Fourth of July (Week 2 attempt, Trial 2, Holiday)

For the week of July 4th, I attempted a sweet treat! Find it here and see how mine compare! Was that a rhyme? Note, this link has some other cute ideas and of course pinterest is full of them if you just search. I feel like the pictures online looked better and may have tasted better than mine but it turned out ok. At first I wasn't too proud but they were eatable! I was afraid there wouldn't be enough so I attempted decorating some quick 'just add butter and oil' sugar cookies and let's just say the parentals said I shouldn't bring them to the party. They kind of looked like those pinterest fail pictures you see online. I didn't want to take pictures of them but they did bring about a good laugh!

Speaking of laughter I laughed until I cried while we played Uno with our long time family friends! God knows just what we need, praise the Lord! Oh and we also watched the hot dog eating competition AFTER dinner. Um le'ts just say I will probably never compete in one of those. Check out the link!

Beware, I had a lot of red velvet cake left overs. Mom suggested you make parfaits with them!! Great idea! I also couldn't find blue velvet cake mix so I just made it out of one regular red velvet cake mix. I probably should have purchased two boxes and it would have yielded more! It was a fun activity though! Thanks to the roommate who had star cookie cutters of varying sizes (K4 teacher for the win!!). I have to add that the icing was super easy and quite delicious! I was trying to transfer it and definitely dropped the big scoop on the counter-whoops! I salvaged what I could though, which is why I needed to make the sugar cookies because I had so much icing left over!

Hahahahaha I am not schooled in cookie decorating or maybe so many others would school me in it! Can I just say for a minute too that I am so sad that the icing and food coloring most readily available seems to be the gel kind? Gels are not easy to work with. Maybe I just got distracted by the fact that the gel icing had sparkles in it. I do know though that the old liquid food coloring is really tricky to find these days! Ok venting over but really if you know a local convenient store that sells the old liquid food coloring let me know! My mom and I figured it out once where to find it but it's tricky!