CHOCOLATE!!

I had a craving for chocolate today..................so I made a cake!!  It was banana cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.  It was so yummy and definitely satisfied my craving.  Now I need to find someone to finish it off so I don't eat the whole thing.  Good thing I only made a small cake :)

Would you like a glass of wine?



A friend of ours makes wine and has been asking my husband if I would make him a cake for a few months now.  I was so busy with the cookies for a while that I never really had a chance but I had a vision of what I wanted to do.  He had no idea.  This is the result.......

The pictures really don't do it justice, the grapes and wine bottle look black, they were actually dark purple.  The decorations were were all done in buttercream icing (can't wait to learn fondant, OMG will I have fun!). 

This cake was so much fun and I can't wait to do more like this.  Are you ready for a glass of wine now?  I sure am!!

Smiley, happy cake!

Makes me think of spring/summer time!!  Well I was making this cake just for practice and it didn't really turn out the way I wanted.  I actually did a pipe gel transfer off of a greeting card (the flowers had no stems) and they were straight across.  I modified the flowers to arch a little and I had planned on writing something in the center.  Well as you can see that didn't happen.  It just didn't look right, so I added stems and leaves and another flower.  A few flowers I really don't like, but I love the sides and the borders on the cake and the color scheme.  The cake was a one-layer banana cake with buttercream frosting.  I'm finally learning the proper consistencies with my icing...yay!!

 Oh, I forgot to mention, it was so yummy!!!!!!

Wilton Cake Class, Course 1 Basics

Yay!! I completed my first course of cake decorating and I loved it!!  Next week I'll begin Course 2, Flowers and Design!!  I learned so much and can't wait to learn more.  Here is a pic of my final cake, (red victorian roses, blue rosettes for border, and dots for accents).  What perfect colors for the 4th of July weekend!!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

Its the 4th of July!!  Need to have some festive cookies to celebrate the day.  I took some of these to Greg's Over the Hill birthday party and the rest of the them are going to be sold for Relay for Life to raise money for cancer.  I really love how they turned out.  Take a look and let me know what you think.

This one has to be one of my favorites!

Have a safe and happy 4th of July everyone!!

Greg's Over the Hill

Happy Birthday to my cousins husband Greg who turned 50 years old today!!  What a way to celebrate your 50th birthday, with a BANG on the 4th of July!!  That has to be fun to have your birthday July 4th.  Suzy, his wife, had a party for him yesterday and we had a blast.  Here are some cookies I made for his birthday.

Happy Birthday Greg!!

Baby Time!

I got a call about baby shower favors and was asked if I had any pictures of work I had done.  I promised her I would work on something over the weekend and post pics for her to see.  I had a lot of fun working on these cookies.  I'd like to share these with you all.

Now the fun part, I get to eat them!! :)

Palm Trees & Beach Balls Graduation

This was a different request.  She asked for palm trees and beach balls for her daughters graduation party.  They are doing a bar-b-que beach theme.  Sounds so fun!  She also asked for the colorful swirls and I thought they came out pretty nice.  She want pink swirls with yellow sugar and yellow swirls with blue sugar.  I didn't think the yellow swirls came out as bright as the pink ones, so I decided to also do blue swirls with yellow sugar too!  Love them!

and now comes the colorful swirls.......

Congratulations Brittany!! Good luck in your new ventures!!

Kayla's Graduation

I love these cookies!  The colors are so nice!  She asked for stars and a few graduation caps since her daughter was home schooled.

Congratulations Kayla!!  Hope you all enjoyed the cookies :)

Weekend summer getaway!

Shawna requested some cookies for a weekend getaway with the kids.  She said "do what you feel like working on, something fun".  They were going away for her and Taylors birthday, so this is what I did for them.

I got an order for palm trees and beach balls coming up so I thought I'd practice.  She wants lime green and orange palm trees.  I didn't think I'd like it............I love it!!  What a great color combo!!

I've been wanting to try chocolate sugar cookies with chocolate royal icing.  OMG!!! Fantastic!!!!

I thought I'd throw some sports cookies in the mix too for Shane.  Poor kid, he was the only boy going.

This was my favorite cake of the bunch, aside from the chocolate on chocolate one!