{Unique Easter Egg Ideas}

I tell you...every year I'm amazed at what the Easter Egg Companies have come up with by way of new, creative ways to decorate eggs.  You no longer just blindly use the wax candle, dunk your eggs in dye and wait to see what the heck your drawing ends up looking like.  Now-days every egg is a fabulous masterpiece to be adored and coveted and, in my house, judged, awarded, and celebrated. 

It may be hard to compete with some of those boxed egg decorating kits, but here are a few creative (some simple and some not) ways to decorate your eggs this year.

{...the natural way...}

http://twomenandalittlefarm.blogspot.com/2011/04/dyeing-easter-eggs-natural-way.html

{...with Kook-Aid...} 

http://www.heyjenrenee.com/2011/04/kool-eggs.html

{...with leaves...} 

http://www.tipjunkie.com/easter-egg/

{...marbled...} 

www.themetapicture.com

{...with monograms...} 

http://lilluna.com/monogram-easter-eggs/

{...with edible glitter...} 

http://www.recipe.com/sparkling-easter-eggs/

{...with stencils...} 

http://www.homemadesimple.com/en-us/crafts/pages/not-your-average-eggs.aspx

{...with yarn...} 

http://sublimeonadime.blogspot.com/2012/03/easter-eggs.html

{April Specials!!}

Vanilla Cupcakes
Vanilla cupcakes with your choice of icing flavor and color
{ $15 per Dozen }

Lemon Cupcakes
Lemon cupcakes with buttercream icing
{ $15 per Dozen }

{Mason Jar Memories}

Let me preface this by saying...I LOOOOOOVE mason jars!  LOVE them!  I cannot think of anything cute on earth that doesn't look even more super awesome in a mason jar.  Nothing...name something...I'll wait...tap, tap, tap... see...you can't think of anything either. 

I have used them for everything from vases at a wedding to beverage containers for a glass of lemonade,  to tip jars when I bartend, to cake in a jar that I served at a baby shower, to something to hold random buttons, safety pins, bobby pins, etc. 

But this idea from ohcrafts.net is so cute and useful and adorable!  You go to a concert, you have the tickets, do you throw them away?  Do you stash them in the junk drawer until you "figure out what to do with them?"  (Yeah...been there, done that...you never figure it out).  Do you just trash them and risk the chance of forever losing the memory of the night you and your bff from elementary school danced like a rock star for two hours straight?  Do you push the night that you and 7 of your girlfriends and your MOM sat third row at the New Edition concert wearing home made Candy Girls tee shirts and finangled your way past a HUGE security guard named Phil and made your way back stage and met the men that have had you swooning since age 7 into the back of your mental photo album, only to bring it out when "Cool it Now" happens to come on the radio??? HECK to the NO!  (OK that one got a little personal...)

Not when you have mason jars!!  Take a pic (and actually PRINT IT, don't just post it on Facebook or Shutterfly), type up a cute note about the event, and stash it along with the tickets and any other memorabilia in a mason jar and put it on display!  SO CUTE!!

{ Random }

We at DC Sweet Treats scour the internet daily to see what adorable, quirky, fun, useful, non-useful things we can discover.  This just falls into the quirky category. 

And on that note...stay tuned for April's specials!

{S'More Love}

I spent the weekend at a nice resort on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Upon arrival, I was given a voucher for a free S'mores kit to roast at the evening camp fire.  I'm far removed from being a kid but...that pretty much excited me like it would an 8 year old girl scout.  S'MORESSSSSSSSSS!!!

This brings me to today's post.  I've seen S'mores kits as wedding favors, baby shower favors, and tokens of thanks after various events.  Such an inexpensive gift can bring total delight and giddiness to the recipient...especially if it's ME...without breaking the bank.  Here are a few cute ideas I've seen around the web for gifting a fabulous S'mores kit.

{...individually...}

http://www.stylishgiving.com/2009/04/smores-kits.html

{...for the group...}

http://www.blog.tealbirdconcepts.com/post/6910530674/fourth-of-july-smores-favors

{...on a stick...}

http://southernbellejm.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-about-this.html

{...in a box...}

http://athome.kimvallee.com/2010/11/diy-hot-cacao-chocolate-favors-and-smores-kits/

{...in a jar...}

http://daisychainae.blogspot.com/2009/12/smore-kits-sealed-delivered.html

{...with a label...}

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82660936/smores-party-favor-bag-topper-backyard

{...s'mores a-plenty...}

http://www.oh-lovely-day.com/2010/01/diy-friday-smores-kits.html

{...in a bag...}

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Smores-Wedding-Favors-Yum/

{March Specials!!}

We at Sweet Treats are green this month...and no it's not from envy.  We are excited about a month of shamrocks and Bailey's, and we are also thrilled to announce our March specials!

Irish Cupcakes 
Guinness chocolate cake with a Baileys butter cream icing
{ $18 per Dozen }

Bailey's Irish Cream Bundt Cake
Irish Cream bundt cake with a rich & delicious Irish Cream glaze
{ $20 }

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Icing

Double layer vanilla cake with chocolate butter cream icing

{ $20 }

{Local Girl Makes It to the Oscars}

Leigh Lambert, a local baker in Takoma Park, Maryland will have a new claim to fame on her resume.  On February 26th, she will become a baker to the stars! 

Sorta. 

Non-winners at this year's Oscars will get a delicious sweet treat in their goody bag...Ms. Lambert's Starlet Brownie.

What makes the Starlet such a coveted treat for the people of Hollywood?  Chocolate Pop Rocks!  Yep...you read right.  The candy we loved so much as a child in chocolate fashion sits atop a delicious brownie to create what Ms. Lambert describes as an "effervescent personality" that's like "eating chocolate champagne."  WOW! 

The good news is that this amazing treat is not limited to celebs...you can place an order for The Starlet, in addition to her other sweets offerings from the Naughty Bits Brownies website.

To hear more about Leigh Lambert's story, see her interview on WJLA's Wesbite.