party hat topped cupcakes....!

So is anyone sick of cupcakes yet?? I mean if you ask those food experts out there the cupcake trend should be way over by now, right? Personally I still think anything cupcake related is still going pretty strong.   And really, who can resist a little cake?

And then topped with a glittered party hat? Even better!

The party hats are made from Bugles (a lot of bloggers have been already been super creative with Bugles as hats like here, and here, here, here, and here!).  I also use them for my little candy people (for gnomes, Sorting Hat from Harry Potter, Santa hats).  You could also use candy corn for the hats (they worked better when I did these witches last year).

For these party hats, dip the Bugle in melted candy wafers, then immediately dip into a bowl of rainbow sugar sprinkles and let the candy harden.

After dry, lay hat on its side and pipe some streamers from the top with melted white chocolate or candy wafers/melts.  When that is dry, "pipe"a circle of melted white chocolate and immediately add the hat to the center of the circle.

Then add to your cupcakes.  Since these were for New Years Eve, I added the year to some of the hats as well (in melted white chocolate too).

And you get some really fun and festive cupcakes!  Although I used these for New Years, I think you could do these for any celebration.  For a birthday party you could even add the kid (or adults!) name to the hat.  Wouldn't that be super cute?

Hope you like them and have a very fun and festive week!

I'm really enjoying all the Valentine's Day treats being shared around too.  I may have one or 2 coming up as well!

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birthday cake batter granola....!

....there are a lot of cake batter recipes out there!....like this awesome fudge, these pancakes, or these krispie treats!....can't complain though because who doesn't like cake batter stuff...?....and although i tried to find recipes that created the cake batter flavor from scratch....all i could really find were recipes that added some dry cake mix to the recipes....i guess that works and saves time too.....

.....so these granola bars are made with this stuff....

....found a couple granola bar recipes and tweaked them a little....

birthday cake batter granola bars

4 1/2 cups of quick cooking oats

14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk

6 tablespoons of dry yellow cake mix

5 tablespoons of melted butter

...mix the oats and dry cake mix (you can add other stuff too but you may need to add a little extra condensed milk depending on how much other dry ingredients you add in)....add the milk and butter and mix everything really well....add to a foiled 9X13 pan (i also sprayed with some non stick pam)...and spread into an even layer in the pan....bake @350 for about 20 minutes (leaves them a little chewy...but if you like them crunchier bake for about 25-30 mins)...let cool and cut into bars or squares....

...this is after they baked and are just a little brown around the edges.....(the house had an awesome aroma of cake baking in the oven...!)

.....and you get birthday cake batter granola bars.....

.....OR......

.....these are just the granola bars with tops dipped in candy melt and dipped in some more non-pariels...then add a stick....(these were the kids favs)....

.....OR......

....this is just the granola bars that didn't look so great crunched up and added some mini m&m's and some fun party hats (made from candy melt).....

...and i try to kid myself that since these are "granola" that they are better for you (yeah right!) but they were pretty tasty and you do get the birthday cake flavor coming through....

....taking the rest into the ladies you drawl little one's bloodwork on a regular basis...they are awesome so they definitely deserve some tasty treats this week.....thanks for stopping by and have a week filled with awesome sauce...!

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