Serve some delicious cookies this fourth-of-July with the tiny cute Fairy Cookies! These cookies show off the red, white, and blue and will make a great addition to the 4th of July BBQ or Party! They are simple to make so everyone can join in and be little baker fairies! According to family.disney.com,

These sweet flower treats may be teeny-tiny but you’ll find plenty of pixie patriotism on the ingredients list. Plus, young elves will have a ball frosting the cookie blossoms and adding the red and blue fondant centers.

Photo from family.disney.com

This recipe requires pre-made Sugar cookie dough, so either make that first or purchase it from the grocery store. Note: If the store-bought brand of cookie dough you use is too soft to hold the cookie shapes while baking, you can knead in a little extra flour to stiffen it prior to rolling it out.

What You’ll Need
• Batch of chilled sugar cookie dough (homemade or store bought)*
• Rolling pin
• Flour
• Wax paper
• 2 flower-shaped fondant cutters, one about 1-1/2-inch wide and another about 3/4-inch wide
• Baking sheets
• Spatula
• Cooling rack
• White cookie icing
• Fondant (red and blue)
• Powdered sugar
• White sugar pearls (found in the baking aisle of the grocery or craft store) or similar-looking small white candies

How To Make It
1. Working on a flour-dusted sheet of wax paper, roll out the cookie dough to a 3/8-inch thickness. Use the larger of the two fondant cutters to cut out a bunch of flower shapes from the dough. Bake the cookies according to the recipe directions and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool.

2. Roll out both of the fondant colors separately between sheets of wax paper. Use the smaller fondant cutter to cut out an equal number of red and blue flower centers so that, in total, you have enough for all the cookies.

3. Gently press a sugar pearl partway into the fondant in the center of each of the red and blue flowers.

4. Working with one cookie at a time, frost the surface with white icing. Then gently press a fondant flower partway into the icing at the center of the cookie. Let the icing set up before serving.

Then Simply Display and Enjoy for a Fairy of a good time this 4th of July!

So many foods come on a stick for our convenience. We have corn dogs, fudgsicles, popsicles, kebabs, suckers and more. The stick makes it easy to munch without the bother of a plate or fork and knife. This idea of ease can be passed to other foods as well with the use of Popsicle sticks. I believe this could make any Barbecue a great success. Not to mention, lesson the amount people touch the buffet style food. All the guest have to do is grab a stick and enjoy.

Photo from orientaltrading.com

A refreshing treat that is easy to make and great to place on a stick is Watermelon. Thanks to orientaltrading.com, we have a wonderful easy to do tutorial on how to make “Watermelon Pops.” With only 3 items needed, they take very little time and the guests will love them.

Watermelon Pops
Items needed:

Seedless Watermelon

Popsicle sticks

18″ x 12″ Serving Tray

Directions:

1. Cut Watermelon into triangles like the picture. The Green outer edge should be the widest part and the pink juicy center should lead into a point.
2. Take a popsicle stick and slide it through the outer edge of the watermelon. You may have to create a small slice to get the hole started. But don’t make it too big or the popsicle stick will be too loose and fall out.
3. display the Watermelon Pops on a Serving Tray with sticks facing out so that they are easy to grab and enjoy

The Popsicle sticks and the 18″ x 12″ Serving Tray can be purchased on Amazon.com. Simply click the links below to find the items needed for the recipe.

Now let the Party Begin!

To commemorate Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle landing on DVD and Digital HD yesterday (June 23rd) from Universal 1440 Entertainment, we have these yummy banana themed recipes that surely would be on George’s must have desserts over this summer. This Free 3 page PDF features three very yummy recipes with some unique foods that not only monkeys will enjoy, but children of all ages with find tantalizing!

1. Make a Perfect Summer treat to cool down with Frozen Bananas. The combination of Bananas, Peanut butter, Chocolate and Peanuts is the perfect monkey treat.

2. Bake Banana Bread for the little monkeys to enjoy as a bananarific snack (Yes, I just made up the word bananarific, but it totally works). This banana bread uses over 2 cups of mashed ripe bananas to give it a kickin’ good banana flavor.

3. Make a Banana Split Mini-Pie with a graham cracker crust, cherries, pineapple and pecans! This dessert ill make anyone scream for pie ice cream.

Click the images below to download the Curious George 3 Recipes today!

Also be sure to grab the free Curious George 3 activity pages on my blog and be sure to enter the Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle Giveaway!