Happy Easter!

On Friday morning we got a knock on a door and I saw a delivery truck pull away. On our porch were two tiny boxes from my Mom and inside were these two cute easter baskets! I got the baby lamb and Matt got the bunny. *cute*

I did tell you that my mom has recently gotten into sending us gifts for every holiday. With this fun package we each got the same note except it was modified for our specific gender. Thanks Mom!









Friday afternoon we headed up to Idaho where we were planning on spending Easter with Matt's family. Friday we spent the afternoon hanging out with Matt's brother, sister-in-law, and sister in Pocatello and then we headed off to Burley. Saturday morning started off with an Easter egg hunt.

I have to say that Easter is always cooler with the Hickenloopers. Can you find the eggs hidden in this picture??

How about this one:

My niece was so cute! She kept referring to the eggs as "snack". We'd point to one egg, that was labled with her name, and she'd say, "Snack... snack... snack..." If you've ever seen Finding Nemo, think of the seagulls that always say "mine, mine, mine..." and if you substitute that for "snack, snack, snack" and you have capture this Easter moment.

She was so stinkin' cute with her little Easter basket.

I hope everyone had enough chocolate and candy to carry them through the weekend plus some.... I know I had my yearly quota of chocolate on Saturday. :)

Happy Easter!

Donuts!

A couple of weeks ago I saw someone post a link, on Facebook, about some Pintrest baked donuts. I love donuts and baked donuts seemed to be the solution. :)

It's actually because of the link about baked donuts that made me want to look into Pintrest a little more. I'm not an official member yet but I am certainly a Pinterest moocher. I'm sure that one day when I decide to be an official Pintrest member I won't have those annoying banners on every window that says: "Login now! Not a member?! Click here!"

The first attempt:
1. I started making donuts and then realized I needed a donut pan. As a result I made a bunch of cake balls that didn't taste very good and took me, no joke, 3-4 hours to make.

2. Last week I bought a donut pan from Gygi's. I love Gygi's! We even had a gift card that was floating around from our wedding so I pretty much got it for "free". Great day. Great day. Matt convinced me to get a 'mini' donut pan--- because it's cuter, but I think one day I'd like an upgrade or even better a giant cupcake pan! It makes a cake in the shape of a cupcake.

It was Muriel's birthday and I thought I would make her some funfetti donuts. It's my favorite cake! I found a recipe online where converted a cake mix into a donut mix.

Notice how they're brown? Well, when they're fresh out of the oven they're pretty soft but after they cool they turned into something with a hard shell and hallow inside. I'm not sure how that's possible but sadly it's true.

However I felt that putting powdered sugar all over them made them more presentable and possibly more desirable, even if they were a little hollow on the inside.

3. I made some today!

These turned out a lot nicer and I used a completely different recipe.

Coated in brown sugar, cinnamon, and white sugar. These are not PERFECT but they're pretty darn tasty! I'm stil out to try more recipes. I'm in search for something just as good as Hostess. One day... one day... I'll figure it out.