Adoption Shower

These were for a shower for the parents of two adopted children (boy and a girl). The theme was 'frogs and butterflies.' Mini cookies and mini chocolate cupcakes (Royal icing on fondant).

what can I say but that I ADORE these bright colors! something about color just puts a smile on my face every time!

Indiana State Fair 2010 - 1st Place!

These are my fair entries for this year. I entered the wedding cake - professional division, and the decorated cookies.

My plan was to do a lot more piping, as it seemed last time the judges wanted to see that.

I wasn't sure what my design was going to be, I just started using the things that I love... my polka-dot base, my stencils, bows, my new flowers cutters....
I did love it when it was done.
So did the judges - 1st place & Sweepstakes (1st overall)!!!

The cookies were a total after thought. I knew that I wanted to do some, but I got really into my cake and was running out of time for the cookies.
The fair theme this year was the 'Year of the Pig.' I found some cute clip art online and a photo of my mom's weather vane.

1st Place again!

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Birthday party cookies for a big fan of the Percy Jackson book series.

And, yes, I am crazy. I wasn't sure how to portray the characters with piping, so I painted them on white cookies with food color.
They came out fabulous! but it took quite a while - good thing that I love to paint!
(I made a little cake too for the candle)

Kelly's Wedding Shower

My husband's cousin was getting married, and I made these as a gift for the new bride's shower.
I have always wanted to do wedding dress cookies after seeing so many beautiful ones!
These were inspired from some fabulous designs from Artisian Cakes!!!
I also just loved the bra 'n panty cookies made by Suga' !!!
(thank you both for letting me use the designs!)
Finally, the leaf movif was from the invitations.

Little League Team snacks

Little League team snacks from the coaches!
Obviously, the team this year was the Minnesota Twins.

If you're curious, I iced the rounds in solid royal icing. I piped the "M" logo on waxpaper over printouts. Once dry, I poped them off and 'glued' them to the cookie with more royal icing.

Summer Move-in Cookies

Again, these are similar to other move-in cookies. I had some fun with some bright colors and new flower designs!

Purdue Veterinary Grad

Graduation party! Congratulations to the graduate!!!!

The 6" Boilermaker cake is similar to one that I did before (but I added a few flowers, since it's was for a young woman)

(for the cake geeks, I used cake cut-off to make the front of the train/cowcatcher. and the grad cap is gumpaste molded over a small bowl. the tassel was made with a clay extruder - love that tool!)

I really loved the way that the cookies came out - the silhouette was definitely my favorite!

Relay for Life event

Relay for Life fundraising event!
yummy treats!
chocolate cupcakes with purple fondant ribbons.
purple ribbon sugar cookies.
and just some fun mini cookies - I really loved the purple on purple color to these!

Chica Boutiqua

This is me at Chica Boutiqua (put on by a friend of a friend, Kathy Wood - thank you!).



Here are some of my cookies, all packaged up. (on my favorite MacKenzie-Childs Spencer plates!!!)



and here are my cupcakes and cakes. I just love the way the cakes look boxed up. I make vanilla cupcakes the first day, and since they sold out, I made chocolate cupcakes for the second day.





This is the last cake that I made for the second day. I was inspired by my tulips in my garden. I really liked this cake.

The rest are photos of closeups of my cookies that I made for the event. My butterfly cookies were something that I wanted to do after my turkey cookies came out so fun last fall. My flower cookie was inspired by the awesome TracyLH
The soccer cookies were also a blend of the Tracy's work as well as Sweet Sugar Belle.

girlie elephant

For my neighbor's daughter who LOVES elephants!
these were her birthday treats for school (similar to last year)

Beach Birthday!

How fun is a beach themed birthday in February?!!!
what a great way to feel warm when winter seems to be dragging on.
Twin 5" cakes - one vanilla and one chocolate. The palm trees are gumpaste and fondant on wire. The rest is fondant with a little graham cracker sand and royal icing wave foam.

Plus matching beach cookies.

Valentine's Day Move-in

These were for a new home-owner move-in basket. Since it was Valentine's Day weekend, I went with that theme! The heart cutter that I used was one of the ones that my mom gave me from my grandmother. I really like the taller shape!
I've been seeing more henna inspired cookies lately so I went that route with the white one. I liked the way it came out better than last year.

Birthday Slices

These we so fun and bright. For a neighbor's daughter's birthday!

Christmas Cookies!!!

I love making Christmas cookies, and I always want to do more than I have time to...
There are some repeats from before, and some new ones this year.

These are gingerbread snowflakes. I have done this design for the past couple years, and I just really like it. Simple white on white, with cake sparkles.
These are similar to some Christmas trees that I did a couple years ago. Kind of stylized and kind of fun.

I was browsing at a local store and saw this 'Joy' cookie cutter and just HAD to buy it. I guess that I'm in that sort of mood this year! The skinny tree cutter was in a bag of cutters that were my grandmother's and it brings me joy to use it!

After seeing so many pretty cookies made with stencils, I finally broke down and bought a couple sets. I just love them.

I saw a cake on CakeCentral with this design and was enamored immediately. (I'm a sucker for the partridge in a pear tree theme). I made some similar cakes, and thought it would make a beautiful cookie.

These are the same snowmen that I have done, but this year I dusted the scarves with sugar and it gave them great texture (frosty and fuzzy). Thanks to another Cookie friend on CakeCentral. (oh, and this was another weak moment at a store. Two years ago I found this set of cutters in the dollar bin at Target - they get me every time!!!)

This was a design that I did last year too. I wanted a cute and different Santa. I found this online.

These are my sort of famous snowmen. I have done these the past couple years too. The story here was that I had committed to bringing cookies to a family gathering. We were staying with my sister and I didn't have much equipment. I love snowmen, so when I saw a cookie a little like this I made a plan. I used one of my sister's glasses to cut rounds and voila! This year I did them on sugar cookies and chocolate cookies. I like the dark cookie border on these.

Just more cookies.

Stonegate Holiday Bazaar

We had a great time meeting all sorts of wonderful people at the Stonegate Holiday Bazaar! unfortunately I had all sorts of camera problems so I didn't get many great photos, but I got a lot of complements on my display - thank you all!


I brought 8 small cakes inspired by the fabulous decorators on CakeCentral.com. my favorite was definitely the 'partridge in a pear tree'

I also made cupcakes, muffins, chocolate chip cookies, and meringue cookies. Finally I brought some fun and some fall cookies, as well as some sample Christmas cookies.

I love my new stencils. They make suck pretty cookies and cakes!