Santa Pancakes for Christmas Breakfast

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Who wouldn't want to wake up to this cute Christmas breakfast?! Fluffy pancakes topped with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. I love to make special treats during Christmas break. Those two weeks when my girls are home from school are the best. Our mornings are slower, we listen to Christmas music and snuggle in jammies by the fire. The glow of our Christmas tree seems to warm the entire house. And making these Santa Pancakes is a treat- not only to eat... but to make!

Break out your apron and keep reading below for the recipe.

Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Cookies

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I recently attended a teaching conference and the speaker emphasized the importance of traditions. She explained that traditions help us feel like we belong and that we are loved. A tradition can be something done in a classroom or it can be something done at home. Holiday traditions that are repeated year after year, give us something to look forward to. Holiday traditions build a sense of family and help create lasting memories.

I share all of this because my oldest recently surprised me with her understanding of our family traditions. I was asking her about Thanksgiving and she said 'Well... for Thanksgiving- we always go to Mimi's and we always make Pilgrim Hat Cookies'. This made me laugh because although I do like making edible crafts with my girls around holiday times, I never considered these fun little cookies to be a 'family tradition'.

But to my girls, they are! These cookies are not just cute and sweet. They are a symbol of our family and our love for each other. And because of that, we will be making these every November! Keep reading for the recipe and ideas for creating your own Thanksgiving traditions. (See our peanut free pilgrim hat cookies here  & the no-bake version here and another one here.)

"Not So Spooky Spiders" Halloween Cookies

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It's getting closer to Halloween, which means it's time to do all those fun Fall things. We visited the pumpkins at the Dallas Arboretum, ran through the corn maze at Hall's Pumpkin Farm, picked out costumes, and today we baked!

Homemade Edible Sugar Snow Globe (A Christmas Craft)

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For years the Gingerbread House has been the 'must-do edible holiday craft'. But this season, you have a new option. Let me present... "The Edible Sugar Snow Globe"!

 

Don't get me wrong, I love Gingerbread houses. But sometimes the magic of a Gingerbread house gets lost in the messiness. This project however... no mess! I found the recipe on  Imperial Sugar's website (tons of activities, printables, recipes and crafts over there) 

Here is what you need to make your own Edible Sugar Snow Globe. 

 

Supplies:

• Glass dome container with a lid (be sure the opening of the container is large enough for your hand as you place items)
• Candy, marshmallows and/or cake pops
• Imperial Sugar Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
• Toothpicks
• Foam (for globe base)  

 

Directions:

1. Cut a small piece of foam to use as the base for your decorations and place in the bottom of the jar.
2. Pour enough granulated sugar in to cover the foam block.
3. To decorate our edible snow globe, we used Peeps brand Christmas tree and snowman; held in place with toothpicks. Gently push the toothpick into the bottom of the marshmallow figure, leaving enough toothpick visible to insert into the foam block under the sugar.
4. We added gumballs around the edge and a mini-candy cane, but you could use any of your favorite candies.

Get creative! Decorated sugar cookies, brownie cakes pops, candy cane sleighs...  Just be sure that you don't shake this sweet snow globe or you'll create a sugar snow storm!

If you like this idea, be sure to enter here for a chance to win a copy of the

 "2015 My First Cookbook" by Imperial Sugar.

Thanks to Imperial Sugar for the fun Christmas craft recipe!

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