First Time Mom and Losing It

I can not say enough how much we love to celebrate the holidays. Things are so much more fun when you have a child that truly enjoys getting treated extra special. Our holidays always starts with a special breakfast, something fun to wear in our hair and something fun on our t-shirts. Later on we will have a festive snack and then for Easter, the opening of the baskets starts.

I love starting every holiday with a festive breakfast. It almost always includes a decorated pancake. I thought it would be fun to bake the pancakes in the oven using these silicone egg shaped trays. We added fresh strawberry puree to make the pancake eggs pink and then drizzled on some melted white chocolate. My daughter had fun decorating the pancake eggs with Easter sprinkles and candy.


We always dress for the holiday and the easiest way is to decorate a t-shirt. I love using wax paper as stencils to quickly paint on a cute design. You can do a search for whatever you want and the word "stencil" and the possibilities are endless. Since my daughter loves glitter I decided to use glitter glue and glitter in place of the fabric paint. A cute little pompom completed the design.


To go along with the shirt I made a super simple bunny ear headband. I made the headband black so that it would blend in with my daughter's hair. She loved how fluffy they were. It was so comfortable that she left it on all day.


Every toddler & preschooler I know is obsessed with those Kinder surprise eggs. Since they are banned in the US I decided to make my own with some safe toys inside. It was amazingly easy to do and my preschooler thought they were the real thing.


Since my daughter is old enough to craft with me she helped me decorate some pudding cups. We made them look like little girls dressed in Easter dresses.

I love making my daughter a special breakfast on any holiday like my heart and love shaped pancakes. Since I got those silicone egg molds to make my DIY Kinder Surprise Eggs, I decided to put them to use again and make some pancakes out of them.


I wanted the eggs to be pink so I took about 3/4 cup of chopped fresh strawberries and placed it into my mini blender and blended away until I got a nice puree. I took some cheesecloth and placed it into a strainer and poured the puree through to catch all of the seeds and chunky bits.

Since I used a complete pancake mix I used two thirds of the strawberry puree and one third water for the liquid. My box instructions called for 3/4 cup of water so I added 1/2 cup of strawberry puree and 1/4 cup of water. Mix and let the pancake batter rest for at least 5 minutes.


Take the silicone mold and place onto a metal sheet pan. Spray the egg molds with some oil and pour the strawberry pancake batter in. Place in the oven at 350 degrees and cook until the pancakes are cooked through. Mine took about 25 minutes.


While the pancake eggs are cooking I melted about 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips. Place the melted chocolate into a plastic baggie and cut the tip of one of the corners. Take the pancake eggs out of the oven and let cool slightly for about 5 minutes. Pop out the egg pancakes out of the mold and place flat side down on a plate. Drizzle the chocolate on top to decorate the pancakes like an Easter egg. Add some Easter sprinkles and bunny and carrot candies. (optional)




Sprinkle some unsweetened coconut flakes to the bottom of the plate and place the eggs on top to serve.

If you have a toddler you probably know what Kinder Surprise eggs are. They are these hollow chocolate eggs that have surprise toys inside of them. My daughter discovered them on YouTube and had been hooked on watching them. I have to admit that I get caught watching them too sometimes!

I wanted to find some for my daughter but then realized that they are banned in the US. The reasoning is that the US has a ban of toys being embedded into candy. My creative gears started turning and I decided to attempt to make some for my daughter as a special surprise on Easter.


I bought some silicone egg molds, semisweet chocolate chips and white chocolate chips. I purchased some really small toys to go inside the eggs and got some foil to wrap around the eggs. I wanted the eggs to look legit to a toddler so I created a printable that you can wrap around the eggs.

The first step is to melt the semisweet chocolate and the white chocolate in separate bowls. I used a double boiler to melt the chocolates. I took a silicone brush and brushed a layer of semisweet chocolate onto the egg molds. I put it into the fridge and let it harden. Then I repeated the steps one more time for a total of two layers. Repeat the steps one more time with the white chocolate.



While the eggs where hardening for the last time I took out some aluminum foil and cut it into  "9 by 7 " rectangles. I printed out the wraps and cut them out.


Then I took the eggs out of the fridge and popped them out of the molds. I took a small frying pan and heated it up a little and turned off the heat. I put the toy in one of the halves and then took the other half and put it cut side up in the pan so the edges could melt a little. I took the two halves of the egg and placed them together to seal. I put them back in the fridge to harden the seal.



Finally I took the foil and wrapped it around the completed egg. Then I took the printed wrap trimmed the top bottom and sides to fit perfectly and taped it around.