Brown and Blue Cookies

These yummy cookies were made for a funeral :(

Easter Egg Stravagance Cake Class

The week before Easter I had a fun little get together with my aunt, my grandma and my daughter! We made Easter Cakes!!! We had sooo much fun, laughing and chatting with each other! We all made a few mistakes in the execution of our cakes, but the end result was some pretty tasty takes that didn't look too bad either!!! Well, I do have to admit, I helped my daughter with the baking of her cakes and cookies and accidentally burned one of her cakes, some of it fell off in the oven and was burning on the bottom lol! So, the end result was that some of the cookies tasted a little like burned cake lol! My family all thought that was pretty funny :)


This is my grandma decorating her cake!

My grandma's finished cake - she took a new approach to the cookies and put one on each side of the sucker stick - she covered the edge with buttercream frosting - the end result was an eXtReMeLy heavy cookie on a stick - but we did learn that candy melts can hold quite a bit of weight :)


This is my aunt Peggy decorating her cake.


My Aunt Peggy and her decorated cake :)

Ashlie frosting her cake!

Ashlie's final cake! Not too bad for only being 9!

Happy Birthday Ezra!

Little cookies I made for my nephews birthday at preschool!

Happy Birthday Cookies

These are sugar cookies we made for my nephew's 4th birthday.

Winter Cupcake Flavors

I thought it was time to come up with some fun new flavors for the Christmas Season. Of course we had to have a chance to sample so hopefully you were able to make it to my ornament party or the Holiday Open House a couple of weeks ago to sample these new favorites!

I saw these adorable little cuppies in an article and had to try them out for myself. It is just a cupcake (any flavor) with buttercream frosting mounded on the top and then smoothed out. Then, while the frosting is still fresh, sprinkle it with sugar crystals. It looks like a giant snowball. Then I made sugar cookies using miniature cutters, decorated them with royal icing and stuck one on top of each "snowball"! Such a festive little cuppie is sure to bring joy to all of your holiday gatherings!




The cute little cuppies in the front are Hot Chocolate Flavored! It's just like home made hot chocolate (you know the kind that Grandma used to make) but in a cupcake!





These yummy little things are Peppermint Flavored! I couldn't decide which flavor cupcake so I tried it out 3 ways :) We had chocolate cupcake with Peppermint buttercream, Vanilla cupcake with Peppermint Buttercream, and a Peppermint Cupcake with Peppermint Buttercream. The most popular seemed to be the chocolate cupcake with peppermint buttercream!

National Emergency Nurse's Week

This is National Emergency Nurse's Week so I made some scrub top sugar cookies to share with all of the nurses in the Emergency Room.

Father's Day

I found the cutest idea on Bakerella's Blog!!! I was dying for a reason to make these cute little hamburgers and french fries and my husband provided the perfect excuse, he had to work on Father's Day so I decided to make them to take for all of the other dads who had to work too.

This was quite the task once I got into it. I didn't really think it would be that intensive but there are a lot of little steps. Luckily I only made 14 of them or else I would probably still be here doing it.

I think they turned out adorable and I would definitely make them again, and in fact you could make them for any occasion just by changing the wording!





The first thing I did was make the brownies. So easy, I just used a boxed mix and made it according to the package directions. That was a little weird for me. After they were done I just left them in the pan to cool.



While the brownies were baking I started working on the "french fries". Once again I used Betty Crocker's package mix of sugar cookie dough using the "cookie cut out" variation. A couple of things I learned with this step were that my french fries were too long. I used about half the batch of dough to roll out at a time. I left it fairly thick which turned out good but I left my uncooked french fries about 4" long and they should have been about 2" long. I ended up breaking a bunch of the cooked ones in half so they fit better. When I brought them out of the oven I sprinkled them with sugar while they were still warm and kind of rubbed it in so it looked like salt on french fries then I just left them to cool.



After I made the brownies and cookies I tackled the "paper work". Attached to Bakerella's blog is the pdf files for all of the cute paper goods. This is where I messed up on my timing. I didn't think about the time involved in printing, cutting, folding, and taping all of these together. They turned out soooo cute though that by the end the time was all worth it. I didn't get a picture of the tissue paper that goes in the little tray separately but you can see a picture of it at the top with it all put together. It was so cute. However, another thing I learned was that the paper could also be cut smaller to fit in the trays better.

After I got my paper products all printed and cut out and realized how long I was going to be assembling I started making my cupcakes. That worked out good.



After the paper products were all assembled I set out to make the "hamburgers and french fries". First I made a recipe of butter cream frosting. Bakerella used store bought frosting but I was also decorating some cupcakes so I used buttercream. I tinted a small portion red (ketchup) and yellow (mustard). Then I colored a baggy full of coconut green for my lettuce.



I flipped the whole pan of brownies out onto a tray and used my round cookie cutter to cut out the "patties". Another educating experience, use a bigger pan so the brownies are not so thick. I had to cut my patties in half because they were so tall.

After the cupcakes were cooled I peeled the wrappers off.



Then I cut the cupcakes in half and set the tops off to the side.

Add the "pattie" to the bottom bun.



I left the ketchup and mustard in baggies and snipped off the ends. I squirted it just like I would on a real hamburger making sure to go all the way to the edge so it would be visible. Then I sprinkled the "lettuce" on top.



Apply top bun. I thought they were cute here!


Then I painted on some piping gel and sprinkled sesame seeds and oh my goodness!!! They were soooo cute!!!! My husband came into the kitchen right about this time and he was quite impressed. He had seen all of the parts but he hadn't seen anything put together so he was surprised at how realistic they looked. It made all of the work worth it!


I put the cookies into the fry holders and put them all in their little trays. I thought they turned out so cute!!!