Southern Girl Creations

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Teacher Appreciation Week.. Day One

Thanks A 'Bundt'ch for all you do!

 
 
 
First let me say that I did not come up with super cute idea.. It came from here:  http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2013/04/thanks-bundtch.html  . What I can take credit for is that I made my own mini bundt cakes and packaged them myself. 
 
 
 
The mini bundt pans are from Bed Bath and Beyond http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=112176  Don't forget that Bed Bath and Beyond will take even their expired 20% off coupons.. 
 
 
I used a 3inch circle punch to make the white paper circles that the cakes sat on in the box and to punch out the tags. 
 
You can use any type of bakers twine or ribbon to attach the tags. 
 
I made butter pound cakes with cream cheese icing and Devils food pound cakes with dark chocolate icing. 
 
I just filled the center of the bundt with the icing (ps.. I took the easy road on the icing and used Duncan Hines out of the can)
 
I tied one of each flavor together with the twine and added the tag. 
 
 
 
 
Here are the recipes for the pound cakes I made..
 
Butter Pound Cake
 
•1 pkg Duncan Hines Butter Recipe Yellow Cake Mix
 •1 (3.4 oz) pkg vanilla instant pudding and pie filling
 •4 large eggs
 •1 cup water
 •1/3 cup vegetable oil
 
Preheat oven to 350 degrees (325 for dark pan) grease and flour mini bundt pans. 
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water and oil in large bowl.  Mix at medium speed with an electric mixer for 2 minutes and divide evenly into pans.  Bake at 350 degrees (325 degrees for dark pan) for 18 - 20 minutes (I used the cupcake timing on the cake mix box)  or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool in pan for 10 minutes.  Invert onto cooling rack until cooled completely.  I then put my can of Duncan Hines Cream Cheese icing into a gallon zip lock bag, snipped off a tiny corner of the bag an piped it into the center of the cakes.
 
 
Devils Food Pound Cake
 
•1 pkg Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Devil's Food Cake Mix
 •1 (3.4 oz) pkg chocolate instant pudding and pie filling
 •4 large eggs
 •1 1/4 cups water
 •1/2 cup vegetable oil

 
Preheat oven to 350 degrees (325 for dark pan) grease and flour mini bundt pans.
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water and oil in large bowl. Mix at medium speed with an electric mixer for 2 minutes and divide evenly into pans. Bake at 350 degrees (325 degrees for dark pan) for 18 - 20 minutes (I used the cupcake timing on the cake mix box) or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Invert onto cooling rack until cooled completely. I then put my can of Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate icing into a gallon zip lock bag, snipped off a tiny corner of the bag an piped it into the center of the cakes.
 
 


It's been a long time...

First I want to apologize for not being here for a long time.  I got a new Job last year to implement Electronic Medical Records for a large practice and just did not have much time to blog.  I hope to be back on my game now.. I have lots of good stuff to share with you guys...

Love Y'all

Sherry

Saturday, May 4, 2013

No Boy Wrapping Paper

I was in a bind this morning... We had a birthday party at 10am.. and I realized that I had a gift that would not fit in any gift bag that I had in the house, and I have no boy wrapping paper.  I have every sort of pretty polka dot, zebra stripe girly girl paper you can imagine but nothing suitable for a 4 year old boy... 

Never fear.  I have a large roll of butcher paper.  I wrapped the present in butcher paper used my Pazzles machine to cut out chevron paper letters of his name, a little twine for a bow and TAHDAH... I think it turned out ok for last minute... What do you think?

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Fortunate Valentines

I'm Fortunate to call you my friend

This year I made felt fortune cookies for Savannah's first grade class.  I placed them in a mini Chinese take out box along with a few pieces of candy.  I had to experiment with sizes and ended up using a 3inch circle of felt and glued a two and a half inch piece of pipe cleaner in the middle to hold the fortune cookie shape.  I did add a sticker to the outside that said Happy Valentines Day that didn't make the picture...


Thursday, January 10, 2013

Monogrammed Boots

Check out Savannah's monogrammed boots!  I just love how they turned out.  Everywhere we go people stop and ask about them.


The best part is that I only paid $9.91 for the boots on clearance

Friday, December 7, 2012

Reindeer Races

My church had the privilege of hosting a Christmas Party at a children's home this year.  I was placed in charge of the "Little Kids" Games basically 3 to 6 years Old.  I decided that we would have a bean bag toss and what I called reindeer races. 

You would not believe what I went through to find stick horses (because of course I was a little behind on schedule).. Anyway.. after calling Toys R Us they told me a store in my area had them.  I drove there and didn't find them.  Several employees told me that they didn't have them.  I finally found a gentleman that was nice enough to agree to go in the back and look for them.  I had the stock number and everything he needed. 

When I got the stick horses it was time to transform them into Reindeer.  I bought the reindeer antlers at Dollar Tree and replaced their bandannas with Christmas fabric.. I really think they turned out cute.


The rest of the game just consisted of a piece of masking tape on the floor about 12 ft long. Two at a time the children lined up on either side of the tape, ran to the opposite end and turned around and ran back on the other side..  The kids really got a kick out of it. 

 

Monday, December 3, 2012

First Grade Christmas Project

Savannah's class had to make an ornament for the silent auction..  Here is what I came up with... Each child in the class put their thumb print on the large Christmas ball.  I took it home to let it dry and made each one into a reindeer. Their noses are rhinestones for an extra sparkle, and the googly eyes made it cute especially all the ones that stay crossed-eyed most of the time..  I added a bow and the lettering for the class.