Yvonne Byatt's Family Fun

Monday, 9 April 2012

Easter Egg Decorating Ideas

I have been looking around for inspiration for classy / grown up Easter egg decorating ideas...

1. Easter Bunny Silhouette Place Setting Egg

2. Lace Easter Eggs

3. Stencilled Easter Eggs

4. Easter Egg in Glass Dome

I love the lacy ones, made with tights but I have another idea up my sleeve!

Happy Easter guys!

Vonnie

Easter Cookies Inspiration

Well as I said yesterday I have been atempting cookie decorating...

It was not a very sucessful attempt but will have another go tonight, so no photo's sorry.

but here is some inspiration I found...

1. Easter Nest Cookies

2. Easter Cookies in Basket

3. Tulip Cookies

4. Easter Egg Cookies

There are lot's of adorable cookie cutters around, and some from only a pound...

Wiltons

Eddingtons

Poundland

I have been using this recipe from Sweet Sugar Belle as it is so easy, she also has lots of tips to help you along the way.

(and she very kindly adapted the recipe for UK use)

Ingredients

■227 grams unsalted butter

■175 grams confectioner’s {icing} sugar

■1 egg {room temperature}

■1.5-3 teaspoons extract or emulsion {any flavor}

■1 teaspoon salt

■2 teaspoons baking powder

■400-425 grams all-purpose flour

Instructions

1.Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and extract and mix well. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt, add to wet mixture little by little until well incorporated. Roll and cut cookies into desired shapes, dusting with flour as necessary. Bake cookies at 400 degrees for 7-8 minutes until tops are appear dry rather than shiny. Do not brown.

2.This recipe will produce two to two and a half dozen medium sized cookies.

Sweet Sugar Belle has icing tutorials on outlining and flooding your cookies and lots more!

I think I a going to go with Sweet Sugar Belle's 20 second icing (the video tutorials are fab) which seems alot simpler!!! Find the recipe here.

We'll have to see!!!

I have also found this filling the piping bag information invaluable from Here

Trust me after trying to clean out all your piping bags you will want to do it this way.
I found out the hard way!

I have to go get more supplies

*Icing colours
*Icing Bottles
*Couplers / Adaptors
*Meringue Powder

Once I can do it alittle better (with less mess LOL) I will let Liam loose too?

Have fun with your family this Easter!!!

Vonnie

Sunday, 8 April 2012

Ombre Glitter

I have never really been a glitter girl,

but lately it seems to be pulling me in.

I love the idea of this graduated glitter...

Glitter for Christmas

photo source

and it is so simple to do from just two tubes of glitter...

in ...

1 - 100% red glitter

2 - ratio of 3 parts red to 1 part white gold

3 - ratio of 2 parts red to 2 parts white gold

4 - ratio of 1 part red to 3 parts white gold

5 - 100% white gold glitter

I hope you can understand my breakdown of the instructions.

Glitter projects seem to be slipping into all my holiday ideas at the moment...

Glitter for Easter

use on Easter eggs...

glitter Easter Bunny...

Glitter for Halloween...

use on skull and bones...

glitter pumpkins...

all photo's

hum, maybe I am a glitter girl after all?

Vonnie

DIY COLOURING SPRINKLES

I wanted to save this article for future reference,

so I thought I would share this post with you guy's too...

This weeks obsession is cupcake and cookie decorating,

not I am not great but try, try and try again.

The one thing I can't find is nice coloured sprinkles...

So me and my friend google found this fabulous tutorial

from Such pretty things

just look at those colours!

and it is so easy...

Here's what you'll need to get started:

* white sprinkles (jimmies) or non-pareils
* powdered food colouring or petal dust / dusting powder
* small plastic bags
* toothpicks
* glass jars for storage