Fourth of July Sundae Cupcakes

Its been a dreary, rainy day. If it rains too much longer I may just float away.  I mean really what's up with all the bad weather?

The kids are all stuck inside.....driving each other nuts. Before they killed each other and I had to clean up all the blood (no fun at all), I decided to cheer them up with dessert. After all dessert makes everything better......RIGHT?

Off to the kitchen I headed to make them something cute, yet easy.

I made them these super easy sundae cupcakes.

Use your favorite cake recipe. I used the Wilton jumbo cupcake pan (the sundaes call for the King sized cupcake pan but I just used what I had)

Bake according to your cake directions.

Allow to cool on a wire rack.

Starting at the outer edge of the cupcake, using a 1M tip, swirl the top of the cupcakes working inward.

Then make a second swirl smaller than the first, starting inward a bit. Stop at center and pull up.

Place candy cherry bomb or red fondant rolled in a ball on top of swirl.

Sprinkle with red, white and blue sprinkles.

Insert candy stick if you have available. If not use a candle and insert it upside down as I did here.

It's very easy and will be sure to brighten your children's day when they are stuck inside.

Enjoy....

~Throw on your heels and get to baking~

Uncle Sam Hat cookies.....

Do you ever just have one of those days.....

You know the ones that start out with a schedule and a plan of what you will get done for the day. Nothing in your plan listed babies getting sick, husbands needing a ride home for lunch, 865 text message (yes I think I received that many), getting on facebook, and my plan defiantly didn't have anything  on it that said FORGET TO TAKE OUT SOMETHING FOR DINNER. How could I forget about dinner?

I mean we eat it every night, yet it totally slipped my mind. Will social services pick me up if I feed my husband and kids cookies for dinner? Somehow that is all I focused on today were cookies. They took me  half a day to do with all the interruptions. 

Even though we may all starve to death tonight, the cookies are made.  

I used a tombstone cutter to cut the hats out (just turn them upside down) and you have a hat. 

Let cookies cool on rack. 

Now...pull something out the freezer to fix your family for dinner (this is where I messed up)

Outline the blue area.

Then outline the red sections.

Allow the icing to dry for about 30 minutes. Next fill in the blue and red sections with flood icing. While the blue section is still wet place white star sprinkles. I used a tweezers to place them on the cookie. BE CAREFUL NOT TO TOUCH THE COOKIE.

Let the red and blue sections dry for several hours.

Last you will fill in the white stripes with flood icing.

There you have it....Uncle Sam hats. These are great for the 4th of July, Memorial day, Labor day, or just for that special Soldier in your life. 

Enjoy....

~Throw on your heels and get to baking~