Monday, December 21, 2009

Rudolph Cupcakes

Well, plans for another weekend were brought to a halt because of the weather. But all was not lost. We did most of our shopping for Christmas entertaining early on Saturday morning knowing that a snowstorm was on it's way, of course some things have to wait until 'last minute' but the bulk of it is done, and then we hunkered down at home (a benefit of the weather is that I was able to post and visit other blogs!). We were supposed to make a gingerbread house with Mia and Jayden but that had to be canceled (much to Jayden and Mia's disappointment). Our son called to say that Mia had been looking forward to it, so we told him to assure her that we would wait until she could help, even if that means waiting until after Christmas.


My blogger friend Jill @ Grandma Honey had a great idea for making Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer cupcakes that she posted on her wonderful blog. She had her granddaughter do a video tutorial, and that sweet little girl did a super job! I was impressed! You can see it HERE.

I had planned on doing this with Jayden later in the week but since we were snowed in yesterday morning I decided to bake and ice some cupcakes, and then I started to assemble the things we would need to make our cupcakes look like Rudolph, unfortunately I was missing the Teddy Grahams for the antlers and I didn't have the nice big red candies for the nose. And, I also had no chocolate chips for the eyes!


But we did have white chocolate chips as I had them on hand because they were one of the ingredients in making white hot chocolate which I had made the day before:




So we did all right, white eyes would have to do for Rudolph, and instead of Teddy Grahams we used little gingerbread men for the antlers, and we used red gumdrops for the nose.





"Does it look good, Umma?"

"Yes!"




Then Jayden decided to decorate the cupcakes with his Cheerios!



And he quickly became much more interested in eating the cupcakes rather than decorating!



It was fun, Jill, thanks for sharing this wonderful idea!

17 comments:

  1. HI EILEEN-

    Oh the memories , wonderful memories you are creating. Warms me all over. And delicious too! :-)

    Love Gail
    peace.....

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  2. Now those are cute cupcakes and Jayden is adorable. You did very well improvising my friend..... Hugs to Jayden and Mia:-)

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  3. Awww... I think Jayden did a great job! These little cupckes are just adorable. I can't wait to make them :>) Thank you so much. Your grandchildren are so blessed to have you. I just popped over to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I have really enjoyed blogging with you Eileen. You are such a great person ♥ Your little grandchildren have stold my heart ♥ Many, many blessing to you and your family in the coming year and always. Merry Christmas friend!
    Love, Carol and Charli

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  4. Well now really Eileen, you didn't expect Jayden to just decorate the cupcakes without decorating his face too did you? They looked too yummy to just look at. Love Di

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  5. I love Jayden's look of concentration and then the proud look on his face when finished. Now Eileen, I have to go eat some chocolate myself!
    Love, Wanda

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  6. OH that is such a cute post. It is a sin for a boy to have such beautiful eyes and eyelashes! What a doll! The hats....well you tell me what color for Mia and it will be on the way! She would look adorable in a white hat with her dark hair! Or the dark red hat too! I make them because it makes me happy and at NO COST to my village friends. Just tell me the color! Merry Christmas to you!

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  7. I heard on the news that NY was blasted with snow! Were you able to get out at all?

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  8. My kind of baking Eileen ... FUN! Licking good FUN!!

    May your celebrations be joyous ~
    Merry Christmas ~
    TTFN ~ Marydon

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  9. Always a fun time to come here, Eileen.
    Loving the music!!!
    I want to eat cupcakes to the beat....one right after the other!! Jayden has the right idea!!
    This is a happy place....We need more happy places!!!
    Love,
    Jackie

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  10. Well Eileen, you and Jayden could do a Reality TV cooking show and it would make a million....I loved the Reindeer Cupcakes, and you did a great job improvising. Jayden is so darned cute! Sorry to hear you are snowed in...saw on the news about the big storm you had! Don't you just love it! (((((HUGS and BLESSINGS)))) T

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  11. My computer has been off all afternoon, so when it finally came on, I went right to your blog and found my cupcakes. I yelled to Den in the other room, "Hurry come see this!" He takes one look and says, "Well she probably got the idea somewhere else." So I scrolled down your blog and showed him my name and blog link!! I feel so honored. I love it when someone uses one of my ideas...not that it was my original idea, it's not...but I love it when someone uses ideas I pass along. Thank you Eileen! You and I seem to be on the same page with our grandchildren...doing many of the same things.
    I like all the improvising you did!

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  12. I went to Jill's video link before I posted earlier. I meant to tell you that I loved it...loved the narration....great job by her granddaughter...and such gentle patience from Jill.
    Jackie

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  13. He is SO adorable! Loved seeing Jayden at work, Eileen. Looks like the reindeers were a hit. :-)

    XO,

    Sheila

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  14. Hi Eileen, the cakes are so sweet but isn't it great that the kids get involed, and these wonderful pictures show the joy of that. Thanks so much for all your comments and support in 2009. Merry Chrsitmas to you my love.Simone xx

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  15. I DO LOVE THOSE CUPCAKES!!!!! Happy evening to you!!! Cathy

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  16. Eileen, I know I posted a little earlier, but I wanted to be sure and get by here and wish you a very Merry Christmas! I am finally starting to see daylight, and today is a big prep day here.

    Love to you now and always.

    Merry Christmas!

    XO,

    Sheila :-)

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  17. Fun, fun, fun! You caught GREAT expressions on Jayden's face. The pictures say it all!

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