Awesome Easter Ideas

Easter Experience and Sweet Ideas:)

Advance Happy Easter Everyone!

Easter is something that I look forward, the festive celebration, the egg-hunt, and egg decorating is just so much fun bonding moments for the whole family. This year, I'm really excited! because my kids is now at perfect age, were they expresses their excitement and thoughts about Easter, and that makes me so happy. To pump it up to the next level-  Two days ago, I started shopping for my kids Easter egg basket and came up with this Awesome Easter Ideas. I can't wait to share my kiddies Easter basket. Also, I'll be sharing some sweet recipes, tips, and ideas for awesome Easter celebration. Are you excited? Let's go!

Shopping for Easter Basket: I shopped a week before Easter, where mostly are on SALE. Yes! saving money on things you buy is so much FUN.

Tips: Use coupons, rewards cards, and take advantage on store sales and discounted products. Seasonal products like Easter candies, basket and eggs usually go on sale, paired that with coupons. Awesome!

A Perfect Easter Basket: Aside from sweet chocolates and candies that you put on your Easter egg. You can also put some cute little things like hair ties, nail polish, lip gloss, and coins. Make it FUN!

 
My Kids Easter basket in the MAKING:
Now that we got everything we need for Easter Basket. Let's start!
- Lay piece of paper on the bottom of the basket, to avoid Easter grass from falling out. I used two color of shredded paper on mine as my Easter grass. (Blue and White)
- Put a piece or two candies on the each plastic eggs.
-Once the plastic eggs is all filled with candies. It's time to start putting them on the basket.
- Whoala! Easter basket for kiddies is DONE
Tips:
Used travel size lotion, body wash and hair clips to make more fun. Also used your kids favorite CANDIES.:)

Easter Egg-hunt Ideas:

- Invite your family and friends 3-4 weeks before Easter.
- Scatters the eggs before the egg hunt begin. I suggest hide it all over the house, or if you have big backyard that would be great as well. Make it fun and colorful by using different colors of eggs.
- Make the Easter gathering fun, easy and stress free by letting your friends and family bring some dish to share. Yum!
-Enjoy the moment with your family on Easter and have fun watching the kids hunting for their eggs.

Delicious Food that I LOVE :)
Easter celebration can't be complete without delicious food right? I've listed few of my favorites. Check them out! Maybe you'll find something that you want to try this Sunday. Here we go!

Most favorite food on Holy Week for sure Binignet, followed by Suman Malagkit, and then Biko Espesyal. Those are my top three favorite food. How about you? You can also check link below for more awesome and delicous recipe here on my blog.
Favorite Recipe Collections, Bake Goods, and Sweet Treats

 Egg Decorating with Fiora temporary tattoos:

Aside from the most awaited Easter celebration and making my kiddos Easter basket. I'm also very exited when it comes to egg decorating. Yes! this is something that I look forward to this year. Together with my kids, we dye 6 eggs and color them using an egg coloring. I invited my friends to come over to join with our egg decorating to make it more fun and festive for the kids.We used our Fiora temporary tattoos samples to decorate the eggs. Check out my creation below and also you can check other entries at Fiora Facebook page, OR you can simply check using #EggsPressYourself #StayBright.

The whole experience with egg decorating is so much FUN, Especially I got free sample of temporary tattoos from Fiora. ( Thank you, Fiora )

 I hope this Easter blog post inspires you in making your Easter Basket for your family and friends. Also a fun way to be creative with egg hunt ideas. I'm sure you guys are super excited for Easter, so do I, I simply can't wait on Sunday for our Easter celebration at my Aunt Mo's house. Check out some awesome recipes for Easter here on my blog, and  I'll see you in few days for more awesome, fun and cute inspiring blog post.

Have a fabulous Easter everyone!:)

xoxox- Melgie

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Birthday Bash Celebration

My Birthday Celebration! :)

Hello Everyone!

When I started blogging (3 years ago) Its kinda like a tradition that I posted my birthday celebration every year. As you may all remembered my 26th birthday and 25th birthday. So, this year is no different, As I am super excited to share with you all how my birthday went. I'm also be sharing some delicious recipes and ideas that you might want to try on your special day.

 Let's raise our glass and Cheers for another year older (hahaha) Come on! Let's start the birthday food fest!

....Celebration with Lovely Friends....

My birthday celebration started when my friends came over to my house and surprise ME with this delicious food and everything FESTIVE! I have too many pictures on food, that I just selected few to share here on my blog ( foodie lover!) We had Fish Paksiw, Fried Red Snapper, Bolinao, Chicken Adobo, Beef Steak, Binangkal, Cassava Cake, Lemon Pudding, Pansit Bihon & Chocolate Chip Cookies ( takaw ko talaga! hahaha)

I'm so amazed and surprised when my friend Rose made me a tower of delicious cupcake and Red Velvet Cake- it was scrumptious! I can't even believe that I still have room for dessert after pigging out those food mention above. (wink!)

We dance, sing and talked for hours. It was so much FUN!

 .... Dinner Night Out....

My kids gave me a birthday card and hubby as always is super sweet! Saturday, we went out for Double Birthday Dinner Date with my friend Cherry and her hubby @ Old Bag of Nails. I ordered Blackened Cod Fillet with Wild Rice and Broccoli, Hubby got Buffalo Wrap which I think its pretty good. My friend Cherry got Burger ( It was gigantic!) and Matt ( Cherry's hubby) for Fish and Fries. The dinner was pretty good! Then, we continued the celebration and decided to go BOWLING all night!

..... Triple Birthday Celebration with my beloved family....

 I celebrated my birthday with my beloved sister in-law (Kindra) and my mother in-law (Cheri)-It was so fun, festive and amazing! We had the legendary stuff shells ( oh yeah! its scrumptious) Salad, corn and rolls. My mother in-law (Cheri ) made me a chocolate cake with white icing ( which is my favorite. Yum!) and super fun and cute cupcakes. Kindra had yellow cake with chocolate icing and Mom Cheri had a German Chocolate cake. Just imagine yourself surrounded with this sweet treat, not to mention chocolate mint ice cream is within reach.:)

....Fabulous Birthday Gift...

"Best gift ever is my family and my friends whose always there for me. Thank you all for making my birthday GREAT and FUN as always" I love you all!..:)

I can't put into words how thankful I am for having great family and friends and for making my birthday an extra special one, for being so generous as always, for making my birthday as fun as it can be. To all who greeted me offline and online " Thank You" and Cheers!
I hope you enjoy the recipe that I posted here and I'll see you in few days for more fun foodie escapades and recipes. Have great day!

- Sweet Birthday Shoutout to my cousin Lorlyn- Happy Birthday Dai, wishing you all the best in life. Miss you!

xoxox- Melgie

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Holiday Gift Ideas # 2

Inexpensive Holiday Gift Ideas

Hi! Its Wednesday once again and as I promise I'm back with another Holiday Gift Ideas. This week I wanna talk about the inexpensive gift that we could make or we could buy at the store. Holiday season is the busiest day of the year and also the most expensive one. Have notice that when you go to the store, Christmas songs are play it because when you hear Christmas it means giving gifts and you ended up buying stuff not suppose to be on your list, but this week we gonna make something cute and amazing without spending much. This gift ideas are so perfect for our friends, neighbors, teachers and even my kids love this idea. Just be creative on this holiday season and let's transform the boring flour and sugar from our pantry into a delicious treat that everyone will love, the regular apple and orange into cute little basket that can touch someones heart and sending some love and warm this Christmas with personalized coffee mug.  Lets be merry this coming holidays, check out my holiday ideas below....:)

SWEET BAKE GOODS

Tell me who doesn't love bake goods? I made this cassava cake last year for my friends and surely they LOVED it. Also along with this scrumptious cassava cake are coffee mug with hot chocolate on them. You can also make something different like fruit cake, cakes, brownies and cookies. Another one is little fruit pies or just pies..:)

- The IDEA wrap their favorite bake goods in a clear plastic so that they can see clearly whats inside, put ribbons and whola..!!! Happy Holidays! I know! not all of us knows how to bake but Hey! lot of bakery have delicious sweet treat this holiday complete with beautiful box and ready to go. Just simple grab some and bring it to your friends or neighbor house...:)

FRUIT BASKET

 How about a fruit basket complete with your favorite FRUITS? I'm sure your friends and neighbor will gonna love and appreciate what you do. This is so simple you can just put 3 kind of fruits in a basket depend on how fancy you want it to be.. Or you could use a nice bowl or basket whatever you feel like.. 

The IDEA- Buy 3 kinds of fruits, different color and shape and little basket that you think the fruits could fit, wrap it with clear plastic put big red ribbon on top.. WHOLA! 

HOT CHOCOLATE MUG / JAR

I think hot chocolate mug, so far this is the most easy and super inexpensive one, but this is also the most cute and heart warming gift idea. So, if you have friends who love hot chocolate? LIKE ME!!! Oh yeah! this is so perfect or if your friend like Coffee you can totally change it into COFFEE MUG instead.

If you know his/her favorite drink, BUY IT couldn't be that expensive I think. Also on your list is Little Marshmallow,  Chocolate Chips. I'm getting excited right hahahah! and of course the coffee mug of your choice ( green, red and white is perfect holiday color theme) but feel free to get whatever you think she like you can also use JAR

 BRIGHT IDEA- if your using a reusable jar pour the hot chocolate mix, add some chocolate chips and on the top is the marshmallow. Put the lid and seal it tight. Put a nice ribbons and RECIPE TAG

 If your using a MUG put her favorite hot chocolate drink , chocolate chips and marshmallow. Cover the whole thing with clear plastic wrapper. Tie it on the top with ribbons and attached the RECIPE TAG ( below is a recipe tag I made )

CHOCOLATE BARS

This is perfect for everyone! Just simply buy a big chocolate bar. All you have to do is tie the chocolate with your choice of ribbon and attached  with gift tag.

Hope everyone is having fun this week. I'll see you next Wednesday for more holiday gift ideas and I'll be posting also some recipes in few days. See you around!

Spider Man Cake for Birthday Boy!

My Son's Birthday Celebration

Hello! Everyone, getting ready for upcoming holidays? Thanksgiving is like 3 days away, there's gonna be a lot of scrumptious stuff all over the table and don't forget the Turkey! Yum! Although, I'll be working on that day, My mother in-law will gonna pack me some food. I can't wait!! Also, I'm excited to score some good deals this coming Black Friday, I probably gonna pick up some after work, keeping my eye peel to those cute stuff that I want for my kids stuffing stuffer. It seems like most of the stores open at 8 PM Thursday now, little early compare last year. Aside from that you can also get some good deals on Cyber Monday to avoid chaos with other shoppers. 

Aside from excitement of this coming holidays, I'm also beyond excited to share my son's 3rd birthday dinner with family and friends. He usually celebrate his birthday on Thanksgiving but this year kinda is totally different, Yay!. We decided to have like a dinner with family and friends at our place. Got some pizza, ice cream and cake, just very simple celebration. My son is a big fan of super heroes and one of them is Super Man- so that's how this homemade super man cake was made... wink. 

I'll show how easy it is to make this super man cake and pretty sure your kiddies loved them. It's not only you can save money from buying store bought cake, the experience of doing it is priceless, seeing my son's giggle while I'm putting the last touches on the cake is amazing.

Things you'll need:

Cake- I used 2 (8x8 inches pan) vanilla cake

Food Coloring- Black and Red 

Toothpick

Icing- I used store bought 

cake holder

spider man candle

Directions
1.) Bake and cool the 2 round cake in cooling rack. Put the cooled cake on the bottom of the cake holder, put little icing on the middle then stack the other cake on top.
2.) Put the remaining icing on the top, smooth it out using butter knife. Move from the top onto the side of the cake, make sure the everything is cover.
3.) Put the black icing on a pipping bag, if you don't have one just simply use the sandwich bag. That's what I used:) Draw a circle on the middle of the cake, just continue doing it until you reach the end of the cake. Refer the pictures above.
4.) Create the spider web using the toothpick. Start on the middle and just run the toothpick through the cake. Continue doing it until the cake look like a spider web. Refer the photo above.
5.) Top the cake with the spider-man candle. Whola! Spider man cake in no time.:) Put the cake on the fridge until you ready to served them.

When planning of dinner get together or party. I always think about other food to offer for the guest to enjoy. I made cassava cake, my friend Rose brought some delicious cupcake. We also have some chips, clementines and plenty to drink..:)

The main event on this dinner is the Pizza at our favorite pizza place close to our place ( Flyers). He was a super happy birthday boy, indeed!

Pizza varieties we have are ham and mushroom, pepperoni and cheese. We ordered so much pizza until today we still have left over :)
After eating dinner we have have cake and ice cream and the most exciting part.. opening the presents! My little boy was waiting for it all day long. That's how we celebrate my son's 3rd birthday just simple dinner with family and friends.
I would also like to extend my heart warming "Thank You"  to all who greeted my son and for being so generous as always. I love you, all!:)
UPDATE: I'm so Thankful to all of my readers and friends who give me inspiration to write more and explore my sweet journey here on Sweet Cuisinera. Have a Super Sweet Thanksgiving Everyone!

Sweet Week

Sweet Sale!

 

( Bibingka- rice cake )

 It's all started last week when one of my friend asked me if my sweet pastry for sale.She spotted the photo of Monggo Bread that I recently posted on my Facebook.She I asked me if I take orders, I said, No, but I can make you some if you want and that's how everything started. I made her a dozen of Monggo Bread, delivered it to her house and that was my first sale.. ( hahaha ) It's very exciting and I'm so happy after knowing that she liked the bread. I was really thrilled after making 4 more sales to my friends this week, and I'll be making a tray of cassava cake tomorrow for my friend, Rose. I'm enjoying doing it and that's all matter. I'll be posting some recipe's next week and I'm happy to share some photos of the goodies I sold this week. Happy Weekend Everyone:)

                                                       slice of cassava cake

(Bibingka- rice cake bake over banana leaf)