Parshas Bo: Plague of Darkness

Black and white cookies this week. Simple but delicious!

Parshas Vaeira: the First Seven Makkos

I know I'm a little behind, so let me show you what we've been doing the past few weeks. Two weeks ago we made makkos cupcakes (or makkot, as they say here). It was really cute and the kids absolutely loved doing it. The cupcakes were tie-dye, just to make it more fun.

Here's what we used:

Blood: decorating gel
Frog eyes: marshmallow and chocolate chips
Lice: sprinkles
Wild animals and dying animals: animal crackers, gummy bears
Boils: red jelly beans
Hail: white jelly beans

Anyone for a kinim cupcake?

Parshas Shemos: Basket on the River

This was real hands-on for the kids, and of course lots of fun for me.

The box is made of tea biscuits coated in chocolate, the water is decorating gel tinted blue, and the trees are pretzel rods with buttercream frosting. Jelly bean "rocks" and fruit roll up "blankie". The kids were ecstatic! The sand was put on to cover some holes made by eager fingers.

Parshas Vayeishev: Yosef in the Pit With Snakes

I know this is very simple, but it's a parshah dessert nonetheless! Big Brother Sr. tie-died a T-shirt in school as a ketonet passim; I thought that was really clever.

Parshas Lech Lecha: Like the Stars and the Sand

For this week's parshah we made star cookies, and we sprinkled them with "sand". Even Big Brother Jr. understands why: there are so many stars that we can't even count them!

Here he is rolling out the cookie dough. His older brother was at a friend's house, so he got the be the "star" of the show, without fighting. He really, really likes to eat raw cookie dough and cake batter though, ugh.

I tried out this sugar cookie recipe. It came out excellent- very easy to roll, baked nicely, and tastes good too.  The sand is brown sugar and cinnamon.

Any ideas for next week's parshah dessert? Post in the comments below, I'd love to hear from you.

Parshas Noach: Rain and Rainbows

We've had a rainy week down here, both outdoors and in the house as well! For Parshas Noach and Chodesh Cheshvan I put together a lot of water related foods.

There are so many rainbow ideas floating around Pinterest and Facebook for Parshas Noach, and they're all beautiful. I chose to do something different for a cake, since we had all these other fun rainbow foods. (Honestly, I'm a little scared to try a rainbow cake. I'm just not ready for it yet, maybe one day!) These are what I call Puddle Cupcakes:

I know, I know, the animals aren't supposed to go in the water. But I just could not think of a way to make a teivah out of food, so this was the next choice. The kids helped me with these, and they got a real kick out of it.

BB Sr.'s "pair of giraffes" ("Pair means two, Mommy")

Now you're still wondering where the puddle is. Well....

It's hard to tell in the picture, but there are blue sprinkles in the white batter that make it look like raindrops splashing into a puddle. I also made blue jello with gummy fish, sorry no picture.

I will try to post what I make for the parshah each week. Keep checking!