Sugar Swings! Serve Some: minion

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Minions (and Evil Minions) No Bake Cookies

I needed to take a break from all of the Halloween Right Into Thanksgiving and Christmas Season that we are in. I mean we go Trick or Treating, then bam - Christmas commercials and displays everywhere. I love the holidays and all, but sometimes you gotta take a vacation from them.

And we love love (love!) Minions here. I've been meaning to make these Minions forever, like ever since I saw they made Mint Milano mini cookies. Mint Milano cookies are so yum on their own, but then the geniuses over at Pepperidge Farms went and shrank 'em. And of course I was all like "you had me at mini".

And if you're not familiar with Minions, where have you been?? J/K - they are the little yellow henchmen of Gru in the Despicable Me movies.

For some of their best scenes, check out this YouTube compilation:

And for some reason - I'm not really sure why - I just happen to have yellow and violet Wilton Color Mist hanging around in my sprinkle cabinet. What is Color Mist? Well it's basically like spray paint for food. To make the color for these little minions, just spray some cookies yellow and some purple (for the evil minions).

All the rest of the detail is done with melted candy wafers and some royal icing eyes.

They are fun on their own or super cute added as cupcake toppers too!

And you've got whole lotta' little Minions (and evil Minions) that are pretty quick to put together and so easy - especially since no baking is needed. A super cute addition to a Minion party table!

Minions crack me and the kiddos up every time we re-watch one of the Despicable Me movies. Make a batch of them while you wait patiently for the Minions movie due out summer of 2015! Can't wait!

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University Pretzel Snacks!

So I know I know - I'm totally mixing up the movie characters (not to mention probably really annoying Universal Studios and Disney!). But both Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University are out (or coming out) and my kiddos loved the first ones so much. They are seeing Monsters U this weekend so I decided to make them some treats for the movies. They also happen to love sweet and salty pretzel snacks (at least for now - I tend to overdue it once I find something they like (think cupcakes) and they'll probably be sick of them soon enough).

These came out pretty cute though. I mean who doesn't love the Minions from Despicable Me?!!

And of course Mike Wazowski too!

And his partner in crime James P. Sullivan aka "Sulley" (he looks a little more blue bull then monster -apparently I can only do so much to make candy melt look like fur!)

All made with square pretzels and candy melt in different colors. Relatively simple, but melting the candy in zip lock bags and then adding the details does take some time. These probably took me about 3 hours total (including the time waiting for candy melt to harden).

Totally worth the time spent!

Put 'em all together and you get some Despicable Monsters! (if that movie comes out I want royalties!)

I am in no way getting compensated by anyone for this post. All for the love of the movies (and to see the smiles on my kiddo's faces). Have an awesome weekend!!!

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