I love baking from scratch, but there are times you really need something quick. I know a lot of us are concerned about the additives and preservatives that our kids eat but we also need quick fixes sometimes. I have an amazing solution that I found last week...Naturally Nora Baking Mixes! All natural ingredients, NO artificial colors/flavors/preservatives, NO hydrogenated oils or trans fats, just lots of love and great ingredients.
We made these adorable Chick Chick Cupcakes (templates and instructions below) using her Surprising Stars Cake Mix and Cheerful Chocolate Frosting Mix and YUM! They were crazy-delicious! You may not have her mixes available in your area, but I found that you can get them on Amazon.
Chick Chick CupcakesIngredients:
Your favorite cupcakes
Chocolate icing (or you could use green)
Candy eyes (click for recipe or just use icing)
Yellow and Orange Candy melts
Chick Template (download and print here)
Wax Paper
Quart freezer ziploc bags
Instructions:
Note: Below is a video tutorial on how to make the chicks, it's easy, I promise!!
Print chick template and tape to countertop. Tape wax paper over template. Put orange candy melts in a microwafe safe bowl and microwave on high for 60 seconds. Stir well and microwave at 10 second intervals until completely melted. Put in ziploc bag and snip a small corner off the end of the bag. Draw the triangles (beaks) and feet. Let dry completely.
Repeat melting instructions with the yellow candy melts. Draw the oval bodies with a few lines on top for feathers. While they are still wet, place two eyes (I always make a huge batch and just keep them in the pantry, we use them all the time!) and a beak on the body and let dry completely.
When set, put a dab of chocolate icing on the cupcake, then gently press two feet into the icing. Take a chick and gently push into the top. Enjoy!
Quick Video Tutorial:
Here is a cute "flock" of chicks that I made on cookie bars for Big C's class party. They were a hit!
203 comments:
Cookie Cookie looks yummy love the chicks:)
Sunny Yellow & Cheerful Chocolate! Yum!
yum! the surprising stars looks fun :)
I know that my son's favorite (and mine too) would be cookie cookie! Looks and sounds yummy!!! :)
I think that cheerful chocolate or cookie cookie looks good! I would love it Shirlene
Alot'a Dots looks perfect!
Cookie Cookie with Vanilla Frosting.
The chicks are so cute!
I agree with Nora's website: Cake DOES make people happy! I can't decide between Cookie Cookie and Alot'a Dots!
Alot's Dots....that one looks the best! Thanks!
A lot of dots looks like fun and my kids would love it!
Alot'a Dots looks like too much fun!
I know our family would LOVE the alot'a dots cake. My girls flip for colorful confections! :)
Cheerful Chocolate. Darling chicks, by the way.
Mmmm - Cheerful Chocolate would cheer me up!
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For my own tastes, I'd go with Cheerful Chocolate. But I am so excited about Sunny Yellow and Alot'a Dots for my daughter, who's allergic to red food dye. (Didja know most yellow cake mix has red food dye in it?!? Crazy!)
Anyway, thank you so much for introducing us to Nora's stuff!
definitely the a lot a dots. i love that cake. i'm excited to know about these mixes!
Surprising Stars looks like so much fun! What great products.
I gotta go with Cookie Cookie cause its new and interesting, but Cheerful Chocolate looks great too.
And the vanilla frosting sounds good.
Stars!!! How fun!!! Both the mix AND the frosting!
I blogged about the giveaway and your darling cupcakes!
All of Naturally Nora's Cakes and Frosting's look Delectable! I think my favorite though would be, Cheerful Chocolate Cake with Cheerful chocolate Frosting, because for a Chocoholic like me, if it ain't Chocolate whats the point! hahahha
Leslie
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The cookie cookie looks the best to me. amsbolda@hotmail.com
Cookie Cookie sounds really good!!! Thanks for sharing!
I'm all about yellow cake mix, so I'm gonna have to vote for Sunny Yellow. :)
I'd love to try the suprising stars. Yummy!
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Gotta love the Cookie Cookie! Yum!
A Year's Worth?!? Sign me up! I'd probably pick the cheerful chocolate or cookie cookie. Yum!
I would have to say sparkling stars as my favorite.
Oooo, the cookie cookie looks fabulous! But the Sunny Yellow is also calling my name!
I have never heard of her products, But I must say that I am so impressed! I hate boxed cake mixes because of all the hydrogenated oils and trans fats.
I just blogged about the giveaway!
http://wantitall4free.blogspot.com/2009/03/fun-giveaway.html
Ohhh, the sunny yellow and cheerful chocolate sounds just divine! Yummy!
CHEERFUL Chocolate says it all... I LOVE chocolate and I love that website. I am going to buy some for my food storage (and hope I win more to add to the ones I buy). Thanks!!! P.S. Adding it to my blog...
I love yellow the best...so Sunny Yellow is for me! I'd love to take a bite!
I love, love, love her ingredient list! The 5 year old in me is still a funfetti girl so her "A Lot of Dots" is my top pick!
Those look like amazing cake mixes! I would love to have them, my kiddos love cupcakes. (love your chick cupcakes by the way) I would pick Cheerful Chocolate or Cookie Cookie.. but then the Surprising Stars looks good to me too. I think I would like them all, it was a hard choice.
Mmmm, cookie cookie!
We love cake and they all sound so healthy and good! Alot'a Dots I'm sure would be our favorite!
Ooo, free cake mix for a month! I have a load of cake decorating materials that really need to be put back into use.
Cookie cookie looks really good, and then there's always chocolate. You can't go wrong with chocolate!
I want those two extra entries! I'll post tomorrow about the products, contest, and your blog.
I think I am going to have to go with Cookie Cookie on this one. Combine my 2 favs...cookies and cake!
It would really depend on my mood =) Usually it would be all cheerful chocolate; though the sunny yellow cake with cheerful chocolate frosting would be nice, too. The cookie cookie with cheerful chocolate frosting sounds interesting, too--I'm wondering about the texture... Of course, for those days when you wanna feel like a kid, the alotsa dots cake & frosting combo sounds fun!
Cookie Cookie sounds good to me.
I think I would love the cookie cookie with the cheerful chocolate frosting; yum!
We would need ALotta Dots! Sprinkles all the way, baby! How fun!!
Would love the Cheerful yellow cake with the Alot a Dots frosting! Yummy.
I'd have to say the surprising stars is my favorite! Always looking for something that's good for us and good tasting! Thanks for the offer.
Kirsten
Alot'a Dots cake with Alot'a Dots frosting....mmmmmm
cheerful chocolate! oh yes! chocolate.
I think the cookie cookie cake mix looks yummy! I would use the cheerful chocolate frosting!
Cookie Cookie looks delicious to me!
Alright, I just posted about this site and the giveaway! (Maybe some of my friends who read it will enter as well!)
Cookie cookie cake mix please
c-c-c-cold canadian choosing Cheerful Chocolate!
I'm going to have to say Cookie Cookie...but they all look delish!!!
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I know my kids would go nuts over Lots a Dots! I love that these are all natural! Beautiful Chick Chick cupcakes!
I like Surprising Stars! Very cute!
Sunny Yellow & Cheerful Chocolate!
The Cheerful Chocolate looks great!
A Lot of Dots! We love anything with sprinkles here!
YUM, Cookie cookie with cheerful chocolate for us please!!
CUTE chicks!
I have kids so I think we'd enjoy the Alot'a Dots the most! They all look yummy.
I blogged about your giveaway at fantasticfind.blogspot.com! Thanks for letting me know about Naturally Nora.
Cookie cookie would be delicious for Miss S.'s birthday!
Alot'a Dots would be my cake of choice.
Cheerful Chocolate!!!
Cheerful chocolate of course!
That cookie cookie looks delicious! Yum!!
Cute Chicks!
Cheerful Chocolate for me and Alotta Dots for my little girl.
I am excited to try these mixes.
Thanks
The Surprising Stars sound suprising! But I think the Cookie Cookie looks really yummy too. Thanks for the fabulous giveaway.
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Cokie cookie and a lot a dots both look so yummy. I love that there is no "enriched" in the ingredients section. Hooray for healthy!
I'm usually partial to chocolate...but the Surprising Stars mixes sound interesting!!
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Alot'a Dots looks fun!
I also love baking from scratch..but keep a box or two of cake mixes on hand. :)
Chickcakes are tooooooo cute!! Perfect for Easter.
What a GREAT give away! My email address is in my blog column.
I love the look of the Alot'a Dots mix! I think it would be a real hit with my kids... and probably my husband too!
Oh the cookie cookie looks GOOD !!! What a great idea!
Cookie Cookie and Alot'a Dots!! I'm feeling a sweet craving coming on...
I think the "Surprising Stars" sounds adorable and TASTY! YUM!
Cheerful Chocolate! of course.
I know I'd love Alot'a Dots!
Thanks for hosting this awesome giveaway!! :D
Definitely Cookie Cookie with Vanilla Frosting- yum!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Hmmm...either cookie cookie or a lot of dots
surprising stars and cookie cookie are at a tie for my favorite!! yum!! this sounds amazing!
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This contest looks so yummy! The cheerful chocolate looks divine, thanks!
I think, surprising stars, but cheerful chocolate always sounds good. I won the Chocolate cookoff in the Hilliard Ward Chili/Choc competition this weekend and thought of you. If only I'd have made your Mayan cupcakes . . .
I'm in. Cheerful chocolate, because, well...Chocolate really does make me cheerful!
I'm a sucker for the dots! Love 'em in the cake and in the frosting!
Sunny Yellow is a classic!
I would have to try the lots a dots one!
alots dots looks yummy.
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cheerful chocolate all the way. I'm blogging about her too. So cool.
Lovin Alot'a Dots.This would make my daughter HAPPY!
CHEERFUL CHOCOLATE!!!! I suppose we need other flavors so I'll share with others, but as for me it's chocolate.
I think I will pick surprising stars because I have never seen star shapes in a cake mix before! Fun!
I like "Alot'a Dots" because my 3 year old girl would go crazy for that!
Hmmmmm...they all look good. I'd say cookie-cookie though!
It's cake so all of them sound wonderful! But the Alot'a Dots sounds tasty and fun :)
Alot'a Dots since my girls love sprinkles in their cake
I just posted about the giveaway on my blog. Hopefully some of my friends will visit and enter as well!
Surprizing Stars with Cheery Chocolate frosting sounds yummy.
I'm partial to chocolate but I think my kids would have fun with the stars.
YUM for cheerful chocolate:)
-Madalina
duhlicious.com
Cookie Cookie!
The chick cupcakes are too cute!
Sunny Yellow, it is the most versatile. Your chicks are cute Mandy.
Cheerful Chocolate wins the day! I love the fact there is no trans fats! Let's make cake.
Cookie Cookie sounds like it would be the favorite around here!
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Cookie, cookie with chocolate frosting! YUM
Hi, thanks for offering this giveaway! I think my favorite would be the Chocolate. Plain chocolate is always great and then you can add to it for something a little different!
I have to go with the Cookie Cookie flavor. yummy!
Cookie Cookie looks so yummy!
Your chick chick cupcakes are just way too adorable...and who doesn't want a years supply of cake mix. AND...after all - you did use my favourite 4 letter word.
I'd love to try the Cookie Cookie flavor!
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alota dots cake with some alota dots frosting..i would alota like that! LOL THANKS!
i follow you :-)
My favorite flavor would be: Cheerful Chocolate
JD
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Cheerful chocolate frosting sound wonderful right now, I'm pregnant.
Alota Dots & Alota Dots for my big kid of a husband & my happy cake eater of a 2 year old...I'm a happy girl with chocolate so Cheerful Chocolate for this mom! Oh how I looooove natural things for my family! I'm so happy about it I blogged about it! THANX!!!
cheerful chocolate please!
The Alot's Dots and Cheerful Chocolate look great!
My girls would like the suprising stars!!!1
cookie cookie looks prety good to me, the chicks ae adorable btw.
I'd love to test out the stars cake. I'm a cake decorator and I think those would be fun.
I like the surprising stars. It looks tasty and so cute.
I would like to try cookie cookie cake. it look so yummy!!
Cheerful Chocolate...mmmmm CHOCOLATE!
That's super awesome!
I always loved Funfetti, so I would say "Alotta Dots" would be my fave!
First off you rock! Those are the coolest I've ever seen, I wish I could do that and make it so easy like you did ;).
Cheerful Chocolate looks yummy :)
I would love Surprising Stars or Cookie Cookie. I'm always up for any kind of cake mix, though :)
For my family it would have to be the chocolate cake and the chocolate frosting as well.
Cookie Cookie would be my family's favorite and just love your little chicky cupcakes!
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The Cookie Cookie sounds so good, especially with Cheerful Chocolate icing. Yum!
mommastaci33(at)yahoo(dot)com
surprising stars looks good
yzgirl4[at]verizon[dot]net
I think the Alot'a Dots frosting mix sounds yummy!
Pam Bennett-
I like the Alot'a Dots: looks fun and festive!
I blogged about the cupcakes, and how I wish I had the patience to make the cute, cute ducks!
Pam Bennett
Cheerful Chocolate
The Cookie Cooke one looks so inventive. I really want to try it! You can pick me to win, kay?
Yummy!! I'd love to try the Alota dots flavor, my kids agree with me!
They all sound great but I think I'd try the Sunny Yellow first as I can do more with it. Thanks for introducing her website!
i would love to try surprising stars sounds yummy thanks
Alot'a dots with Surprising Stars please!!
Cheerful Chocolate!!!
Cookie Cookie! :D
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I'd love to try the Cheerful Chocolate.
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Alot'a Dots...looks yummy (& fun!)
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I'd love to try the cheerful chocolate.
The Cookie Cookie sounds great! Thanks!
I tweeted your giveaway!
http://twitter.com/MaddyRu/statuses/1453017556
Tweet #2
Always go with the chocolate, mix OR frosting!
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I like the Alot a Dots, it gives it alittle crunch
I like the Alot a dots. I love a little crunch.
I had no idea they had mixes like this. All those preservatives give me the worst head aches so I don't eat a lot of things because of that so these would let me have a yummy treat once and a while with out the head ache, thank you so much.
After thinking about them since I last comments, I decided to go ahead and purchase some from Amazon! I am a cake decorator and I think it will be fun to use them. I got the Surprising Stars and am really looking forward to getting them!
the cookie cookie looks cool, but i totally love how cute all the names are like sunny yellow.
Those are some unique flavors...my pick is for cookie cookie! Sounds delish!
Cookie cookie...YUMMY YUMMY. Stoppin' by from Sits... Great Giveaway! :)
Definitely have to go with Cheerful Chocolate! I love her names for the different types of cakes! Stopping by from SITS!
A lot of dots is always a birthday classic in my house. Thanks for introducing us to such a great product.
Cookie Cookie sounds yummiest to me!
I love all the names of her mixes, My favorite would be Cookie Cookie but the kiddos would love A Lot of Dot's.. Thanks for the terrific giveaway.
Wow...cheerful chocolate without a doubt! YUM! My kids would go nuts if we won a year's supply of CAKE!
I'm going to have to go with Alot'a Dots! Yum!
Cheerful Chocolate strikes my fancy.
Cookie Cookie tickles my fancy! Your chicks are too cool.....
Alota Dots looks like it's right up my alley! (I've always been a fan of the "Funfetti" doughboy brand.. and this appears to be its much healthier counterpart :D)
mmmm!
oh my - ANYTHING named Cookie Cookie sounds fabulous!
Wow, they all look so good! Cookie Cookie does sound Cooky so I'll go with that!
What a great contest! I'm such a plain Jane so I'll have to go with Sunny Yellow. Plus plan old yellow cake mix is so versatile.
Cheerful Chocolate!!! YUMMY. Can't lose with chocolate.
Well of course I would buy the Cheerful Chocolate.....I love chocolate.....but the Surprising Stars has me curious. And look!.....they sell their mixes in the Ocean State Job Lot down in Middletown. I will have to run down there any get some.
And speaking of YUM!....that Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge Cake recipe of yours....this is a must try for me. Thanks! :-D
Hope your weekend is beautiful.
Alot'a Dots looks good!
Those are so cute!
Cheerful Chocolate would be my fav...not the hubs fav but mine, lol!
My mouth is watering for the Cookie Cookie
Cookie Cookie!!
They all looked so good, but I'm a chocoholic so I would have to choose cheerful chocolate
My kids love sprinkles, so I'd have to go with Alot'a Dots.
I like the classic yellow cake and white icing. I didn't know about this product previously. Thanks so much for sharing!
I blogged about your site (love your tip for high cupcake frosting and also your corn-on-the-cob cupcakes) and Naturally Nora mixes. My post is here. Sunny Yellow looks great, and very versatile, too.
I've always loved confetti cakes, so I'd have to go with alot'a dots as my fav. Yum!
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Cookie Cookie!
your cupcakes are so cute! Alot'a dots looks so cheerful and fun.
Stopping by from SITS.
I'd like the Cheerful Chocolate but my kids would fight me to no end on the Cookie Cookie.
Hi...the cookie cookie looks perfect! Your widdle chicks are soooooo cute! ty for the ideas...good idea u have going here..keep em coming..ty for the chance, Cher
My boys would enjoy the Alot'a Dots cake mix. How fun!
I want lots and lots of dots. That looks delicious!
The Cookie Cookie looks interesting. And there's always my favotire stand-by: CHOCOLATE!
Lately I have been CRAVING Chocolate cake. I'm SOOOO wanting that flavor!
Those chicks are so cute! I think I'll try these sometime this week so that I have something to bring to the family Easter party.
Surprising Stars looks like a winner to me. (actually, they all look yummy but you said to pick one!!)
What adorable cupcakes!! I love the Cheerful chocolate!
I've seen these in my quest for dairy free for Little Miss (in fact, I was just reminded by this that I need to go mix up some dairy free frosting for a cookie decorating party tomorrow!), but I've yet to try them. I'd love to try the cookie cookie ones. Very cool!
Sunny Yellow and the Lotsa Dots sound good!
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I blogged here #2
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I love natural stuff! I came to your blog by SITS
I'd like the Alota dots cake mix! it looks so springy and cheery!
DEFINITELY the CHOCOLATE!!!!!
I am twittering about your contest right now!
www.twitter.com/uncoveringfood
A lota dots looks yummy :)
Sunny Yellow cake with Alot'a Dots frosting sounds yummy. Or maybe Alot'a Dots cake with Extraordinary Vanilla frosting. MmmmMmmm, cake!
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Cookie Cookie looks yummy. I mean, how can you go wrong with chocolate cookies?
Cookie Cookie looks so good! I mean how could you go wrong with something that is a cake and with cookies!
cheerful chocolate fer sure :-)
Sunny Yellow! I love a yellow cake!
Sunny Yellow!!
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