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October 27, 2016

DIY Circus Animal Cookie Family Costume

Today we are revisiting two of our favorite DIY costumes – the animal cookie costume and the original sugar cookie costume! These two combine in the best possible way: A cookie + lion = lion animal cookies! That’s right, only the most delightful family costume you could imagine!

We love this family costume idea we are revisiting it again – see Machelle’s family two years ago! All of these costumes are quite simple to do so if you find yourself mere days before Halloween looking for a family costume we got you! But first, how awesome does this family look? That is my husband’s twin, his wife Shayly and their two kids Ellie and Mila. Thanks for being the best models ever!

Animal Cookie Kids Costume

This animal cookie costume looks cute at any age but especially on babies and toddlers! And after Machelle originally using it for Stella two years ago I am still obsessed with it. If you model yours after the Mother’s animal cookies (the best in our opinion) you just need all white or bright pink clothing.

Next, you need a ton of colorful circles for your sprinkles to sew on the clothing! From there you can decide what type of animal you want to do. The lion is our favorite because it adds cute ruffles and ears but you could do an elephant, giraffe, and more!

Next, get creative with the face painting and add some whiskers!

Look how much Ellie, my adorable niece, loves this costume! It is perfect for girls because it matches up girly sprinkles with the playfulness of dressing up as an animal. I still think it would be perfect for a boy though.

The instructions for the circus animal cookie can be found here.

October 10, 2016

Animal Cookie Pumpkins | No Carve Pumpkin Decor

Paint and free templates transform Halloween pumpkins into sweet and colorful frosted circus animal cookies. Fun no-carve idea for the whole family!

It’s been so long since we’ve done an animal cookie project here and I am missing them! (Although this trail mix recipe wasn’t long ago)…But an actual DIY? A while. And since my favorite animal cookie project we’ve ever done was for Halloween (my daughter’s first costume) I thought it’d be fun to circle back around to the frosted treats for this Hallow’s Eve.

Actually, these pumpkins were totally Malissa’s idea! But I stole them for myself because…I wanted them :D My porch is just full of colorful and whimsical pumpkins this year and I thought these would fit right in! And they do!

We are definitely not going to make it around to any other Halloween decorations this year (baby due to come SO SOON!) so this year will be the fun, silly side of Halloween and absolutely none of the spooky. Which is totally ok by me! I am a little sad that I don’t think we’re making it to any pumpkin patches or witch festivals though…I was really itching for some in September but now that we’re so close to baby I just don’t think we can spare the time!

Anyway, this no carve pumpkin idea is totally fun for kids and adults alike! Who wouldn’t like pink polka dot pumpkins? Honestly, they’d be cute at just that. But add on some animal details and they’re really over the top! But not over the top difficult. Super easy! I even made all the animal paper parts available to you for free below to print out! So click through to see the how-to and grab the templates for a lion, an elephant and I rhino.

August 25, 2016

Animal Cookie Trail Mix Recipe

Over-the-top sweet and pink trail mix recipe featuring frosted animal cookies, chocolate pieces, birthday cake pretzels, candy-like dried strawberries and more!

Even though I don’t feel like I have a great excuse to work on animal cookie projects anymore (because I no longer need them for my daughter’s birthday party) I still think about the cute little sprinkled confections often. They just hold a dear place in my heart. So when I heard about nuts.com contest for National Trail Mix Day, my mind immediately went to my favorite cookie, my mind immediately when to my favorite cookie. Even though trail mix is usually thought of as a healthy, outdoor-activity-appropriate snack, I just couldn’t resist making my mix all sweet and pink!

I like to make things that I know Stella will eat rather than things that are just for me. While she likes nuts and dried fruits so I know a more traditional mix would’ve been okay, I guess I was just feeling really nice and wanted her to have a snack she would absolutely love!

And, since pink is her favorite color (it kills me how this just happens. Like, she knows nothing about pink being girly. She isn’t surrounded by girly friends or cousins or anything! And yet, pink was the first color she learned, still the only one she always knows and gets consistently right, and always the color she chooses.) I knew she would love this snack mix. Psh, with cookies, candy, marshmallows and chocolate covered pretzels, who wouldn’t love it?!

July 9, 2015

Animal Cookie S’mores

Uh yeah. This happened. Is happening. Will be happening for the rest of forever in my house.

Circus Animal Cookies are basically little grahams wrapped up in a chocolate(-like) coating anyway so obviously they make the perfect house for a toasted marshmallow!

And um guys. I’m obsessed.

Like you obviously already know how I feel about frosted animal cookies (riiiight?!! If not just type animal cookie into the search over there >>> and sit back for a while) and you probably don’t know how I feel about toasted marshmallows but I can tell you it’s a very positive emotion. Marshmallows out of the bag eh. But toasting them somehow releases a whole new level of blow-your-socks-off sticky amazingness and SUMMER IS NOT REAL WITHOUT THEM!

June 25, 2015

Circus Animal Cookie First Birthday Party

It’s here! Today I am sharing with you Stella’s first birthday party: my animal cookie, sprinkle filled labor of love!

Are you maybe wondering where this animal cookie obsession came from?! Theres a story behind it actually!

When I was 9 months pregnant with my Stella, I had this day where all I could think about was those pink and white frosted Circus Animal Cookies. I hadn’t had them in a very long time so it was kind of weird that I suddenly wanted nothing but them but I could not get them out of my mind! This was probably the only time in my pregnancy I’d say I experienced those “pregnancy cravings”.

I was at work that day and my husband had driven me so I didn’t have a car to run to the store and find them and after work we had to rush and meet my family for pictures so no time to stop! That night I designed a birthday party invitation featuring the little treats but it didn’t quite fill the need, surprisingly ;) The next morning I still really wanted the cookies but we were rushing to get to my baby shower so we couldn’t make a stop. But then something magical happened!

I showed up to my shower that Malissa had put together and there on the favor table was a huge jar of animal cookies!! She had no idea I’d had this intense craving, she just decided they’d look cute at the party (and they did)!

Ever since then, I’ve had this fascination with those cute little cookies! Remember when I dressed Stella up as one for her first Halloween?! So what better theme than pink and white and sprinkles all over for her first birthday?!

I didn’t focus too much on the circus aspect of the party because, let’s face it, that’s been done before! But I did include a few circus/carnival elements like tickets on the tables and on these adorable confetti filled balloon wands! The invite was ticket shaped and there were tons of carnival games with prizes for the kids to play. You can purchase the invitation here.

Our friend Lisa makes those balloon wands (and any other adorable party decor you can dream up!) and they were the best little accent all throughout the party!

If you want the best invitations in the easiest possible way, order from Tiny Prints!! Seriously!! They have THE BEST selection of beautiful and adorable invites ready to fill in with your details. If you are making your own, like I did, its easy to customize them! They are the best quality and come all ready with envelopes and even custom stamps! To me, the invitation is the most important part of the party! That’s partly because I just love designing them but also because its the only part that everyone invited will see. If they can’t come, they still see the invite! So I think its so important to have it set the tone and theme for the whole party. All my graphics throughout matched the invite.

Tiny Prints also provided these adorable stickers that made the favors (bags of animal cookies and bags of animal cookie cake batter popcorn) so cute and special!

There were tons of games for the kids to play with tons of prizes! I got almost all my prizes from Dollar Tree which has a huge selection of fun stuff and made it super affordable!

There was other activities too like cookie decorating and my favorite part, the time capsule!

Another favorite part was the display of her monthly photos I took throughout the year! I was so fun to see them all lined up like that and really see her change right before your eyes. Can’t believe what a different little person she was a year ago!!

For food we did a kind of animal/circus/Stella theme with “elephant ear” fried bread (top with taco toppings for a Utah Navajo Taco or with jams, powdered sugar or honey butter mmmm!), veggies that looked like a lion, tight rope pasta salad and peanut butter and Stelly sandwiches.

Her cake was so much fun to make! I made a surprise inside polka dot cake and followed these awesome video lessons for the frosting. You can find the animal cookie toy DIY here.

Since it was an animal cookie party, we had a cookie buffet for the dessert (along with the cake of course!) There were over a dozen cookies to choose from and little baggies so guests could take them with. You can grab that cookie bunting banner here.

You can find the DIYs for that rhino punch game here, my animal cookie piñata here, the fun animal cookie marquee light here, and the animal cookie clay necklaces that we gave away as prizes here. Also grab the free printable art seen behind the food table here, free animal cookie clip art here (perfect for making cupcake picks), and the DIY and free pattern for the sprinkle-y hats here! Whew! I told you I had a little animal cookie obsession right!?

My little girl was sooo excited about her personal cake. She full on laughed to herself about it and just smiled for like 10 minutes before even venturing in. When she did this is how she ate it! Face first!