It worked!

I have been blessed with very talented friends who know how to look at a picture and make a cake look just like the picture. This is not one of my talents. However, after seeing and tasting Hannah's Tinkerbell rice krispie cake at the beginning of the month, I came up with what I thought was a great idea. See, I signed up to take a treat for Zane's Halloween party. I figured with the baby on the way and such it would probably be the easiest party for me to help out with. At the beginning of the year Mrs. Cocks told us rice krispie squares and puff wheat squared are always good snacks because they eat in their classroom and aren't as messy as cupcakes. With this in mind, and having seen Tinkerbell I decided to make pumpkins! I mentioned it to Mrs. Cocks when we had our parent/teacher interview and she immediately thought I was going to decorate 25 individual pumpkins...ha ha ha. She's a funny woman. Actually, she was quite overwhelmed with the idea for me. No, I came up with something better:

I made a double batch of rice krispie squares and put them in pie plates - the disposable ones are going to school and the metal one is ours. Then I took icing that I had leftover from our sugar cookies, spread it on and let Zane decorate them. Well...I did the eyes and noses and he did most of the mouths. His favorite part was putting the chocolate chips on them because his finger always got a little bit of icing on the end that he HAD to lick off before putting the next chocolate chip on! Quick, easy, and yummy! Once the icing has dried I'm going to cut them like pies and send them to school tomorrow!

As I was mixing them up I was getting a little panicky that I wouldn't have enough and my thoughts wandered to a story Emily Watts relates: Basically, when one of her kids was in kindergarten she had volunteered to bring cookies to the Christmas party and had decided to make sugar cookie drums...only she didn't have a cookie cutter so decided to make her own pattern....which ended up being a little, um, large. And THEN she PIPED on the decorating...and was devastated when the kids didn't stop to admire - just dug in. She had a great point to her story but the memory momentarily freaked me out because I thought that maybe what I had planned was going to end up being more complicated than I wanted it to be. I'm very glad that wasn't the case. And I got a chuckle out of the memory.

Tonight is our ward's trunk or treat...Rhett is having a nap so hopefully he'll be up for lots of fun and Zane has been vibrating ALL day. Hopefully I get some pics!