Making Decorated Cookies for Easter

Making Decorated Cookies for Easter

Cookies are good at any time of year and the basic Butter or Sugar Cutout Cookies can be so much fun for the holidays.

For Easter the stores sell kits or basic cookies ready for decorating with our cookie decorator icing which iss easy enough to make and use.

The icing recipe is not hard to make and it can be so much fun to use to make your cookies special.

After you mix your icing you divide it into separate bowls and add your food coloring.  Then put each color into a bottle to use on your cookies.

The next step is to outline each cookie with a single line of your icing around each cookie and let it dry.

Finally you take your bottle of color you are using for the cookie and squeeze it into the middle and smooth it out and decorate as you like.

Once the icing is set on the cookie you can decorate away with strings of different colors.

If you don't want to make your own icing you can still make your own designs because there are products out there that do the same thing as your royal icing.

However you choose to make these cookies, the thing to remember is that your a making a memory for the children for whom you make these cookies.

HAPPY BAKING AND DECORATING FOR EASTER.

Funnel Cake and Doughnut Sundaes

Let's talk about some treats that are normally saved for summer fun at the carnivals or one that comes back to me from my childhood.  We can have these as a treat just before Lent.

I'm taking a walk down memory lane.  I remember Sweet William, a restaurant in downtown Pittsburgh, that served a hot fudge sundae but not just any sundae.  You could get other syrup flavors but in my world there is only Hot Fudge.  This sundae started with a cake doughnut on the bottom.

Cake Doughnut Sundae

On top of the cake doughnut was a scoop of vanilla ice cream with a sauce poured over it.  My favorite sauce is Hot Fudge.  It was topped with whipped cream and a cherry on top.  If you wanted you could get peanuts sprinkled over the sundae.  These were always served on a dessert plate and not in a bowl.

Sweet William was located on the corner of what is now Heinz Hall but is no longer in business.  Swee William and that sundae lives on in my memory bank of favorite foods.  It's actually one that you can easily make at home to give your grandchildren a memory to carry into their senior years.  Instead of Sweet William, they will say, "My Grandma, Nana, Nunny or (my favorite) Mema made this for me!"

Next, let's travel to the local carnival where they serve cotton candy, hot dogs and  funnel cakes.  

Funnel Cake

You can smell those cake doughnut variation cooking as soon as you walk up to the stand and who can resist buying a paper plate or paper towel serving of this great tasting treat.

Funnel Cake Frying in Oil

You can try your hand at making funnel cakes in your deep fryer.

Funnel Cake Sundae

After you make your funnel cake, let's get fancy and make it into a funnel cake sundae using either strawberries or cherry pie filling, topped with whipped cream and a cherry.

All I can say is these recipes are making my mouth water and I may need to go find the ingredients to make these for my Sundae (pun intended) dessert.