Last week I showed you the fun Lego Ninjago Cake that I made for Connor’s birthday.
I really like making my kids’ birthday cakes for their parties. I admit I did take the Wilton classes at our local Hobby Lobby a few years ago and do have most of the supplies, but on this cake I didn’t really have time to make all the icing from scratch so I cheated a little. I bought the icing!
I then used my Wilton tips on the tubes of icing…it had much better color and no one really knew. But I had one color, the yellow, that I didn’t have in a tube so I had to get a little creative and create that one for myself.
Homemade Icing Bag
I just needed a little yellow so I bought a can of icing and then used my icing colors to dye it yellow. But I didn’t want to use an official piping bag for a few squirts of icing so I decided to improvise.
I took a baggie and cut a little bit of one corner off.
Then I took the inner part of the coupler and shoved it in the bag. It was a little too big, so I trimmed the bag a little more…just be careful…you want it to be tight so the icing doesn’t come out around it.
Then I put the tip on and held it in place with the outside of the coupler that just twists on.
I just twisted the baggie at the top so that all of the icing was at the tip end and was easily able to place the few drops of icing on that I needed.
Check out the finished Ninjago Cake here.
Kids in the Kitchen
Did you have fun in the “kitchen” this week? Did you try a new food or a new kid friendly restaurant? Did your littlest ones use their snacks to count to 10? We invite you to share your experiences, photos, stories or recipes that include your #kidsinthekitchen. Come join me and my co-hosts Melinda at Look What Mom Found, Paula at Frosted Fingers and Sara at Sensibly Sara, each week linking up a post, new or old, that feature the theme Kids in the Kitchen. It doesn’t matter what you are doing as long as you are doing it together, enjoying it and learning something along the way.
- preparing healthy snacks
- having a tea party
- counting skills with m&ms
- pouring from measuring cups
- discovering a local restaurant that your kids love
- creating new family friendly recipes
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