Crafts

I have been going nuts over these tasty little bites for a while now.  I LOVE mint in almost any form, and I love cookies—so this is the best of both worlds.  This cookie recipe is also a little different than your standard because I tend to like a cakier cookie, one that has body and is moist.  Not a huge fan of the flat______________cookie… boring!! (Keep in mind this is totally just my opinion—nothing to be added to the rules of cookie book!)

Mint Black & White Cookies

3 cups of AP (all purpose) flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 tsp. mint extract

2 large eggs

1/3 cup sour cream

1 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 1/2 cup white chocolate chips

In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.  Mix together and set aside.  Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar in an electric mixer.  Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Add sour cream and extract; mix well.  Gradually add the dry ingredients.  Stir in the chocolate chips.  Spoon a rounded table spoon onto a cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 9-11 minutes.  Yields approximately 4 dozen cookies.

If you love chocolate and you love mint, you have to try these puppies out.  Let me know what you think!!

Linking to:

• Night Owl Crafting
• Someday Crafts
• Seven Thirty Three
• Fireflies & Jellybeans
• What Allie’s Making Now
• It’s a HodgePodge Life
• Tatertots and Jello
• Be Different Act Normal
• The Creative Crate

Last week, we participated in the “All About Easter” event at Kiki Creates. Thanks, Kiki, for letting us be a part of it, you did a great job!

I made a pretty white-chocolate Easter basket that was inspired by Bakerella’s Pudding Cups. She dipped balloons in melted chocolate to make little bowls (see her cute picture below).

I dipped a larger balloon in melted white chocolate, placed it onto a cookie sheet lined with waxed paper, and chilled it. After the chocolate had hardened, I popped the balloon, and peeled it off the chocolate shell. I was left with a pretty white bowl!

I dipped another balloon, aprox. the same size, in the chocolate, and chilled it as well. Then, with a butter knife that I warmed on the stove, I cut a strip to use as my basket handle, and attached it with melted chocolate.

Using a flat paintbrush dipped in melted chocolate, I painted on the woven design. I colored chocolate with pink and yellow candy coloring, and spooned each color into a plastic sandwich baggie. After snipping the corner, I piped pretty Spring flowers onto waxed paper, and let them chill. I attached the flowers to the sides of the basket with melted chocolate.

For the eggs, I wrapped plastic Easter eggs with homespun paper yarn (for my tutorial, click here), and filled my pretty basket! Didn’t it turn out lovely?

And guess what? We also have a lovely giveaway for you today! Haley from The Autocrat, and the haleydavis Etsy shop, has offered to give away a beautiful camera strap cover to one lucky reader!

Aren’t they beautiful?!

To enter to win, visit Haley’s shop, haleydavis, and come back and leave a comment telling us what camera strap cover you want!

Become a follower, blog, Facebook, or tweet about this giveaway (and leave additional comments) for extra entries. 

The giveaway will end Sunday Night, and the winner will be announced on Monday. Good Luck!

Linking to:

• Sew Much Ado
• Blue Cricket Design
• Night Owl Crafting
• Someday Crafts
• Seven Thirty Three
• House of Hepworths
• Paisley Passions
• What Allie’s Making Now
• It’s a HodgePodge Life
• Tatertots and Jello
• Be Different Act Normal
• The Creative Crate

I went back to Arizona this weekend to celebrate a dear friend’s birthday—along with Jamie and Christene. I met some of the sweetest girls on the planet! We will tell you all about it soon, but I wanted to say hi to my new friends, and thank them for being such an awesome support to WhipperBerry. I’m really starting to like it there!

The Friday Flair was fantastic this week, and it was so hard to choose our favorites! But here are a few:

Personalized Clay Easter Egg Tutorial by The Rachel Berry Blog

Large Dandelion Art by Cleverly Inspired

Just Sew Lovely by Home Sweet Home

Bunny Basket by Kiki Creates

Peter Rabbit Art by Craftberry Bush

Magnolia Floral Friday Pictures by Nifty Thrifty Things

Dictionary Pages Butterflies by Organize & Decorate Everything

Painted Rug by Midwestern Sewing Girl

Baby Shower Favor by Scissors and Spatulas

Beach Bag by Better Together

Rubber Stamped Easter Egg by Organize and Renovate

Bunny Pillow by Ameroonie Designs

Out to Eat Place Mat by Gwenny Penny

Easter Nest Wreath by Just Dream Jelly Bean

Butterfly Mobile by Nifty Thrifty Things

Subway Art Teacher Gifts by Did Someone Say Party

Thanks to everyone who participated! Grab a button if you’re featured in today’s post.

We have a fun giveaway tomorrow plus other great things coming up. It’s bound to be a great week!

I have been admiring today’s {Blog Love} for a LONG time now. Everything she touches turns to gold. I want you to meet Lucy from Craftberry Bush. It’s Creativity In Bloom!

Lucy is a true artist, and creates inspirational décor for her home. Here’s a little taste:

Go check out more of Craftberry Bush, and tell Lucy WhipperBerry says Hi!

Now, it’s time to let our hair down. Welcome to the Friday Flair at WhipperBerry! A place where you can link up all things tasty, fancy, and fun.

Show us what you have a flair for:

• Recipes
• Sewing projects
• Craft tutorials
• Dessert tables/events
• Photography
• Printables
• Gift ideas
• Décor/DIY Projects

We like to do it all—so we want to see it all!

Just remember these guidelines:

• Please link up only your own projects, and link to the specific post, not your blog home page. No Etsy shops or giveaways, please.
• You must grab a WhipperBerry button and include it somewhere in the post you’re linking, or on your home page (a text link is great too).
• Stay and mingle (remember, it’s a party!), and leave a couple comments for other guests!

We reserve the right to remove any link that we feel is inappropriate, or does not follow the guidelines. Thank you for understanding. 

Let’s get started…

I was at the store this morning at 5 o’crazy clock in the morning (don’t ask, yes I know it was too early, but I was rockin’ my Vintage Rose Wrap, so all was right with the world),  and I found these little gems as they were gently screaming my name…

“Heather we are destined to be on WhipperBerry, you must buy us and make us into something special.”  Well, when a marshmallow talks to you… YOU LISTEN!! 

So they came home with me and I thought and thought, what could we do with them to make them “special.”  And then it hit me, I LOVE speckled eggs, why not make my lovely EggMallows speckled!

I melted 1/3 cup of chocolate chips and added about 1 tsp. of vegetable oil to thin it out—and then, check out what I did…

I had my sweet husband stop at the store on the way home and get a brand spankin’ new toothbrush, and I commenced the speckling!!  I found that dipping the toothbrush into the melted chocolate, and rubbing it with a wooden skewer would produce the lovely speckled effect I was looking for.

By the way, my darling Little One posed in the pictures for me.  I do not sport silver nail polish, nor are my nails bitten down to the quick!!  Thanks my darling!!

Aren’t they fun?!  Let them sit for a little while for the chocolate to solidify and then you are in business!

Now to keep it real, here is what was happening behind the scenes while I was working on these little lovelies…

Yes, this is what happens when you give a one year old a marshmallow to keep him happy for a few minutes while you work!

Shhhhh, don’t tell Mom what I am doing!!  I even have it in my HAIR!!

Oh, but I am toooo darn cute.  She won’t mind!!

Gotta say, not too sure if I am liking this myself anymore!

We are Linking to…

• Tidy Mom
• Fingerprints on the Fridge
• Today’s Creative Blog {Get Your Craft On!}
• Blue Cricket Design