Day 8 Star Wars Christmas Wreath Treats #12daysofStarWars

We're getting close peeps! 

Next up on the #12daysofStarWars count down:

8TH DAY OF STAR WARS

Star Wars Christmas Wreath Treats!  

Because doesn't everyone need a wreath decorated with Yoda and Vader? 

I found these candies around Halloween time and couldn't resist buying them up. 

There were also green and purple lightsabers.  I added a little candy melt/sprinkles to give them a little more detail.

The treats are made like rice krispies treats except you swap corn flakes for the rice cereal.

Add some more sprinkles to finish the wreath look.

ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT!! 

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How To Make Star Wars Wreath Treats 

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of corn flakes
• 1 bag of mini marshmallows
• 3 tablespoons butter
• green food color
• Star Wars candy (found them around Halloween time)
• Other holiday sprinkles (red berries, green leaves)
• 1/4 cup candy melts or chocolate (to attach candies to wreaths)

Directions:

1. Melt butter in large pan on low heat.  Add marshmallow and once just melted turn off heat.
2. Add green food color - enough to make a nice deep green color.
3. Add cornflakes.  Stir until well combined.
4. While still warm, shape into wreath shapes (spray hands with non-stick spray if too sticky).
5. Melt candy melts/chocolate in microwave safe bowl.  Add some dabs to backs of candy and sprinkles and attach to the wreaths.

See all of the #12dayofStarWars Treats so far:

Day 1 Princess Leia Marshmallows

Day 2 Chewbacca (or Ewok!) and Wampa Coconut Macaroons

Day 3 Star Wars Bundt cake (with Yoda inside!)

Day 4 Star Wars Roll Cake

Day 5 Star Wars Character Christmas Cookies

Day 6 Star Wars Oatmeal Creme Pie Galaxy Cookies

Day 7 Star Wars Creature Candies and Cupcakes

Day 7 Star Wars Creature Candies & Cupcakes #12daysofStarWars

Hey all Happy Saturday! Guess what?? Only 5 days until the new movie opens! 

And for the #12daysofStarWars countdown we're onto:

 THE 7TH DAY OF STAR WARS 

Star Wars Creature Candies and Cupcakes!

All of the creatures in the SW franchise are my favorites and a reason why so many love the movies. I'm totally speculating on that but if I had to guess why the movies have lasted so long, one of the reasons would be the awesome creatures peppered throughout. 

Many creatures don't have lines but they do play big parts.

Remember the Mynocks?  They were creatures within a creature. Or the Sarlacc that is consuming Boba Fett over years and years (or so when we last saw him anyway).

Some of my other favs are the Bantha - that produces cool light blue milk, the Acklay - all claws and fangs, the Jawa (utini!), the Rancor - crushed by Luke on Jabba's sand barge, and the Sarlacc again.

I can't forget 2 of my favorite Hoth planet creatures.  The Tauntaun whose innards make a nice sleeping blanket and the Wampa - who I feel could be the misunderstood Bumble from Rudolph.

And these guys are my favorite trio of all time.  

Ewoks - We just named our newest puppy Wicket - so big Ewok fans here.  They are a force to be reckoned with even with their primitive tools.  Max Rebo - one of the musicians that plays for Jabba - he needs a better agent.  And another Jawa, because they travel in packs. 

Enjoy them on their own as candies or use them to make some Star Wars themed cupcakes in celebration of the new movie.

And I know these creatures are not to scale - or Max Rebo would be tiny compared to the Rancor or a Bantha but let's pretend all is well since they are candy anyway!  Only a few more days to go until The Force Awakens hits movie theaters.  

Next SW treat up tomorrow nite!

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How To Make Star Wars Creatures

Ingredients:

• Marshmallows and shapes of marshmallow Peeps (halloween cats, ghosts)
• Melting candy wafers in various colors
• Pretzel sticks (for Acklay legs and Ewok staff)
• Sweetened coconut flakes (for Wampa)
• Red licorice (for Sarlacc)
• M and M's (for Mynocks and Jawa face)
• Brown, red, and white sprinkles (for Acklay and Mynocks, Tauntaun, and Wampa and Sarlacc)
• Black round sprinkles (various character eyes)
• yellow round sprinkles (Jawa eyes)
• Orange Tootsie roll (rolled to make Ewok hood) 

Directions:

1. Cut Peeps and marshmallows into basic character shapes.
2. Cover or coat with candy melts in appropriate character colors.
3. Use pretzels, coconut, and other ingredients as details (follow pictures).  Add these while the candy melt is still unhardened or add more melted candy wafers to attach details to the creature.
4. Mynocks have no marshmallow and are all candy melt/m and m candies, and sprinkles.
5. Acklay uses candy coated pretzel sticks as legs.
6. Ewoks hood is a rolled orange Tootsie Roll- microwave 5 seconds and then roll candy and cut to shape.

See All the #12dayofStarWars Treats so far:

Day 1 Princess Leia Marshmallows

Day 2 Chewbacca (or Ewok!) and Wampa Coconut Macaroons

Day 3 Star Wars Bundt cake (with Yoda inside!)

Day 4 Star Wars Roll Cake

Day 5 Star Wars Character Christmas Cookies

Day 6 Star Wars Oatmeal Creme Pie Galaxy Cookies

Day 6 Star Wars Oatmeal Creme Pie Galaxy Cookies #12daysofStarWars

The Countdown to Star Wars - The Force Awakens marches on!

Today is the 6TH DAY OF STAR WARS of #12daysofStarWars

Star Wars Oatmeal Creme Pie Galaxy Cookies!  

Do you love oatmeal cookies? Me too so you'll love these.

Star Wars merch is everywhere.  And when I say everywhere I mean EVERYWHERE.  Because Disney is a marketing MACHINE.  Have you seen this cereal in stores? It's Limited Edition of course.  

But look, mini SW marshmallows!   And little tie fighters and millenium falcon cereal! Who can resist that? Definitely not me.

After eating a few handfuls of the cereal I decided to make oatmeal cookies using the recipe on the Quaker Oatmeal container but swapped out some of the oatmeal and replaced it with the SW cereal.  

I also tinted the batter grey so the cookies would look like space rocks.  (mmm yum grey food!)

Then baked them up.  Hubby said they looked like little piles of puke.  I guess I can see his point, but I'm going with space rocks!

Bake the cookies for about 5 minutes then add some more marshmallows and cereal on top.  That prevents the marshmallows from turning to mush and keeping their form more.

And really who can resist oatmeal cookies with some buttercream slathered inside??

Are you tired of SW treats yet?? No? Great because there's still plenty more coming!

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Day 7 tomorrow! 

How To Make Star Wars Oatmeal Creme Pie Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup plus 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 and 1/2 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 and 1/2 cups of oats (uncooked)
• 1 and 1/2 cups of Star Wars cereal (reserve some to add on top of cookies)
• 1-2 drops of black food coloring (optional)
• 1 can of buttercream tinted blue (if making sandwich cookies)
• blue non-pareil sprinkles (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream butter, brown sugar, sugar with mixer until creamy.
3. Add eggs and vanilla.  Beat until well combined.
4. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
5. Add flour mixture (1/2 at a time) to butter mixture.  
6. Add black food coloring.  Mix well.
7. Add oats and cereal and mix.
8. Drop by spoonful onto parchment paper.
9. Bake for 5 minutes then add some marshmallows/cereal on top of cookies and sprinkle with blue non-pareils.
10. Bake another 5 minutes or until just done.
11. When cookies are cool, spread buttercream on one cookie and top with another to make sandwich cookies.

See All the #12dayofStarWars Treats so far:

Day 1 Princess Leia Marshmallows

Day 2 Chewbacca (or Ewok!) and Wampa Coconut Macaroons

Day 3 Star Wars Bundt cake (with Yoda inside!)

Day 4 Star Wars Roll Cake

Day 5 Star Wars Character Christmas Cookies

Day 5 Star Wars Character Christmas Cookies #12daysofStarWars

Hey all! I'm already onto the 5TH DAY OF STAR WARS! 

Star Wars Character Christmas Gingerbread Cookies!  

These are cookies from last year but I couldn't resist adding them to the countdown.  I love the little Santa hats on my favorite characters - Yoda (always Yoda), Darth Vader, Storm Troopers, and Boba Fett, everyone's favorite bounty hunter.

These cookies are also my favorite flavor cookie of all time - gingerbread.  I used SW cookie cutters for this but you could probably just as easily cut their basic shape out of the dough.  

The Santa hats are cut out of the dough freehand and attached before baking.  Use a little melted candy melts/chocolate to add the details along with some christmas sprinkles.

These cookies are pretty perfect for the movie month AND Christmas season.  There are only 7 more days to go! WOOO!

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How To Make Star Wars Christmas Cookies (characters with Santa hats) 

Ingredients:

• 1 package store bought gingerbread cookie dough
• candy melts in black, white, red, green, light green
• Red and green Wilton Color mist
• Holly and berries sprinkles (or similar red ball, leaf sprinkles)
• White non-pareil sprinkles

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Roll out dough to about 1/4 inch thickness.  Using cutters, cut out shapes.  Also cut out santa hat shapes.
3. Attach hats to heads before baking.
4. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until just done.
5. Once cooled, add details with melted candy wafers/chocolate.
6. Spray hats with red or green color spray.
7. Add details by following lines on cookies with various colors of melted candy wafers. (add candy to freezer bag and microwave in 10 second intervals until just melted.  Snip a corner and use to pipe the candy onto cookies)

                     

See All the #12dayofStarWars Treats so far: 

Day 1 Princess Leia Marshmallows

Day 2 Chewbacca (or Ewok!) and Wampa Coconut Macaroons

Day 3 Star Wars Bundt cake (with Yoda inside!)

Day 4 Star Wars Patterned Roll Cake

Do you like the countdown?? Which are your favorite so far???

Day 4 Star Wars Roll Cake #12daysofStarWars

So we're 3 days deep into the #12daysofStarWars treats!  Here we go for the next one:

4TH DAY OF STAR WARS

Star Wars Roll Cake!  

I have a small obsession with roll cakes.  What's a roll cake you ask? Basically it's a thin cake (baked up in a jelly roll pan) rolled up and filled with all sorts of deliciousness.  

I've got an entire Pin Board dedicated to my love of roll cakes.  They look so fun to me and there are many versions with pictures and/or patterns as part of the cake.  How cool is that?

This is my first attempt at baking a roll cake.  The colors are a little brighter than what I was hoping for but whatever it has a little Yoda pattern baked into it! 

I think Yoda has to be one of my favorite Star Wars characters of all time.  I wonder if he'll make it into the new movie in some way?  Who is your favorite character?? Are you old school (meaning movies 4-6 aka the originals) or do you love the newer characters in movies 1-3? My kiddos love all the newer movies and me and the hubster love the oldies but in general we love them all - when they come on TV we end up just leaving them on no matter what's going on!

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I also shared this one over at sheknows.  See the How To and recipe here!

See All the #12dayofStarWars Treats so far:

Day 1 Princess Leia Marshmallows

Day 2 Chewbacca (or Ewok!) and Wampa Coconut Macaroons

Day 3 Star Wars Bundt cake (with Yoda inside!)

Day 3 Star Wars Bundt Cake #12daysofStarWars

Hi All! So what did you think of #12daysofStarWars Days 1 and 2??

Are you ready for the 3RD DAY OF STAR WARS?

Star Wars Surprise Inside Bundt Cake!  

It even has little light saber sprinkles

I made this one a couple years ago and it's still one of my all time favs.  

When you cut inside - surprise Master Yoda!

Eat cake - Yes you will....

My kiddos love this one.  Chocolate cake and Yoda - What's not to love??

Only 9 more days (and treats) to go! And this movie better be great!

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Day 4 tomorrow! 

How To Star Wars Bundt Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix (mix according to directions)
• 1 box of white or yellow cake mix (mix according to directions)
• green food color
• For glaze: 1/2 cup powdered sugar mixed with 1 teaspoonful milk
• For light saber sprinkles: blue, red, gray (mix white + black), black candy melting wafers
• Star and blue non-pareil sprinkles
• Yoda shaped cookie cutter (or you can cut shapes out with a knife)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Bake green cake in a jelly roll pan (sprayed with non-stick spray) for 20 mins (or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean).
3. Once cake is cooled, cut out Yoda shapes with cutter.  Freeze these cut outs for 1 hour.
4. Add some of the chocolate cake mix to a bundt pan.
5. Arrange your cut out Yodas around the bundt pan in the batter as close together as possible.  Make sure your Yoda heads are upside down as you will flip the pan over when done.
6. Fill the rest of the pan with the remaining cake batter. Try to cover the entire Yoda shape with batter.
7. Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.  Start checking at 20 minutes.
8. Once cake is cooled.  Flip cake over onto serving tray.
9. Drizzle with powdered sugar glaze.
10. For light saber sprinkles: pipe small lines of red and blue candy melt onto parchment paper.  Add a smaller line with gray candy melt as the "handle".  Add small red or black dots on handle as detail.  Let candy completely harden then remove gently from parchment and sprinkle onto cake while glaze is still wet.  
11. Add star and blue sprinkles.

See All the #12dayofStarWars Treats so far:

Day 1 Princess Leia Marshmallows

Day 2 Chewbacca (or Ewok!) and Wampa Coconut Macaroons

Day 2 Chewbacca & Wampa Macaroons #12daysofStarWars

Are you guys ready for another Star Wars treat? 

2ND DAY OF STAR WARS

Chewbacca and Wampa Macaroons!  

These are coconut macaroons (not be to confused with macarons) in vanilla and chocolate flavs.  I love love - LOVE coconut and my kids do not.  So these cookies are pretty much all for me.  

And in comparison to French macarons - they are so easy to make.  

I thought the flaked coconut would look like Chewbacca's and the Wampa's fur.  

My kids said Chewbacca looks more like an Ewok - but I guess that works too!

What's your favorite Star Wars character? Are you excited for the new ones in the new movie? Can't wait to see them up on the big screen!

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How To Make Chewbacca and Wampa Macaroons

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of flaked sweetened coconut 
• 4 Tablespoons of flour
• 4 eggs whites
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
• 2 teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa powder
• Melting candy wafers (in red, white, black, gray (mix white and black))
• white sprinkles (for wampa teeth)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Mix together coconut, flour, egg whites, salt, vanilla.  Divide into 2 bowls.  Add chocolate syrup and cocoa powder to one bowl.  Mix well.
3. Drop dollops onto baking sheet.
4. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until just done.  Don't over bake vanilla or they will get brown.
5. Once cooled, add details with melted candy wafers/chocolate.
6. Add details by following pictures for Wampa and Chewy cookies with various colors of melted candy wafers. (add candy to freezer bag and microwave in 10 second intervals until just melted.  Snip a corner and use to pipe the candy onto cookies)

See All the #12dayofStarWars Treats so far:

Day 1 Princess Leia Marshmallows