Baked Snowflakes
Only a fairy could bake a snowflake!
Makes 10 treats
| 10 fajita-size flour tortillas, room temperature |
| 1 tablespoon butter, melted |
| Assorted colored sugars |
| 1/2 cup powdered sugar |
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Fold each tortilla into quarters and then snip out shapes with clean kitchen scissors as if you were making a paper snowflake. If your tortillas are stiff, soften them in the microwave for 15 seconds.
Place the snowflakes on a foil-lined cookie sheet, brush lightly with melted butter, and sprinkle each with assorted colors of sugar.
Bake 5 to 7 minutes or until the edges are very lightly browned. Remove from the oven and cool 5 minutes.
Dust with powdered sugar and serve.
Pink Fairy Ice-Cream Cupcakes
A perfect treat with a simple wave of your magic wand!
Makes 24 cupcakes
| 1 quart vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt |
| 2 tablespoons powdered pink lemonade mix |
| 24 baked yellow cupcakes |
| 24 maraschino cherries, with stems |
Remove ice cream from freezer and let soften about 20 minutes; spoon into a bowl.
Stir 2 tablespoons pink lemonade mix into the softened ice cream until well blended.
Place 2 to 3 spoonfuls of the ice cream frosting onto each cupcake and pile it high.
Place a cherry on top with the stem pointing up.
Put cupcakes on a cookie sheet or in muffin tins and then place in the freezer for at least 1 hour.
Snowy Popcorn Cupcakes
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Makes 24 cupcakes
| 1 box white cake mix |
| Milk |
| 1 teaspoon vanilla |
| 1/2 teaspoon almond extract |
| 4 cups popped popcorn |
| 1 can vanilla frosting |
| 1 cup white chocolate chips |
| 1/2 cup candy decorations |
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Make cake mix according to package directions, but substitute milk for water. Add vanilla and almond extracts to the batter and stir to blend.
Fill a muffin pan with paper liners and spray generously with nonstick cooking spray.
Divide batter evenly between 24 muffin cups using an ice-cream scoop to keep the amount of batter equal between cups.
Bake and cool according to package directions on cake mix.
Fill a large bowl with the popcorn.
Frost each cupcake generously with frosting and then dip each frosted cupcake into the popcorn.
Add white chocolate chips and candy decorations to fill in the spots where popcorn did not stick to the frosting.
Fairy Princess Marshmallow Pops
A sweet frozen treat!
Makes 12 pops
| Assorted candies and sprinkles |
| 1 pound vanilla candy coating or vanilla almond bark |
| 12 craft sticks, colored or plain |
| 12 large marshmallows, colored or white |
Place assorted candies and sprinkles in several small bowls.
Melt 6 squares of vanilla coating according to package directions.
Insert a craft stick into the bottom of each marshmallow.
Holding the stick, dip each marshmallow into the melted coating and then dip coated marshmallow into assorted candies.
Place marshmallow pops on a baking sheet and put in the freezer for 5 minutes to harden the coating quickly. Keep marshmallow pops in the freezer until ready to eat.
When ready to serve, tie a little ribbon around the stick for decoration, if desired.
Frosty Fairy Mints
Frosty mint treats!
Makes 48 mints
| 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese |
| 2-1/2 cups powdered sugar |
| 1/2 teaspoon mint extract |
| Assorted pastel food coloring |
| 1/2 cup sugar |
In a mixing bowl, mix cream cheese and powdered sugar together with an electric mixer.
Add mint extract to dough. Using your hands, knead dough until it begins to form a ball and is the consistency of pie dough. If the dough is too dry, add 1/4 teaspoon water and blend into mixture.
Divide dough into 3 equal pieces and put 2 to 3 drops of different food coloring onto each section. Blend colors into each portion. You can leave the colors swirled in the dough, or you can completely blend the color evenly into each dough section.
Pinch off about a 2-inch piece of dough and form a ball by rolling it between the palms of your hands. Roll the ball in sugar. Flatten out dough and cut out into assorted shapes with a small 1-inch cookie cutter.
Or you can divide the dough into 1-inch pieces and roll between the palms of your hands to form small balls. Roll the balls in sugar. Then gently flatten them out with your hands.
Snow Queen Punch
A drink fit for a queen!
Makes 10 to 12 servings
Punch
| 1 (2 liter) bottle lemon lime soda |
| 1 lemon, juiced |
| 1 lime, juiced |
| 2 to 3 drops blue food coloring |
| Sugar or honey, to taste |
| 2 cups frozen blueberries, optional |
Garnish
| 1/2 cup blue decorating sugar |
| Sliced starfruit, optional |
For the punch, combine all the ingredients except frozen blueberries and stir to blend.
Sample a taste to see if it needs to be sweeter and then sweeten according to taste with sugar or honey.
Stir in frozen blueberries and serve.
To garnish punch cups, rub the edge of the punch cups with the leftover lemon and lime wedges to dampen the drinking edge of the cup. Dip into decorating sugar. Put a slice of starfruit on the rim of the cup, if desired.
