Cute Summer Flower Cupcake

Don't you love these cute summer flower cupcakes? 

This is how you make them. The quick and easy way is to melt the butter in the microwave and then mix it with the sugar. Add the flower and the baking powder ( or use self rising flower) then the eggs and the salt.Mix all and put in the cupcake maker for 7 to 10 minutes.

If you don't have a cupcake maker preheat the oven on 200 degrees and put them in for 7 - 10 minutes. I used fondant to decorate them. I used a little cup to make the round shapes and used a fondant cutter for the flowers. I just made a little ball on top to finish the flowers.

Ingredients

When using a cupcake maker, the cupcakes won't get really brown.

Search your kitchen and use your imagination for cool decorating ideas and tools.

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Healthy wheatgrass - grow it yourself

Wheatgrass

They say its really healthy...wheatgrass. So i thought I'd give it a try. You can take it as a powder, a pill or the cow way... just eating grass. 

Benefits

I'm not a nutritionist buts here are my findings on the benefits of wheatgrass. Its detoxifying. Lowers blood pressure. It's cleansing. It contains lots of vitamins and minerals. It's an energy booster. And lots more.

How to grow it

Growing wheatgrass is very easy. You can bur the seeds in your local bio-shop. I'm Dutch so they are called 'tarwegraszaad'. 

You just have to take a plastic tray and put some cotton pads in it. Add some water to it. The first day you can add a lot of water. When you tilt the tray it should flow a little. Put the seeds in it. It will take around seven or eight days to grow.  

How to use it

When its fully grown you can juice it or mix it in a smoothie.

Summer Smoothie

I just got into making smoothies. To be honest, at first I didn't really like them. If you make one with vegetables they are hard to drink. Recently I thought I give it a try again. I looked up some recipes and they turned out great. I make them for breakfast quite a lot now. Here is the recipe of the one above:

Ingredients:

• Frozen summer fruit
• 1/2 banana
• Yogurt or almond milk

Mix all the above ingredients in a blender. Easy as that.

Pinteresting: DIY plates

I found this cool idea on Pinterest for kids. The idea is to draw a landscape or something else on the plate and they can colour it in with their food. 

Inspiration from Pinterest.

I bought this 'glass and porcelain pen' from Panduro at a local craft shop. It says: "Clean the surface carefully. Shake the pen. Allow the design to dry for 4 hours. Harden in an oven for 90 min at 160° C. Place in a cold oven and begin timing once the required temperature is reached. Leave to cool in the oven with the door open."

Panduro pen

I made two designs on plain white plates.

It would be fun to 'decorate' them with a salad. Or you can use figures you use for cookies to make fun shapes out of bread or pancakes.