You’ve probably all heard of the term ‘Parent Bloggers’, but have you ever taken the time to look closer into the circle of parents writing daily in the blogosphere? You will find some amazing posts covering all kinds of parenting and family related topics. A wide and varied selection of blogs – personal, funny, touching, professional, reviews, crafty, recipes… whatever your taste, there will definitely be a blog that you will come to love following.
Here Flying Start takes a look at a few recent Easter recipe and craft posts featured on a selection of parenting blogs.
Easter Bakes
On www.plus2point4.co.uk Aly and the kids have been busy making Easter bakes. Not one, two but recipes for you to make with your kids, Easter biscuits and Simnel biscuits.
Aly’s daughter is already eager to make some more biscuits and we aren’t suprised as they sound so scrummy, containing ingredients including mixed apple pie spice, cinnamon, currants, marzipan and sugar coated chocolate eggs just to name a few to tickle your taste buds!
Click on the image to go direct to the recipe!
Angry Birds Easter Egg Craft
Over at Red Ted Art, Maggie demonstrates Easter Egg blowing and decorating with a twist…. an Angry Birds twist!
With instructions on how to blow eggs and decorate your angry birds using acrylic paints and basic craft items, your children can proudly show off their decorated eggs.
Click on the Angry Bird image to go direct to step by step instructions on making your very own Angry Bird characters.
Here are some more Easter craft ideas we are sure you will love:
Kinder Egg Suprise craft - Easy Spotty Eggs - Chocolate Easter Nest - Easter Chick Cards - Easter Bonnets - Cotton Wool Lambs - Egg Candles - Easter Egg Decorating
Quick and Easy Easter Egg Cupcakes
Over at www.mummyalarm.co.uk , they absolutely love cupcakes and seeing that Easter is just around the corner, have decided to share their quick and easy Easter Egg Cupcake recipe with you.
The cupcakes look lovely on an Easter-themed table and are really easy to make.
Click on the image to go direct to the recipe!
Cress Egg Heads
The Flying Start team love this fantastic idea over at www.kidsonestopshop.co.uk .
This is a great activity to do with children. Not only do they get involved with being all crafty, they get to grow something too!
Cress grows in a matter of days and you don’t even need soil!
With just some empty egg shells, basic craft materials and some cress seeds, you and your children can make a whole egg head family!
Click on the image to go direct to the simple step by step instructions!
Bubble Painting Easter Chicks
Over at thinlyspread.co.uk they have been having lots of fun blowing yellow bubbles to create fantastic Easter Chicks.
This is so simple and so satisfying. It can get very messy so it is usually very popular with children and the author of Thinly Spread says “I have even had success with those who are not keen on getting their hands dirty! ”
Flying Start thinks this is a brilliant crafty idea to keep little ones (and even bigger ones!) entertained this Easter.
Click the image to find how to make Bubble painted Easter chicks, plus a sneak preview of the finished product!
Vegetarian Easter Pie
theveggieexperience.blogspot.co.uk features a great Vegetarian main course dish which can be eaten with roast potatoes, vegetables and all the trimmings over the Easter weekend. Clare, editor at The Veggie Experience says “I quite like having vegetarian pies when the meat-eaters are tucking into their roast as they are quite substantial, fill you up and you don’t feel like you haven’t had a proper meal – which is what I feel like if I have just been served the potatoes and veg without the meat.” Clare’s inspiration came from a Harvest Pie recipe which uses lots of root vegetables, she adjusted the vegetables to suit the season. Click on the image to go direct to the recipe!
Crafty Kid’s Chocolate Easter Chicks
‘Absolutely Fabulous’ is what Flying Start thinks about these yummy scrummy funky chocolatey Easter chicks!
A Mummy Too shows you how to make a family of funky chicks using Cadbury creme eggs, orange chocolate buttons, white chocolate buttons and milk chocolate buttons.
The only problem is… they look too cute to eat!
Click the pic for instructions on how to make your own family of funky Easter chicks!
Daffodil Biscuits
The recent sunshine inspired the-gingerbread-house.co.uk to make these lovely daffodil biscuits. If you want an Easter recipe but without the hassle, then this idea is just for you. Using a gingerbread biscuit kit from a supermarket, The Gingerbread House improvised using an alternative cutter to create daffodil shaped spring biscuits for Easter. The best part…. you can make 12 biscuits out of one mix!
Click on the image to go direct to the recipe!
Over at Mums The Word, Jayne has been busy making Easter Cupcakes, which we have to say look totally scrumptious!
With simple ingredients, a simple method and an amazing outcome, we are sure you will agree that these cupcakes already have your taste buds tingling!
Jayne has shared the recipe here with us. You can visit Mums The Word by clicking on the cupcake image.
Ingredients
Cakes
- 100g butter or margarine
- 100g caster sugar
- 100g self-raising flour, sifted
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
Icing
- 140g/5oz butter, softened
- 280g/10oz icing sugar
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- few drops green food colouring
Decoration
- White ready roll icing
- Yellow food colouring
- Clean paintbrush
- Mini eggs
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Cupcake cases
- Whisk
- Teaspoons
- Piping bag
- ‘Grass’ nozzle (Wiltons number 233)
Method (found here: http://www.cupcakerecipe.co.uk/cupcake-recipe/method/14/ and here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/basicbuttericing_73263)
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (Electric oven | Electric fan oven 160°C | Gas Mark 4) and place 12 paper cases into a muffin tin.
- Using an electric whisk, food processor or wooden spoon, beat the butter and sugar until very light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating each one in well before adding the next. Add the vanilla essence if using.
- Carefully fold in the flour (and baking powder if using).
- Alternatively, you can mix the ingredients together using a food processor. Use the pulse button to mix together in between adding the ingredients in the order above.
- Bake in the oven for 10 – 20 minutes. After 10 minutes, check to see if the cupcakes are ready by inserting a cocktail stick into one of the cupcakes. If it comes out dry then the cupcakes are done. If not, then back in the oven for a few minutes more. Don’t overcook the cupcakes otherwise they will dry out. Lift the cupcakes out of the muffin tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.
- Once the cakes have cooled, make the icing by beating the butter in a large bowl until soft. Add half of the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
- Add the remaining icing sugar and one tablespoon of the milk and beat the mixture until creamy and smooth. Beat in the milk, if necessary, to loosen the mixture.
- Stir in the food colouring until well combined.
To Decorate
- Half fill the icing bag with the green icing and ice each cupcake all over. To make a grass effect, hold the nozzle a few millimetres away from the cake, squeeze the bag until a little comes out and then pull the bag directly upwards.
- Roll out your white icing and use daisy shapes cutters of various sizes to put on each cake. You can paint a little blob of yellow food colouring to the middle of each daisy.
- Place a couple of mini eggs on top too, for a really Eastery feel!
Thank you for including our Cress Heads.
Hello Amanda, thanks for including our Simnel biscuits and easter biscuits.