 minutes) and then transfer them to the rack to cool.
1/4 cup seedless jam or jelly
5. Whisk the jam or jelly until smooth and fill each bottom crust with a generous teaspoonful
before topping off each pie with an upper crust.
Valentine Cupcakes
He may be timid by nature, but this squeaky-voiced little pig tries his
hardest to be brave hearted. Here's a sweet treat that proves Piglet has
pluck particularly when it comes to professing affection on Valen-
tine's Day.
You'll need:
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting Batch of baked cupcakes
1. To shape
Ladyfingers
the cupcakes like Piglet's face, use a knife to trim halfway Pink frosting
Chocolate
around each cupcake top close to the baking paper (this tapered por-
wafer cookies Small candy hearts *
Sugar
tion will be the top of the head and the wider untrimmed half will be Black decorator's gel
jowls).
the Frost the cupcakes.
Gumdrops Small bowl
each
Green toothpicks Toothpick
2. For Piglet, gently press a candy heart into the frosting in the cen-
ter of the cupcake. Swedish Fish candies
* You can simply use Conversa-
3. Squirt a little bit of black decorator's gel into a bowl. Use the tip of a tion Hearts candies. Or, another
toothpick to add drops of gel for eyes and eyebrows (remember to option is to spread melted red
keep them small like Piglet's). Then dip the toothpick into the gel and Candy Melts on waxed paper, let
draw on a short grin. the candy set up again, and use a
fondant cutter to cut out a bunch
4. For each ear, gently press the ends of two Swedish Fish candies into
of small candy hearts.
the frosting at the top of the head.
Rabbits Easter Cakes
Topped with miniature candy carrots, these holiday cupcakes

make the perfect treat for Rabbit to serve a silly old bear, or any
other resident of the Hundred Acre Wood, that might happen to
stop by at lunchtime on Easter day. Even Winnie the Pooh is
bound to find them as tempting -- well, almost as tempting -- as
honey.
You'll need:
Youll Need
Chocolate frosting
Orange Starburst candies (one 1. With clean hands, knead each Starburst candy and roll it
Ladyfingers
for each carrot) into a mini carrot shape. If the candy is too stiff, you can
Kitchen skewer or toothpick
Sugar microwave it for 4 or 5 seconds. But don't overdo it -- the
Kitchen scissors
Gumdrops candy will melt if it's overheated.
Green Twizzlers
Green toothpicks
Batch of cupcakes 2. Use the skewer or toothpick to make a hole about 1/4-
White frosting inch deep in the top of each carrot.
Cinnamon sugar
3. Cut 1 1/2-inch lengths from a Twizzler and then snip them
in half vertically. Turn each half into a leafy top by cutting
fringe in one end.
4. Insert the carrot tops into the holes in the carrots. If they don't fit, try trimming the bases a
bit to taper them. Or use the skewer tip to gently push them in place.
5. When all the carrots are made (you'll want 2 or 3 per cupcake), frost the cupcakes and
sprinkle the centers with cinnamon sugar to resemble a patch of sandy soil.
6. "Plant" the carrots in the cupcakes, leaving 1/4 to 1/2 inch of the orange candy showing.
Rapunzels Tower Cakes
This Tangled tower cupcake is a fun and delicious recipe that kids and
grown-ups are sure to enjoy. Decorating this tower is a fun party activ-
ity for kids, but if you make the Tangled tower cupcake before the
party, it also makes the perfect centerpiece!
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake 4x4x2-inch Styrofoam block
Chocolate frosting Green paper
1. Prepare the Styrofoam first. Insert wooden dowel straight into the Scissors
Ladyfingers
center of the Styrofoam. Remove the dowel and cover the top and 12-inch wooden dowel
sides of the Styrofoam with green paper. Then re-insert the dowel 4x4-inch grease-proof doily
Sugar
into the Styrofoam block, first cutting a slit in the center of the pa-
Gumdrops 1 waffle cone
per Green
so the toothpicks
dowel can be inserted easily. Place a sheet of wax paper Purple candy coatings
or 4x4-inch cake doily on top of the Styrofoam, around the dowel. Wax paper
Cut a slit in the doily to make it easy to attach. 6 pecan rolls
1 large cupcake or muffin in a
2. Prepare the roof of the tower. Melt purple candy coatings and com- white paper wrapper
pletely coat the outside of the waffle cone. Shake off any excess 1 brown cupcake wrapper
and let dry. 1 can ready-made butter cream
frosting
3. Slide the pecan rolls onto the dowel, alternating the direction of Green food coloring
each one. 1 disposable decorating bag
with #16 tip
Rapunzels Tower Cakes
4. Before placing the last pecan roll, cut a slit in the bottom center of a brown cupcake
wrapper and place the wrapper on the dowel. Then you can place the last roll right
inside. This will help support the muffin.
5. Slide the muffin, paper included, onto the dowel.
You'll need:

6. Finish thecake
Pound or by
tower other loaf- a little remaining candy coating over the muffin top
spreading
andshaped
attachcake
the waffle cone. When the coating sets, the two will be attached. Tint a
small
Chocolate
amountfrosting
of frosting with green food coloring. Then pipe on small leaves to
wrap
Ladyfingers
around the tower base.
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Pascal Cakes
Pascal is a colourful little chameleon whose mood and color can

change in the blink of an eye. These cupcakes are designed to look like
Pascal in his many different moods, but no matter which expression
you choose to decorate him with, you're sure to put a smile on the face
of anyone who sees these sweet treats!
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake 12 cupcakes, baked from your
1. Divide the frosting
Chocolate into 3 small bowls. Add 5-10 drops of food col-
frosting favourite recipe and cooled
oring to each bowl. You will have red, blue, and green bowls of 1 can white frosting
Ladyfingers
icing. Continue stirring and adding food coloring until you reach Food coloring (red, blue, and
green)
the desired shade. You will need at least 10 drops of the red, as the
Sugar Easy Frost icing in white, red,
Gumdrops
white frosting tends to turn pink. green, and blue (use with round
Green toothpicks tip attached)
2. Frost the cupcakes, making four of each color.
12 yellow gumdrops, such as
3. Use the white Easy Frost icing to create two large white circles of Dots
24 chocolate chips
frosting for eyes.
24 black rainbow-chip crunch
4. Cut the gumdrops in half, and press a chocolate chip, pointy side decorator sprinkles, such as
Wilton brand
down, into the sticky side of each gumdrop. Press these into the
Red and blue fruit roll-ups,
white frosting circles as Pascal's iris and pupil.
such as Fruit by the Foot
5. Place two rainbow-chip decorator sprinkles into the frosting below
Pascal's eyes -- these will be his nostrils.
6. Create the crest on the top of Pascal's head using the Easy Frost icing. In coordinating
colors, draw a line of frosting from between the eyes up to the top of the cupcake.
7. Use a toothpick to draw on Pascal's mouth. To make the happy, green Pascal, draw a
smile; to make the angry, red Pascal, draw a frown; and for the sad, blue Pascal,
draw a straight line.
8. Finally, blue and red Pascal should have eyelids. These make him look angry or sad.
Cut small half circles from the fruit rolls. You will need 8 red and 8 blue. Place a
fruit roll eyelid over each eye. For angry, red Pascal tilt them toward the center, for
sad, blue Pascal place them straight, in the center of the eye.
Alien Cupcakes
These Green alien cupcakes are sure to be out of this world.
You'll need:
PoundYoull
cakeNeed
or other loaf- Instructions:
Cupcakes:
shaped cake
Marshmallows 1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and beat
Chocolate frosting
Mini Marshmallows together until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
Ladyfingers
Strawberry
Chocolate licorice
waferlaces
cookies 2. Line a muffin pan with 12 paper cases and fill each about half full
Licorice
Sugar Allsorts with batter.
Gummy rings
Gumdrops 3. Bake the cakes for 18 to 20 minutes. You can tell they are done when
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks they have risen up, are golden in colour and spring back into shape
Candy coated chocolate
when pressed with your finger. You can also make mini cupcakes in a
Taffy tape
mini muffin tin and these will only need 12 to 15 minutes in the oven.
Sour tape
Non Pareils 4. Tint the frosting green with food coloring. Spread the frosting over
the tops of the cupcakes and decorate.
Christmas Hamm Cakes
Not your standard holiday ham, this Christmas swine (sans the brine)
makes a sweet and surprising addition to the dessert line-up. And on a
day when kids are unwrapping new toys, it's also a playful tribute to
old favourites already in residence.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Batch of baked cupcakes (in

1. FrostChocolate frosting
the cupcakes. paper liners)
Ladyfingers Pink frosting
2. For
each Hammwafer
Chocolate nose,cookies
use a pink Candy Melts wafer turned right
Toothpick
side down.
Sugar Before placing it on the cupcake, use the tip of a tooth-
pick to etch a couple of small nostril grooves in the wafer and then Pink candy melts (we used Wil-
Gumdrops ton brand)
gently
Green press a red sprinkle in each groove.
toothpicks Sprinkles (red and brown)
3. Gently press a pair of chocolate chip eyes (tips down) and choco- Chocolate chips
late sprinkle eyebrows into the frosting above the nose on each cup- Pink jelly beans
cake. Kitchen scissors or knife
4. For each set of ears, snip a pink jelly bean in half lengthwise. Then Thin red or green ribbon
press the ears into the frosting above the eyes. Glue dots or tape
5. For the finishing touch, tie pieces of ribbon into small holiday bows
and use glue dots or rolled tape to attach one to each paper cupcake liner.
Green Alien Cupcakes
A troop of alien squeeze-toys played an important role in Buzz and

Woody's adventure. It's a piece of cake to invite these little green mon-
sters to your child's Toy Story-themed party.
You'll need:
Pound cakeNeed
shaped baked
Cupcakes, cake from your
Chocolate frosting
favourite recipe 1. First, mix up a batch of alien green icing by adding few drops of neon
Ladyfingers
White frosting, store-bought green food coloring to your favourite white icing.
from
or Chocolate wafer cookies
your favourite recipe
Sugar 2. Prepare your aliens' ears. Cut ears, shaped like teardrops, from green
Neon green food coloring
Gumdrops chewable can-
Mint-flavoured apple belts. A pair of kitchen shears works well, or use a small leaf
diesGreen
(foundtoothpicks
packaged in rolls) shaped fondant cutter. You will need 2 ears for each cupcake.
Green apple sour belts
3. Frost cupcakes and insert a 2" sour straw antenna. Press your ears
Green apple sour straws, cut
into 2" pieces into the sides of the cupcake.
Black decorator gel icing
4. Line up three mint-flavoured, chewable candies as eyes, and dot with
Kitchen shears, or a small leaf
black gel icing for pupils.
shaped fondant cutter
5. Give your alien an awed expression by drawing on a circle for a
mouth with black gel icing
Mr. Pricklepants Cakes
Kids will love making the frosting "quills" and creating a cute cookie
face.
You'll need:

Pound Youll Need
shaped cake 12 cupcakes, baked from your
1. LetChocolate frosting
preschoolers help frost your cupcakes generously with choco- favorite recipe
Ladyfingers
late frosting. 2 cups chocolate frosting
design
Chocolate
yourwafer cookies 12 small vanilla cookies, like
2. To hedgehog face, dab on black gel icing eyes, eye-
Sugar
brows and whiskers. Place a dollop of frosting on the flat side of a Nilla wafers
Gumdrops
chocolate chip and attach the chocolate chip to the center of the 12 green gumdrops
cookie,
Green
as toothpicks
a nose. 1 red gumdrop
12 green candy-melts
3. To build Mr. Pricklepants' hat, cut gumdrops in half and use the
Green writer frosting
wide half of the gumdrop as the crown of the hat. Use green writer
Red writer frosting
icing to glue the crown to the candy melt brim. A sliver of red gum-
Black gel decorator icing
drop attached with green writer icing is the feather in Mr. Pricklep-
12 chocolate chips
ants' hat.
Chocolate sprinkles
4. Place the cookie face on the frosted cupcake. Add sliced almond 24 sliced almonds
ears. Toothpicks
5. Create quills by drawing short lines in the frosting using a tooth-
pick. Preschoolers will love this job, and it's great practice for building fine motor skills.
6. Top off your cupcake with a green gumdrop hat.
Bo Peeps Sheep Cakes
While Bo Peep actually resides in Molly's room as an adornment for
the little girl's bedside lamp, she spends plenty of time with Andy's toys
being cast in his plays as the damsel in distress. These sweet cupcakes
are inspired by the porcelain sheep that belong to the little shepherdess:
pink-faced ewes that stand so close together they're sometimes mis-
taken for a single sheep with three heads.
You'll need:
Pound cakeNeed
shaped
Package ofcake
white circular
Chocolate frosting Instructions:
melting candies (found in
Ladyfingers
craft stores), or white choco- 1. Melt the candies or white chocolate chips in the microwave according
Chocolate
late chips wafer cookies to the package directions. For each sheep head, dip one end of a cherry
Sugar
Microwave-safe bowl -flavoured candy in the melted white candy and then set it on a plate
Gumdrops
Plate until the candy sets up again.
36 cherry-flavored
Green toothpicks oblong
pieces of chewy candy, such 2. Meanwhile, frost the cupcakes.
as Tootsie Flavor Roll 3. Place three sheep heads side-by-side atop each cupcake. For ears, gen-
Twisties (sold in the bulk tly press slivered almonds into the frosting on both sides of each head.
candy aisle of the grocery
store)* 4. For eyes, apply small dots of white decorator's icing. Then use the tip
1 dozen baked cupcakes of a toothpick to top them with smaller dots of black icing or gel.
White frosting
Slivered Almonds
Tube of white decorator's ic-
ing
Tube of black decorator's ic-
ing or gel
Toothpick
Squeeker Cakes
If there's one undersea resident that's well armed to stir up some Hal-
loween mischief, it's the unscrupulous sea witch Ursula. Well here's a
fun trick that turns the table on this menacing Octopian -- a cupcake
decorating technique that proves octopuses can be super sweet.
You'll need:
shaped cake

1. HaveChocolate frosting
your child help make a batch of vanilla cupcakes with vanilla Vanilla cupcakes
Ladyfingers
frosting. (Use your favorite recipe or 1 box of cake mix, which will Vanilla frosting
Chocolate
make wafer cookies
24 cupcakes.) Chocolate cookies (we used
Sugar Keebler Fudge Shoppe Grass-
2. Buy or make 2 to 3 cups of frosting (save some for decorating
Gumdrops hopper Fudge Mint Cookies --
glue).
Green toothpicks 3 halves per penguin for body
3. Decorate as shown, cutting the cookies in half with a knife (a par- and head)
ent's job) and using extra frosting to attach the apricot beak and the Dried apricots (cut into trian-
M&M's eyes. gles for the beak and feet)
Brown M&M's Minis (eyes)
UP Cakes
Let Carl, Russell, and Dug give your next party a lift with a bunch of
"Up"-inspired cupcakes.
You'll need:
Youllcake
shaped Need Instructions:
Chocolate frosting
Cupcakes
Ladyfingers
Bright-colored frosting 1. Frost cupcakes in bright colors.
Chocolate wafer cookies 2. Tape a length of ribbon to the bottom of each cupcake, then arrange the
Ribbons
Sugarfor Up House
Template cupcakes as shown on a large platter or board. Tie the loose ribbon
Gumdrops ends together. On top of the ribbon knot, place our print-and-fold paper
Green toothpicks model of Carl's house.
Heffalump Cakes
Invite a Heffalump to your party and your sure to have a good time.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake 1 cupcake
1. Unwrap the cupcake and turn it upside down. Ice with red frosting.
Chocolate frosting Red frosting
Ladyfingers
2. Cut out two floppy ears from the fruit leather and place those on the
Cherry fruit leather
Chocolate
side (try several layers
wafer of leather for more stability).
cookies 2 caramel bull's-eyes
Sugar
3. Use the bull's-eye candies for eyes. Make a trunk by rolling a cone 2 banana candies
Gumdrops
shape out of fruit leather. Use the banana candies as tusks and place Peanuts
Green toothpicks
them on each side of the trunk. Don't forget to have a few peanuts on
hand to feed your new pachyderm.
Owl Cupcakes
As a good friend to Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, and all the
other residents of the Hundred Acre Wood, for that matter, Owl is ever
willing to offer his opinions and advice. Solicited or not! He's a pretty
good storyteller, too, particularly when the tales are about family mem-
bers -- such as Uncle Robert, who survived a very blusterous day. This
Father's Day, pay tribute to your own wise guy by making Dad a batch
of cupcakes he's sure to get a hoot out of.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
shaped
Batch cake
of chocolate cupcakes
Chocolate frosting
Buttercream frosting 1. Generously frost one third of the top of each cupcake.
Ladyfingers
Caramel Bullseye candies 2. Next, create owl eyes. For each pair, slice a caramel Bullseye candy

Waxed paper wafer cookies
Chocolate in half to create 2 thinner circles. Place the halves between two
Sugarpin
Rolling sheets of waxed paper and use the rolling pin to flatten them
Gumdrops
White candy melts slightly (they should be about 1 1/2-inch-wide).
Chocolate
Green toothpicks
chips
3. Top the caramels with white candy melts, and then set a chocolate
Kitchen scissors
chip on top of each candy melt, using dabs of frosting to hold the
Black licorice sticks pieces in place. Place a pair of eyes on each cupcake, pressing them
Cashews down onto the frosted portion.
4. Create facial feathers for each owl by snipping two 1 1/2-inch lengths from a piece of black licorice. Cut
fringe in one end of each length. Then stick the fringed licorice pieces in place right above the eyes.
5. For the finishing touch, add cashews for the owls' beaks.
Buzz worthy Bee Cakes
Pooh can't resist a yummy pot of honey, and your little ones won't be
able to resist these sweet treats -- perfectly sized for preschool appe-
tites!
You'll need: Youll Need

Pound 4 teaspoons active dry yeast
shaped cake Mini cupcakes, baked from
make
1. To the bees,
Chocolate frost mini-cupcakes with white icing.
frosting your favorite recipe
Ladyfingers Yellow cake baked into a 6oz
2. Dip
frosted topswafer
Chocolate into acookies
bowl of yellow sparkle sugar. This is a great oven-proof custard cup
job
for preschoolers who are working on their hand-eye coordination.
Sugar White frosting
Gumdrops Yellow sparkle sugar
3. Draw stripes across the cupcake using black sparkle gel
Green toothpicks Black sparkle decorating gel
4. For wings, cut the tips off marshmallows and then cut them in half. Large marshmallows
Place the wings, sticky side down, onto the top of your cupcake. Each Chocolate chips
Yellow frosting
marshmallow will give you two sets of wings. It's easiest to use a pair
Pastry bag
of kitchen scissors. Kids will love helping with this step.
Round decorating tip (#12)
5. Press chocolate chip stingers, pointy side up into the back of the bees. Leaf decorating tip
Green decorating icing
6. Finish off bees with a dollop of black decorator gel for your bee's 1 round chocolate candy such as
Rolo's or chocolate kisses
heads.
Dalmatian Cupcakes
You may think it impossible to keep track of 101 Dalmatians. But

ask "Roger" and "Anita" and they'd likely tell you that each and
every one of them claimed a special spot in their hearts. Here's an
endearing canine valentine treat your kids are sure to find spot-on.
You'll need:
Youll Instructions:
Pound cake Need
or other loaf-
Batch of chocolate
shaped cake cupcakes
baked 1. For each cupcake, first fashion a dog tag by cutting out a small
Chocolate frosting liners
in paper cupcake
heart from coloured paper and gluing it to the center of a sequin or
Scissors
Ladyfingers
Scraps of coloured paper circle.
Chocolate waferpaper
cookies
Glue stick
Sugar 2. Thread a 12-inch length of ribbon or doubled embroidery floss
Round silver sequins, about 3/4
Gumdrops through the sequin and knot the ends together just above the tag, as
Greendiameter
-inch in (alternatively,
toothpicks shown. If the hole is too small, you can widen it with the tip of a
you can cut circles from card- toothpick. Or, you can use a piece of thin elastic thread to tie the
stock and use a pushpin to poke sequin to the center of the collar.
a hole in the top of each one)
Embroidery floss or thin ribbon 3. If the hole is too small, you can widen it with the tip of a toothpick.
Vanilla frosting Or, you can use a piece of thin elastic thread to tie the sequin to the
Chocolate-covered raisins center of the collar.
4. Wrap the collar around the paper cupcake liner, tie the ends to-
gether, and trim them short.
5. Generously frost the cupcake, and then top it with several randomly placed chocolate-covered raisins,
gently pressing them into the frosting.
Alices Cake Toppers
Whether they are for a birthday or un-birthday, these Alice-inspired

cupcake toppers will be the center of attention at any party.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Alice in Wonderland Cupcake
Chocolate frosting Toppers Template
1. Print out the cupcake toppers on regular paper or cardstock and cut
Ladyfingers
out each piece.wafer cookies
Chocolate
Sugar
2. Glue or tape the white side to a toothpick.
Gumdrops
3. Place the topper onto a cupcake and enjoy!
Green toothpicks
Valentine Toppers
Everyone will "heart" these Mickey & friends cupcake toppers.
You'll need:
Pound
Need
Mickey & Friends Valentine's Day
Chocolate
Cupcake Toppers frosting
1. Print out the cupcake toppers on regular paper or cardstock and cut out
Ladyfingers
each piece.
Sugar 2. Glue or tape the white side of the topper to a toothpick.
Gumdrops 3. Place the topper onto a cupcake and enjoy!
Green toothpicks
Valentine Cupcake Doilies
Cupcakes are the perfect Valentine's Day treat, but they're even more
fun to eat if Mickey and Minnie help present them. Bring them to your
classroom or serve them up at a Valentine's Day party!
You'll need:

Pound
Chocolate
1. Print frosting
the cupcake doilies (as many as you need) on regular paper or cardstock and cut Download the template here:
themout.Ladyfingers
Wrap the ends snugly around the cupcake, and tape to secure. Present the cupcakes Mickey & Minnie Valentine Cupcake
on a platter or tray for a festive Valentine's Day display. Doilies
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Pirates Cupcake Topper
Claim a tasty treasure by staking one of these pirate flags into a batch
of cupcakes. Be a good captain and share them with your crew!
You'll need:
Youll
shaped cakeNeed
Chocolate
Pirates frosting
Cupcake Toppers
1. Print out the cupcake toppers on regular paper or cardstock and cut out
each piece.
Ladyfingers
2. Glue or tape the white side of the topper to a toothpick. In the case of
the flags, wrap the flags around the toothpick and glue the white sides
Sugar together.
Gumdrops 3. Place the topper onto a cupcake and enjoy!
Green toothpicks
Halloween Toppers
These Halloween cupcake toppers are sure to add a little flare to your
party, and with Disney Villains as well as cute characters, your guests
will have a lot of treats to choose from!
You'll need:
Youll Need
Pound
shaped cake Villain Cupcake Toppers
Chocolate
1. Print and cut out your cupcake toppers.
frosting Template
Ladyfingers Cute Cupcake Toppers
2. Tape one toothpick to the back of each cupcake topper, ensuring each Template
Chocolate
toothpick wafer
extends at cookies
least one inch from the bottom of the cupcake
Sugar
topper.
Gumdrops
3. Place the cupcake
Green toppers on your cupcakes and enjoy!
toothpicks
Gold sugar cookie Coins
Of all the treasure in the Cave of Wonders, Jafar had eyes only for
the magic genie lamp. Even those piles of glistening gold didn't
entice him. This stash of coins is more than shiny. It's also a sweet
treat that even Jafar would find hard to pass up
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1. Add the lemon juice to the confectioner's sugar, stirring until the mix-
Chocolate frosting 3 to 4 teaspoons lemon juice
ture is smooth and spreadable.
Ladyfingers 24 mini vanilla wafers
2. Frost the vanilla
Chocolate wafers
wafer and let the icing harden.
cookies Gold Pearl Dust or Edible Glit-
Sugara tablespoon or so of the Shimmer Dust or Edible Glitter
3. Measure ter (look in the cake decorating
Gumdrops
into a small bowl, and then use a dry pastry brush to spread it on the section of the grocery store or
Green
tops of thetoothpicks
cookies. craft store)
Small bowl
Pastry brush
Tiger Stripe Cookies
Bengal tigers, like Princess Jasmine's pet Raja, rely on their stripes to
provide camouflage as they move through the tall grass and weeds. Of
course, living in a palace, a tiger isn't likely to go unnoticed. Neither
will a batch of these chocolate-striped cookies.
You'll need:
Pound
Need
shaped
Package cake Tootsie
of small Instructions:

RollsChocolate frosting
Ladyfingers
Microwavable bowl 1. Working with one Tootsie Roll at a time, microwave the candy for up
Chocolate
Waxed paper wafer cookies to 6 seconds to soften it slightly. Then sandwich it between two pieces
Sugar
Rolling pin of waxed paper and use the rolling pin to flatten the candy into a rec-
Gumdrops
Kitchen scissors tangle about 1/8-inch thick.
Green
Sugar cookietoothpicks
dough 2. Use kitchen scissors to snip each rolled candy into a dozen or so tiger
(homemade or store-bought) stripes, and set them on a waxed paper-covered plate. Don't worry
about making the stripes uniform; instead vary the shapes so that some
are rectangular and others are triangular.
3. When you've finished cutting out stripes (you'll need 5 or 6 per cookie),
keep them in the refrigerator while you bake the cookies.
4. Bake the cookies and transfer them to a cooling rack. While the cookies are still warm, randomly arrange
the candy stripes on top of them. The candy will stick in place as the cookies continue to cool.
Curiouser and Curiouser
These little cookies are just the thing to accompany your cup of tea,
and do be sure to nibble with care, you never can trust these silly rab-
bits.
Instructions:
You'll
1. Sift together need:
flour, cornstarch, powdered sugar and salt. Add sof-

tened butter and vanilla, loaf-
Pound cake or other and mix thoroughly until a thick but light Youll Need
shaped
dough cake It should be soft but not too sticky, and easy to
is formed. 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
Chocolate frosting
handle. 1/2 cup cornstarch
Ladyfingers
2. Roll the dough into 1 balls and place about 1 apart on baking sheets 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Chocolate
lined with parchment paper or silpat mats. Place about 1/4 cup of
wafer cookies 1 cup (two sticks) unsalted but-
Sugar
cocoa powder into a small bowl, and about 1/4 cup water in to a sepa- ter, softened
rate small
Gumdrops bowl. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3. Dip the top of the
Green toothpicks soda/beer bottle into water and shake off any ex- 1/8 teaspoon table salt
cess. Dip the bottle into the cocoa powder and tap the side to shake if One empty soda or beer bottle
any excess. Gently press the bottle straight into one of your dough (cleaned and dried)
balls, pressing just barely into the dough, only about 1/4 inch, then Cocoa powder (about 1/4 cup)
pull the bottle away . Continue with the rest of your cookies, dipping Water
your bottle into the cocoa between each pressing. If it gets too light,
do another water-dip then keep going.
4. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Take them out when they are just done, and
barely the tiniest bit brown on the bottom. Let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes.
Professor Z Cookies
Professor Z has his eye on Lightning McQueen. This monocle-wearing Ger-

man car has a mission, and it's to keep Number 95 from winning the World
Grand Prix. While no Cars fans would ever see eye-to-eye with the mad sci-
entist, they're sure to get a kick out of nibbling away at Lightning's nemesis.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
shaped
Batch cake baked round
of freshly
sugar
Chocolate
cookiesfrosting
(about 2.5 1. Cut a third of the cookies in half to use for the windshield visors/
inches
Ladyfingers
wide) eyelids. If the cookies are crispy, cut them with a slow sawing motion
Cookie
Chocolate
icing wafer cookies
(light blue and to keep the edge even and prevent any breakage. Gently brush away
white)
Sugar any loose crumbs so they won't get into the icing.
Kitchen
Gumdrops
knife 2. Frost the cookie halves with blue icing, leaving a small margin un-
Kitchen
Greenscissors
toothpicks frosted along the curved edges. Then set them aside until the icing
hardens.
Gummy candy rings (such as
3. Meanwhile, create the eye irises by using kitchen scissors to cut
Life Savers Gummies)
gummy candy rings into thinner slices, as shown.
Chocolate candies with brown
4. When the blue icing is hard, you can complete the monocle eyes.
shells (such as M&Ms)
Generously frost one of the whole cookies with white icing, again stop-
ping a little short of the edge (this unfrosted margin will serve as a pseudo monocle frame).
5. While the white icing is still soft, set one of the candy irises atop the middle of the cookie. Add a pupil
by placing a brown-shelled candy (printed side down) on the center of the iris, and push down gently to
partially sink the candy into icing.
6. Set a blue visor/eyelid atop the round cookie so that the cut edge partially covers the iris but is flush with
the top of the pupil. Press down gently, just enough to stick the visor in place.
7. Assemble the remaining eyes in the same manner. Let the white icing set, and the cookies are ready to
serve.
Cars Cookies
Roll into Radiator Springs and you'll find treats specially geared for the resi-
dents. These cookies look like Mater, Sally, and Lightning McQueen! For
fun, why not round up a pit crew to work on your own batch of colorful Cars
characters?
Instructions:
You'll need:
Pound cake or and
1. Print the template othercut
loaf-
out the pieces. Roll out the dough on a Youll Need
shaped
floured caketo 1/4-inch thickness, then use the template shape and Cars Cookies Template
surface
a knife
Chocolate frosting
to cut out the cookies. Bake the cookies according to the rec- Batch of chilled sugar cookie dough
Ladyfingers
ipe instructions and let them cool. (homemade or store bought)
Chocolate
2. Create a windshield
wafer for each cookie by snipping a marshmallow
cookies Flour
Sugar
about three quarters of the way through the center, as shown. Rolling pin
3. Spread the
Gumdrops marshmallow open, cut side down, and roll it flat with a Knife
rolling pin (dusting
Green toothpicks the cut surface with confectioner's sugar first will Confectioner's sugar
keep it from sticking to the paper). Place the windshield template on Kitchen scissors
top. Cookie icing (red and blue)
4. Use kitchen scissors to cut the shape from the marshmallow. Small black gumdrops
5. Snip the black gumdrops into thin disks to use for eyes. For tires, cut
Small round hard-shelled candies or mini
the licorice into 3/4-inch lengths. For mouths, cut a small curve of jellybeans for headlights
licorice for Sally, and a wider marshmallow grin for Lightning Black licorice sticks
McQueen. For Mater, roll out a small chocolate candy very thin Small chocolate candy rolls (such as
(microwave it for 2 or 3 seconds to soften it first, if needed). Then cut Tootsie Roll Midgees)
out a deep grin and use dabs of icing to stick two square marshmal-
low teeth on top.
6. Now that you have all the pieces ready, you can assemble the cookies. For Mater, simply use icing to
"glue" the windshield directly atop the cookie. Then stick on the eyes, mouth, tires, and headlights (one
yellow and one a darker color that looks "burned out"). For Sally and Lightning McQueen, frost the
cookies the appropriate colors and then gently press the pieces in place before the icing sets.
Tow Mater Cookie
Sure, he's rusty around the edges. And, true, he's only got one working
headlight. But when it comes to being a loyal friend to Lightning
McQueen, Tow Mater outshines every other automotive contender.
Decorated with candies and marshmallows, these cookie treats pay trib-
ute to the amiable tow truck who is always willing to lend a hitch.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
shapedfor
cake Instructions:
Template Tow Mater Cook-

ies Chocolate frosting
1. Print the template and cut out the pieces.
Ladyfingers
Sugar cookie dough 2. Roll the cookie dough out to -inch thickness on a flour-dusted
Chocolateorwafer
(homemade store cookies
bought) sheet of wax paper. For each cookie, use the template pieces as a pat-
Sugar
Rolling pin tern to cut a tow truck body, a front bumper, and a side view mirror bar
Gumdrops
Flour from the dough. Bake and cool the cookie pieces according to the rec-
WaxGreen
papertoothpicks ipe directions.
Baking sheet 3. For each tow truck, place a marshmallow on a piece of wax paper
Cooling rack dusted with confectioner's sugar and use a rolling pin to roll it as thin as
Marshmallows possible. Then use the template pieces to cut out a marshmallow wind-
Confectioner's sugar shield and two marshmallow teeth.
Kitchen knife 4. Likewise, roll flat the Tootsie Roll candies (if the candy is too stiff,
Decorator's icing you can microwave it for up to 5 seconds to soften it). Use the template
Tootsie Roll candies pieces to cut out a candy mouth and windshield trim for each cookie.
5. To assemble each Tow Mater treat, first use dabs of decorator icing
Green Dots candies
to stick the windshield and mouth pieces in place. Then top the wind-
Chocolate Chips
shield with the trim piece. For eyes, slice two circle shapes from a
Yellow hard candies green Dots candy. Then press a chocolate chip, tip down, into the cen-
Gummy Life Savers ter of each circle. Use dabs of frosting to hold the eyes in place atop the
windshield. Next, stick the teeth atop the mouth. Add a yellow hard
candy for a "shining" headlight and a Gummy Life Saver for a broken headlight.
6. Use decorator's icing to attach a front bumper to each truck. Then stick the side view mirror bar to the
back of the cookie so that the ends extend beyond the cab above the headlights. For mirrors, slice another
Tootsie Roll in half vertically and stick one halve to each end of the mirror bar.
Whitewall Tire Cookies
If only Lightning McQueen had gone to the pits to change his tires during
that first Piston Cup race, he probably would have cruised into first place
rather than coast to a three-way tie. But then again, he might never have
rolled into Radiator Springs and been fitted with a brand new set of Luigi's
whitewalls. Inspired by those sporty wheels, these cookies will have kids
laying tracks to the kitchen.
Instructions:
You'll need:
1. Roll the cookie
Pound cake ordough
other out to 1/4-inch thickness on a flour-dusted
loaf- Youll Need
sheet of wax
shaped cakepaper. Use the largest round cutter to cut out a bunch of Sugar cookie dough
circles
Chocolate frosting
for tires. Then use the smallest cutter to cut a circle of dough (homemade or store bought)
fromLadyfingers
the center of each tire. Bake and cool the tire cookies according Rolling pin
to the
recipe directions. Flour
Sugar Wax paper
2. Wearing plastic kitchen gloves, knead black food coloring into a lit-
Gumdrops Round cookie or fondant cut-
tle Green toothpicks
more than half of the fondant. If the fondant gets sticky, dust it ters (2, 1, and 5/8 inches)*
with confectioner's sugar. Baking sheet
Cooling rack
3. Working on wax paper, roll out the black fondant to 1/4-inch thick- White ready-to-use fondant
ness, again sprinkling on confectioner's sugar if it gets sticky. Cut (look in the baking aisle of
out a large circle for each cookie tire. Then cut a small size circle grocery, department, or craft
from the center of each fondant circle (to match the center holes in stores)
the cookies). Plastic kitchen gloves (for
kneading food coloring into
4. Place a black fondant circle atop one of the cookies, lining up the the fondant)
center holes. Gently press the outer edge of the fondant around the Black food coloring
edge of the cookie. Repeat with the remaining cookies. Confectioner's sugar
Small tube of decorator's ic-
5. For the whitewalls, roll out the remaining untinted fondant. Use the
medium and small size cutters to cut out a whitewall ring for each tire. Use the rolling pin to gently flat-
ten and spread each ring just a bit.
6. Top each cookie with a whitewall ring, using a dabs of

decorator's icing applied to the underside to hold it.
Cinderellas Mice
While some princesses might be afraid of mice, that's certainly not the
case with Cinderella. In fact, she befriends Jacques, the head mouse in
Lady Tremaine's chateau, and rescues the unfortunate Gus from a trap.
Not to mention, she's driven to the ball by a team of mice transformed
into horses. Here's a kid-friendly recipe for a holiday treat that pays
tribute to Cinderella's sweet little champions.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
shaped
Small cake
saucepan
1. Heat the cream in the saucepan over medium high heat until it sim-
Wooden spoonfrosting
Chocolate
Ladyfingers mers. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter.
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon butter 2. Stir in the white chocolate bits until the candy is melted and smooth.
Sugar
1 1/2 cups (12 ounces) white Then stir in the vanilla extract.
Gumdrops
chocolate bits 3. Transfer the mixture to a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap, and chill it
1/8 Green toothpicks
teaspoon vanilla extract until firm (an hour or more).
Bowl
Plastic wrap 4. Roll tablespoons of the chilled truffle mixture into balls (they should
Tablespoon be an inch or so thick). Gently pinch one end of each ball to shape a
Confectioner's sugar pointed mouse nose. The candy will soften in your hands, so try to
work fairly quickly. It also helps to dust your hands with confectioner's
Tray lined with waxed paper
sugar.
Toothpick
Red string liquorice 5. Roll the mice in confectioner's sugar and place them on the tray.
Slivered almonds 6. Working with one mouse at a time, use the tip of a toothpick to poke
Mini chocolate chips holes in the truffle where the nose and tail go. Then insert a snip of
string licorice for the nose and a longer piece for the tail. Press two
mini chocolate chips, tips first, into the sides of the truffle for eyes. For ears, gently push two pieces of
slivered almonds into the top of the head.
7. Keep the mice chilled until serving time.
Button Cookies
In a fairy's world, buttons are used for all sorts of things, such as table-
tops, pot lids, dishes, trail markers ... the list goes on. Here's a fun treat
that celebrates the versatility of this nifty notion -- a colourful batch of
button cookies.
You'll need:
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting Batch of sugar cookie dough
Ladyfingers
1. Divide the dough into thirds or quarters. Then knead a different shade (homemade or store bought)
food
of coloring
Chocolate each portion of dough. Chill the dough so that it
intocookies
wafer Food coloring
Sugar
will be stiff enough to hold its shape while baking. Plastic kitchen gloves (for
Gumdrops kneading food coloring into
2. When you're ready to start baking, work with one color of dough at a the dough)
time.
Green
Roll toothpicks
the dough out to about a -inch thickness and use the Rolling pin
cookie or fondant cutter to cut out a bunch of small circles. If you
Flour
like, use a small bottle cap to gently imprint an inner circle on some
Wax paper
or all of the buttons.
Small round cookie or fon-
3. Use the blunt end of the kitchen skewer to make a set of two or four dant cutters (about 2 inches
buttonholes in the center of each cookie. wide)
Small bottle cap (slightly
4. Place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake them according to the
smaller than the fondant cut-
recipe directions. Transfer the baked cookies to a wire rack to cool
ter)
before serving. Enjoy!
Wooden kitchen skewer
Spatula
Baking sheet
Wire rack
Tink Christmas Slippers
Inspired by Tinker Bell's slipper-style shoes, and in honour of the

Christmas holiday, these cookie slippers come in green and red. And,
for a little extra holiday sparkle, they're topped with a festive sprin-
kling of tinted pixie dust.
You'll need:
Youll
shaped cakeNeed Instructions:
Template for frosting
Chocolate Tink's Christmas
1. Print and cut out the template.
Slipper Cookies
Ladyfingers 2. Divide the dough in half. Wearing disposable kitchen gloves, knead
Batch of sugar
Chocolate cookie
wafer dough
cookies green food coloring into one half and red into the other.
Food coloring (red and green)
Sugar 3. Working with one color at a time, roll out the dough to about 3/8-
Disposable
Gumdrops kitchen gloves for inch thickness. Then place the template atop the dough and use a knife
kneading food coloring into
Green toothpicks (a parent's job) to cut around the paper. Continue cutting out "slippers"
the dough in this way until you run out of dough.
Flour 4. Use the oval cutter (or a knife if you don't have one) to cut a foot
Rolling pin hole in each slipper.
Wax paper 5. Sprinkle the corresponding color of sugar on the slippers and trans-
Kitchen knife fer them to a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Place the sheet in the
Small oval fondant or cookie refrigerator to chill the dough while you heat the oven to the tempera-
cutter (about 1.5 inches) ture specified in the recipe (or on the cookie dough package).
Coloured sugar (green and red 6. Bake the cookies until the edges just start to turn light brown (about
White Candy Melts (candy 9 to 11 minutes).
wafers) 7. Transfer the baked cookies to a cooling rack.
Tube of decorator icing 8. While the slippers cool, create a candy pom-pom for each one by
If you're using premade store- using a dab of decorator frosting to stick to Candy Melts wafers back-
bought dough, you may have to-back. Then use additional dabs of frosting to stick the pom-poms
to knead in some extra flour to onto the cooled slippers.
make it stiff enough to hold its
shape while baking.
Candy Acorns
Two favorite flavors, peanut butter and chocolate, combine in these

adorable little acorn-shaped candies. They are a perfect complement to
any Autumn table and fun for everyone when paired with real or artifi-
cial oak tree leaves.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake 1 cup creamy peanut butter
1. 1. Blend together well, butter, peanut butter and extract. Add pow-
Chocolate frosting
dered sugar, a cup at a time, until a stiff and smooth dough forms. 1 stick unsalted butter - softened
Ladyfingers
2. Refrigerate briefly (5 minutes) if dough is too soft.
teaspoon vanilla extract
Chocolate wafer 3 cups powdered sugar
3. Divide dough into 48 cookies
balls and roll each between your hands, pinch- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
atSugar
ing one end, to form an acorn.
pointed
4. Set Gumdropsside up on a parchment or waxed paper lined cookie
Green toothpicks
sheet.
5. Once all acorns are formed, refrigerate for 15 minutes to firm up candies.
Meanwhile, melt chocolate chips in a double boiler or 1 to 2 minutes in a microwave, until smooth.
Troys B-Ball Cookies
Suppose you're the captain of the varsity basketball team, like Troy
Bolton, and your father is the coach. Or maybe you just happen to have a
dad who is a really great sport. Either way, you're going to want to
come up with a Father's Day surprise that's guaranteed to score -- and
these jumbo basketball cookies are a slam dunk.
You'll need:
Pound cake
shaped
1 dozen largecake
round baked
Chocolate frosting
sugar cookies, cooled com- Instructions:
Ladyfingers
pletely*
Sifter 1. Prepare the cookie icing by sifting the powdered sugar into a small
Sugar
2 cups powdered sugar mixing bowl and then stirring in 2 tablespoons of milk. Add the corn syrup
Gumdrops
2 small mixing bowls and stir until the mixture is smooth. If it's too thick, add another tablespoon
Green
Wooden toothpicks
spoons of milk.
2 to 3 tablespoons milk 2. Put a few tablespoons of the icing in a small bowl and tint it black by
4 teaspoons light corn syrup stirring in equal amounts of blue, yellow, and red. Spoon the black icing
Food coloring (blue, yellow, into the pastry bag (or the small plastic bag, if that's what you're using).
and red)
Small pastry bag fitted with a 3. Stir red and yellow food coloring into the remaining icing, a little at a
small round tip (or a small time, until you have the desired shade of basketball orange.
plastic bag with a tiny hole 4. Working with one cookie at a time, spread the top with orange icing.
snipped in one corner) Then, before the icing sets, place the cookie on waxed paper and use the
Keep in mind that the cookies black icing to add basketball lines. Begin by piping 2 slightly curved lines
will increase in size while that cross each other in the center of the cookie. Then add a U-shaped line
baking. The ones shown here to the top of the ball and an inverted U-shaped line at the bottom. You may
were cut from 1/4-inch-thick want to practice piping lines on waxed paper a couple of times to get the
dough using a 2-inch-wide hang of it before decorating the cookies.
cookie cutter. They spread to
about 3-1/2 inches while they 5. Set the cookies aside until the icing hardens.
were in the oven.
Tramps Dog Bones
Sure he started out as a stray with no collar or license. But, in Lady's
eyes, the Tramp proved to be nothing less than a hero. Besides rescu-
ing her from a pack of vicious canines and helping to remove the
muzzle Aunt Sarah put on her, he killed the rat that snuck into the
nursery. And that's all before becoming the devoted patriarch of four
adoring pups. These bone-shaped cookies, inspired by the Tramp's
favourite breakfast, make a sweet Father's Day treat for the top dog in
your family.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped
1. Chill cake sheets for 10 minutes or so (this will help the cook-
the baking Baking sheets
Chocolate frosting
ies keep their shape while baking). Batch chilled sugar cookie
Ladyfingers dough (store bought or home-
2. Roll out the dough
Chocolate wafertocookies
1/4-inch thickness on a flour-dusted surface.
Cut out dog bone shapes from the dough and arrange them on the made)
Sugar Flour
cookie sheets, spaced apart. Bake the cookies according to the recipe
Gumdrops Rolling pin
directions until they begin to brown around the edges. Let the cookies
Green toothpicks Dog bone-shaped cookie cutter
cool on the sheets for a couple of minutes and then transfer them to
the wire rack to cool completely. (sold in the cake decorating
aisle of many craft stores and
3. Melt a cup of white candy melts in the microwave according to the large department stores)
package directions. Spatula
4. Dip one end of each cookie into the melted white chocolate (heating White candy melts
more candy melts if needed to finish the batch), and set the cookies Microwavable cup or mug
Waxed paper
on waxed paper to let the candy coating firm up.
Lion Paw Print Cookies
Simba didn't believe he could follow in his father's paw prints and as-
sume the throne. But when Nala, his favourite lioness cub from child-
hood, inadvertently tracks him down, their friendship blossoms into
love, and he reconsiders his destiny. With some sage counsel from
Rafiki the monkey, he decides to step up for the job as King of the
Pride Lands, and his beloved Nala becomes queen. Topped with cara-
mel prints, these cookies will let your child put his best paw forward on
Valentine's Day.
You'll need:
Pound
Youllcake or other loaf- Instructions:
Need
Batchshaped cake
of baked sugar cookies

Cookie sheet frosting
Chocolate 1. If you've just finished baking the cookies, leave the oven on. If not,
Ladyfingers
Waxed paper heat the oven to 350 degrees. In either case, arrange the baked cookies
Chocolate
Powdered sugarwafer cookies on a baking sheet.
Sugar
Caramel candy cubes 2. Cover a countertop or cutting board with waxed paper. Sprinkle a little
Gumdrops
Rolling pin powdered sugar on the paper, and then place a caramel candy on it.
Green toothpicks
Small heart-shaped cookie or
3. Use the rolling pin to flatten the caramel into a thin (about 1/8-inch
fondant cutter, about 1 1/4-
thick) circle. If the candy is too hard to roll out, you can soften it a bit
inch wide
before you unwrap it simply by holding it between your fingertips for a
Small oval cookie or fondant
cutter, about 3/4-inch wide minute or so. If it's too sticky, dust the caramel and the rolling pin with
powdered sugar before rolling.
Wire cooling rack
4.Cut out a small heart and four small ovals from the rolled caramel, and
arrange them atop a cookie to resemble the pads of a lion's paw print. Do
the same for each cookie.
5. When all of the cookies on the sheet are topped with prints, heat them in the oven for 2 minutes to stick
the caramel prints in place.
6. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool.
Ariels Starfish Cookies
Come the July 4th, even Ariel's undersea world is star-spangled. These
festive red-white-and-blue sea stars are a blast for Little Mermaid fans to
help decorate and serve at your family's holiday barbecue.
You'll need:
Instructions:
1. Printshaped cake and cut out the starfish shape.
the template Ariel's Red-White-and-Blue
Chocolate
2. Roll out the doughfrosting
on a floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness. Use the Starfish Cookie Template
Ladyfingers
template and a knife to cut out a bunch of starfish shapes from the Scissors
Chocolate
cookie waferthe
dough. Bake cookies
cookie cutouts according to the recipe direc- Batch of chilled sugar cookie
Sugar
tions and let them cool. dough (homemade or store-
Gumdrops
3. Working with one starfish cookie at a time, frost the surface with red bought)*
or blue icing. Then press a line of white sugar pearls or white candies
Green toothpicks Rolling pin
into the icing forming a line in the center of each of the starfish arms. Flour
Let the icing set up before serving. Wax paper
Baking sheets
* Note: If the store-bought brand of dough you use is too soft to hold the
Cooling rack
cookie shapes while baking, you can knead in a little extra flour to stiffen
Kitchen knife
it before rolling it out.
Cookie icing (red and blue)
White sugar pearls (found in the
baking aisle of the grocery or
craft stores) or similar-looking
small white candies
Sand Dollar Cookies
In the underwater world where Princess Ariel comes from, sand
dollars are scattered across the sandy ocean floor. Shaped like
cookies and adorned with distinctive petal-shaped patterns,
they're just the sort of trinket a mermaid is apt to collect. For fun,
invite your little princess to transform a batch of sugar cookies
into a trove of sweet sand dollar treats.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
shaped
Baked cake
sugar cookies
1. Working with one cookie at a time, frost the top, leaving a thin bor-
White or butterfrosting
Chocolate cream frosting
Ladyfingers der around the perimeter uncovered.
Slivered almonds
Chocolate
sprinkles 2. Help your child arrange five slivered almonds in a flower-shaped
Sugar pattern atop the center, as shown.
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks 3. Add a few chocolate sprinkles to resemble the natural holes often
found in sand dollars
Donalds Candy Corn
If you go trick-or-treating in Donald Duck's neighborhood, you're apt to

end up with a treat bag full of corn. Not your standard cracked kernels,
but a more festive variety befitting the holiday: sweet frosted candy
corn cookies. With a little cookie icing, you and your young masque-
raders can whip up a batch just like them in no time.
You'll need:
Instructions:
1. Use a kitchen knife to slice the cookies into triangles (the ones pic-
Chocolate frosting Large round soft baked sugar
tured here are 3 inches tall and measure about 2 1/4 inches wide at
Ladyfingers cookies (homemade or store
the base). You can save the cut off portions to snack on later or enjoy bought)
them while you're frosting the triangles. Kitchen knife
Sugar
2. Put a quarter of the cookie icing into a small bowl (this will be used
Gumdrops Cookie icing (look for it in
for
the white
Green tips of the candy corns). Divide the rest of the icing be-
toothpicks the baking aisle of the grocery
tween two other bowls, and use the food coloring to tint one of the store)
bowlfuls orange and the other yellow. 3 small bowls (for the icing)
Red and yellow food coloring
3. Now it's time to frost the cookies. Start by using the tip of a butter
Plastic wrap
knife to coat the middle section of each triangle with orange icing
Butter knives (for spreading
(keep the white and yellow icings covered with plastic until you're
the icing)
ready to use them.) You don't have to be too fussy. The nice thing
about cookie icing is that it seeks its own level, resulting in a smooth
surface. Plus it hardens fairly quickly.
4. When the orange icing has set, frost the bases of the triangles yellow and let the icing set up.
5. Finally, spread white icing on the tips of the cookies, let it set, and the cookies are ready to serve.
Mickeys Cookie Shorts
Topped with white candy buttons, these colorful cookie shorts are tall on
kid appeal -- and they make an especially fitting treat for Mickey fans.
You'll need:
Youll
shaped cakeNeed
Template
Chocolatefor Sugar Cookie
frosting 1. Wearing plastic kitchen gloves, knead red food coloring into the
Shorts
Ladyfingers cookie dough (this is a fun job for kids). Wrap the dough in plastic and
Batch of sugarwafer
Chocolate cookie dough*
cookies keep it chilled until you're ready to use it.
Red food coloring
Sugar
Pair of disposable kitchen 2. Print and cut out the template.
Gumdrops
gloves (fortoothpicks
Green kneading food col- 3. Heat the oven. Cover your work surface with flour-dusted wax pa-
oring into the dough) per, and roll the dough out to about 5/8-inch thickness.
Rolling pin
4. Use the template and a kitchen knife to cut out the cookies and then
Flour
transfer them to the baking sheet.
Wax paper
Kitchen knife 5. Gently press two yogurt-covered raisin "buttons" partway into the
Spatula dough on each cookie. Don't press too hard, just enough for the button
Baking sheet lined with parch- to stick in place.
ment paper 6. Bake and cool the cookies according to the recipe directions. En-
Yogurt-covered raisins joy!
Note: For the best results, the
sugar cookie dough should be
on the stiff side. You may need
to knead a little extra flour into
store-bought doughs so the
cookies will hold their shape
Minnies Polka Dots
Ever since their 1928 film debut in Steamboat Willie, Minnie and
Mickey have been an inseparable duo. After 80-plus years of courtship,
a mouse is apt to know what sort of valentine will prompt his better
half to utter those famous words: "Aren't you sweet?" Fashioned after
Minnie's favorite dress, these heart-shaped polka-dotted cookies are the
perfect fit. They're made with a shiny icing that's easy to spread and
pipe (the recipe below makes enough to frost about two dozen 3-inch
cookies).
You'll need:

Pound Youll Need
shaped cake Heart-shaped cookie cutter
Chocolate
1. Cut frosting
heart shapes from the sugar cookie dough and bake them accord- Batch of chilled sugar
Ladyfingers
ing to the recipe or package directions. Allow the cookies to thor- cookie dough (homemade
Chocolate
oughly cool. wafer cookies or store bought)
Sugar Sifter
2. Prepare the cookie icing by sifting the powdered sugar into a small
Gumdrops
mixing bowl and then stirring in the milk. Add the corn syrup and stir
2 cups powdered sugar
untilGreen toothpicks Small mixing bowl
the mixture is smooth.
Wooden spoon
3. Use the toothpick to poke a small hole in the corner of the plastic bag. 3 tablespoons milk
Then spoon a third of the icing into the bag. Set the bag aside for 1 tablespoon light corn
now. syrup
Toothpick
4. Stir drops of red food coloring into the remaining icing in the bowl Small plastic bag
until you have the desired shade. Red food coloring
5. Cover your working surface with a sheet of waxed paper. Working Waxed paper
with one cookie at a time, spread the tops with the colored icing and Butter knife
immediately use the icing-filled plastic bag to pipe on white dots. (If
you do this while the tinted frosting is still fluid, the dots will spread nicely to the same level.) To keep
the dots as round as possible, lift the bag straight up from the cookie after you've piped the icing. You
can practice the technique beforehand by piping a few dots onto a piece of waxed paper.
Pirate Skull Cookies
Destined to sail the seas as undead marauders, the pirates of the

Caribbean could no longer experience the simplest pleasures af-
forded humans. Even the sweet flavor of Halloween treats -- such
as these wide-eyed, toothy skulls -- became a treasured memory.
Luckily young mortal masqueraders can more than fathom how
good they taste.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
shaped
Small cakeRoll Candies
Tootsie
1. Slice the Tootsie Rolls into 1/8-inch thick circles to use for the
Waxed paper frosting
Chocolate
Ladyfingers skeleton cookie eyes. With clean hands, flatten and shape the cir-
Sugar cookie dough cles so that they are slightly rectangular. Then set them aside on a

(homemade orwafer
Chocolate store cookies
bought)
Sugar piece of waxed paper.
Kitchen knife
Gumdrops
Spatula 2. For each skull, cut a 2-inch circle head and a 3/4 inch square jaw
Baking
Green toothpicks
sheet from the cookie dough. Place the jaw up against the bottom of the
Chocolate sprinkles circle head and gently push the two pieces together until they stick.
Cooling rack Lightly press 4 or 5 chocolate sprinkle "skeleton teeth" atop the
jaw portion of the cookie. Then use a spatula to transfer the cookie
to a baking sheet.
3. When the baking sheet is full, bake the cookies according to the recipe directions. (Note: If the dough
has softened much, place the sheet in the refrigerator for a few minutes to stiffen it up again before bak-
ing so they'll hold their shapes.)
4. Remove the baked cookies from the oven and let them cool on the tray for a couple of minutes before
transferring them to a cooling rack. While the cookies are still warm, top them with the Tootsie Roll
eyes (the candy will stick to them as they cool).
Pirate Brand Cookies
Captain Jack Sparrow refused to transport the "cargo" assigned to his
ship when he discovered it to be human captives. Instead, he set every-
one free. The company's chairman, Lord Cutler Beckett, quickly
branded him a pirate, a consequence the legendary renegade clearly
considered a more savoury option than following orders. Marked with
the same distinctive letter P that can be found right beneath the sparrow
tattoo on Jack's arm, these tempting treats will be top choice with pirate
fans.
You'll need:

Pound Youll Need
shaped cake Letter P template
Chocolate
1. Print frostingand cut it out.
out the template Scissors
out
2. Cut cookies from the dough and arrange them on a cookie sheet.
Ladyfingers Rolling pin
Chocolate
3. Place wafer
the template atopcookies
one of the cookies, pressing down gently just Batch of sugar cookie dough
Sugar
enough to stick it in place. Use your fingertips to spread a pinch of co- (homemade or store bought)
orGumdrops
coa cinnamon sugar over the surface of the cookie. Then use the tip Round cookie cutter (about 2
Green toothpicks
of the toothpick to lift the edge of the template, and peel away the pa- inches wide)
per. Repeat this step with the rest of the cookies. Cocoa powder or cinnamon
sugar
4. Bake the cookies according to the recipe directions. Toothpick
Mermaid Tail Cookies
Even if Angelica and Blackbeard succeed in getting Jack to lead them to the
Fountain of Youth, it's going to take a few more things to actually make the
legendary spring flow. Not the least of which is a mermaid's tear! Decorated
with colorful candy scales, these whimsical mermaid tails are a sweet tribute
to one of the most alluring and exquisite mythical creatures of the sea.
You'll need:
Pound cakeNeed
shapedTail
Mermaid cakeCookie Tem- Instructions:
Chocolate
plate frosting
Ladyfingers 1. Print the template and cut it out. Roll out the dough on a floured sur-
Batch of chilled sugar cookie
Chocolate waferorcookies face to 1/4-inch thickness, then use the template and a knife to cut out
dough (homemade store- mermaid tail cookies. Bake the cookies according to the recipe directions
Sugar
bought)
and let them cool.
Gumdrops
Flour 2. Working with one cookie at a time, spread cookie icing on the tail fin.
Rolling
Green
pintoothpicks Then spread more icing on a 2-inch section of the tail just above the fin
Wax paper and gently press candies into it, arranging them close together to resem-
Baking sheet ble scales. Continue frosting and decorating the rest of the tail a section
Cooling rack at a time until you reach the top. Or, you can simply sprinkle colored
Kitchen knife sugar on the icing in place of the candy.
White cookie icing 3. Set the cookies aside until the icing hardens. Then use food decorator
Candy necklaces or other pens to embellish the tail fins with colorful lines, if you like.
small candies
Colored sugar (optional)
Food decorator pens
(optional)
*Note: If the store-bought brand of dough you use is too soft to hold the cookie shapes during baking, you
can knead in a little extra flour to stiffen it before rolling it out.
Gingerbread Scanners
Disguised as gingerbread cookies, these devices are the elves' most im-
portant tools. Bake a batch of real cookies designed to look like GBMs
for your little elves.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped
1. Begin cake the Gingerbread Man Cookie Scanner template.
by printing Youll Need
Chocolate frosting Template for Gingerbread Man
Trace the pieces on parchment paper and cut them out. You will use
Ladyfingers Scanner Cookies
the parchment paper templates as guides for cutting out your GBMs
Chocolate wafer cookies Gingerbread cookie dough
2. Preheat
Sugarthe oven to 350 degrees F. (store bought or from your fa-
Gumdrops vourite recipe)
3. Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Green toothpicks Paring knife
4. Place a ball of cold gingerbread dough on a lightly floured surface. Parchment paper
5. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to a quarter-inch thickness. Black fondant (we used Wilton
brand)
6. Place the parchment gingerbread man template on top of the rolled Fondant roller
dough, and use as a guide for cutting gingerbread men from the White cookie frosting (store
dough. bought or from your favourite
7. As you cut out the gingerbread men, place them gently on the recipe)
parchment-lined cookie sheet. They should be 1.5 inches apart -- Rainbow candy (we used Men-
they will spread while baking. tos)
Edible markers (green, red, and
8. Bake the cookies at 350 degrees F for 10 12 minutes, or until they black)
are slightly golden around the edges. Let them cool completely be-
fore decorating.
9. While the cookies are baking, roll out the black fondant to an eighth-inch thickness. If the fondant is too
sticky you can add a little bit of flour. Be sure to work the flour into the fondant so that it doesn't appear
chalky.
10. Use the scanner template as a guide to cut a scanner for each cookie. Each cookie has three buttons, two
red and one green.
11. Use edible markers to draw the GBM symbols
12. Once the cookies are cool, attach the fondant scanner and buttons to the cookie using white cookie frost-
Tinas Heart to Hearts
Being the proprietress of one of New Orleans favorite restaurants, it's
only fitting that Princess Tiana would serve an extra sweet treat on Val-
entine's Day. These heart-shaped sandwich cookies, filled with frosting
and topped with sparkly pink sugar, are sure to please anybody's prince
charming -- even if he happens to be a frog.
You'll need:
Youll Need Instructions:
shaped cake
Chocolate
Batch of sugarfrosting
cookie dough, 1. Roll out the cookie dough and cut out an even number of heart-
homemade
Ladyfingersor store-bought*
shaped cookies. Sprinkle half of the cookies with colored sugar. Bake the
Rolling
Chocolatespatula,
pin, and cool-
wafer cookies cookies according to the recipe or package directions.
ing rack
Sugar
Heart-shaped
Gumdropscookie cutter (a 2. Transfer the baked cookies to a rack to cool.
2 1/4-inch-wide cutter works
Green toothpicks 3. Turn one of the plain cookies upside down so that the flat bottom
well) faces up. Spread on cookie icing and then set one of the sugar-topped
Pink colored sugar cookies down on top of it. Repeat this step until you've assembled all of
White or pink cookie icing the sandwich cookies.
Butter knife
A few pieces of pink taffy or 4. Now it's time to crown off the cookies with Tiana's special valentine
pink Star Burst candies emblem. Use the rolling pin to roll the taffy or Star Burst candies be-
Waxed paper tween waxed paper until it is very thin. (If the candy is too hard to roll,
Kitchen scissors or a kitchen you can soften it in the microwave for 4 to 5 seconds.) Then use kitchen
knife scissors or a knife to cut out a small candy crown for each cookie (a par-
Note: if you're using store- ent's job).
bought dough, you may have 5. Top each cookie with a candy crown, using a small dab of cookie ic-
to add some flour to stiffen it ing to hold it in place.
so the cookies will hold their
shape while baking.
Poison Apple Cookies
To create the infamous "wishing" apple that puts Snow White to sleep,
Queen Grimhilde dunks it in a green potion that briefly reveals a goblin
face before turning skin an irresistible shade of shiny red. Covered with
sweet green frosting, instead of potion, these Halloween cookies are
equally tempting. And you can rest assured they won't send you off to the
land of nod!
You'll need:
Instructions:
1. Wearing
shapedplastic
cake kitchen gloves, knead red food coloring into the Template for Poison Apple
Chocolate
cookie dough (this is a fun job for kids). Wrap the dough in plastic
frosting Cookies
Ladyfingers
and keep it chilled until you're ready to use it. Batch of sugar cookie dough*
Chocolate
2. Print wafer
and cut out the cookies
template. Red food coloring
Sugar Pair of disposable kitchen
3. Heat the oven. Cover your work surface with flour-dusted wax pa-
Gumdrops gloves (for kneading food col-
per, and roll
Green the dough out to 1/4-inch thickness.
toothpicks oring into the dough)
4. Use the template and a kitchen knife to cut out the cookies, and Rolling pin
then bake them according to the recipe directions. Transfer the Flour
cookies to a wire rack to cool. Wax paper
5. Working with one cookie at a time, gently press the broken end of a Spatula
pretzel stick half into the top of the apple. Then generously frost the Baking sheet lined with parch-
upper half of the cookie with green icing, spreading it right over the ment paper
base of the pretzel. Use the knife to create a wavy lower edge so the Wire cooling rack
icing looks like it is dripping down over the apple. Green cookie icing
Thin pretzel sticks broken in
6. For eyes, press whole raisins into the icing. Snip a third raisin in half (you need one half for each
half and use one piece for a nose. apple)
Raisins
Kitchen knife or scissors
Note: For the best results, the
sugar cookie dough should be
on the stiff side. You might
have to knead a little extra flour
into store-bought doughs so
the cookies will hold their
Sleepys Energy Nugget
A mine isn't the only place you can unearth precious gems. The kitchen
is where you'll find the makings for these rich and tasty nuggets. Be-
sides being quick to whip up (there's no baking involved) they're great
for providing an energy boost for flagging little princesses and groggy
elves -- Sleepy included.
You'll need:
Pound cakeNeed
Instructions:
1 1/4shaped cake cracker
cup graham
Chocolate
crumbs frosting 1. Cover a plate with waxed paper. Then, measure 1 cup of the graham
Ladyfingers
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips cracker crumbs into a mixing bowl and the remaining 1/4 cup into a
(optional) small bowl. Add the mini chocolate chips (if you're using them) to the
2 tablespoons
Sugar of peanut but- large bowl of crumbs. Set the plate and both bowls aside for now.

ter* Gumdrops
1/4 Green toothpicks 2. Heat the peanut butter, raspberry jam, and marshmallows in a small
cup raspberry jam
saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring continually, just until the mix-
5 marshmallows
ture melts and becomes a smooth sauce.
M&M candies
Note: To make these treats 3. Remove the pan from the heat and stir the sauce into the cup of gra-
without peanut butter, simply ham cracker crumbs.
add 2 more marshmallows. 4. Using clean hands, roll a tablespoon of the crumb mixture into a ball.
Then roll the ball in the reserved crumbs and set it on the waxed paper.
Repeat this step with the rest of the crumb mixture.
5. Gently push an M&M down into the center of each ball. Makes 12.
Cowgirl Hat Cookies
With her cowhide chaps and wide-brimmed hat, Jessie sure knows how
to dress the part of Woody's yodeling cohort. Trimmed with piped-on
icing for lacing, these red cookie hats resemble the sassy cowgirl's and
make a sweet cap off to dinner or lunch.
You'll need:
Instructions:
1. Cover the tray with waxed paper and set it aside.
Chocolate frosting Tray
2. Roll out the sugar cookie dough between sheets of flour-dusted
Ladyfingers Waxed paper
waxed paper to wafer
Chocolate a 1/4-inch thickness. Cut out the cookies and place
cookies Batch of chilled sugar cookie
them on the tray. Then place the tray in the refrigerator to chill the
Sugar dough (homemade or store
cookies while you heat the oven to the proper temperature.
Gumdrops bought)
Green toothpicks Flour
3. When the oven is heated, transfer the cookies to a baking sheet. Then
bake and cool them according to the recipe directions Rolling pin
2-inch round cookie cutter
4. Turn the cookies upside down so the flat surfaces are facing up and Spatula
then frost them with the red icing. Baking sheets
5. Once the icing has set, add a top to each hat by slicing the domed top Wire cooling racks
off of a red gumdrop. Then squeeze a quarter size dollop of white Red cookie icing
decorator's icing onto the bottom of the gumdrop and gently press it Butter knife or spatula for
down onto the center of the cookie so the icing spreads around the spreading the icing
base and resembles a white hatband Large red gumdrops
Tube of white decorator's icing
6. Pipe a line of trim around the perimeter of each cookie hat brim. (with a narrow round tip to pipe
Then pipe a series of short lines over the top of the trim to resemble on the lacing)
white lacing.
Woodys Badge Cookies
Unlike his destined buddy Buzz, Woody knew from the beginning he
was really a toy. Nonetheless, he does as much as any full-fledged sher-
iff to ensure justice is served. First he turns the tables on Andy's evil
neighbour Sid Phillips and goes the extra mile to reunite Buzz with all
the other toys. Then he helps free Jessie from the cargo hold of a plane
bound for Japan. These sheriff badge cookies make a sweet tribute to
the virtuous cowboy who strives to keep law and order in Andy's room.
You'll need:
Youll
shaped Need
cake Instructions:
Chocolate frosting
Tray
Ladyfingers
Waxed paper 1. Cover the tray with waxed paper and set it aside.
Chocolate
Batch of chilled sugar
wafer cookie
cookies 2. Roll out the sugar cookie dough between sheets of flour-dusted
dough
Sugar waxed paper to a 1/4-inch thickness.
Flour
Gumdrops
Rolling pintoothpicks 3. Cut out an equal number of the two different sizes of stars. Use the
Green
2 star-shaped cookie cutters, spatula to transfer them to the tray. Then place the tray in the refrig-
one slightly larger than the erator to chill the cookies while you heat the oven to the proper tem-
other* perature.
Spatula 4. When the oven is heated, transfer the larger stars to a baking sheet
Baking sheets and return the tray (with the smaller stars still on it) to the refrigera-
Wire cooling racks tor. Bake the larger stars according to the recipe directions or until
Yellow coloured sugar they just begin to brown around the edges. Allow them to cool on the
Tube of decorator's icing baking sheet for about 1 minute and then transfer them to the wire
Small round yellow candies cooling racks.
(such as M&M's candies
5. Remove the smaller stars from the refrigerator and have your child
Note: The cookie cutters used
sprinkle yellow coloured sugar on them. Then transfer them to a bak-
for the cookies shown here
ing sheet. Bake and cool them as you did the first batch.
measure 3 1/4 inches and 2
1/2 inches across. 6. When the cookies are thoroughly cooled, show your child how to
make the badges by squeezing a quarter size dollop of icing onto the
center of each larger star and then gently pressing a smaller star down
on top of it. Next, use small dabs of icing to "glue" round yellow can-
dies atop the tips of the larger star.
Three-eyed Alien Cookies
You can cook up a Toy Story adventure of your own that's guaranteed to pan
out well. Start with a batch of sugar cookie dough, add colored icing and
assorted candies and you've got the makings for Sweet Three-eyed Aliens
You'll need:
Instructions:
1. Useshaped cake oval cookie cutter or fondant cutter to cut ovals
a 214 -inch Batch of sugar cookie dough

from the rolledfrosting
Chocolate sugar cookie dough and bake them according to the 134 cups white decorating
Ladyfingers
recipe directions. cookie icing
Chocolate wafer cookies Food coloring
2. While
Sugarthe cookies are cooling, prepare the aliens' eyes. In a small
bowl, tint a couple tablespoons of the icing black. Then use the tip York Pieces (peppermint-
Gumdrops flavored dark chocolate candy
of a toothpick to apply a small dot of black icing to the center of
Green toothpicks
each white-shelled candy. Set the eyes aside to let the icing harden. in a crunchy shell), three white-
shelled pieces per cookie
3. Next, create the aliens' antennae. Snip the Sour Punch Straws into 2 Green Swedish Fish candies
-inch lengths. Then slice the Dots candies into thin disks. Press Green (Zappin' Apple) Sour
each disk, sticky side down, onto the top of a Sour Punch Straw Punch Straws
length. Green Dots candies
4. When the cookies are cool, tint the remaining frosting a shade of The key to these cookies is a self-
green that complements the green candies. Working with one leveling frosting that dries hard
cookie at a time, use a dab of frosting to stick the bottom of a candy and shiny
antenna to the back. Then set the cookie on a tray or another flat
surface and use additional dabs of frosting to stick a pair of Swedish Fish candies to the sides of the
cookie for ears. Allow the cookies to set while the icing stiffens a bit.
5. Again working with one cookie at a time, frost the top and gently press three candy eyes into the icing
before it sets. Then use the tip of a toothpick to draw a grin in the icing. Once you've decorated all of the
cookies, allow the icing to fully set before handling or serving them. Makes about 212 dozen cookies.
Hamming It Up
Of all the Toy Story characters, you can always bank on Hamm to come up
with a quick quip. And, although his sarcasm occasionally prompts even
his faithful potato-headed cohort to advise that he "put a cork in it," this
sassy swine never falls from favor long. No doubt these caricature cookies
will prove as popular as the pig that inspired them.
You'll need:
Pound cakeNeed
Instructions:
Batchshaped cakecookie dough
of sugar
1 toChocolate frosting
114 cups white decorating 1. Roll half of the dough to 14-inch thickness. Use a 214-inch round
Ladyfingers
cookie icing (sold in the bak- cookie cutter to cut out circles for the pigs' heads, and bake them ac-
Chocolate
ing aisle of thewafer cookies
grocery store) cording to the recipe directions. Roll out the remaining dough to 38-
Sugar
Red food coloring inch thickness, and use a 112-inch round cookie cutter to cut out a
Gumdrops
Mini pink jelly beans
Chocolate
Green toothpicks "snout" for each head. Again, bake the cookies as directed.
chips
Chocolate sprinkles 2. Meanwhile, slice a jelly bean in half, as shown, to create a pair of
Small red gumdrops nostrils for each pig. Next, stir a bit of red food coloring into the
cookie icing until you have a shade of pink you like.
3. One at a time, frost the smaller snout cookies and gently press a pair
of nostrils into the icing. Set the snouts aside until the icing hardens.
4. Frost one of the larger round cookies and gently press one of the snouts into the icing near the lower edge
of the head. Before the icing sets, press a pair of chocolate chip eyes (tips down) in place, and add choco-
late sprinkles for eyebrows. For ears, slice a red gumdrop in half vertically, as shown. Remove a thin
slice from the bottom of each ear to create a sticky surface, and press the ears in place against the top of
the cookie, using dabs of icing to help hold them if needed.
5. Assemble the rest of the cookies in the same manner. Allow the icing to fully set up before serving the
cookies. Makes about 2 dozen Hamm-it-up cookies.
Light Cycle Wheelie Pie
Here's a treat that's sure to race off the plate. Inspired by the glowing
Light Cycles of the Tron world, these sweet little cakes are filled with
fluffy neon frosting. This fun spin takes the classic whoopie pie to a
whole new level of cool.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake For the cookies:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Chocolate frosting 2 cups flour
2. Line
Ladyfingers
a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
a medium
3. In Chocolate sizedwafer cookies
bowl combine flour, unsweetened cocoa, baking soda, baking pow- 1.5 teaspoons baking soda
Sugar
der and salt. Set aside 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Gumdrops 1/4 teaspoon salt
4. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the egg,
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milk toothpicks
and vanilla and mix until well combined. 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room
temperature
5. Now, slowly add the flour mixture, beating to combine. The batter will be stiff.
1 cup granulated sugar
6. Drop teaspoon-sized balls of the batter onto the parchment lined baking sheet 1 egg
7. Drop teaspoon-sized balls of the batter onto the parchment lined baking sheet 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup milk
8. Remove cookies from oven and cool on a rack.
For the filling:
9. For the filling, use an electric mixer to cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. 1 cup of unsalted butter, room
temperature
10. Add the vanilla and marshmallow cream and mix until well combined.
1.5 cups confectioners' sugar
11. Divide finished filling into three bowls. Place 3 to 5 drops of neon food coloring into 7.5 ounce jar marshmallow
each bowl and mix until coloring is fully incorporated to create the desired color. cream
12. You will need two cookies to make each Wheelie Pie. Lay the cookies, tops down, on 2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
waxed paper. Neon food coloring, assorted
13. Place a dollop of frosting on half of the cookies.
14. Place a second cookie on top of the frosting, creating a sandwich. Serve immedi-
ately.
Honey Bee Mines
Sure, Winnie the Pooh's affinity for honey often proved a nuisance to Rab-
bit and the other residents of the Hundred-Acre Wood. Still, who could
blame him for wanting his fill of such a tempting treat? Made with honey
and peanut butter, and striped with chocolate, these valentine sweets are
truly the bee's knees.
You'll need:
Pound cakeNeed
1/2 shaped cakebutter
cup peanut
Chocolate frosting 1. Combine the peanut butter, butter, honey, and crushed crisped rice
1/3 cup softened butter
Ladyfingers cereal in a bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until well mixed.
1/2 cup honey
1 1/4
Chocolate wafer
cup crushed cookies
crisped rice 2. Shape teaspoonfuls of the mixture into balls and chill them until firm.
Sugar
cereal* 3. Measure the chocolate chips into a microwavable bowl and heat them
Gumdrops
Wooden spoon in the microwave for 15-second intervals, until they are melted (note:
SmallGreen toothpicks bowl
microwavable they won't lose their shape). Stir the chocolate with a wooden spoon
1/4 cup chocolate chips until smooth.
Slivered almonds
An easy way to crush the ce- 4. Drizzle chocolate stripes over the honey balls.
real is to seal it in a plastic 5. For bee wings, set two almond slivers on top of each honey ball, using
bag and roll over it with a a dab of chocolate to secure them and fanning them toward the sides
rolling pin. just a bit. Makes about 2 dozen.
Poohs Honey Tarts
It's always fun to add a new dessert to the classic Thanksgiving menu.
And take it from Pooh -- these mini honey-drizzled tarts are just too
scrumptious to bear passing up. With steps that include cutting out puff
pastry circles, layering apple slices, and sprinkling cinnamon sugar, it's
also a great recipe for kids to help with!
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Baking sheet
1. Heat the oven frosting
Chocolate to 400 degrees F. Line the baking sheet with parch-
ment paper. Parchment paper
Ladyfingers Round cookie cutter (about
Chocolate
2. Use the cookiewafer
cuttercookies
to cut rounds of pastry, and arrange them on 2.75 inches wide)
Sugar
the baking sheet. Frozen puff pastry (1 sheet, de-
Gumdrops
3. Have your child place three apple slices on each pastry circle. frosted and ready to use)
When
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he'stoothpicks
done, ask him to sprinkle each tart with a pinch of cinna- 1 or 2 apples (peeled, cored,
mon sugar. and sliced very thin)
Cinnamon sugar
4. Bake the tarts until the pastry turns golden brown and the apples Honey
become slightly tender (about 12 minutes or so).
Spatula
5. Drizzle honey on the baked tarts and then transfer them to a cooling Cooling rack
rack.
Mrs. Potts Cake Pops
Mrs. Potts ran the kitchen in Beauty and the Beast, but now you're in charge.
This recipe gives you an opportunity to show this motherly character some
love.

You'll need:
Note: OnePound
cake makes aboutor48other
cake pops.
1 box cake mix (bake as di-
If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and
cake loaf- rected on box for 13x9 cake)
freeze cakeshaped
sections forcake
another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each cake pop you
plan on dipping and more for any extra decorating. One 16-ounce can of ready-
Chocolate frosting made frosting
Ladyfingers
1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large Wax paper
Chocolate wafer cookies Baking sheets
bowl. Note: Light-coloured cakes will work best with white candy
Sugar White candy coating
melts. Darker coloured cakes may show through the coating.
Gumdrops Purple candy melts (teapot lid
Green
2. With a large toothpicks
spoon, mix crumbled cake thoroughly with about 3/4 ofand base)
the can of frosting. You won't need the rest. White licorice pastilles for
spout (we used Good &
3. Roll mixture into quarter size cake balls and place on a wax paper Plenty)
covered baking sheet. Place cake balls in the freezer for about 15 Yellow candy necklace pieces
minutes to firm them up. You can transfer them to the refrigerator to (handle)
keep chilled and avoid freezing. Pink rainbow chip sprinkles
(knob on lid)
4. When they are firm, shape the balls so the bottom is Pink colorstick sprinkles
slightly fuller than the top. You want the size to be (mouth)
proportional to the candy melts as pictured. Pink, blue and white confetti
sprinkles (eyes and base
5. Return the cake pops to the refrigerator to maintain decorations)
firmness. Blue, black and peach edible
ink pens (facial details)
6. Melt white candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the Toothpicks
coating is 3-4 inches deep for easy dipping. Melt in the microwave in Paper lollipop sticks
30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Repeat until melted Styrofoam block
and smooth.
Mrs. Potts Cake Pops
7. Remove a couple of cake balls at a time from the refrigerator to work with.
8. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted coating and insert into the bottom of the teapot. Then, dip
one end of a white liquorice candy spout into the melted candy coating. Attach the spout to the side of the
cake pop and the coating will set like glue.
9. Place in a Styrofoam block to dry. After a few minutes you can carefully dip the entire cake pop with
spout attached into the bowl of melted candy coating. Dip and remove in one motion without stirring.
Make sure the entire cake ball is covered. Using a deep bowl is helpful here. If your coating is too thick,
you can add a few drops of vegetable oil or shortening to help thin it
You'll need: and make it easier to work with. Remove and allow any excess coating
Pound cake or other loaf- to fall off the pop and back into the bowl.
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting 10. Before the coating sets, attach one purple candy melt on top of the
Ladyfingers cake pop for the lid and one yellow candy necklace piece in the back
Chocolate wafer cookies for the handle. Repeat with the remaining pops. Place in a styrofoam
Sugar block to dry.
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks 11. When dry, use a toothpick to dot a tiny amount of coating in posi-
tion for the eyes and attach one white confetti sprinkle for each eye.
Use the same technique to attach the rainbow chip for the knob and
the colorstick sprinkle for the mouth.
12. Use a black edible ink pen to draw pupils, eyelashes and eyebrows.
Use the blue edible ink pen to draw on eyelids and the peach pen to
draw the blush.
13. You can stop here for Mrs. Potts cake pops or continue to add base
decorations without the lollipop stick.
14. To add base decorations, carefully twist and remove the lollipop
stick. Place a small amount of melted white candy coating on the
bottom of the teapot and attach to another purple candy melt (flat
side down).
15. You can add finishing details by dotting on a small amount of coat-
ing and attaching alternating pink and blue confetti sprinkles to the
base.
Stitch Cake Pops
You don't need to travel all the way to Hawaii to have fun with Stitch. Whip
up a batch of these cake pops in your very own kitchen, and you're sure to
find that these 626-inspired treats are out of this world!

You'll need:
Note: OnePound
cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and 1 box cake mix (bake as di-
cake loaf-
freeze cakeshaped
sections forcake
another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each cake pop you rected on box for 13 x 9 cake)
plan on dipping and more for any extra decorating. 1 can (16 oz) of ready made
Chocolate frosting
frosting
Ladyfingers
bowl. With a large spoon, mix cake thoroughly with about 3/4 of the Baking sheets
Sugar
can of frosting. You won't need the rest. White candy coating
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks Blue candy coating
2. Roll mixture into quarter size cake balls and place on a baking sheet
Light blue jumbo confetti
covered with wax paper. Place cake balls in the freezer for about 15
sprinkles (eyes)
minutes to firm up. You can transfer them to the refrigerator to keep
Blue jumbo confetti sprinkles
chilled and avoid freezing. (nose)
3. Melt white candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the White miniature confetti
sprinkles (teeth and eyes)
coating is at least three to four inches deep for easier dipping. Melt in
Black edible ink pen (pupils)
the microwave in 30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Re-
Pink fruit chews (such as
peat until melted and smooth. Add blue candy color and stir until Jolly Rancher Fruit Chews)
completely combined and you achieve the desired shade of blue. Toothpicks
Small paintbrush
4. Remove a couple of cake balls at a time from the refrigerator to work
Paper lollipop sticks
with.
Styrofoam block
5. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted coating and insert into
the bottom of Stitch's head. Dip the cake pop into the coating and remove in one mo-
tion without stirring. Make sure the entire cake ball is covered. Using a deep bowl is
helpful here. If your coating is too thick, you can add a few drops of vegetable oil or
shortening to help thin it and make it easier to work with.
Stitch Cake Pops
6. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back into the bowl, then place the pops in a
styrofoam block to dry.
7. When dry, use a toothpick to dot a tiny amount of melted coating in position for the nose and attach one
black jumbo confetti sprinkle. Use the same technique to attach two light blue jumbo confetti sprinkles in
position for the nose. Then continue attaching 7-8 white miniature confetti sprinkles for teeth. Use a black
edible ink pen to draw large teardrop-shaped pupils.
8. Finish the eyes by attaching two more white miniature confetti sprinkles.
You'll need: 8. For Stitch's ears, cut a pink Jolly Rancher fruit chew candy into four
Pound cake or other loaf- pieces. Each piece will be molded into one ear.
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting 10. Shape each ear into a large flat teardrop shape and then pinch the
Ladyfingers pointed end together so there is a fold at the bottom.
11. Attach the ear to the cake pop with melted candy coating. Hold in
Sugar
place for a few seconds until it sets. Continue with remaining cake
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks pops.
12. By the time you have attached all of the ears, you will notice that
the ears have started to droop. That's fine.
13. Re-shape the ears so that they stand up, and if you use a small
paintbrush to apply melted candy coating to the back and edge of the
ears, when it dries, the ears will remain standing. However, if you
don't want to do all that, you can simply attach Stitch's ears upside
down and leave as is.
14. You can wrap your Stitch cake pops in treat bags tied with a ribbon
and/or store them on the counter or in an airtight container.
Tips: You can use dark blue candy coating instead of tinting your own.
The jumbo confetti sprinkles are also referred to as quins. If you have trouble finding black ones, you can
simply pipe the noses on Stitch using a black candy writer.
Mickey Mouse Cake Pops
Enjoy these Cake Pops at any party or give them as gifts.
Youll Need
You'll need: 1 box cake mix (bake as di-
Instructions:
Pound cake or other loaf- rected on box for 13 X 9
Note: Oneshaped
cake makes cake
about 48 cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and cake)
Chocolate frosting
freeze cake sections for another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each cake pop you 1 16 oz can of ready made
dipping
plan on Ladyfingers
and more for any extra decorating. frosting
Chocolate wafer cookies Wax paper
1. After
Sugar cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large Baking sheet
bowl. With a large spoon, mix thoroughly with about 3/4 of the can
Gumdrops White candy coating / bark
of
frosting. You won't need the rest.
Green toothpicks coating
Black candy color
2. Roll mixture into quarter size cake balls and place on a wax paper Chocolate candy melts
covered baking sheet. Place cake balls in the freezer for about 15 Round cookie cutter
minutes to firm up. Then transfer to the refrigerator to keep chilled Paper lollipop sticks
and avoid freezing. Styrofoam block
Peanut butter morsels
3. Prepare the ears. Use round chocolate candy melts White candy coating (face)
and with a round cutter, cut off a small portion of Peanut butter candy coating
each candy melt. Set the ears aside. (face)
White confetti sprinkles (eye)
4. Melt white candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the Black confetti sprinkles
coating is at least four inches deep for easier dipping. Melt in the mi- (pupil)
Black sunflower seeds (nose)
crowave in 30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Repeat Black edible ink pen (mouth)
until melted and smooth. Pink confetti sprinkles
(tongue)
5. Add several drops of black candy color (this does not contain water) Toothpicks
into the white candy coating and stir until combined. Add color until
you achieve the desired shade.
Mickey Mouse Cake Pops
6. Remove a couple of cake balls from the refrigerator at a time to work with. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick
into the melted coating and insert into the cake ball. Then, grab two candy melt ears and dip the cut side
into the melted candy coating. Attach the ears to the top/side of the cake pop and the coating will set like
glue.
7. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.
8. When dry, carefully dip the entire cake pop with ears attached into the bowl of melted candy coating. Dip
and remove in one motion without stirring. Make sure the entire cake ball is covered. Using a deep bowl
is helpful here. If your coating is too thick, you can add a few drops of
You'll need: vegetable oil or shortening to help thin it and make it easier to work
Pound cake or other loaf- with.
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting 9. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back
Ladyfingers into the bowl.
Sugar 10. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks 11. For Mickey's face, melt white candy coating and pour into a small
squeeze bottle. (You can make the color slightly tan by adding a few
peanut butter candy melts when heating and stir together until com-
pletely combined.) You can also use a peanut butter morsel to attach
to the front of the pop to help achieve a three dimensional profile.
Dip the flat side of the morsel in some of the melted candy coating
and place on the front of the pop.
12. Then, using the squeeze bottle to pipe melted candy coating on top
of the morsel and around the front of the pop in the shape shown in the
photo. Let dry. Reheat any leftover coating in the bowl and use to apply the remaining details.
13. Dip the toothpick in coating and apply it in position for the nose and attach one sunflower seed.
14. Use the same technique to apply white confetti sprinkles and then overlap black confetti sprinkles for the
eyes. Draw the mouths with a black edible ink pen and then attach one pink confetti sprinkle (broken in
half) on top for the tongue. Let dry completely.
15. When dry, wrap in small treat bags and tie with a decorative ribbon.
Minnie Mouse Cake Pops
Enjoy these Cake Pops at any party or give them as gifts.
Youll Need
You'll need:
Instructions: 1 box cake mix (bake as di-
Note: Oneshaped
cake makes cake
about 48 cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and cake)
Chocolate frosting
freeze cake sections for another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each cake pop you 1 16 oz can of ready made
dipping
plan on Ladyfingers
and more for any extra decorating. frosting
1. cake
Sugar is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large bowl.
Baking sheet
With a large spoon, mix thoroughly with about 3/4 of the can of frost-
Gumdrops White candy coating / bark
ing. You won't
Green need the rest. Roll mixture into quarter size cake balls
toothpicks coating
and place on a wax paper covered baking sheet. Place cake balls in Black candy color
the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up. Then transfer to the re- Chocolate candy melts
frigerator to keep chilled and avoid freezing. Round cookie cutter
Heart candies or heart sprin-
2. Prepare the ears. Use round chocolate candy melts kles
and with a round cutter, cut off a small portion of Paper lollipop sticks
each candy melt. Set the ears aside. Styrofoam block
Peanut butter morsels
3. Melt white candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the
White candy coating (face)
coating is at least four inches deep for easier dipping. Melt in the mi- Peanut butter candy coating
crowave in 30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Repeat (face)
until melted and smooth. White confetti sprinkles (eye)
Black confetti sprinkles
4. Add several drops of black candy color (this does not contain water) (pupil)
into the white candy coating and stir until combined. Add color until Black sunflower seeds (nose)
you achieve the desired shade. Black edible ink pen (mouth)
Pink confetti sprinkles
5. Remove a couple of cake balls from the refrigerator at a time to work (tongue)
with.
Minnie Mouse Cake Pops
9. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted coating and insert into the cake ball. Then, grab two candy
melt ears and dip the cut side into the melted candy coating. Attach the ears to the top/side of the cake pop
and the coating will set like glue. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.
11. When dry, carefully dip the entire cake pop with ears attached into the bowl of melted candy coating. Dip
and remove in one motion without stirring. Make sure the entire cake ball is covered. Using a deep bowl
is helpful here. If your coating is too thick, you can add a few drops of vegetable oil or shortening to help
thin it and make it easier to work with.
12. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back
You'll need: into the bowl. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.
shaped cake 13. Create Minnie Mouse's bow by applying a small amount of leftover
Chocolate frosting candy coating to the top of Minnie's head. Attach two candy hearts
Ladyfingers or jumbo heart sprinkles and on red rainbow chip sprinkle in be-
Chocolate wafer cookies tween. Dot the bow with a toothpick dipped in white candy coating.
Sugar
Gumdrops 14. For Minnie's face, melt white candy coating and pour into a small
Green toothpicks squeeze bottle. (You can make the color slightly tan by adding a
few peanut butter candy melts when heating and stir together until
completely combined.) You can also use a peanut butter morsel to
attach to the front of the pop to help achieve a three dimensional
profile. Dip the flat side of the morsel in some of the melted candy
coating and place on the front of the pop.
15. Then, using the squeeze bottle to pipe melted candy coating on top
of the morsel and around the front of the pop in the shape shown in
the photo. Let dry. Reheat any leftover coating in the bowl and use
to apply the remaining details. Dip the toothpick in coating and
apply it in position for the nose and attach one sunflower seed.
17. Use the same technique to apply white confetti sprinkles and then overlap black confetti sprinkles for the
eyes. Draw the eyelashes and mouths with a black edible ink pen and then attach one pink confetti sprin-
kle (broken in half) on top for the tongue. Let dry completely.
18. Draw the eyelashes and mouths with a black edible ink pen and then attach one pink confetti sprinkle
(broken in half) on top for the tongue. Let dry completely.
19. When dry, wrap in small treat bags and tie with a decorative ribbon.
Sorcerer`s Hat Cake Pops
Keep time in the kitchen as you use spatulas and mixing bowls to cook up a
symphony of tasty treats in the form of Sorcerer's Hat cake pops. They're
music to your taste buds!

You'll need:
Note: OnePound
cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and
cake loaf- rected on box for 13 x 9 cake)
freeze cakeshaped
sections forcake
another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each cake pop you
plan on dipping and more for any extra decorating. 1 can (16 oz) of ready made
Chocolate frosting frosting
Ladyfingers
Chocolate wafer cookies Baking sheets
bowl. With a large spoon, mix cake thoroughly with about 3/4 of the
Sugar White candy coating
can of frosting. You won't need the rest. Roll mixture into quarter
Gumdrops Blue candy coating
size cake balls and place on a baking sheet covered with wax paper.
Green toothpicks Chocolate covered mints
2. Once you have rolled the cake balls, you can then re-shape them into (such as Junior Mints)
cones. Get the shape started by hand molding and then lay the cone Yellow jumbo star sprinkles
shape on the wax paper and roll back and forth gently to help smooth Yellow candies (such as Star-
out the shape. You can also rub the bottom side on the wax paper burst)
gently to help flatten the bottom. No. 807 Decorating tip
No. 12 Decorating tip
3. Place the cone-shaped cake balls in the freezer for about 15 minutes Toothpicks
to firm up. You can transfer them to the refrigerator to keep chilled Small paintbrush
and avoid freezing. Paper lollipop sticks
Styrofoam block
4. While the cake is chilling, you can make moons for the hat. Work
with one Starburst candy at a time. Place it in the microwave for just
a few seconds to make it more pliable. Then using a small glass or rolling pin, roll the candy flat. To
make the moon you can use two small circular edges to cut the shapes. Decorating tips are the perfect
size.
Sorcerer's Hat Cake Pops
5. Cut out circles with the smaller end of a No. 807 decorating tip, then use the small end of a No. 12 deco-
rating tip to remove another circular shape from inside the larger circle to create moons. Repeat with more
yellow candies as needed.
Note: You can also place them on the side of the large tip so they remain slightly curved and therefore
easier to attach to the cake pop shape.
6. Melt white candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the coating is at four inches deep for easier
dipping. Melt in the microwave in 30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Repeat until melted
and smooth. Add blue candy color and stir until completely combined
and you achieve the desired shade of blue.
You'll need:
Pound cake or other loaf- 7. Remove a couple of cake balls at a time from the refrigerator to work
shaped cake with. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted coating and insert
Chocolate frosting
into the bottom of the cone shape. Dip the cake pop into the coating
Ladyfingers
and remove in one motion without stirring. Make sure the entire
Sugar cone-shaped cake ball is covered. Using a deep bowl is helpful here.
Gumdrops If your coating is too thick, you can add a few drops of vegetable oil
Green toothpicks or shortening to help thin it and make it easier to work with.
8. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back
into the bowl. Attach a Junior Mint to each side of the hat for
Mickey's ears.
9. Then, while coating is still wet, attach two star sprinkles and one
moon. Place in a styrofoam block to dry. You can also attach the stars
and moon after the coating sets by using a toothpick to dot a small
amount of coating to use as glue.
10. You can wrap your Sorcerer's Hat cake pops in treat bags tied with
a ribbon and/or store them on the counter or in an airtight container.
Hamm Cake Pops
Kids will be thinking pink when they feast their eyes on these cute Hamm
cake pops, modeled after the dutiful piggie bank pal of Toy Story fame.
Youll Need
Instructions: You'll need:
Note: One cake makes about 48 cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and
shaped cake cake)
freeze cake sections for another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each cake pop you
Chocolate frosting
plan on dipping and more for any extra decorating. 1 16 oz can of readymade
Chocolate
1. After wafer cookies
cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large Wax paper
Sugar
bowl. With a large spoon, mix thoroughly with about 3/4 of the can Baking sheets
frosting.
of Gumdrops You won't need the rest. Roll mixture into quarter-size Pink candy coating
cakeGreen toothpicks
balls and place on a wax paper-covered baking sheet. Place cake Jumbo heart sprinkles
balls in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up. You can transfer Black sugar pearls (eyes)
them to the refrigerator to keep chilled and avoid freezing. Pink colorstick sprinkles
(mouth and broken in half for
2. When they are firm, mold the cake balls into a pear shape. Then gen- ears)
tly rub the smaller end on the wax paper to flatten. Black edible ink pen
(eyebrows)
3. Return the cake pops to the refrigerator to maintain firmness. Melt Pink edible ink pen (snout)
pink candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the coating is Toothpicks
at least three to four inches deep for easier dipping. Melt in the mi- Paper lollipop sticks
crowave in 30-second intervals on low, stirring in between. Repeat
until melted and smooth.
4. Remove a couple of cake balls from the refrigerator at a time to work with. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick
into the melted coating and insert into the bottom of Hamm's head. Then, grab two jumbo heart sprinkle
ears and dip the rounded side into the melted candy coating. Attach the ears to the top/back of the cake
pop and the coating will set like glue.
5. Place in a styrofoam block to dry. After a few minutes, you can carefully dip the entire cake pop -- with
ears attached -- into the bowl of melted candy coating. Dip and remove in one motion without stirring.
Make sure the entire cake ball is covered. Using a deep bowl is helpful here. If your coating is too thick,
you can add a few drops of vegetable oil or shortening to help thin it and make it easier to work with.
Hamm Cake Pops
6. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back into the bowl. Place in a styrofoam
block to dry.
7. When dry, use a toothpick to dot a tiny amount of coating in position for the eyes and attach one black
sugar pearl sprinkle for each eye.
8. Use the same technique to attach the colorstick sprinkle mouth and broken colorstick sprinkle pieces for
the ear details.
9. When dry, use a black edible ink pen to draw eyebrows and a pink
You'll need: edible ink pen to draw tear drop shapes for the snout.
10. Let dry completely in a styrofoam block.
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting 11. When dry, use a black edible ink pen to dot the eyes and draw eye-
Ladyfingers brows.
Sugar 12. If you'd like, print out Toy Story 3 movie poster tags and cut a slit
Gumdrops in the top and bottom of each big enough to slide the cake pop stick
Green toothpicks through. (You can print the tags in black-and-white if you don't want
to use too much of your ink.)
13. You can wrap in treat bags tied with a ribbon and/or store them on
the counter or in an airtight container.
Mr. Potato Head Cake Pop
Mr.Pota Head,evryone'sfavoriteToyStorywiseguy,gets heswet reatmenti cakepo frm. Mr. Potato Head, everyone's favorite Toy Story wise guy, gets the sweet
treatment in cake pop form.
Youll Need
Note: One cake makes about 48 cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and
shaped cake cake)
Chocolate frosting
plan on dipping and more for any extra decorating. 1 16 oz can of readymade
Chocolate
1. After wafer cookies
cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large Wax paper
Sugar
bowl. With a large spoon, mix thoroughly with about 3/4 of the can Baking sheets
frosting.
of Gumdrops You won't need the rest. Roll mixture into quarter-size Peanut butter-flavored candy
cakeGreen toothpicks
balls and place on a wax paper-covered baking sheet. coating
Paper sucker sticks (cut into
2. Place cake balls in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up. You small pieces and bent for
can transfer them to the refrigerator to keep chilled and avoid freez- arms)
ing. When they are firm, mold the cake balls into a pear shape by Pink jumbo confetti sprinkles
hand. (ears)
Junior Mints (hats)
3. Return the cake pops to the refrigerator to maintain firmness. Prepare Peanut butter morsels (nose)
your candies and arms in small groups before you start dipping so White confetti sprinkles (eyes
you can stay organized. & teeth)
Chocolate coated sunflower
4. Melt peanut butter candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that seeds in black (mustache)
the coating is at three to four inches deep for easier dipping. Melt in Red colorstick sprinkles (lips)
the microwave in 30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Re- Blue gourmet mints (shoes)
peat until melted and smooth. Black edible ink pen (eye de-
tails)
5. Remove a couple of cake balls from the refrigerator at a time to work Toothpicks
with. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted coating and insert Paper lollipop sticks
into the bottom of Mr. Potato Head's body. Dip in the bowl of candy
coating and remove in one motion without stirring. Make sure the entire cake ball is covered. Using a
deep bowl is helpful here. If your coating is too thick, you can add a few drops of vegetable oil or short-
ening to help thin it and make it easier to work with.
Mr. Potato Head Cake Pop
6. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back into the bowl. Work quickly with one
cake pop at a time and before the coating sets, gently insert two sucker stick pieces for arms, two pink
jumbo confetti sprinkles for ears, one Junior Mint on top for his hat and one peanut butter morsel in posi-
tion for his nose.
8. When the cake pops are dry, finish attaching the remaining candies. Use a toothpick to dot a tiny amount
of leftover coating in position for the eyes and attach one white confetti sprinkle for each eye. You can
also dip half of the confetti sprinkle in coating to make an eyelid. (Let
You'll need: dry on wax paper before trying to attach.)
shaped cake 9. Use the same technique to attach two black chocolate coated sun-
Chocolate frosting flower seeds for the mustache. Apply a little bit more coating on the
Ladyfingers bottom of each Potato Head and attach two blue gourmet mints for
Chocolate wafer cookies feet. Hold in place until set.
Sugar
Gumdrops 10. For the mouths, you can use white confetti sprinkles and red and
Green toothpicks white colorstick sprinkles to attach with more leftover candy coating
for teeth and lips.
11. When dry, use a black edible ink pen to dot the eyes and draw eye-
brows.
Don't be surprised if Mr. Potato Head gets a thin hairline crack down one side of his body. It's hard to avoid
due to inserting sticks in three places as well as multiple candies. Here's how you can correct it: If a crack
appears, use a toothpick to dip in any leftover peanut butter coating and draw a line over the crack. Then
use your finger to gently rub over the crack to fill in the gap. Easy.
Pooh Cake Pops
With this recipe, everyone's favorite tubby little cubby is no longer stuffed
with fluff: He's a tasty cake pop. And since Winnie the Pooh can't go long
without his "hunny," you can use extra cake to make delectable Hunny Pot
Cake Pops, too.
Instructions:
Youll Need
You'll need:
Note: One cake makes about 48 cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and 1 box cake mix (bake as di-
shaped cake cake)
plan on dipping and more for any extra decorating.
Chocolate frosting 1 16 oz can of ready-made
Ladyfingers
1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large frosting
Chocolate
bowl. With a large waferspoon,
cookies mix thoroughly with about 3/4 of the can Wax paper
Sugar
of frosting. You won't need the rest. Roll mixture into quarter size Baking sheets
Gumdrops Yellow candy coating
cake balls and place on a wax paper covered baking sheet.
Green toothpicks Red candy coating (optional
2. Place cake balls in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up. You for shirt collar)
can transfer them to the refrigerator to keep chilled and avoid freez- Chocolate coated sunflower
ing. When they are firm, shape half of the cake balls to resemble seeds in yellow, white or an-
Winnie's head. The top of the ball should be smaller than the bottom. other light color (nose)
Try to shape them so the nose protrudes in the front. Black non-pareils (eyes)
Brown rainbow chip sprinkles
3. To practice getting the shape right, place candies in position for ears Pink confetti sprinkles
and nose and use a lollipop stick to mark the eyes to see if the shape (tongue)
is looking right. You can use a picture of Winnie as a guide to shape Black edible ink pen
(eyebrows, mouth)
the cake ball. You can also use a lollipop stick to help shape the nose.
Red edible ink pen (mouth)
4. Return the cake pops to the refrigerator to maintain firmness. Melt Toothpicks
yellow candy coating in a heat-proof plastic bowl so that the coating Paper lollipop sticks
is at three to four inches deep for easier dipping. Melt in the micro-
wave in 30 second intervals on low, stirring in between. Repeat until melted and smooth. Remove a cou-
ple of cake balls from the refrigerator at a time to work with.
Pooh Cake Pops
5. Dip the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted coating and insert into the bottom of Winnie's head. Then,
grab two sunflower seed ears and dip the pointed side into the melted candy coating. Attach the ears to the
top/back of the cake pop and the coating will set like glue.
9. After a few minutes you can carefully dip the entire cake pop with ears attached into the bowl of melted
candy coating. Dip and remove in one motion without stirring. Make sure the entire cake ball is covered. Us-
ing a deep bowl is helpful here. If your coating is too thick, you can add a few drops of vegetable oil or
shortening to help thin it and make it easier to work with.
You'll need:
Pound cake or other loaf- 8. Remove and allow any excess coating to fall off the pop and back
shaped cake into the bowl. Before the coating sets, attach one brown rainbow chip
Chocolate frosting sprinkle in position for the nose. Repeat with the remaining Winnie the
Ladyfingers Pooh Pops.
Sugar 9. Place in a styrofoam block to dry. When dry, use a toothpick to dot a
Gumdrops tiny amount of coating in position for the eyes and attach one black non
Green toothpicks -pareil sprinkle for each eye. It's best to attach one eye at a time so the
coating doesn't dry before you can attach the sprinkle. Use a black edi-
ble ink pen to draw eyebrows and a cute smile. Then finish the bottom
of the mouth using a red edible ink pen.
10. For the tongues, cut a pink confetti sprinkle in half and use a tooth-
pick to dot a small amount of coating in position and attach the tongue.
11. You can stop here or you can give Winnie a hint of his red shirt.
To do so, melt red candy coating and let sit for a few minutes to thicken
a bit. If it is too hot it can be runny. Then carefully, twist and remove
the lollipop stick. Once removed, you can hold Winnie's head and dip
the bottom in two diagonal directions to form the collar of his red shirt.
Immediately reinsert the lollipop stick and place back in the styrofoam
block to dry.
12. You can wrap them in treat bags tied with a ribbon and/or store
them on the counter or in an airtight container.
Hunny Pot Cake Pops
That willy nilly silly ol' bear, Winnie the Pooh, knew one thing for certain:
Life is better with your favorite snack. Don't forget to pair these hunny pot
treats with Winnie the Pooh Cake Pops.

You'll need:
1. After cake is
shaped cooked and cooled completely, crumble into a large
cake
bowl. With a large spoon, mix thoroughly with about 3/4 of the can cake)
Chocolate frosting 1 16 oz can of ready-made
of
frosting. You won't need the rest.
2. Roll mixture into quarter size cake balls and place on a wax paper
Sugar Baking sheets
covered baking sheet. Place cake balls in the freezer for about 15
Gumdrops
minutes Yellow candy coating
Greentotoothpicks
firm up. You can transfer them to the refrigerator to keep
Purple candy coating
chilled and avoid freezing.
Brown rainbow chip sprinkles
3. Shape the cake balls into ovals for the Hunny pots. Return the cake Black edible ink pen
pops to the refrigerator to maintain firmness. ("Hunny")
Toothpicks
4. When you are ready to make the Hunny pots, melt the purple candy Paper lollipop sticks
coating. Insert a lollipop stick into the oval-shaped cake ball. Dip into
the candy coating so the cake ball is completely covered. Remove and let most of the excess fall off and
back into the bowl. Then, place the cake pop on a wax-paper covered baking sheet. Some of the coating
will rest at the base forming the edge of the pot. Repeat with remaining pots and let dry completely.
5. Once dry, you can add the "hunny". Heat yellow candy coating and use a spoon to apply it to the top of
the pots. If you let it thicken for a few minutes, it will be less likely to run down the pot. You want it
thick enough to drip over the edge, but not too runny that it makes a mess.
6. Let dry completely in a styrofoam block and then write HUNNY on each pot with a black edible ink pen.
Reverse the direction of the first N for an extra Winnie the Pooh detail. Let dry completely. You can
wrap in treat bags tied with a ribbon and/or store them on the counter or in an airtight container.
Note: One cake makes about 48 cake pops. If you don't need that many, then cut cake in quarters and freeze
cake sections for another day. You'll need at least one ounce of candy coating for each cake pop .
Edible Tea Cups
There is no shortage of teacups at the Mad Hatter's unbirthday party. In
fact, the cups rotate around the table so quickly Alice never gets so much
as a sip of tea. Made from ice cream cones and cookies, these edible cup-
and-saucer treat holders are a cinch to assemble and will ensure that each
guest at your child's tea party gets his or her fill.
You'll need:
shaped cake Cup-style wafer ice cream cone
1. Use a serrated frosting
Chocolate knife to carefully cut the cup portion of the ice cream
cone from the handle (an adult's job). Discard the handle and set the Round sugar or shortbread
Ladyfingers cookie
cup aside for now.
Chocolate wafer cookies Decorator's icing
Sugar
2. Place a gummy ring candy on the center of the cookie, using decora- 2 gummy rings candies
Gumdrops
tor's icing to "glue" it in place. Assorted candies, popcorn, or
Green toothpicks trail mix to fill the teacup
3. Set the ice cream cone cup on top of the gummy ring. Again, use a
thin line of decorator's icing to hold the cone in place, if needed.
4. For a teacup handle, slice the second gummy ring in half. Gently
press the cut ends of one of the candy halves against the cone to stick the handle in place.
5. Fill the cup with a few candies or other snacks, and its teatime!
Rotten Eggs
Great for fooling friends or adding that certain 'ick factor' to your Hal-
loween party, these super-easy Rotten Eggs will be a big hit.
You'll need:
Pound
Need
12shaped cake
large eggs Instructions:
Chocolate frosting
various food colorings
Ladyfingers 1. Hard boil eggs using desired method and cool.
Chocolate wafer cookies 2. Combine food colorings to make an 'icky' color; blue and green work
Sugar well for this.
Gumdrops 3. Gently crack hard boiled eggs, leaving shells on eggs. Cover with water
Green toothpicks and add food coloring.
4. Let eggs sit in colored water for at least half an hour. Remove shells
before serving.
Thumper's Wrap Sandwich
Lunch is more fun when characters like Bambi's friend Thumper make an
appearance. This healthy lunch will get your own little bunnies giggling with
delight.
Instructions:
Pound caketortilla
1. Cut a whole wheat or other loaf-
head, ears, and muzzle. Cut turkey eyes and cheeks, a ham
Printed template (optional)
nose,shaped
and pinkcake
ham ears. Cut white cheese for eyes and teeth and yellow cheese for 1 whole wheat tortilla
Chocolate
Thumper's muzzle frosting
and mouth. 1 slice turkey
Ladyfingers 1 slice ham
2. Place the tortilla head in the middle of a plate and top with turkey eyes and cheeks, plac-
white
ing Chocolate wafer
cheese over cookies
Thumper's turkey eyes. 1 slice low fat yellow cheese
Sugar (such as American)
3. Add a tortilla muzzle between Thumper's turkey cheeks. Use yellow cheese for Thumper's
Gumdrops 1 slice low fat white cheese
mouth and a square of white cheese for teeth. Place a ham nose at the top of Thumper's
Green
yellow cheesetoothpicks
muzzle.
(such as provolone)
2 olive slices
4. Finish Thumper's face by adding olive slices as pupils. 36 brown candy-coated choco-
5. For ears, layer ham on top of small tortilla circles and fold. Slide the ears under the tor- lates (we used M&M's)
tilla head to secure. Note: You can make this sandwich
using either cookie cutters or
6. Serve with low fat mayonnaise and mustard for dipping. Garnish the plate with lettuce
and tomatoes for kids to layer on once they've enjoyed looking at their Thumper face.
fondant cutters. If you don't
When it's time to eat, have them roll up their wraps and dig in! have the cutters on hand, use a
paring knife with the printable
template.
Cinderellas Bento Box
Make a special lunch for the little princess in your life, complete with jewel
berry bracelets and magic wands! Contains Cucumber and cream cheese
sandwich with Cinderella topper, Fairy Godmother Pretzel Wands, Cinder-
ella's Pumpkin Mini Muffin, and Berry Jewel Bracelets
Instructions:
You'll
Youll need:
Need
Pound cake
Sandwich or other loaf-
Template Cinderella Sandwiches:
shaped
2 slices cake
of bread,

cream cheese frosting
Chocolate 1. Spread cream cheese on sandwich, top with thinly sliced cucumber
Ladyfingers
thinly sliced cucumber for a princess treat!
Chocolate
two wafer cookies
colors of cheese 2. Using template as a guide, cut Cinderella's face shape
Sugar
boiled egg from lighter colored cheese.
Gumdrops
cucumber 3. Cut hair, using template from darker colored
red Green cheese. Place together and use dots of cream cheese to
lettucetoothpicks
hold in place if needed.
1 stick dry spaghetti
4. For eyes, take a slice of boiled egg white, cut into
mixed berries eye shapes. Using a small straw, cut small circles from
toothpick. red lettuce or spinach to finish eyes. For mouth, use tem-
pretzel rods plate or small circle cutter to cut lips from spinach or
melted chocolate lettuce.
colored sugar sprinkles 5. Use headband template to cut the hair piece from red
lettuce, a sharp knife or fine pointed scissors work well.
6. Assemble face and hair accessories, use dots of cream cheese on a toothpick to help stick them in place.
Fairy Godmother Wands:
1. Dip tips of pretzel rods in melted chocolate, roll in colored sugar sprinkles.
2. Allow to dry on waxed paper before putting in bento.
Berry Jewel Bracelets:
1. Pierce each fruit with a toothpick to make a hole in the "bead."

2. Thread carefully onto dry spaghetti to make a pattern, leave a bit at each end open.
3. Refrigerate for a few hours until spaghetti softens from fruit juices, then carefully round
into bracelet.
4. Tuck remaining ends into berries to hold the bracelet together
Tempting Invitations
It was a day like any other at Lady Tremaine's chateau before the king's
messenger delivered a very special envelope. Tucked inside was an invi-
tation to the ball addressed to all of the maidens in the household, even
Cinderella. In honour of the good news, why not invite your young
maiden to lunch? On the menu: tasty tortilla envelopes filled with ham
and cheese.
1. Printshaped
and cutcake
out the template. Use it as a pattern to cut an envelope Invitation Envelope Template
Chocolate
shape out of the frosting
tortilla or flat bread. Place the tortilla envelope on a Tortilla or flat bread
Ladyfingers
flat surface so that the pointed ends are at the top and the bottom. Cream cheese, softened
Chocolate wafer cookies A slice of ham
2. Layer lettuce, ham, and cheese on the center portion of the envelope,
Sugar A slice of cheese
and then spread cream cheese on the lower and side flaps.
Gumdrops A lettuce leaf
3. Fold the side
Green flaps toward the center, pressing them down onto the
toothpicks A baby carrot
sandwich fillings. Next, fold up the bottom flap and press it in place.
Finally, fold down the top flap, using a dab of cream cheese to "glue"
down the tip of the flap.
4. To seal the invitation, slice two rounds from the baby carrot and use dabs of cream cheese to stick them
to the face of the envelope, as shown.
Potato Mice
These baked-potato mice are almost too gorgeous to eat! Makes 4

potato mice.

Pound cake Need
shaped baking
4 medium cake potatoes 1. Wash the potatoes and pat them dry. Prick the skins with a fork
Chocolate
1 tbsp oil frosting and put the potatoes on a baking sheet. Brush them all over with oil.
Ladyfingers
2 tbsp butter Bake the potatoes until they are soft. Medium sized potatoes take
Chocolate
Half cup milk wafer cookies about one hour in an oven preheated to 400F.
Sugar
Half cup grated cheddar cheese 2. Cool enough to handle? Then cut off the tops and carefully scoop
Gumdrops
Cherry tomatoes out the soft potato centers with a spoon. You can throw away the
Chives
Green toothpicks
tops (or eat them).
Radishes
3. Mash the soft centers with the butter, milk, three quarters of the
Raisins
cheese , salt and pepper. Then put the mixture back into the potato
Green onions
skins.
4. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on the potatoes and cook under the
broiler for a few minutes until golden.
5. Make a nose and whiskers by cutting the chives into lengths of about 3 inches. Take a small cherry to-
mato, stick a toothpick in one end and insert this into the baked potato to make a nose with the chives
tucked behind to form the whiskers.
6. To make the ears and eyes, cut the radishes in half and make two indentations with a blunt knife. Place
the radishes on either side of the potato to form ears and then place the raisins in front to make the eyes.
7. To make the tail, choose a part of the green onion that is pointed at the end. Insert this into the back of
the potato to make the tail.
Minnie Cheeseball Mice
Gus, Jaq, and the other mice that lived in Lady Tremaine's chateau al-
ways had Cinderella's best interests in mind. They stitched ruffles on
her mother's old dress to make it fit for the ball, teamed up to pull the
coach she rode in, and slipped her the key after her stepmother had
locked her in the attic. Like Cinderella's helpful long-tailed pals, these
mice are ready to come to the rescue whenever you're looking to serve
a tasty and nutritious snack.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Store-bought cheese ball or
Chocolate frosting spreadable cheddar cheese
1. For
each mouse, scoop a generous tablespoon of cheese from the cheese ball or spread
Ladyfingers
and shape it to resemble a mouse (the back end of its body should be round, the front
Slivered almonds
Chocolate wafer cookies Currants
pointed). If the cheese softens too much in the process, just place the mice in the refrig-
Sugar
erator for a short while to firm it up again. Fresh chives or scallions
Gumdrops Crackers
2. For
the mouse's ears, press two almond slivers halfway into the top of the head.
Green toothpicks
3. Next, use the tip of a toothpick to press currants into the cheese where the eyes and the
nose go.
4. For a tail, insert the snipped end of a fresh chive or scallion into the cheese.
5. Set the mouse atop a cracker and serve with more crackers.
Ear-resistible Treats
While it took awhile for most of Dumbo's circus colleagues to recog-
nize the merits of having extra large ears, his mother, Mrs. Jumbo,
never once had her doubts. Not only did they enable the little elephant
to fly but, when it came to taking heed of some good motherly advice,
you could say Dumbo was all ears. It's only fitting then that Mrs.
Jumbo's Mother's Day treat would be inspired by her son's greatest at-
tribute. Made with puff pastry and cinnamon sugar, these sweet ele-
phant ears are a cinch to bake and guaranteed to be a big hit.
You'll need:
Pound cakeNeed
shaped
Baking cake
sheets
Chocolate
Parchment paperfrosting 1. Spread 1/4 cup of sugar on your work surface. Set the puff pastry
Ladyfingers
Sheet of puff pastry (about 10 atop of the sugar.
Chocolate wafer
-inches square), cookies
thawed ac- 2. Mix the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar with the cinnamon and spread it
Sugar
cording to the package direc- on the pastry.
Gumdrops
tions
cup sugar 3. Starting on the left side, roll the dough to the center of the sheet.
1 teaspoon cinnamon Then roll up the right side, and gently press the two halves together.
Chill the dough for a half hour.
4. Heat the oven to 400 degrees, and line the baking sheets with parch-
ment paper.
5. Slice the dough into 1/2-inch-thick pieces and arrange them cut side down on the baking sheets, leaving
as much room between them as possible.
6. Bake the elephant ears until they turn light brown and the sugar starts to bubble, about 8 to 10 minutes.
Use a spatula to carefully transfer the pastries (the sugar will be very hot) to a wire rack to cool before
serving. Makes about 1 1/2 dozen 3-inch pastries.
Meringue Mushrooms
Just about everywhere you go in Pixie Hollow, you'll find no short-
age of toadstools. Fairies use them for all kinds of things, including
tables, workbenches, and umbrellas. Although these meringue
mushrooms bear a remarkable resemblance to the real thing, they
serve just a single, but important, purpose: satisfying a fairy fan's
sweet tooth. For the best results, make them on a dry (rather than a
humid) day.
Instructions:
Pound
1. Line cake or
the baking otherwith
sheets loaf-parchment paper, and heat the oven to Baking sheets
200shaped
degreescake
F. Parchment paper
Chocolate frosting Mixing bowl
2. Beat the egg whites on medium speed until they are frothy.
Ladyfingers Electric mixer
Chocolate
3. Add the creamwafer
of tartar and continue beating until the whites form
cookies 3 egg whites, at room tempera-
soft peaks.
Sugar ture
Gumdrops
4. Turn the mixer up to high and beat in the sugar a spoonful at a time. 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Continue
Green beating
toothpicks
the whites until they become glossy and form stiff 3/4 cup granulated sugar
peaks. (preferably extra fine)
Wooden spoon
5. Spoon the meringue into the pastry bag. On the first tray, pipe 18 to Pastry bag fitted with a round
24 mushroom caps by holding the pastry bag perpendicular to the tip
tray and using even pressure to squeeze out mounds of meringue Knife
that measure 1 1/2 to 2 inches in diameter and about 3/4 inch high. Small microwavable bowl
To avoid creating peaked tops, try twisting the pastry bag as you 1/3 cup chocolate chips
pull it away from the caps. You can also gently smooth small peaks 1/4 cup cocoa powder
with a wet fingertip. Sifter
6. Pipe mushroom stems onto the second tray (you'll want to make
extras since some are bound to topple). For each one, start with a round base (about 3/4 to 1 inch wide)
and continue piping meringue as you slowly draw the bag upward to give the stem a tapered top. Ideally,
your stems should be about 1 1/2 inches tall.
7. Bake the caps and stems for 75 minutes, turning the trays halfway through the baking time so the me-
ringues will cook evenly. Turn off the heat and leave the trays in the oven until it cools.
8. 8. Now it's time to join the stems and caps. Use the tip of a knife to hollow out a small hole on the under-
side of each cap, as shown. Then heat the chocolate chips in the microwave for 30 second intervals, stir-
ring each time, until they are melted. For each mushroom, dip the top of a stem into the melted chocolate
and insert it into the hole in the cap.
Spinach Squirt-tata
Dude! Inspired by Finding Nemo's surfer sea turtle, this egg dish is
nutritious, delicious and perfectly sized for squirt-sized appetites.

Pound Youll
cake Need
or other loaf-
1 tablespoon
shaped cake oil
olive
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
1/4 cup diced yellow
Chocolate frostingonion
1 10-ounce package chopped 2. Lightly grease mini-muffin tins with non-stick cooking spray.
Ladyfingers
spinach, thawed
Chocolate wafer and cookies
drained 3. In a skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high heat and saut onions
8 eggs
Sugar three to five minutes, or until tender. Add drained spinach and heat
1/2 teaspoon salt
Gumdrops through, stirring frequently.
Black
Green pepper, to taste
toothpicks
1/4 cup shredded white cheese, 4. When spinach is heated, use a teaspoon to scoop the spinach and
such as Monterey Jack or moz- onion mixture into 24 mini-muffin cups.
zarella 5. Whisk eggs, salt and pepper in a large bowl. This is a great job for
24 green grapes kids.
1/2 green pepper, washed with
seeds and ribs removed 6. Use a ladle to fill the mini-muffin tins 3/4 full with beaten eggs. Do
not overfill. Once tins are full, kids can help sprinkle the egg mix-
ture with shredded cheese Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until
golden and set.
7. While frittatas bake, make your turtle heads and flippers. This requires a sharp paring knife and this is
definitely a parent's job. Make a diagonal cut across the length of the grape, creating a base so that the
grape doesn't roll around.
Spinach Squirt-tata
8. Cut a small triangle in the rounded end of the grape and remove the flesh, creating a mouth.
9. For the eyes, poke a small hole with your paring knife on each side of the grape. Cut four triangle-
shaped flippers from a green pepper for each turtle. Use the small, leftover scraps of pepper to make
your turtle's eyes. Press tiny, green pepper triangles into the holes that you poked on each side of the
grape.
10. Once they're cool enough to touch, scoop frittatas from tins. Place a frittata in the center of a plate to
function as your turtle shell.
11. Place a green grape head at one end and place four green pepper flippers around the frittata shell.
12. For a fun garnish,
You'll need:decorate the plate with carrot sticks cut to look like little orange clownfish.
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting
Ladyfingers
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Luigis Hot Dog Dipper
Manny helped Luigi fix his hot dog cart, and your preschooler will love
helping you to fix this fresh take on "pigs in a blanket." It swaps store-
bought croissant dough for wholesome pretzel dough.
You'll need:
Instructions:
Youll
shaped cakeNeed
4 teaspoons
Chocolateactive dry yeast
frosting 1. In a small bowl or measuring cup, dissolve 1 teaspoon granulated
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
Ladyfingers sugar, and 4 teaspoons yeast in 1 1/4 cups warm water. Place the
1 1/4 cups warm water
bowl or cup in a warm spot for 10 -15 minutes, or until the yeast
(110degrees
Sugar F)
4 cups all-purpose flour has become foamy. Talk to kids about why the yeast is foaming.
Gumdrops
1/4 cup
Green light brown sugar
toothpicks The yeast gobbles up the sugar producing carbon dioxide and
1 1/2 teaspoons salt MORE yeast. Carbon dioxide creates bubbles and makes the yeast
1 Tablespoon olive oil, to look foamy. Let kids smell the bowl of yeast -- there is a strong
grease mixing bowl bread-like odor as the carbon dioxide gases are being released.
Hot dogs, Turkey dogs or Tofu-
pups 2. While your yeast is foaming, measure 4 cups of flour, 1 1/4 tea-
1 egg, beaten with 2 teaspoons spoons salt, and 1/4 cup brown sugar into a large mixing bowl. Stir
water to combine and make a well (or hole) in the center of your flour.
Sesame seeds, poppy seeds,
wheat germ 3. Once your yeast is frothy, it's time to make the dough. Pour the
yeast mixture into the well. Mix the yeast and flour mixture to form
dough. If the dough is too wet, you can add a few tablespoons of flour.
4. Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead for 5 to 7 minutes, or until the texture of the dough is
smooth. Kneading the dough is lots of fun for kids. Have them wash and thoroughly dry their hands, then
flour them to keep the dough from sticking.
5. Use olive oil to grease a large mixing bowl and transfer your ball of dough to the bowl. Roll the dough
around the bowl, coating it with olive oil. Place a kitchen towel, or plastic wrap over your bowl and set it
in a warm place to rise. The dough will need to rise for 1 hour, or until it has doubled in size.
6. While your dough is rising preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper
and prep your hot dogs. If you are using regular hot dogs, cut them cross-wise, into 2 or 3 pieces.
Luigis Hot Dog Dipper
7. Once your dough has risen, punch it down and divide it into 12 -15 pieces. Roll these pieces into long
12" ropes. Use a kitchen scissor to cut the ropes into 3 shorter ropes. * Kids will love rolling dough into
ropes and snakes!
8. Wrap the pretzel dough ropes around your hot dogs and place them on parchment covered cookie sheets.
9. Bake the hot dog dippers in a 450-degree oven for 8 minutes, or until the pretzels are slightly browned
and the hot dogs are heated.
You'll need:
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting
Ladyfingers
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Zakas School Scones
Whether you're looking for a breakfast treat your kids can eat on the go
or a satisfying snack that's ready after class, homemade scones fit the
bill. Plus they're fun for aspiring bakers to help make -- just ask Wild-
cat basketball star Zeke Baylor. Made with sweetened red cranberries
and white chocolate chips, this version pays tribute to East High's col-
ors, but you can experiment with just about any dried fruit you like
and/or substitute nuts for the candy.

Pound Youll
cake Need
or other loaf-
2 cups flour
shaped cake 1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees.
1/3 cup brownfrosting
Chocolate sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder 2. Sift together the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, and
Ladyfingers
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg salt in a large mixing bowl. Cut the butter into pat-size pieces and
1/2 teaspoon salt drop them into the dry ingredients. Using clean hands, rub the but-
Sugar
4 tablespoons ter evenly into the flour until the mixture is crumbly. Stir in the
Gumdrops chilled butter
cranberries and white chocolate chips.
1/2 Green
cup dried sweetened cran-
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berries 3. Whisk together the cream and the beaten egg in a small bowl. Make
1/2 cup white chocolate chips a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour the cream and egg
3/4 cup cream into it. Stir until the dough pulls together (it will be sticky).
1 egg, slightly beaten
4. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and pat it into an 8-inch-
wide circle. Slice the circle into 8 pie slice shaped wedges and arrange
them on a baking sheet, spacing them evenly apart.
5. Bake the scones for 15 to 17 minutes, until the top turns light brown, and then let them cool on the bak-
ing sheet for 3 or 4 minutes. Transfer the scones to a wire rack. Enjoy them warm or cool.
Apricot Clownfish
Living in an undersea world, a mermaid like Ariel is apt to encounter a

variety of colourful characters. These sweet clownfish are a case in
point. Created from apricots and sporting candy stripes, they make a
snack that's sure to reel in young fans.
You'll need:
shaped cake Cookie sheet
Instructions:
Chocolate frosting Waxed paper
Ladyfingers
1. Line the cookie sheet with waxed paper. 2 dozen dried whole apricots
Chocolate wafer cookies 15 white candy melts
2. For each fish, cut 2 apricots as shown. Then, remove the smallest
Sugar Microwavable bowl
piece from the first apricot (reserve these pieces to add to trail mix or
Gumdrops Wooden spoon
Greenand
granola) arrange the remaining four pieces on the waxed paper,
toothpicks Toothpick
as pictured, to create a fish shape. 12 mini chocolate chips
3. Heat the candy melts in the microwave, following the directions on

the package, and stir them just until smooth.
4. Working with one fish at a time, dip the cut edge of the first apricot piece into the melted candy. Then
place the dipped piece back down on the waxed paper and push the second apricot piece firmly up
against it. Next, dip the cut edge of the third piece and press it against the second piece. Finally, dip the
rounded edge of the fourth piece into the melted candy and push it in place to create the fish's tail.
5. Once you've assembled all of the fish, use the tip of a toothpick to poke a hole in each one where the eye
will go. Press a mini chocolate chip, tip down, into each hole.
6. Place the tray in the refrigerator for a few minutes until the candy firms up again. Makes 12 fish.
Mulans Breakfast
Mushu knew that in order for Mulan to perform well as a soldier
she would need to start the day with a hearty breakfast. When she
peered into the bowl of porridge he offered, she found a face
comprised of fried egg eyes and a bacon strip mouth smiling up at
her. Here's how you, too, can transform a bowl of pudding into a
treat that will result in smiles all around.

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cake Need
or other loaf-
Vanilla
shapedor butterscotch
cake pudding 1.Spoon a serving of pudding into a medium-size bowl and smooth the
A marshmallow
Chocolate frosting surface.
Confectioner's
Ladyfingers sugar
Waxed paper wafer cookies 2.Make a pair of "fried egg eyes" by slicing a marshmallow in half and
Chocolate sprinkling confectioner's sugar on the sticky sides. Sandwich the
2 yellow
SugarM&M candies marshmallow halves between two pieces of waxed paper and use the
A Bull's Eye or other caramel
Gumdrops
candy rolling pin to flatten them to about a 1/4-inch thickness. Set the flat-
Green toothpicks tened marshmallows atop the pudding where the eyes go. Then top
each marshmallow with a yellow M&M placed printed side down.
3.To create a "bacon strip mouth," microwave the Bulls Eye or other caramel candy for up to 6 seconds to
slightly soften it. Then, flatten the candy between waxed paper as you did the marshmallow pieces, rolling
it into a strip about 4 inches long and 3/4 inch wide. Place the bacon strip atop the pudding, curving it
slightly into a smile.
Pirates Bento Box
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of milk! Make your little swashbuckler smile with
a Pirates of the Caribbean-themed lunch. Contains Perfectly pirate
chicken & veggie stuffed muffin, topped with cheese pirate, Tropical
fruit sword kebabs with mango and pineapple, Miniature banana muffin,
Baby bananas, Veggie chips, Blueberries and strawberries
Cheese shaped
Pirate cake Slices of cheese (not processed cheese),
one white, one orange (we chose
Chocolate frosting muenster and medium cheddar)
Ladyfingers
1. Cut one whole circle from white slice of cheese and one semi circle Cucumber peel
Chocolate wafer cookies Red lettuce or spinach
from orange slice. Place orange slice at top of white circle, to become
Sugar Sugar eye
the "bandana."
Gumdrops Cream cheese.
Green
2. Using toothpicks
a small fondant cutter, a straw or a decorating tips, cut several Corn muffin mix
small circles out of the remaining white cheese. These will be the Two cups of cooked shredded or diced
polka dots on the bandana and a nose for the face. With a toothpick, chicken
One to two cups of frozen mixed veg-
dab tiny dots of cream cheese to help stick these in place. Cut a small gies.
triangle piece to be the bandana ties. Mango
3. With cucumber peel or red lettuce, cut one slim strip to be eyepatch Pineapple
string and one heart bump to be the eyepatch. Position and use cream Plastic sword picks
cheese to hold in place. Affix sugar eye with cream cheese.
4. To make the mustache, cut the top of a heart from cucumber peel/red lettuce. Move the cutter a fraction
of an inch and cut again. This should leave a scalloped mustache piece. Attach with dots of cream cheese
if needed (cucumber peel may stick on its own).
5. For the goatee, repeat step 4, but use just one of the heart bumps instead of both. Attach as needed. Place
on top of the muffin, use hummus or cream cheese to attach if needed.
***Note, cream cheese dots are approxi-

mately the tip of a toothpick, use the
smallest amount possible to hold things
in place.
Pirates Bento Box
Chicken & Veggie Stuffed Muffins:
1. Prepare corn muffin mix (boxed mix or homemade).

2. To the batter, add two cups of cooked shredded or diced chicken and one to two cups of frozen mixed
veggies.
3. Spoon into paper muffin cups and bake per muffin mix directions.
Tropical Fruit Kebabs:
1. Dice mango and pineapple into small squares and skewer on plastic sword picks (found at party or craft
stores).
You'll need:
2. Remember to separate peeled fruits from other bento contents; a silicone muffin cup holds the kebabs to
Pound cake
prevent the juice or other
from loaf-on the muffins.
dripping
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting
Hints: Blueberries and strawberries may not be the first fruit brought to mind by "Caribbean," but they
Ladyfingers
make great place holders in a bento to keep other items from shifting. Baby bananas can be found at many
Chocolate
grocers and work wafer
well incookies
bentos, since peeled banana pieces brown quickly.
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Pirates Skeleton Hand
Contrary to outside appearances, the pirates of the Caribbean are a lot

less skin than bones. Their mortal likenesses are actually cover-ups for
the skeletal forms they truly are. Likewise, this bony pirate hand is not
as it seems. Made from candy-coated pretzels, it's really a sweet-and-
salty Halloween treat -- perfect to serve at a party or for a classroom
snack.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Waxed paper
1. Using the picture
Chocolate as reference, break the pretzel rods into pieces to
frosting Pretzel rods
form the three-jointed fingers and thumb. You'll also need another ten
Ladyfingers Mug
or so lengths towafer
Chocolate create the palm and base of the wrist. As a gauge, the
cookies White chocolate chips or
finger
Sugarbones range from 1 inch to 1 3/4 inches long, and the palm candy melts
bones are
Gumdrops between 1 3/4 and 2 inches. Arrange the pieces in the shape Spoon
of a hand on a waxed paper covered surface.
Green toothpicks A few toothpicks
2. Fill a mug with white chocolate chips or candy melts, and melt them 10 slivered almonds
in the microwave according to the directions on the package. Stir the
melted candy until smooth.
3. One at a time, dip the pretzel pieces into the melted candy and place them back on the waxed paper. To
make this step easier, and less messy, you can insert the tip of a toothpick -into the end of the pretzel to
use as a handle. Then use another toothpick to gently push the pretzel off of the first one onto the waxed
paper.
4. Once all the bones are candy-coated, attach a slivered almond "fingernail" to the tip of each finger, using
a dab of melted candy (applied with a toothpick) to glue it in place. Allow the candy to set up.
5. Finally, transfer the bones to the platter (or a piece of cardboard) you plan to serve it on.
Liars Dessert Dice
When Will Turner challenges Davy Jones to a game of Liar's
Dice and stakes his soul for the key to the Dead Man's Chest, his
father joins the game and bids twelve fives to spare his son from a
certain loss. It is a costly bluff that costs him an eternity of servi-
tude to the tentacled captain of the Dutchman. If you're looking
for a sure bet, here's a set of dice that happens to be the most con-
vincing bluff of all. While it closely resembles the real thing, it's
actually made from cubes of fudge and mini chocolate chip dots.
You'll need:
Youll Instructions:
Pound cake Need
or other loaf-
Bread loaf pan
shaped cake 1. Line the loaf pan with aluminum foil and set it aside.
Aluminum
Chocolate foilfrosting
Heavy saucepan
Ladyfingers 2. Combine the sugar, evaporated milk, and butter in the saucepan.
Wooden spoonwafer cookies
Chocolate Bring the mixture to a full boil over medium heat, stirring all the
1 1/2 while. Continue boiling the mixture, stirring continually for 5 min-
Sugar granulated sugar
cups
2/3 cup evaporated milk utes. Remove the pan from the heat.
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2 tablespoons butter
Green toothpicks 3. Add the marshmallows, white chocolate chips, and vanilla extract to
1 cup miniature marshmallows the pan, and stir vigorously until all the ingredients are melted and
2 cups white chocolate morsels the fudge is smooth. Pour the fudge into the pan and chill it until it is
2 teaspoons vanilla extract firm but not too hard.
Knife
Dice (for reference) 4. Lift the foil to remove the fudge from the pan. Slice the fudge into 1
1/4-inch cubes.
Wooden kitchen skewer or
toothpick 5. Turn the cubes into dice by inserting the tip of the skewer or tooth-
Miniature chocolate chips pick 1/8 inch or so into the fudge where the dots will go (use the real
dice as a guide). If the fudge is too hard, you can try microwaving
the cubes for 4 or 5 seconds to soften them. Be careful, though. It
doesn't take long for the fudge to melt.
6. Press miniature chocolate chips, tips down, into the holes.
Edible Eyeballs
When the crewman Ragetti accompanied Jack Sparrow to Tia Dalma's
shack, he discovered the ultimate sight for sore eyes. Among the for-
mer sea goddess' magical wares was a jar filled with eyeballs, and Ra-
getti hoped his chance to replace his own wooden orb was near. Unlike
the ones in Tia Dalma's stores, these edible candy-coated eyeballs are
up for grabs. But you'll want to act fast. They're not likely to last long.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Cookie sheet
1. Line the cookiefrosting
Chocolate sheet with waxed paper and set it aside.
Waxed paper
Ladyfingers
2. Crush the sandwich cookies into fine crumbs. You can do this in a Mixing bowl
Chocolate
food processor, wafer
or sealcookies
them in a plastic bag and crush them with a 1/2 cup softened cream
Sugar
rolling pin. cheese
Gumdrops 22 chocolate sandwich cook-
3. Combine the cookie crumbs and softened cream cheese in a mixing
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bowl and stir toothpicks
until the ingredients are well combined. ies
Tablespoon
4. With clean hands, roll half tablespoonfuls of the cookie mixture into
Lifesaver Gummies
balls (about 1 1/4-inch in diameter) and place them on the waxed pa-
A handful of chocolate chips
per. Use your thumb to make a shallow nickel-size depression in the
2 cups white chocolate chips
top of each ball.
Microwaveable measuring
5. Chill the cookie balls until firm (about 1 hour). cup or small, deep bowl
6. Select a Lifesaver Gummy to use as an iris for each eyeball. Stretch Toothpicks
the centers to enlarge the holes a bit and insert a chocolate chip, tip down, in each one. Set the irises aside
for now.
7. Pour the white chocolate chips into the measuring cup or bowl and melt them in the microwave according
to the directions on the package.
8. Insert a toothpick into one of the chilled cookie balls. Dip the ball into the melted white chocolate and then
set it on the tray, using a second toothpick to hold it in place while you pull the first one out. Immediately
set one of the irises atop the candy-coated ball and gently press it into the depression. Repeat this step with
the rest of the cookie balls.
9. Allow the white chocolate coating to cool and harden before serving the eyeballs. You can speed up the
process by chilling them on the tray for a few minutes. Store leftover eyeballs in an airtight container in
the refrigerator. Makes a dozen or more.
Hummingbird Nests
Hummingbirds like Pocahontas' friend Flit have wings that beat an av-
erage of 50-plus times per second when they fly. And some humming-
birds are so small that, if you're lucky enough to catch sight of one, you
might actually think it's a bee. Invite your child to size up this edible
hummingbird nest, and she'll find a pair of tiny candy eggs that are just
about the same dimensions as the real thing!
You'll need:
Youll Need
shaped
1/2 cup whitecake
chocolate chips
Chocolate frosting 1. Microwave the white chocolate chips for ten second intervals until they
Microwavable bowl soften enough to stir into a frosting. Add the tablespoon of hot water
Ladyfingers
Wooden spoon
and stir until the mixture is smooth.
1 tablespoon hotwafer
Chocolate watercookies
Sugar
1/3 cup dry chow mien noo- 2. Immediately add the chow mein noodles to the bowl and use a rubber
Gumdrops
dles spatula to gently fold them into the melted white chocolate.
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Rubber toothpicks
spatula 3. Scrape the mixture from the bowl onto a sheet of waxed paper and
Waxed paper separate the mound into five equal-size piles.
Pretzel sticks
4. Working with clean hands, loosely shape each pile into a nest by using
Tic Tac candies
your thumbs to create a shallow depression in the center.
5. Before the white chocolate sets up, place each nest atop a pair of pretzel sticks arranged to resemble a
small forked branch.
6. Finally, fill each nest with two Tic Tac eggs.
Baked Tortilla Leaves
To explain her people's beliefs of living in harmony with the
Earth, Pocahontas leads John Smith on a walk through the coun-
tryside. As they take in the amazing views, beautiful leaves swirl
all around them and she tells him "We need to paint with all the
colors of the wind." Cut from flour tortillas and briefly baked in
the oven, these crisp, leafy snacks will cause a flurry around the
salsa bowl.

1. Heatshaped caketo 400 degrees. Meanwhile, use the cookie cutter (or
the oven Leaf-shaped cookie cutter or
Chocolate
print and cut out
frosting
the template for a pattern) to cut leaf shapes out of Leaf Template
Ladyfingers
the tortillas. You can stack the tortillas and cut out more than one leaf 2 or 3 flour 8-inch tortillas
at a time.
Chocolate wafer cookies (each one will yield 3 leaves)
2. Arrange
Sugarthe leaves on a cookie sheet and brush them with olive oil. Kitchen scissors
3. Bake the leaves until the edges just begin to brown (about 4 minutes).
Gumdrops Cookie sheet
Then
Green remove them from the oven and sprinkle on salt. Serve the
toothpicks Pastry brush
leaves with salsa or another favourite dip, or enjoy them plain. Olive oil
Salt
Salsa
Tianas Pralines
Ever since she was a young girl and her father taught her how to cook,
Tiana dreamed of owning a restaurant where she could serve all the
classic New Orleans foods. Here's a traditional Louisiana melt-in-your
mouth treat -- sweet pecan pralines -- that young aspiring restaurateurs
can help make. The best part is that you don't need to prepare this rec-
ipe on the stovetop -- instead you heat the mixture in a microwave. The
candies make a great gift, too. Just box a few up and add a homemade
label.
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
shaped
Waxed cake
paper

Cookie sheet frosting
Chocolate 1. Line the cookie sheet with lightly buttered waxed paper and then set
Ladyfingers
Large microwavable bowl the sheet aside.

Wooden spoonwafer cookies
Chocolate
2. Combine the brown sugar, whipping cream, and salt in the micro-
1 cup
Sugar
brown sugar wavable bowl and have your child stir them with a wooden spoon
Gumdrops
1/2 cup whipping cream until well mixed.
Pinch
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of salt
3. (Note: this step is a parent's job since the mixture will be extremely
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
hot.) Microwave the mixture for 7 minutes on high, stir, and then
1 1/2 teaspoons butter plus ex-
tra for greasing the waxed pa- microwave it for 4 more minutes. Remove the bowl from the micro-
per wave and let it set for a minute. Add the vanilla extract, butter, and
1 cup pecan halves pecans, and stir for 2 to 3 minutes, during which time the mixture
will cool a bit and thicken.
4. Drop teaspoonfuls of the praline mixture onto the buttered waxed paper. Let the candies cool completely,
and enjoy.
Strawberry Rosebuds
For years, Fauna, Flora, and Merryweather retired their wands and hid
their magic. But when the time to plan a fitting celebration for Aurora's
sixteenth birthday drew near, the temptation to use them again proved
too great. No doubt these gracious fairies would be willing to work
their magic for another important occasion -- helping the princess trans-
form the berries they asked her pick into delicious candy-coated rose-
buds to present to the queen on Mother's Day.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped cake Strawberries
Chocolate frosting 1 cup white candy melts or
1. Wash the strawberries and pat them dry. If the berry leaves look fresh,
Ladyfingers white chocolate chips
leave them in place.
Chocolate wafer Otherwise,
cookies remove them. Microwavable mug
Sugar Mint leaves (optional)
2. Measure the candy melts into the microwave mug and melt them in the
Gumdrops Thin wooden kitchen skewers
microwave according to the package directions. Stir the melted candy
Green
until toothpicks
smooth.
3. Working with one strawberry at a time, insert a wooden skewer up
through the bottom. (Note: If you've removed the berry leaves, you can place a couple of mint leaves up
against the bottom of the berry before inserting the skewer.) Then dip the berry into the melted candy,
leaving a thin border uncoated just above the stem.
4. Arrange the skewered strawberries in a glass, not touching, and wait a few minutes for the candy to set up
before serving. Makes 12 to 15 rosebuds.
Pretzel Rod Fairy Wand
With the help of their trusty magic wands, the good fairies Flora,
Fauna, and Merry weather were forever doing kind deeds. When
they decided to throw Aurora a surprise party on her 16th birth-
day, out came their trusty batons and the sparks -- pink, blue, and
green -- flew. Using coloured sugars and candies, you and your
little helper can quickly conjure up a trio of wands that make for
an irresistible sparkly treat.

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cake Need
or other loaf-
1/2 shaped
cup white chocolate
cake chips 1. Microwave the white chocolate chips for 15-second intervals until
Microwavable bowl
Chocolate frosting they are nearly melted. Stir the chips until you have a smooth icing.
Wooden spoon
Ladyfingers
Rubber spatulawafer cookies 2. Use a rubber spatula to evenly spread white chocolate on one of the
Chocolate
3 pretzel pretzel rods, leaving the bottom inch or so uncoated.
Sugar rods
Waxed paper
Gumdrops 3. Working over a waxed paper-covered surface, generously sprinkle
Pink,
Greenblue,toothpicks
and green decorator pink sugar and/or candies on the white chocolate before it hardens.
sugars and/or candies
4. Repeat the process to transform the other two pretzel rods into blue
and green wands.
Mini Fruit Pies
Growing up in the woods with her fairy guardians, Princess Aurora of-
ten spent sunny summer days scouting out the best berry-picking
patches and gathering plenty of ripe, sweet fruit for making muffins,
tarts, and jam. If you're looking for a simple, scrumptious berry recipe
that your little highness can lend a hand with, this one's as easy as pie.
You'll need:
Instructions: 2 tablespoons cream cheese,
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting softened
1. Combine the cream cheese, confectioner's sugar, milk, and 3/8 tea- 4 teaspoons confectioner's
Ladyfingers
spoon of the vanilla extract in a small mixing bowl and use a wooden
Chocolate sugar
spoon to blendwafer
them cookies
until the mixture is light and smooth. 1 1/2 teaspoons milk
Sugar
2. Spoon half of the cream cheese mixture into each of the miniature
Gumdrops 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
graham
Green cracker crusts and smooth the top.
toothpicks 2 ready-made miniature gra-
ham cracker pie crusts (look
3. Arrange berries on top of the filling. for them in the baking aisle of
4. Next, prepare a glaze by combining the jelly and granulated sugar in the grocery store)
a microwavable bowl and heating them for 20 seconds or so, until the 1/2 to 3/4 cup of berries
jelly melts and just begins to bubble. Stir in the remaining 1/8 tea- 1 tablespoon fruit jelly
spoon of vanilla extract. Note: this step is best left to adults, as the 3/4 teaspoon granulated sugar
jelly will be hot when you first remove it from the microwave. Microwavable bowl
5. Brush or drizzle the glaze over the fruit. Makes 2 tarts. Pastry brush
Finger Sandwiches
These ghoulishly funny Halloween snacks are great fun for the kids to
help make and eat, and provide a healthy alternative to the usual massive
sugar attack.
You'll need:
Youll Instructions:
Pound cake Need
or other loaf-
Thin slicedcake
shaped white bread, crusts
removed 1. Gently flatten the slices of bread with a rolling pin to make them
Chocolate frosting more pliable. Spread with a little margarine and some cream cheese
Soft margarine
Ladyfingers or peanut butter.
Cream cheese or peanut butte
Almonds 2. Roll up the sandwiches and make three indentations with a blunt
Sugar
Strawberry Jam
Gumdrops knife to form the finger joints.
Green
3. Trim toothpicks
the ends of the fingers into a "V" shape and stick an almond on to each tip with a little cream
cheese to form the nails.
4. Now for the gruesome bit -- add a dollop of strawberry jam over the end of the finger for the blood!
Fruit Flower Bouquet
When Snow White and her forest friends tidied up the Seven
Dwarfs' cottage, little did they know that one of the residents
would be allergic to the golden rod centerpiece they placed on the
dinner table. Here's an arrangement that no dwarf would sneeze at.
Created from colourful fresh fruits, the flowers are fun to pick and
eat.
You'll need:
Instructions:
shaped
1. Use the cake
vegetable peeler to remove the skin from the kiwi fruit, but leave the rind on the Vegetable peeler
Chocolate
watermelon and the frosting
pineapple. Kiwi
Ladyfingers Seedless watermelon
2. Slice off one rounded end of the watermelon so that you have a chunk about 3 inches
thick and set it, cut side up, in a bowl. Fresh pineapple
Sugar Flower-shaped cookie cutter
3. Slice the rest of the melon, the fresh pineapple, and the kiwi into rings about 3/8- to 1/2-
Gumdrops
inch thick. Melon baller
Green toothpicks Grapes and/or raspberries
4. Use the cookie cutter to cut out flowers from the center of each melon and pineapple Thin wooden kitchen skewers
slice. Then, use the melon baller to carve out a small hole in the center of each flower.
5. If the flowers are juicy, blot them with paper towels. Then, set them on a flat surface and insert a grape or a raspberry into each center
hole. Or, you can use a piece of kiwi fruit scooped from one of the slices with the melon baller.
6. With each flower, thread a wooden kitchen skewer up through one of the lower petals, then through the center fruit, and finally
through the opposite petal.
7. "Plant" the flowers in the bowl by pushing the bottom of each skewer into the chunk of watermelon.
8. Finally, thread the kiwi slices onto skewers and add them to the bouquet.
Apple & Chicken Curry
This mildly spicy curry is made with ingredients you can buy at your local
supermarket. The apple adds a subtle sweetness to the dish.

Pound Youll
cakeNeed
or other loaf-
1 tbsp
shaped cake sunflower oil
canola or 1. First prepare your vegetables and fruit: Peel and chop the onion,
1 onion
Chocolate frosting crush the garlic. Thinly slice the scallions. Cut the apple into thin slices.
1 clove garlic
Ladyfingers
3 scallions
Chocolate wafer cookies 2. Heat the oil in a wok. Add the onion and cook for 5-6 minutes until
1 medium
Sugar apple soft. Add the garlic and curry paste and cook for 1 minute. Then pour in
1-2 tsp mild curry paste
Gumdrops the soy sauce, coconut milk, and chicken stock, stirring constantly.
1 tspGreen
soy sauce
toothpicks
2/3 cup boiling water 3. Add the lemongrass, chicken, and apple. Bring the curry to a boil,
2 in piece lemongrass then reduce the heat and simmer for 6-8 minutes until the chicken has
2 chicken breasts, cubed cooked through.
3/4 cup frozen peas
Salt and pepper 4. Add the peas and scallions and cook for a further 1-2 minutes. Sea-
Cilantro son to taste with salt (the soy sauce is salty so be careful) and pepper.
Sliced lime
Boiled jasmine rice to serve 5. Remove the lemongrass and spoon the curry onto plates. Serve with
a sprinkling of cilantro, a few slices of lime, and boiled rice.
6. To shape your jasmine rice into a star, grease a star-shaped mold with sunflower oil. Spoon cooked
rice into the mold. Press it down with your fingers and then carefully slip off the mold .
Orange Biscuit Braids
After striking a deal with Flynn, Rapunzel finally makes a break from the
tower and lets her hair down -- literally and figuratively. Inspired by the
adventurous teen's 70-foot-long tresses, these tasty biscuit braids are a tad
shorter. Still, baked to a golden brown and adorned with edible flowers,
they're bound to be a big hit with Tangled fans.
You'll need:
shaped cake 3 cups flour
1. Heat the oven tofrosting
Chocolate 400 degrees F.
3 to 4 tablespoons sugar
Ladyfingers
2. Meanwhile, measure the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into a 3 teaspoons baking powder
Chocolate
mixing bowl, and wafer cookies
whisk to combine the ingredients. 1 teaspoon salt
Sugar 1 egg, slightly beaten
3. In another mixing bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, oil, and orange
Gumdrops 1 cup milk, plus a little extra
zest.
Green toothpicks for brushing on the braids be-
4. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour the liquid mixture into it. fore baking
Stir well. 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoons orange zest
5. Divide the dough into 10 equal pieces. Using floured hands, roll each
Dried fruits and slivered al-
piece into a 10-inch rope, fold it in half, and twist the dough a couple monds (for garnish)
of times. For the best result, handle the dough only as much as neces- 2 mixing bowls
sary. Overworking it can make the biscuits less tender. Measuring cups and spoons
6. Arrange the biscuit braids on an ungreased cookie sheet and brush the Whisk
tops with a little milk. Bake the braids for 10 to 12 minutes. Wooden spoon
Cookie sheet
7. Transfer the baked braids to a cooling rack.
Pastry brush
8. Garnish the cooled braids with edible flowers made with slivered al- Cooling rack
mond petals and dried fruit centers.
Squash & Hazelnut Soup
When mother Gothel wants to give Rapunzel a treat, she makes her favourite meal -- Hazel-
nut soup. This wholesome squash soup, topped with roasted hazelnuts, is sure to be a fa-
vourite in your home. If you're hosting a Tangled-themed party, this soup is a crowd-pleaser,
especially if you set up a soup "bar" with lots of tasty toppings like chives, bacon bits, and
chopped hazelnuts!
You'll need:
Pound cake Need
or other loaf- Instructions:
Youll
2 lbshaped cake
butternut squash, seeded To Roast Hazelnuts:

and cut into 6 frosting
Chocolate sections
Ladyfingers
1 lb parsnips, peeled and 1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees F
Chocolate
roughly wafer cookies
chopped
Sugar 2. Place 1 cup of raw Hazelnuts on a parchment
1 green apple, peeled, cored, lined baking sheet. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, or until
Gumdrops
and quartered the hazelnut skins burst.
2 tablespoons
Green toothpicks
olive oil, divided
3-4 sprigs fresh thyme 3. Remove from oven and let cool. When cool
1 medium brown onion, thinly enough to handle, roll hazelnuts between paper tow-
sliced els to remove skins. Place skinless hazelnuts into a
4 cups of chicken stock, divided small plastic bag and crush using a rolling pin.
1/2 teaspoon cumin For Soup:
1/2 cup heavy cream
Salt and white pepper to taste 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F . Line a baking dish with parchment
1 cup raw hazelnuts (for top- paper and drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil on top.
ping)
2. Arrange butternut squash in the baking dish, skin side up. Scatter
chopped parsnip and apple quarters around the squash. Top with a few
sprigs of fresh thyme. Pour a quarter cup of water into the baking dish. Bake uncovered for 45-50 minutes,
or until a knife slides easily through the skin of the squash.
3. Remove the baking dish from the oven and throw away the sprigs of thyme. Set aside to cool. Heat the re-
maining 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan over medium low heat. Add thinly sliced onion and half a teaspoon
of salt to the pan and saut slowly about 10 minutes, or until the onions are soft and translucent, but not
browned. Turn off the heat.
4. When squash is cool enough to handle, use a paring knife to peel the skin from the butternut squash, dis-
carding the skins. Place the peeled squash into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse into a smooth pure,
about 20 seconds. Pour pure into a large stockpot or Dutch oven.
Squash & Hazelnut Soup
8. Placeroasted parsnips, apple and sauted onion into the bowl of the food processor. Add 1 cup of the
chicken stock. Pure 20-30 seconds, or until smooth. If the pure is too dry, thin it using an additional half
cup of chicken stock.
Note: Do not fill a food processor more than half full with hot liquids. Doing so could result in the top or bottom of the
food processor bowl blowing off due to pressure.
9. Add pured parsnip and onion mixture to the squash in the stockpot. Add the remaining chicken stock to
the pot and raise the heat to medium high. Bring soup to a boil and then reduce heat to simmer.
10. While soup is simmering add a half teaspoon of ground cumin, as well as salt and white pepper to taste.
Before serving, stir in a half cup of heavy cream.
You'll need:
11. Serve in bowls
Pound cakeororinsulated cups and top with the crushed roasted ha-
other loaf-
zelnut
shaped cake
Chocolate frosting
Ladyfingers
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Alien Bento Box
Make an out-of-this-world lunch for your young Space Ranger with Toy
Story alien cucumbers as a crisp centerpiece. Contains Whole wheat mini
pitas, stuffed with egg salad, Alien cucumbers, Woody's cantaloupe stars,
Lotso Bear teddy bear cookies & pretzels

Pound cake Need
shaped cake
Cucumber Toy Story Alien cucumbers
Chocolate
Boiled egg frosting
Ladyfingers
Cream cheese/hummus to hold 1. Slice cucumber into rounds, about 1/4 inch thick
design together, 2. Using a small knife, trim 2 pointy ear pieces, then
Sugar
Small piece of uncooked spa- join them with a semi circle to make the head.
Gumdrops
ghetti Save the extra piece for later
Green
Egg salad toothpicks 3. With a small circle fondant cutter, cut one circle
out of a slice of boiled egg white for the middle
Mini pita
eye. Line up the cutter to the edge of the first circle
Cantaloupe
to cut two crescent side "eyes." (Hint: If you do
Strawberries not have fondant cutters, a fatter straw will work
too.)
4. Adhere the eyes to the top of the cucumber with tiny dots of cream cheese or hummus.
A toothpick can help position the eye pieces.
5. From the extra cucumber piece, slice off a thin layer of outer peel. Using cutters, deco-
rating tips, or various sized straws, cut three smaller circles for the eyes and one slightly
larger circle for the mouth.
6. Attach eyes and mouth with cream cheese/hummus and a toothpick
7. Cut one more circle from a thicker piece of cucumber and peel, approximately the same
size as the mouth.
8. Break a small piece of spaghetti noodle (1/2 to 3/4 inch), poke through the last circle
and into the top center of the alien's head to make the antenna.
Keep the extra pieces of cucumber for lunches or salads, use the remaining boiled eggs for
egg salad pita sandwiches.
Alien Bento Box
Mini pita sandwiches
1. Make egg salad from remaining boiled eggs left from the Alien cucumbers and mayonnaise.
2. Slice top of a mini pita and fill with egg salad.
Cantaloupe stars
1. Slice cantaloupe into thicker slices (1/4 to inch thick).

2. Cut stars using a small cookie cutter.
3. Save extra pieces for fruit salad or just for underneath the stars in the bento.
Other ToyYou'll
Storyneed:
Bento Ideas
shaped
1. In lieu of eggcake
salad, fill mini pitas with mozzarella, a small bit of tomato sauce and pepperoni, for the
Chocolate
Aliens' Pizza Planet beginnings.
frosting
Ladyfingers
2. Add a strawberry or two for Lotso Bear, for his strawberry fragrance.
Sugar
Gumdrops
Green toothpicks
Veggie Pizza Planets
In the movie Toy Story, "Pizza Planet" is Andy's favorite restaurant.

What kid doesn't love pizza? These little veggie pizzas are a hit with
moms and kids alike.
You'll need:
Instructions:
Pound cake Need
shaped
Flour, cakework surface
for your 1. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and roll, or stretch, into a

Store-bought frosting
Chocolate pizza dough rectangle about 1/4" thick.
Ladyfingers
(approximately 14 oz.)
Chocolate
1/4 wafer
cup part-skim cookies
ricotta cheese 2. In a small bowl combine ricotta and pesto.
Sugar
1/4 cup pesto, store-bought, or
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from your favorite recipe 3. Spread the ricotta-pesto mixture over the surface of the dough and
cup cooked broccoli florets, sprinkle with the cooked, chopped, broccoli florets. Top with shred-
chopped ded mozzarella. This is a great job for kids.
1 cup shredded, part-skim moz-
zarella cheese 4. Roll the dough lengthwise, into a log.
Grated Parmesan cheese
5. Cut your pizza log into 1" rolls. Kitchen shears work best for this.
Pizza sauce, for dipping
(optional) 6. Place cut rolls 2" apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle
the tops with grated Parmesan cheese. Bake at 425 degrees for 12 - 15
minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the dough is lightly browned.
7. Serve your planets warm, with pizza sauce for dipping.

Mr. Tortilla Head
Kids can use pre-cut veggies and a whole-wheat tortilla to make this fa-
miliar funny face, paired with a sassy salsa.
You'll need:
Instructions:
1. To
prepare the frosting
head, place a whole-wheat tortilla on a plate. 1 whole-wheat tortilla
Chocolate
the
2. For Ladyfingers
face, you'll use sliced heart of palm as eyes. Cut 2 black olives in 1/2 avocado
to
half Chocolate waferCut
use as pupils. cookies
a cucumber slice in half and use each half as 4 pitted black olives
Sugar
an ear. Cut an oval from a yellow bell pepper, for the nose. Slice an 1 slice cucumber
Gumdrops
olive in half length-wise, and use as a mustache. Cut a half circle from a Red bell pepper
bell
red Green toothpicks
pepper for the mouth. A half avocado, with a slice of avocado Yellow bell pepper
as the brim is Mr. Tortilla Head's hat. (You can use cookie cutters or 2 slices heart of palm*
fondant cutters for cutting shapes from bell peppers and other soft veg- Cooked shredded chicken
gies). (optional)
Cooked ground beef
3. Kids can arrange their own funny faces and add features to personalize (optional)
their tortilla heads. Shredded cheese (optional)
Note: This vegetable is harvested from the soft
core of a palm tree. It has a delicate flavor,
similar to that of an artichoke heart, and can be
bought canned in most grocery stores.
Buzz's Mango Tango Salsa
Kids can use pre-cut veggies and a whole-wheat tortilla to make this famil-
iar funny face, paired with a sassy salsa.
You'll need:
Instructions:
Youll
shaped cakeNeed
1 cup diced mango
Chocolate frosting 1. combine mango, cucumber, red onion, cilantro, lime juice, and jalapeo in a bowl. Salt
1/2 Ladyfingers
cup diced seedless cucum- to taste.
ber
1 tablespoon
Sugar red onion, finely 2. Once your child has enjoyed the funny face, you can add cooked shredded chicken
breast, ground beef or cheese along with the salsa topping. Set up a toppings bar and let
minced
Gumdrops everybody top their own. Roll up the tortilla and serve it taquito-style.
2 tablespoons lime juice
Green toothpicks
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
1 teaspoon finely minced
jalapeo, ribs and seeds re-
moved*
Salt to taste
Note: You can adjust the jalapeo
to taste, add more if your family
likes spicy foods and less for kids
who don't enjoy it. The seeds and
ribs of jalapeos hold much of their
heat. By removing them you make
milder salsa.
Bee-bee-cue Sauce
Take it from Pooh Bear, everything tastes better with a little bit of honey
-- and the proof is in the sauce! Sweet-and-tangy, and quick to prepare (it
only takes 15 minutes or so), this recipe is perfect for dressing up grilled
chicken, ribs, or burgers at your Father's Day cookout. For a special sur-
prise, ladle the sauce into a jar and let your kids add a hand-printed label
before presenting it to Dad.

Instructions:
Pound cake or other loaf- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
shaped cake 1 cup diced onion
1. Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium low heat. Add the on-
Chocolate frosting 1/3 cup honey
ion to the pan and let it cook for a few minutes, stirring occasionally,
Ladyfingers 1 cup catsup
until the pieces soften.
Chocolate wafer cookies 1 tablespoon white vinegar
2. Add the remaining ingredients and stir until well blended.
Sugar 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
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3. Simmer the sauce for 15 minutes or so, stirring occasionally. 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
Green toothpicks sauce
4. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the sauce to cool. Meanwhile
2 tablespoons lemon juice
print out the labels. You can simply cut out one of the colored versions
16-ounce glass jar
and glue it onto the jar, or have your child color in a plain label.
5. Pour the sauce into the jar and screw on the lid. Store the sauce in the Printable labels
Colored pencils or markers
refrigerator until you're ready to use it.
Glue stick
Kanga's Pita Pouch
Kanga knows a thing or two about keeping little Roo healthy. Stuff your
salad into a whole-wheat pita for a tasty twist on the classic.
Serving suggestion: Instead of packing sandwiches in plastic bags, use
waxed paper and adhesive labels to create a kangaroo pouches for your
sandwiches. The paper pouch is better for the environment than plastic and
helps little hands to hold their sandwiches together while they eat!
Instructions:
You'll
Youll need:
Need
8 hardboiled
eggs 1. To start, peel hardboiled eggs and discard shells. (If you like, let
1/4 shaped cake
cup mayonnaise (or to taste) kids roll eggs on a cutting board to break the shell, then peel).
Chocolate frosting
1 Tablespoon coarse-grain mus-
Ladyfingers
tard 2. Cut eggs in half and place them in a large mixing bowl. Cut eggs
Chocolate
1/4 wafer
cup shredded cookies
carrot into bite-sized pieces using a pastry blender. If you don't have a
Sugar
Salt and pepper to taste pastry blender you can use two butter knives. This job is perfect for
Gumdrops
(optional) kids, eggs are soft and easy to cut and the pastry blender makes the
Whole wheat
Green pitas
toothpicks job quick and easy!
Pastry cutter or two butter
knives for cutting eggs 3. Mix in mayonnaise, mustard and shredded carrot. Stir until well
Waxed paper combined.
Self -adhesive labels
Markers 4. Salt and pepper to taste.
5. For the pouches, cut a 12" length of waxed paper for each sandwich.
6. Next, fold the bottom of the waxed paper up to meet the top. Then fold each side of the paper into the
center to create an envelope large enough to accommodate your pita.
7. Place a self-adhesive label along the overlapping seam, to hold your pouch together. You can let kids
decorate their own labels. This is a great way to serve sandwiches at a party, and the labels will let guests
know what's inside your pitas.
8. Slip your pita into the pocket, and stuff your sandwich
Peter Pan, Captain Hook Cake Template
Pirates of the Caribbean, Jacks Pirate Skull Cake Template
p. 1 of 2
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Sleeping Beauty, Auroras Cookie Crown Cake Template
Tron, Light Cycle Cake Template
Alice in Wonderland, Mad Hatters Teacakes Template
Phineas and Ferb, Phineas Surfboard Cupcake Template
Up, Up Cakes Template p. 1 of 3
Step 1. Print out all of the pages on cardstock or regular paper. (Set aside the
balloon page for later.) Use scissors or a craft knife to cut
out each piece of the house. Do not cut along the dashed lines -- these lines are
where you will fold the paper.
Step 2. Start with the main piece of the house. Fold each dotted line of the house
and tabs away from you. You will begin to see how
the folded parts fit together to form the shape of the house. Glue each tab to the
inside of the house.
Repeat this step with the left wing and right wing of the house. (Set aside the
chimney and foundation for later.) You will notice with
the left and right wing pieces that one side is left open. This is where you will
attach it to the main piece of the house.
Step 3. Glue the left wing to the left side of the main house piece. The piece
lines up with a grayed-out area in the design on the main
house piece. Repeat this step for the right wing of the house.
Step 4. Take the foundation and attach it to the bottom of all three house pieces.
Step 5. Take the chimney and make each fold away from you on the dashed
lines. Glue the balloons to the inside of one of the narrower sides to the chim-
ney. Complete the chimney by gluing the tabs on the side and top. Glue the
chimney to the left wing of the house.
Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland Cupcake
Toppers Template
Mickey and Friends, Valentine Toppers Template
Mickey and Friends, Valentine Cupcake Doilies Template
Mickey and Friends, Halloween Cupcake Toppers (Cuties)
Template
Mickey and Friends, Halloween Cupcake Toppers (Villains) Template
Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates Cupcake Toppers
Template
Cars, Cars Cookies Template
Cars, Tow Mater Cookies Templates
Fairies, Tink Christmas Slippers Template
Little Mermaid, Ariels Starfish Cookies Template
Mickey and Friends, Mickeys Cookie Shorts
Pirates of the Caribbean, Mermaid Tail Cookies Template
Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirate Brand Cookies Template
Prep and Landing, Gingerbread Man Scanners Template
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Poison Apple
Cookies Template
Bambi, Thumpers Wrap Sandwich Template
Cinderella, Tempting Invitations Template
Pocahontas, Baked Tortilla Leaves Template
Winnie the Pooh, Bee-bee-cue Sauce Labels Template

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Appendix A: Cake Templates

Appendix B: Tiny Cake Templates

Appendix C: Cookies Templates

Topped with a fondant tablecloth and miniature teacups and

You'll need: Instructions:

9. Add black marzipan pupils and a black marzipan dorsal fin.

This crumb-covered cake is "shore" to make a splash at any beach

This whimsical underwater scene can be decorated in one swish

You could say Captain Hook's obsession to get revenge on Peter

Ask any birthday buccaneer if he wants a piece of this

This moon is definitely not made of green cheese! In fact, it's a

Youll Need Instructions You'll need:

14. To makeYou'll need:

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Create some buzz at your little honey's garden-, flower-, or bug-

Of all the characters Alice meets up with during her adventures in

6. Set the cupcake in place.

7. For the finishing touch, use number stickers or a marker and

Come Christmastime, even Lumiere has company. That's because it

2. Frost the cupcakes.

No servant in the enchanted castle knew better than Cogsworth how

A mixture of good ole boy, daredevil and know-it-all, Lightning

Make a cupcake shaped like a ladybug.

Wondering what to contribute to the classroom bake sale this year?

No birthday celebration would be complete without cake. In fact, you

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Tramp is quick to come to the little cocker spaniel's rescue.

Make an earth cupcake with wiggly worms on top.

Sebastian keeps the undersea kingdom jamming with catchy Caribbean

Whipping up a batch of birthday cupcakes doesn't get much easier than

During ancient times in Princess Mulan's homeland, Chinese

Kids will gather around for these tepee cupcakes.

No pirate adventure is worth its salt without a hair-raising encounter

Topped with miniature candy carrots, these holiday cupcakes

5. Slide the muffin, paper included, onto the dowel.

Pascal is a colourful little chameleon whose mood and color can

These Green alien cupcakes are sure to be out of this world.

A troop of alien squeeze-toys played an important role in Buzz and

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You may think it impossible to keep track of 101 Dalmatians. But

Whether they are for a birthday or un-birthday, these Alice-inspired

Everyone will "heart" these Mickey & friends cupcake toppers.

Professor Z has his eye on Lightning McQueen. This monocle-wearing Ger-

6. Top each cookie with a whitewall ring, using a dabs of

Inspired by Tinker Bell's slipper-style shoes, and in honour of the

Two favorite flavors, peanut butter and chocolate, combine in these

If you go trick-or-treating in Donald Duck's neighborhood, you're apt to

Destined to sail the seas as undead marauders, the pirates of the

Instructions: Youll Need

Instructions: Youll Need

Enjoy these Cake Pops at any party or give them as gifts.

7. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.

Enjoy these Cake Pops at any party or give them as gifts.

Instructions: Youll Need

7. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.

6. Place in a styrofoam block to dry.

Instructions: Youll Need

Fairy Godmother Wands:

Berry Jewel Bracelets:

1. Pierce each fruit with a toothpick to make a hole in the "bead."

These baked-potato mice are almost too gorgeous to eat! Makes 4

You'll need: Instructions: