Chocolate Dipped Peeps

Chocolate Dipped Peeps!

They were easy to make, sweet to eat and will be a fun addition to the Easter baskets I put together for family this year. 

Easter Basket Cupcakes

Easter Basket Cupcakes!

The adorable cupcake “baskets” did most of the work for me where presentation is concerned, though I did pipe the ”grass” on the tops of the cupcakes and add a few jelly beans for the fun of it.

Spring Cake

Happy first day of Spring!

I hope you were able to enjoy some real Spring weather wherever you were at today. As for where we are, the weather seemed a little confused to say the least, with a high of 52. There was pouring rain, hail and sunshine interspersed among one another for the duration of the day. You have to love the Pacific Northwest, at least that is what I keep telling myself. 

 All be it not inspired by the Spring weather, or rather lack there of, today I was inspired to bake. The outcome, a lemon cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and fondant flowers. 

I’m a little obsessed with the color yellow as of lately, especially when paired with this beautiful, vibrant turquoise color.

L.o.v.e. I used a frosting technique I have wanted to try for a while.

It’s a keeper and I will be using it often from now on.

I really like the visual interest it adds to the cake.

With Lovey’s help, we made flowers out of edible play dough fondant.  Nothing too fancy, just basic flowers from some left over fondant I made for a recent customer order. I tinted the fondant a vivid turquoise, rolled it out, then Lovey helped me cut out the flowers. We added a yellow frosting center to each one then placed them on the cake.The light lemon cake flavor and fondant flowers ended up bringing an element of Spring to our day after all!

Ducky Baby Shower

Last month I was asked to cater the desserts for a family friend’s baby shower. She was having her first child, a little girl and the shower theme was ducky with a pink twist! Cake and cookies both were cherry vanilla flavored as requested by the mommy to be.I made six dozen handcrafted chocolate duckies with pink bows on their heads to top the cupcakes.Splish-splash rubber duckies in the bubble bath!An 8 inch double round cake for the family to cut.

Four dozen ducky cookies.

Congratulations to the family on the arrival of your sweet, little chick!

Dinosaur Birthday

Over the weekend we celebrated Mister Mister’s nephew’s 5th birthday and I was asked to make the cake.

  

It was a dinosaur theme party so I based the cake concept off of the wrapping paper his parents were wrapping his gifts in.

 Keeping with the theme, I put fun dinosaur stickers on the gift bag from us!

He definitely ended up having a dino-mite birthday!

Lemon Cake Truffles

A sweet welcoming to Spring!

I wrapped them up in fun, jelly bean printed bags and added them to the Easter baskets I put together for family.

Lucky Green

My little Irish laddie and I made some lucky green rice krispies treats this afternoon for St. Patty’s Day.

He was in charge of putting the shamrock sprinkles on top!

Red Velvet Cookies

I am a big fan of Red Velvet Cake. It’s my go to choice for my own birthdays and any special occasion. So when I found this Red Velvet Cookie recipe I knew it would be a good variation for getting my red velvet fix!

You can’t beat how simple the recipe is either. Although I usually prefer to make my cookie dough from scratch these turned out so flavorful and moist you would never guess that I cut out all the hard work it takes to make them.

-One box Red Velvet cake mix

-Two eggs

-2/3 cup shortening

Mix the 3 ingredients up to form the cookie dough. I ended up with enough to make three dozen cookies.

Just sprinkle with powder sugar and enjoy.

Cherry Brownie Bites

As Valentine’s Day approaches I have began to once again see the world in shades of white, pink and red, oh my!

Que all things heart-shaped…

{ & let the baking begin!}

 I baked brownies in mini heart-shaped silicone molds. Once they cooled, I poked several holes into them with a tooth pick and drizzled a tablespoon of maraschino cherry juice over each one. Very similar to the

Cherry Surprise Cake

I made a while back. It made them extra moist and added that wonderful cherry flavor.

Next, I dipped them into melted white chocolate and coated them in Valentine colored sprinkles.

You know how I love my sprinkles!

 

 I wrapped each up individually and tied it with a pretty pink curling ribbon.

In a house with only boys, I revel in any opportunity to embellish with shades of pink.

The first of many sweets for all of my

{ Valentine’s Day sweets!}

Super Bowl Menu

Super Bowl is upon once again!

Although Mister Mister has to work during the big game today, I made him some game day inspired snacks to take to work and share with all the guys so that they still feel like they are part of the football action!

I made “football cupcakes.” I free hand piped melted chocolate into the shape of mini footballs to add a 3D feel to them.

Remember the brown sugar and bacon wrapped sausages that always receive rave reviews? I didn’t have to ask Mister Mister twice if he wanted me to make a batch of those to take along as well.

What are some of your favorite Superbowl recipes?