Snowman Pancakes

Fun and Easy Snowman Pancakes!

Happy New Year! I still can't believe it is already 2014. I'm excited to see what this year has in store for us :) I hope you all had a wonderful New Year too!

So with winter here, and no way to avoid it, I made some fun and easy Snowman Pancakes for Eliana! I was inspired by our Nemo The Snowman Sandwich from last year :) I made these pancakes for Eliana back in December, I decided to wait to share these because I knew baby was coming and I wouldn't have as many posts going out, AND we are in the middle of a blizzard today so it is quite fitting to share right now! :)

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you will have known by now that baby Samantha has arrived!! She was born exactly a week before Christmas on December 18th! I am so thankful for her health and her life and she has been such a joy! We have been adjusting wonderfully with our newest addition, even with lack of sleep and sickness going around in our house lol :)

So-- back to the pancakes! David had made pancakes but there was a little bit of leftover mix, so instead of letting that go to waste I found a way to use it up!  To make these pancakes all you'll need is your favorite pancake batter (fully mixed so there are no bumps) and a squeeze bottle to draw on the skillet or griddle.

With your skillet, or griddle, on low heat draw the outline of your snowman.  Let your outline cook until it gets all nice and bubbly.  Then fill in each section of the snowman with the batter.  Once the snowman is almost fully cooked, gently flip your snowman so it can cook on the other side.

I used a green grape for the hat, mini chocolate chips for the eyes and buttons, apple slices for the nose, scarf and arms and a chocolate sprinkle for the mouth.  The "snow" is yogurt :) It was so simple to put together and Eliana loved it! I only did one and then let her decorate the others. I put all the ingredients in small bowls and let her assemble and decorate however she wanted. 

Who says you shouldn't play with your food? ;)

Here is a picture of Eliana making hers! (she wanted them for dinner!) :)

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Rudolph Pancakes

Surprise your kiddos with these Rudolph Pancakes!

With Christmas right around the corner I made these simple Rudolph pancakes for Eliana! I was in a pancake making mood so I figured I'd make some fun shaped ones for her :)

These were really simple.  I took my homemade pancake mix and added cocoa powder to add some color and extra flavoring and they came out great!

To make these Rudolph Pancakes:

First mix up your pancake mix, homemade or boxed. (Mix it well so there are no bumps.)  I then added some cocoa powder (didn't measure) and I used that batter to make Rudolph's head.  His head is very simple-- just a circle.  You can use a squeeze bottle or just simply pour the batter onto your griddle.  I made a few pancakes with this batter before making the antlers.

To make the antlers darker I added more cocoa powder to the remaining batter.  This batter I put into a squeeze bottle and roughly drew out some antlers. To make the antlers you have to draw the outline on the skillet (on low heat) first.  Once your outline has cooked a little bit then you can fill in the rest of the shape with the pancake batter.  Once your entire pancake shape is almost fully cooked gently flip it so it can cook on the other side.

I used two mini chocolate chips and a Hershey-ets for the nose (peanut free and nut free!) and Rudolph was all set! Eliana LOVED him! 

...And now I have the Rudolph song stuck in my head now... and maybe you do too? You are so very welcome ;) I can't believe Christmas is in ONE WEEK!! :)

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Simple Halloween Ghostly Lunch Ideas!

BOO! Here are some simple Halloween ghostly bento school lunch ideas! :)

I decided to do a round up of a few of the ghost lunches we've made these past weeks! I know I don't take pictures of all the lunches I make, but these were my favorites. I did share some of these lunches on my Facebook page and Instagram, but I never got around to posting them here, so here they are! :)

Ghostly Pancakes for Lunch:

We love breakfast in our house, and when Eliana asked for more "breakfasts for lunch with shaped pancakes" I decided to make her some cute and easy ghost pancakes to put in her lunch.

In Eliana's EasyLunchbox I made her a simple breakfast for lunch.  She had three ghost pancakes. In the mini dipper beside them I put some syrup so she could dip them and she also had some Enjoy Life granola (in the small red container) to mix into her yogurt.  I gave her raspberries and she also had some yogurt in another mini dipper.  I froze that yogurt overnight to place into her lunch the next day so that it was perfectly thawed out by lunchtime.

Ghostly {egg?} Bento Lunch:

Since I don't have an actual ghost cookie cutter I got creative and used what I do have.. for this lunch I decided to try my egg cookie cutter... and well what I got was an egg... a ghost decorated egg... I wasn't that impressed but Eliana seemed to like it, so that works for me!  Her ghost sandwich was ham and cheese topped with another piece of cheese.  I slightly cut the bottom of the cheese to make it look like a ghost.  Next to the ghostly egg sandwich is a babybel cheese.  I decorated both the sandwich and cheese with my edible food markers for the faces.

She also had a cucumber with "BOO" carved out and some raspberries with a Jack-O-Lantern pick inside a spider silicone cup, all packed in her EasyLunchbox.

Ghostly yubo bento school lunch:

This was another simple one! Packed in her yubo lunchbox Eliana has a yet another ghostly lunch. I made a ghost sandwich, cut with a circle cookie cutter, filled with WOWBUTTER, and topped with cheese.  I used melted Enjoy Life Chocolate chips (nut free and peanut free) to make the ghost's face.

On the right she has vanilla yogurt with two mini chocolate chip eyes.  Below the yogurt she has an apple ghost!  At her field trip the other week we went to the orchard and picked apples, so these are the last of the apples! I put apple slices underneath a a round slice of apple and decorated it with raisins (from our Enjoy Life seed mix).  Eliana also had some nut free granola in a mini dipper inside that pumpkin silicone cup so that she could add to her yogurt.  She didn't finish this lunch at school but she finished it when she got home.

And last, but not least, you can always add a cute little touch to your lunches by making ghostly cheese and crackers!

You can use your favorite crackers with your favorite white cheese.  Here I used Ritz Crackers and Provolone cheese.  Since I don't have any ghost cookie cutters I found inspiration from this post, where she uses a tulip cutter upside down to make a ghost shape! Its a brilliant idea and it works great! So I used a tulip cutter, and flipped them upside down and used edible food markers to draw the faces!  This would be a cute and easy snack for kids to make themselves too!

Eliana loved all of these ideas for school lunches and they were so simple to make! 

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