Kids Cooking Thursday: The Rainbow Connection

Another birthday round up, this time for Miss Five. I can't believe she is going to school next year already!

Rainbow Cake

Rainbow Clouds (just add food dye)

Rainbow Butterflies

Rainbow Jellies

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Rainbow Bookshelf

An awesome library from user chotda, who has some gorgeous pictures of the rest of her house too. I wish I could have a bookshelf like this, but I can imagine it might bug me. I know for sure it would irritate DP no end, as he'd never be able to find anything, nor know where to put it back. Perhaps we could trial it though, it's not like we have any sort of order now, except for sticking series in order, and grouping books by the same author next to each other, most of the time.

Maybe when we get the bookshelves refinished and attached to the walls, DP might let me try this out, if only to get a photo of what it looks like. It would be very good incentive to finally pick an order and go with it, having them all mixed up like that!

(found on freshome, via Young House Love)

I thought this was an apt lazy dinner night post, since this month's NaBloPoMo theme is LOOK UP. That, and I can't resist anything rainbow.

Wordless Wednesday: Rainbow Cookie Crumbs!

Rainbow Cookies

Don't forget to get messy with your young 'uns for Kids In The Kitchen, training our next generation of food bloggers! ;)

Happy Mardi Gras!

Today is Mardi Gras in Sydney, and although we don't have pay tv so I can't watch the parade, and I have small children so I can't jet off to Sydney for the weekend, I thought I'd make these flag biscuits to celebrate anyway ;) Miss Four loved the bright colours. Because this was not part of our regular KCT baking together, and they are just so pretty, I'm going to put these in as our submission for Kids In The Kitchen, my month long cooking with kids event. Don't forget to enter if you want a chance to win that cute teddy tin!

Rainbow Flag biscuits
1 cup butter, very soft
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup sifted icing sugar
2 1/2 cups flour
food colouring

In mixer bowl, add vanilla to softened butter; add sugar and mix well. Add flour and blend well. Divide dough into 6 balls. Colour each ball one of the colours of the rainbow.

line a loaf pan with glad wrap, leaving "handles" overhanging the edge.
Roll out the red ball into an oblong and fit into the pan. Roll out the orange ball on glad wrap and flip onto the red oblong.

Repeat for all colours. Tightly cover the purple and final layer with the glad wrap edges. Refrigerate for 30 mins to aid slicing, then turn out onto a cutting board.

Slice cookies 1/4 inch thick.

Bake at 170C degrees for 18 minutes. Do not brown too much as they will lose their colour. Cool immediately on a wire rack.

These make a dry, crumbly, stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth type of biscuit, much like those in a Melting Moment or Yoyo. I hate those biscuits, but DP loves them. Which is fine, I didn't want to eat these anyway, they are just so pretty to look at!

Don't forget to get messy with your young 'uns for Kids In The Kitchen, training our next generation of food bloggers! ;)