Day 204

Day 204 - From the top there is an oreo cookie bird's nest.  I just put some white frosting on top of a golden oreo dipped it in green tinted coconut then used more frosting to stick in 3 jelly beans, 2 strawberries, nutella/banana bunny sandwich.  I decorated it with the Wilton icing writer, candy eyes, fruit leather and candy sprinkle nose.  It doesn't really show up well but I used a white butterfly sprinkle for the teeth.  There are two micro silicone hearts with grape tomatoes to  make up his bow tie.  She also has some sugar snap peas, red pepper and carrot flowers.  Click on the picture below to see what my friend Bobbi is making for Spring!

I tried something new...

I have been thinking about what I am going to do for D's lunch as far as an Easter theme goes.  I was looking around at what I have and I came across 2 unused rubber stamps.  I'm sure I got them at Michael's or Jo-ann's.  I wondered if colored them with my food safe markers would they work well for stamping on food.  I tried american cheese and a flour tortilla.  The answer is yes and no.  I found that I had to dip the marker tips in water, put the cover back on and let them "rest" tip down in a cup for a few minutes in order for them to be wet enough to remain wet on the stamp while I colored the whole thing.  I also learned that they work much better on cheese than they did on the tortilla.  However on the tortilla when I used a darker color as the outline I was able to trace over it and color it in on the tortilla.  I do not have the best food markers.  The ones I have are Wilton brand and they do not work well on soft surfaces.

I think it worked great on the cheese!

I also found that the more detailed it was the more difficult it was to get a good print.

The tortilla proved to be more difficult.