And here they are! Well, just a few - the rest were in other containers... There was 1 crown (for the birthday girl!), and 25 fairy wands. Just before sending them to Kindy I dusted them with pink caster sugar to give a bit of sparkle! The low humidity here at the moment affected my biscuit dough, so these were quite tricky to get out of the cutters without breaking and I also didn't think to straighten the wand handles up before cooking! Miss E still loved them though so I don't think those things really matter too much ;) I'm sure the Kindy kids were quite happy to eat them as well.
You will notice that they are pink though... red cabbage does indeed produce a purple colour according to my sources, however our supermarket didn't have a single red cabbage there so we went with our safe pink instead. Eilleen asked what I use for red - Beetroot! We can use either beetroot liquid or beetroot powder, and seeing as I use quite a bit of it, I bought some powder a while ago as its far more economical than using a can of beetroot just for the juice. And of course, the more colouring you use the stronger the colour - I'm just not too keen on adding too much powder to something sweet like icing in case the flavour gets a little tainted. Its ok to have a beetroot flavour in the savoury dishes we add it to, but not something sweet!
Here is a pic of our other cutters as well...
On Monday some little friends are coming over for another birthday bash and we'll try the cupcake ones for that occasion!
Tomorrow we will be making a birthday cake to have as dessert tomorrow night, and apparently a butterfly is the order... so tomorrow's post will no doubt be the story of our birthday cake!
