Recent projects

The last few months have been pretty busy for us around here. My daughter is in preschool this year, my hubby works pretty long hours, and I've been getting more and more orders thanks to all of you! I thought I'd take a few minutes to post some of my latest projects.

These roller skates were for a friend's little girl's birthday bash at a roller rink. The zebra is a bit tedious to pipe, but I absolutely love the way it looks with these bright colors! They are also covered in edible glitter (which is hard to see in these pictures).

 

I have two little girls that keep my life full of sparkle, tutus, and pink, pink, pink! It gave me a bit of a challenge to create these Rescue Heroes cookies for two little boys. I made 2 dozen fire engines, some logos with metallic detail, and some personalized badges with names and ages. The badges are also dusted with silver luster to give them a realistic shine.  A good friend of mine did the cake and I can't wait to see them together!

This set of wedding dresses was created for my cousin's bridal shower. I wasn't able to be there, but I sent these with my mom. My four year old daughter is set on being a fashion designer when she grows up, so she helped me design these gowns. I absolutely LOVE doing dress cookies and creating my own designs out of frosting!!!

My sister-in-law, Diane, loves tea...tea cups, tea pots, anything tea. When I was marrying her wonderful little brother she and her family gave me a beautiful tea party bridal shower and an absolutely gorgeous tea cup and saucer that are now on display in my kitchen. 

A few years ago she found this adorable set of cookie cutters and sent them to me. I recently got inspired by this new brush embroidery technique and knew I wanted to try it out on her tea set.  I love the way they turned out and how great this technique looks on them.

Pirate treasure

This cake was so much fun to make! I loved watching it come to life after each step was finished.  It turned out even cuter than I had planned! I made the decorations out of my vanilla almond sugar cookies, butter cream icing, and chocolate candy melts.

 

These cookies are some of my all time favorites! As you may know, I am a sucker for sprinkles. I have a rather large collection, but my favorites are the pearls, sparkles, and edible diamonds. The treasure chest cookie gave me the opportunity to use them all at once!  As for the treasure map, I used royal icing as a base and did the details with edible ink markers.  Love how they all turned out!

A round of golf with a guest decorator

This week I had an order for a golf themed retirement cake. Seeing as how I know absolutely nothing about golf, I called in a guest decorator to give me some tips. Thank God for big brothers!!! I got the cake covered and he helped me with the size, shape, colors, and placement of each detail. Thanks, Drew!!!

Angry Birds in my kitchen!

Christmas in the kitchen

Hope you had as wonderful a Christmas as we did! As always, it was a busy season for baking around here. Not only am I filling orders, but we always have a few days of baking and decorating with my mom and my little girls. Here are few highlights...

 (My mom and the girls getting started)

 (Me and my June bug mixing up some dough)

 (Proof that when baking with kids flour can end up just about anywhere)

 My sweet Autumn and I cutting out some Christmas shapes. She LOVES baking, cooking, and decorating and I'm sure will be helping me out when she's older!)

 (Done!)

 

(Even Tinsel, our elf, got in on the cookie action this year. He stole this one while we were asleep)

Spreading holiday cheer with a few extra sprinkles

The holidays are right around the corner and it's time to start baking! Please contact me to place your holiday cookie orders. Wrapped cookie baskets make great teacher gifts (Sunday school teachers, too)! Below are a few of my past Christmas designs.

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to take pictures of all the cookies I made last year and I'm kicking myself for it now! These are just a few samples and some shots of the holiday fun around our house at Christmas!

 My wonderful 4 year old, who tries her hardest to at least get SOME frosting onto the cookies!

 My adorable 2 year old (1 here)...who doesn't quiet get it yet...or does she?! ;)

 

 I caught her eating frosting right out of the bag, so we made up the rule, "if it gets on your finger, you can lick it"...I think she took this a step further!

 

Christmas cookies for Santa...I love spending time in the kitchen with my girls! She's a pro already!

Bed of roses

My new favorite cake! Thanks to iambaker, I found this amazing new design and had to try it. This would be a gorgeous multi-tiered wedding cake, don't you think?

Underneath those adorable roses were 4 layers of delicious red velvet with cream cheese butter cream.  The best part about this cake is how easy it was! I am hoping I get an order for it again soon, I can't wait to make more!