Ice Age Cake

To Err Is Human To Arr Is Pirate

I enjoyed myself thoroughly decorating these cupcakes!

Such cute faces dont you think..?!

They were for a little boy(Caleb) who turns 4 today!

And the theme...? Yup you guessed it

a Pirate Party!

When his mom came to fetch the cupcakes she said

he was so excited about his birthday that he woke up in the middle of the night asking

if it was his birthday yet... How Cute!!

I am off on holiday tomorrow!

I can't wait!

Have a lovely week!

Giraffe First Birthday

Made to match the invitations...

Boy's Cupcake Theme

Made to match this party theme...

The smash cake...HUGE!!! lol Lets hope little Brady doesn't eat the whole thing! Sugar coma perhaps?!!?

Another Curious George Cake...

Very similar to the previous one I did with just a few changes and an adorable smash cake to go with it!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Hudson!!!!



The smash cake...

Valentines Day Dessert Buffet

The Table!

 Can you spot the Pink Nesquik?

Here it is! My Valentines day dessert buffet...

I am so excited with how it turned out.

The Cake...

We were only 9 people, but the cake was enough for 50... Oops!

Can you guess what we are eating the whole week?

☺

 Top layer: Hazelnut Mocha Brownie

Bottom: Carrot Cake

The Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

and embossed fondant hearts

 The Oreo Cake Balls

Made with Oreo cookies and cream chees

dipped in chocolate

Find recipe here:

The Cookies

I was most excited about these!

They came out just right!

Sugar Cookies with royal icing

This was really a lot of fun!

especially when i saw everything together!

Next week i am off on holiday!

Hope you have an awesome day!

A Valentine Soiree

Another holiday..... another PARTY!! The girls wanted to have a little Valentine's get together for a few of their friends, and after getting some inspiration from my good friend Google, well, I got to work and tried to make it really special for them. I loved the idea of a candy table.... what kid (or grown up!) wouldn't love to dig into a table full of goodies?? I made some cupcakes and tried my hand at my first fondant roses.... then I decided to make a fondant cake, too. It was supposed to be a 2 tiered cake, but after I stopped for a while to get the girls ready for their Valentine's date with their dad, well, when I went back to the cake decorating the fondant had dried too much for me to finish the top tier like I had planned. OK, nothings perfect. The perils of fondant.... I just chalked it up to a first-timers learning curve and moved on to a single layer cake -- disappointed, but all in all, I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. So I've eaten nothing but candy and chocolate and marshmallow fondant for days..... that's mama's reward for spending days in the kitchen surrounding by nothing but sugar! Too bad mama's bikini won't agree.....

So the kids played some Valentine's games and they made a little felt rose craft to take home, and they of course, ate their weight in sugar-laden sweets. It was fun and a great reason to celebrate with just girlfriends..... who really needs those boys on Valentines Day anyway??? Kidding, Jonathan. Love you.

The invitation..... the reverse side had all the info

The candy table

... the cupcakes & the name of the candy table.....
M&M Sweet Shoppe for Madison & Macy.... catchy, huh??

....... the fondant cake

....... and closeup

..... mine & Macy's favorite -- the cookie sticks

........... and the rice crispy treats

........ more yummy table

....... the pudding parfaits

...... even more tempting zoomed up

the tags....

the white chocolate & heart sprinkle covered Milanos....

..... candy closeups

the girls digging in.....

...... and being silly

...... Maddie & Hannah

...... and Kate & Makenzie

....... and Macy & me

....... the crafting

...... sweet Valentine girls, Reagan & Morgan

Morgan's felt rose vase

..... and Macy's vase

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Can you fall in love with a cookie?

Well, if that is possible, then i have!

Today i started the decorating process for tomorrows

Valentines Day Dessert Buffet...

and

i have done the cookies so far...well, they are not completely done.

I still need to pipe some more detail on them when they are dry.

The reason i have fallen in love with these cookies, is well i guess they are almost perfect in comparison with my first attempt a year

ago

Click to see the horror here!

so without further ado
i will share my little lovelies with you!

see,much better than a year ago!

Well, i am off to do some more

cake, cookie, cupcake decorating...

Its been a year!

I can't believe it has been a year since my first blog post!

Back then i didn't even know what blogging was...

And as for my baking, i also knew very little...

It is actually amazing to look back and see the progress

I have made from my first cake(which i was very proud of) that kind of
looks like a flop now to my latest cake/s!

Its just almost scary what you can learn from the internet!

I didn't take one class in cake baking or decorating, all i

have learned is from browsing the web and by trial and error!

Probably goes with the saying, where there's a will there's a way...

Below are a few of my cakes, the very first one(top left) is my very first cake...

And then just a few that i have done through the year!

Share the love!

I designed these labels for our Valentines dinner which is on Sunday...

I looked all over for love birds, but alas couldn't find what I

was looking for!

So i made my own!

And because Valentines day is just around the corner,

i thought i would share some love with you!

You can download and print your own free

Love Bird Labels for Valentines day!

Use them as napkin rings, on Place cards, Jar labels etc...

Hope you can put them to good use, i know

i have already printed a bunch!

Just FOLLOW THIS LINK

to download you own!

Have a pleasant evening!