Mickey and Minnie Easter Doughnuts

Mickey and Minnie Easter Doughnuts

By Erin

These adorable Mickey and Minnie Easter Doughnuts are perfect for Easter breakfast, brunch, or just a fun treat to enjoy! These little doughnuts are so cute, they’re almost too cute to eat… almost. 😉

Mickey and Minnie Easter Doughnuts Makes 12 doughnuts
Chocolate Doughnuts:

2 Cups flour
2⁄3 Cups sugar
1⁄2 Cup Hershey dark cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 Cup buttermilk
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons unsalted sweet cream butter, melted

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Chocolate Ganache:

2 Cups semi sweet chocolate chips

1 3⁄4 Cup heavy whipping cream

Large squeeze bottle

Decorating ingredients:

24 chocolate wafers

Purple Candy Melts

Large squeeze bottle

Pink Fondant

12 mini yellow m&m’s
White edible pearls, small size

Bunny Ear Cupcake toppers

Wilton silicone Bow Mold

Edible Glue

Pink Bows:
Using the pink fondant, pinch off about 1⁄2 teaspoon of fondant and roll into a ball. Press the fondant into the larger bowtie, mold and allow to set for 5 minutes. Carefully remove the fondant from the mold and place onto a cookie sheet. Make 12 more bows and allow to air dry for 2 hours.

Using the edible glue, brush onto the bottom of an edible pearl and place onto the bow. Allow to dry while you make the doughnuts.


Chocolate Doughnut Directions :
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a doughnut pan with baking spray.

Using a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt until combined. Whisk in the buttermilk, eggs, melted butter and vanilla until combined.
Fill each cavity 3⁄4 full and bake in the oven for 8-12 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Allow to cool before placing onto a wire rack.

Using a small pot, bring the heavy whipping cream to a simmer.

Pour over the chocolate chips in a medium bowl and allow to sit for a minute before whisking until smooth.

Pour the ganache into the squeeze bottle.

Decorating the Doughnuts :

Using a small knife, cut a small slit into the top corners of the doughnuts.

Push two melting wafers into the side of the doughnut to create the ears.

Place doughnut onto the wire rack and carefully using the chocolate ganache, pour over the top half of the doughnut.

Allow the ganache to drip off the doughnut and set for about an hour.

Once that hour is up, carefully pick up a doughnut and push in the bunny ears. Do this on half of the doughnuts for Minnie Mouse.

Using a microwave safe bowl, follow the directions on the back of the purple candy melts and melt completely.

Pour the melted candy melts into the second squeeze bottle.

Pour the melted candy melts over the bottom half of the doughnuts and lightly tap the wire rack so that any extra candy melts drips off the doughnuts.

Carefully place some edible pearls onto the bottom of the ‘Minnie’ Mouse doughnuts Place two yellow m&m’s on the ‘mickey’ doughnuts.
Allow the candy melt to harden before enjoying!

ENJOY!

Easter Bunny Peeps Cocktail

Easter Bunny Peeps Cocktail

By Erin

Easter Peeps Cocktail

Easter is almost here! Looking for a fun Easter themed cocktail? Then this bright and festive drink might be just what you’re looking for. This drink is very crisp and refreshing, every bunny will be requesting this one!

Easter Bunny Peeps Cocktail
Yield: 1 8 oz cocktail glass Prep Time: 7 min
Total Time: 7 min

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Mixed berry Vodka

1 oz Blue Curacao
Sprite

Jelly Beans

Bunny Peeps

Rimming Sugar or Sugar

Directions:

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
Add the mixed berry vodka, and blue Curacao.
Shake until chilled.

Rim the glass with sugar.
Strain into a glass, top with Sprite and stir to combine.

Add a Peep and some jelly beans for garnish and enjoy.

More Easter Fun:

Easter Egg Hot Cocoa Bombs

Celebrating Spring with Bigelow Tea!

Celebrating Spring with Bigelow Tea!

By: Erin

Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias® and Bigelow Tea #cbias #SocialFabric #AmericasTea All thoughts and opinions are my own, and I enjoy a great cup of tea! 🙂

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It’s springtime! When I think of spring, I think of garden tea parties, sitting out in the backyard with the roses in full bloom, sipping some delicious Bigelow Tea with some good friends.  When I think of tea parties, scenes from Alice in Wonderland, elegant Victorian decor and ladies with their pinky fingers stuck up in the air come to mind.  I have some very old, yet amazingly beautiful tea cups and tea pots that I’ve just been itching to use to have a tea party with as they’ve just been sitting around in the china cabinet, collecting dust for quite a while now. These cups and pots hold a lot of family history as I imagine they have been through many tea parties before. Some of them can even be traced back to 1910 when my great-great grandmother Carlson owned them. As spring has been approaching us, I’ve been getting more and more excited to finally host a tea party with these beauties! I gathered up a few friends who I know enjoy tea and tea parties as much as I do, and we started to plan our afternoon tea party to celebrate spring with Bigelow Tea! This led to a trip to Wal-Mart to go buy some of my favorite tea, Bigelow Tea, as well as some other much needed items, which you can see the full shopping trip here, in my Google+ Album!

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