Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Cooking Games and Cupcake Sprinkles


It seems like such an easy thing to put sprinkles on cupcakes, but it’s really not. One of the simplest cooking games is to make cupcakes and then decorate them, but how do you decorate cupcakes to look well done as opposed to simply slapped together. That’s not to say slapped together, hodge-podge cupcakes aren’t delicious, because we know they are, but when you’re playing cooking games, you like to get your decorations just right.

To apply sprinkles to your cupcake in a more attractive way, simple roll the edges of the cupcake through the icing. Start with a paper plate full of sprinkles. Put icing on the top of the cupcakes. Holding the bottom of the cupcake, roll the iced top through the sprinkles turning the cupcake along its edge. This coats the edges in sprinkles and makes a very neat, professional looking circle of sprinkles around the edges. Simply drop a candy piece in the center of your sprinkle circle and your cupcakes are ready to go!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Cooking Games: Online Cake Shops


I love baking and I love the idea of being able to decorate a cake. Unfortunately, I’m not really very good at either, but I at least get to play around with the idea of fanciful cupcakes and fun when I’m playing cooking games. Of the many cooking games available, the best are the cooking games that bring you inside an online cake shop. In these games, you’re given any number of desserts to improve with icing and designs.

If I were to ever try and frost a cake by hand, it would be an interesting mess. Doing the cake decoration as part of a cooking game, I’m able to see just how much I can really do with my creativity, even if my hands aren’t trained to hold an icing tube. Playing cooking games like the cake shop let me flex my creative muscle which is very nice in a day and age often without creativity. I like trying things that are new and fun for me, and decorating cakes as I can n online cooking games is definitely something new and exciting.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Cooking Games and Easy Toddler Foods


I was blessed with a picky toddler, and as other mothers who have picky toddlers know, you have to get a bit creative with your cooking games if you’re going to make it through the day. When you’re playing cooking games with your toddler, the first thing you need to remember is that toddlers have a stomach roughly the size of their fist. They are going to eat a lot, but not all at once. The toddlers usually graze during the day and this behavior can continue for years as they grow. Your job is to provide them plenty of healthy foods that make up a meal over the course of a day, not all at once.

Make your toddler foods enticing to your toddler by picking out some favorites an making them available. Put blue berries in a special bowl. Use a cookie cutter to make a sandwich a special shape. Have healthy oatmeal cookies in the middle of a tea party. However you arrange your food, be sure that it’s in a way that seems fun to you. If it’s fun for you to make it, it will likely be fun for your toddler to eat it.