Chocolate Chip and M&M Cookies

I have always made regular chocolate chip cookies, but I had never made any with M&Ms so I decided to try it out. They were a complete success and even had to make some more. This is how I decided to make them.
 
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cups packed brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 cup Nestle Toll House semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup Mini M&Ms

Servings: About 4 dozen

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl and mix.
In a large bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract until its creamy. Add one egg at a time and beat well after each egg. Beat in the flour mixture into the large bowl gradually. Stir in the chocolate chips and M&Ms.

Drop by rounded tablespoon onto a cookie sheet. Bake for about 9 minutes or until golden brown. Let them cool completely. 

Final Result:

Super Easy Sugar Cookies

I usually don't make cookies from scratch because I feel like they take too long to make, but this time I thought I would give it a try. They came out delicious and I am about to tell you how I made them.

Ingredients:
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Direction:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
I started by beating the butter and sugar until it became creamy. Then I added the eggs and vanilla until it was blended. In a separate bowl I mixed the flour, baking powder and salt together. Finally I added both mixtures together until they were completely blended.

I rolled out the dough and used cookie cutters of my choice and placed them on a cookie sheet and baked them for about 8 minutes.

End result:

Beach Party Cupcakes

What you need:
Cake Mix
Brown Sugar
Frosting ( I use pastry pride whipped topping)
Mini Teddy Grahams
Life Saver Gummies
Sweet Tarts
Fruit Roll Up
Umbrella Picks
Palm Tree Picks
Blue Food Coloring

Directions:
First, I baked the cupcakes. I tried something a little different this time. I added some red velvet batter to each cupcake liner and then took a spoon and added some vanilla cake batter and placed it on top of the red velvet batter. Then, I took a toothpick and swirled them together. Then I placed them in the oven. When they were done baking I let them cool for about an hour.

Once cooled off I added some white frosting to a couple cupcakes and set them aside. I then took the remaining frosting and added some blue food coloring. I covered the rest of the cupcakes with blue frosting.

Then, I took some brown sugar and placed it on top of the white frosting cupcakes. I then placed all the cupcakes on a tray the way I wanted and began to decorate them.

To decorate the cupcakes I used the life savers as floaties, sweet tarts as beach balls, fruit roll ups as towels and float beds, and mini teddy grahams as the people. I also added some umbrella and palm tree picks to make it look more beachy.

The end result:

Graduation Cupcakes

What you need:
Cake Mix
Cupcake Liners
Frosting ( I used the Pillsbury easy frost in vanilla)
Candy Mold
Sprinkles
Black and White Candy Melts
Cupcake Pan

Servings: Makes 24 cupcakes

How to:
First, I take the cupcake liners and place them on a cupcake pan. Then, I place the batter inside the liners and bake them. Once they are baked I let them cool for at least an hour.

Once they have cooled off I take the frosting and frost all of the cucpakes. After the cucpakes are frosted I add some blue sprinkles.

Then, I take the candy melts and add the melted chocolate to the molds, if there are bubbles just tak a toothpick and press on the bubbles to get rid of them. Put them in the refrigerator and wait for them to harden. Once they harden pop them out of the pan.

Finally, top each cupcake with one of the chocolates and you're finished.

End result:

Jake the Pirate Cake

What you need:
Cake Mix
9 in. Round Cake Pan
12 in Round Cake Pan
Brown Sugar
Pastry Pride Whipped Topping
Blue Food Coloring
Yellow Fondant
Cake Toppers

How to:
First, I baked one 9 in. round cake and two 12 in. cakes and let them cool overnight.
The next day I took part of the whipped topping and added some blue food coloring and mixed it. On a separate bowl, I took the remaining of the whipped topping and added brown food coloring and mixed it together.
On the first 12 inch cake I covered it in blue frosting and then added the other 12 inch cake on top using lollipop sticks to hold it in place. Then covered the two cakes with blue frosting and added a small border around the bottom of the cake.
When that was complete I took the 9 inch pan and cut it in half. I took one half of it and placed it on top of the 12 inch cake and covered it with the brown frosting. I then placed the second half and placed it on top and covered it with brown frosting as well.
When the cakes were completely frosted I took some brown sugar and placed some on top and around the bottom cake. I then made some coins out of yellow fondant and placed them on top of the cake as well. Finally, I took the cake toppers and placed them as desired.
End Result:

Treasure Chest Cake and Cupcakes

 What you need:

• Cake Mix
• Loaf Pan
• Cupcake Liners
• Coin Chocolate Candies
• Pirate Candles
• Fondant (white, yellow, black)
• Chocolate Frosting
• Vanilla Frosting

How to:
First, I baked a couple cupcakes and the loaf pan cake, and let them cool overnight. I bought the cupcake liners at Big Lots.

Once they cooled off, I took the loaf pan and covered it in chocolate frosting. I then took some yellow fondant and wrapped it around the cake and added a lock to make it look like a treasure chest.With white fondant I made a skull and added a black background to place on the top center of the cake. I also added a map to the top.

Next, I took the cupcakes and frosted them with Pillsbury easy frost vanilla frosting.

Finally I added some candles that I found at Party City which went perfectly with the theme. On the rest of the cupcakes I added a skull made out of fondant, a map, a beer mug, and chocolate coins. I spread out the rest of the coins on the plate.

The end result:

Pirate Ship Cake

What you need:

• 8x8x2 Cake Pan
• Cake Mix
• Vanilla Frosting
• Chocolate Frosting
• Swedish Fish Candy
• Whoppers
• Licorice
• Pirate Pictures
• Toothpicks
• 6x2 Round Cake Pan
• Blue Food Coloring

How to:
First, I baked both cakes at the same time and let them cool overnight. Then, I took the vanilla frosting and put some blue food coloring and mix it. I then took the square cake and covered it completely with blue frosting.

When that was finished, I took the small round cake and cut it in half. On one side I covered it with chocolate frosting and added the other piece and stuck them together. I took some lollipop sticks and used them to hold the boat on the square cake so it didn't fall apart. Then covered the boat in chocolate frosting.

When both cakes are completely frosted take the swedish fish candy and add them to the blue part of the cake then add the licorice and the whopppers to the boat as well.

Finally, I printed out some pirate pictures from my computer, taped them onto a toothpick and placed them on top of the boat.
Final result: