easter cookie decorating

kids had the best time yesterday decorating easter cookies with the easter decorating kit we bought from my friend jens home baking business - baked on benrua.

the bag came complete with 4 different colours of icing, 2 containers of sprinkles and 12 easter egg cookies and it was perfect to split between the two older nuggets that live here

joseph had the time of his life filling and colouring the cookies to his hearts desire

while madeline was a bit more deliberate and drew pictures and shapes on hers.

i am totally filing this idea away for future reference, it kept them busy for well over an hour

some serious happiness right here!

maddie on her last cookie swirling and twirling away

the best part was, the icing was royal icing, so after leaving the cookies overnight, the icing set rock hard and they could enjoy them without killing their handiwork

so proud of their handiwork

❤

thank you cookies

if you didn't already know (and seriously, if you've ever checked out my blog and haven't noticed then you must be living under a rock...) my best friend is extremely clever with pretty much everything she does. i've not had to bake a birthday cake yet for either of my kids (and just for the record, it's not because i am incapable, it's because she is much more capable than me and offers to do them!) and after specialising in cupcakes for a while, she's now making custom cookies... which are amazing! totally shameless plug, she's baked on benrua on facebook and instagram, go check her out!

i really wanted to send something to the amazing midwives and doctors that looked after us at the hospital so i made an order through her for some cookies. aren't they gorgeous?! we dropped them at the hospital this morning along with some thank you cards, my first unaccompanied expedition with joseph and baby while madeline was at school and i survived! go me! hopefully they are appreciated, cause i already know they are going to be delicious!

jen macqueen, you've done it again. ♥

**just for the record, i may have survived, but it wasn't without a call to doug and massive hysteria and almost crying... i very carefully put the parking ticket in my pocket, paid for my parking on the way out and somehow lost my ticket between the machine and the car. i spent the next 5 minutes looking for it to no avail, and in the end had to call the hospital and ask what to do! a call to the hospital security via the help! button on the carpark exit, with a very teary voice saw me out of there within seconds as they opened the boom gate remotely for me. oh my word. so much drama.**

**and a little but more, a week passed and we finally found the ticket, under my seat, it must have flown off when i shut the door on the other side to go around. ugh. what a first outing that was. thankfully i am still alive...**