Ready for a Touch Down .... Football Helmet Men (or to be PC I should say People right?? LOL)

Next on our list is some super cute Football Helmet men/people (LOL I'm so not a good PC person).  These Cute little Helmet Men I found on Spoonful (one of my favorite places to go for ideas).  For their men they used pre-made cookies, Most of you know me and know I rather just make my own.  So I found a yummy recipe for Knockoff Swig Sugar Cookies (aka literally the best cookie known to man) on Vintage Revivals site.   Those where their words but I did take a taste and they are pretty darn good.  Since I'm at a standstill with my diet I've decided I'm going to eat right with some little pleasures and keep on exercising and see what happens (1 1/2 years on this diet and I need a break ... ok enough about me). 

Here are the men I made 

(I ran out of red Wilton Icing Color used Maroon so it was a little on pink side):

For Cookies:

Ingredients:

1 C Butter (room temperature)
3/4 C Vegetable Oil
1 1/4 C Sugar
3/4 C Powdered Sugar
2 T Water
2 Eggs
1/2 t Baking Soda
1/2 t Cream of Tarter
1 t Salt
5 1/2 C Flour

Cream together Butter, Vegetable Oil, Sugars, Water, and Eggs. Combine dry ingredients and slowly add to butter mixture. Mix until everything is combined.  Your dough should be a little crumbly and not sticky at all.  Roll a golf ball sized ball of dough and place it on your cookie sheet.  Put 1/4 c of sugar and a pinch of salt in a dish (this is in addition to the sugar and salt listed above.)  Stick the bottom of a glass in it.  This is going to be your cookie press. Firmly press it into the center of your dough ball.  You want your dough to spill out over the sides of the glass.  If there is a lip its even better.  Bake at 350 for 8 minutes.  They should just barely be browning on the bottom.    Move cookies to a cooling rack.  Once they are cool put them in the fridge.

Alexis Notes: Instead of rolling into balls.  I rolled my dough out and then used my circle cutter to make sure all the men where the same size and shape.  For the top part the helmet I took a knife and cut out a square where the face would show through (see picture below to see shape, this was the only part that wasn't uniformed in shape, since I free handed each one). 

 For Men:

What you'll need

• Large, soft cookies (we used Archway oatmeal cookies)
• Frosting
• Food coloring
• M&M's Minis
• Black decorator gel
• Black licorice

How to make it

To make each one, first spread a thin layer of frosting on a large, soft cookie. Cut a square from a second cookie to create a helmet shape and set it atop the first.

Coat the helmet with frosting tinted the color of your family's favorite team, then add eyes (M&M's Minis with black decorators' gel dots), a black string licorice face mask, and 2 more M&M's Minis for the helmet's ear holes.

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Alexis Notes: As mentioned above I made the cookies instead of pre-made ones. I used Wilton Icing Color tried my red didn't have enough so I used my maroon and got pink oh well! I used black icing gel for eyes and cut strips of Wilton licorice for the face mask.  I skipped the helmet ear holes.

Another simple one to make!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Ready for a Touch Down ... Brownie Football's

I finish my football creations this week with 3 new creations that I made for Cole's Flag Football team.  We wrapped this past Saturday with our last game of the season.  Things we have learned:  Don't take Flag Football through boys and girls club.  A great place but since run by volunteers that is what you get no real coach and no coach that can show up to games. $70 is a lot to pay when there is no organization and you don't get to keep the jersey like you were told.  Plus they cancel every time it rains ... news flash we live in Washington it's going to rain suck it up and play in the rain! Ok enough on this, onto the recipe!

This was a simple one, I used a box mix which is usually no go in my house but I just returned from my business trip a few days before and was burned out so easy was the way I went.  Along with the game was at 10am and I work until 9am on Saturdays, so give me a break ... lol.

I found this recipe on for Touch Down Brownies on Betty Crocker's Website so of course that is why you see the use of a box mix.  The say to use Betty Crocker Icing, but I stick with my Wilton Icing.

What you Need:

1

box (1 lb 2.4 oz) Betty Crocker® Original Supreme Premium brownie mix

1/4

cup water

1/4

cup vegetable oil

2

eggs

Wilton White Icing Tube

1. Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Line 9-inch square pan with foil, letting foil hang 2 inches over sides of pan. Spray foil with cooking spray.
2. In medium bowl, stir brownie mix, chocolate syrup, oil, water and eggs until well blended. Spread in pan.
3. Bake 34 to 37 minutes or until toothpick inserted 2 inches from side of pan comes out almost clean. Cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours.
4. Using foil to lift, remove brownies from pan. With football-shaped cookie cutter, cut brownies into football shapes. Pipe on decorating icing to look like football laces.

Alexis Tips: I used Wilton's Pan Release and they just popped out (love this stuff see pic).  I was able to get 10 footballs per pan.  I used my Wilton Piping tip that goes on their tube and piped on the laces.  

Another simple one to make!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

What is on for the Weekend ...

It is our last weekend of Football games this weekend!  And I must say I am happy it is over the $70 was a waste of money for a very unorganized system that we don't get to even keep the jersey's like they said we would be able to when I paid the money.  I will stick to the items that can be done at the YMCA that are free, well included in our monthly fee we pay.  Sadly due to the football game we will miss our Swim and Tumble lesson's this weekend.

We had hip hop class sch for Thursday night but Caden got a tummy ache and threw up all over my car ... ugh.

For this weekend I do plan to do one last football themed item.  Thinking Football Cream Puffs will be on the menu!

I found this idea on Bubbly Nature's Creation

We have a Birthday party at the Pumpkin Patch that the boys are super excited about!

I also need to make something yummy for our amazing tutor who is going over and beyond to help Cole!

PLUS the house is cleaned since the house cleaner came in on Thursday.

I am truly blessed and so happy to say I needed a little help and took the advice to get some!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Halloween Must have this year ... My Minon's

I had so much fun making my R2D2 costume last year that I thought why not make the boys this year!  They have requested to be Minion's.  I went on a hunt for easy costume's to make.  I found this really easy Homemade Minion costume by Sunny at The Home Place.  

I put a SOS out on Facebook to get some help, my sewing machine died and I so need one to make the pants.  As I always say I can rock a hot glue gun just not so much on the sewing side.  

Here is what we will be making!  Cute huh? Cole wants to be the Purple Evil one (Go figure!), and Caden wants to be the Yellow one.

Here is Sunny's Finished Creation

Fingers crossed mine turns out as cute

Wish me luck!!

Angry Bird Lunch - Chuck and Red

Our last Angry Bird Lunch theme this week will feature Chuck and Red (yes I had to google their names, since the boys were asleep when I made this ... hehe).  This was actually a super easy one.  This is my 2nd time making red and I found some tricks to make it easier this time around.  Then Chuck was so simple, who could complain (this is after yesterday's angry bird lunch that almost made me want to throw the lunch and say never again ... lol).

What you need:

Chuck - PB&J Sandwich cut into triangle, Yellow Cheese, Black frosting gel (for the glue), Wilton Candy Eyes & Wilton Licorice.

Red - Babybel Cheese, Carrot (for nose), Black frosting gel (for glue), Wilton Candy eyes & Wilton Licorice.

Cheese Nips Angry Bird Crackers for the side.

I think I will hang up my Angry Bird Lunch making skills for a while .. lol

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Angry Bird Lunch - Angry Bird & Bomb Style

Next on our Angry Bird Lunch theme was one that I swear I will never do again.  I agree with Melissa at Another Lunch that this was a pain in the butt to do .. hehe.  It was a one time I did it and I won't do again.  It's not that it was crazy shapes just a lot of little work that took time.  My rule is while the egg is boiling I get the lunch done.

What you Need:

Bombs (well that is what I called them) - Olives with icing eyes and carrot beaks.

Matilda White Bird - hard boiled egg with carrot beak, olive feathers and black frosting eyebrows, and eye balls.

Pigs - Grapes with black and white icing eyes.

Red - Babybell cheese with a carrot beak and Black icing eyebrows and eyes.

Yes I put the pigs the wrong way, oh well I gave up by then.

Not a simple one like the other's but worth a one time try :).

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.