.Playdough Cookies.

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Happy St. Patty's Day!

ok, ok. Happy BELATED St. Patrick's Day. Sorry this post is late:P

My daughter and I had a blast making some cookies for her classmates a couple of days ago.

The recipe is called "playdough cookies," not because its made of playdough but because you can easily manipulate it like clay! We made some rainbows and four-leaf clovers in honor of St.Patty's Day:)

the rainbow was the most tedious to make but the prettiest:)

lucky cookies:)

Its a very basic sugar cookie dough that isnt too sweet, which I like and if you decide to add decorations like royal icing or colored sugar crystals you won't end up in a fructose-induced coma.

I got the design idea and recipe from this site. You could use it for any occasion, the possibilities are endless! Hope you try it out soon. It's so fun to play with and eat too!

. Green Tea Cupcakes .

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 Dont pinch me,

I'm wearing green! Well, at least I baked something green. That counts,right?

For this St. Patrick's Day I decided to bake green tea cupcakes. I bet you're thinking "that's weird!" Or even "what the heck does green tea have to do with Ireland?!" Well, for one thing its GREEN and ..........um......actually that's about it --hahaha-- Yes, it IS wierd, but it's DELICIOUS!! Dont knock it till you try it and I've always wanted to try it!

I just used a standard vanilla cupcake recipe (which yields 24) and added about 3 tablespoons. Vanilla and green tea are a great combination. I used the one from this site. Plus I researched other green tea cupcake recipes and most of them are just based on vanilla cupcakes. The frosting is just regular vanilla cream cheese frosting but with 2 tablespoons of green tea powder added to it. Oh by the way, green tea powder can be found in asian food stores and it can be pretty pricey. Here's how it turned out:

{ Green Tea & Vanilla Cupcakes with Green Tea Cream Cheese Frosting }

mixing the vanilla cupcake batter..by hand. ugh.

after i added the green tea powder.

350 degrees & 20 minutes later...yumminess. these were just as delicious by themselves.

inside the cupcake, before i ate it. lol

frosted and topped with chopped nuts and fondant cherry blossoms. hmm maybe i should've put shamrocks... oh well .

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