Bunny Pancakes Tutorial

Recipe via I Heart Naptime _ http://iheartnaptime.blogspot.com 

I came across these cute pancakes on Jenni Price Illustration few days ago and asked Jenni if she’d like to share them with us. I think they are absolutely adorable. She has so many fun ways to make pancakes-go check her out!
These bunny pancakes are perfect for spring and are super fun for your kids!
This recipe makes about three bunny pancakes depending on the size that you make them. The bunnies in the photo are sized around 4”x5 ½.

Supplies
-Griddle or large skillet
-Pam Cooking Spray
-Large mixing bowl
-Water
-Krusteaz Buttermilk Pancake Mix (the just add water mix)
-Electric mixer
-Two Condiment Squirt Bottles (can be found at Walmart)
-Red Food Coloring
-Paper Towels
-Spatula
-Spoons for mixing
-Candy (chocolate chips, red M&Ms)You had better taste the candy to make sure it's good!
-Measuring Cup

Get out your large bowl and mix with a spoon 1 cup plus 1-2 Tablespoons of pancake batter with ¾ cup of water. You want your batter thick enough to “draw” with but not too much where it wont squeeze out of the squirt bottle. Grab your electric mixer and stir until it's well blended. If you have too many lumps, they will clog up your squirt bottle.
Pour 1/3 cup of batter slowly into one of the condiment squirt bottles. This will be your white color.
Put 7 drops of red food coloring into the remaining batter (there should be about 2/3 cup left) and stir with a spoon until the batter is pink.

Pour the pink batter slowly into the other squirt bottle. Make sure and have paper towels handy to clean up any drips.

Next, spray your griddle with cooking spray but do not turn it on yet.

Step One: Draw a circle with the pink batter.
Step Two: Draw bunny ears with the pink batter.
Step Three: Using the white batter, draw the inside of the ears and the mouth area.
Step Four: Turn on your griddle to the lowest setting (between 200-225 degrees) and let the outlines cook.

Wait until they seemed puffed up before continuing. These cooked outlines keep the batter from spreading out so that the shape stays in place.

Step Five: Fill in the bunny with the pink batter as shown in the photo.
Step Six: Using the white batter now, fill in the remaining outlines as shown in the photo. Wait to flip the bunny until the batter is bubbly and looks mostly cooked.

Decorate your bunny pancakes with chocolate chip eyes and M&M's for little noses. You can let your kids have fun with this part. They might even want to try different candy colors for noses or raisins for eyes.

Happy Bunny Pancake Making!

Hot Cross Buns

Recipe via RS class

Dissolve:
1 cup lukewarm water
1 tsp sugar
3 TBSP yeast

1 1/3 cups milk - heat to lukewarm
1 cup butter
1 1/3 cup lukewarm water
1 1/3 cups sugar
Beat 6 eggs(for glaze need 1 egg white so throw extra egg yolk into 6 eggs and set aside egg white)

10 - 12 cups flour
Add to flour:
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp allspice

For fruit of choice:
Raisins or currants
Green and red cherries -
450 gram size - fancy mixed fruit (deluxe fruit mix does not have the bitter peel)

Cut fruit up small - too big of chunks or too much fruit will make dough heavy and won't rise nicely
To milk mixture add 3- 4 cups flour ** (before adding yeast - never let the yeast touch the shortening
Then add yeast, half of flour, eggs,
Last of flour with 3 tsp salt added to it
Beat till smooth and knead
Rise till double - punch down - rise again
Separate into 6 portions - 12 buns per portion - 72 buns

To form bun:
Make scope of hand - rolling and tucking bun into a smooth ball - do not use too much flour on counter top as you want a bit of stick - do not handle dough too much

Put on pans and brush with glaze - beat 1 egg white with 1 tsp water
Cover with plastic garbage bag and let rise till double.
Bake @ 325 for 2 minutes

Cool and pipe butter icing on with pastry tube or use a cream cheese icing:
1 cup butter
2 cups icing sugar
1 - 8oz cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla