Little Mermaid Cupcakes

Like I said, girly heaven! Here are some Little Mermaid themed cupcakes I did for the sweet little daughter of a friend of mine. Little Mermaid figurines, chocolate shells and sugar pearls all atop buttercream frosting- yum!

Princess Cupcakes

Since I only have boys, I jump on any chance I get to make girly treats. These past couple weeks I've had 2 cupcake orders for girls' birthday parties- I was in pink and purple heaven! Here's some princess themed cupcakes...


Since I only have boys, I jump on any chance I get to make girly treats. These past couple weeks I've had 2 cupcake orders for girls' birthday parties- I was in pink and purple heaven! Here's some princess themed cupcakes...

Cupcake Tasting.

I'm so excited to be making a wedding cake for a friend from high school! Her wedding isn't until July, but I made a bunch of different flavored cupcakes for her to taste today. Top row were chocolate and Bourbon vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting, second row were strawberry buttercream and then some European buttercream on the bottom row. And a little test for a fondant magnolia in the bottom corner.f Can't wait to see what flavors she and her fiancee decide to go with! Thanks to The Calligraphy Girl for the beautiful cupcake signs!

Pretty Cupcakes.

I'm not too sure why I never did a post about these cupcakes because I thought they turned out gorgeous! They were for the Baptism party for the daughter of a friend of mine from high school. I did chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese-buttercream frosting- yum!

Summer is here!

I know that it's officially summertime when I get an order for flip flop cookies. These cookies were for a sweet little girl's 4 year old birthday party and they were so fun to make. I especially loved using bright purple icing this time! Don't these just make you want to hit the beach?

Tulip Flower Cookies

My family and I celebrated my grandmother's 95th birthday this last weekend. We wanted the party to have a fun, and spring-y feel so I made tulip flower cookies to use as favors and decoration. I loved that the colors turned out so bright and they looked great in their jellybean planters.

Tiara Cookies

I made these tiara cookies for a princess party for a little girl named Ella (isn't that a perfect princess name?). They were so much fun to decorate! They were so sparkly and girlie and just so cute. Check out how absolutely adorable the party was at Ella's Wardrobe and while you're there, browse around Georgina's blog- she's so creative.

Cookies from February

Here's a picture of a couple cookies from back at Valentine's Day. I think most of them disappeared before I had a chance to take a picture. Luckily my 3-year-old got the bottom one for me!

Ladybug Cookies

I made some ladybug cookies for a little girl's pink and orange ladybug themed birthday party. These went by mail this time and they arrived at their destination super fast (thanks usps!). I think they turned out really cute, especially once the ladybugs were wrapped up in bags with a little flower. I hope she had a very sweet and special 2nd birthday! Sugar cookies with lemon royal icing.

Valentine's Day Cookies.

I absolutely love Valentine's Day. Give me a day to celebrate with pink, hearts and glitter and I'm on board! I haven't started the cookies for this year yet, but I think they're going to be similar to the heart ones I did last year. I had so much fun just being creative and decorating all the different hearts that I can't wait for the ones this year. I also flavored them with a hint of rosewater to make them extra festive! Here's some that I made last year.

Carson's Birthday Cake

In October I took a break from my wedding planning to make a surprise birthday cake for a sweet gal by the name of Carson. Her mom ordered up a girl cake with peace signs but since Carson hates chocolate, to we went with a vanilla cake with a raspberry buttercream frosting, covered in fondant. Ta-Da... she was excited and loved her cake- yay!

More Yo Gabba Gabba Cookies.

So I have baked lately, just not new stuff. Here's another batch of Yo Gabba Gabba cookies that I made for a birthday party a couple weeks ago. I think they look great tied up with the ribbon!

Bright Flower Cookies

I made a few of these cookies as "thank you" cookies and a few more as a snack for a friend who was having a photo shoot done. Another pink & green combination that I love! Apparently I haven't been baking nearly enough because once I started decorating these I couldn't stop and I ended up staying up pretty late just decorating cookies!

Sugar cookies with lemon royal icing and sugar sprinkles :)

Decorating tunes were mostly Kris Allen with a few Adam Lambert songs sneaking in and giving him a run for his money.

First person to comment and correctly tell me who I honestly thought was going to win American Idol this past season will get my 3 extra cookies!

Simple Wedding Cake

Sorry not much business lately! Here's a wedding cake I did for the same Lake Tahoe wedding a couple weeks ago. The bride just wanted a small, simple cake for her and her husband. It looked great with her cake topper but unfortunately I didn't get any pictures with it. It was a vanilla cake with a raspberry and custard filling, vanilla buttercream frosting and pink fondant pearls and sugar decorating it.

Flippie-Floppies

Here are some pastel flip flop cookies I did for a wedding up in Lake Tahoe earlier this month. They were for a casual wedding and the bride wanted to hand out cookies instead of cake to her guests because she said they tasted better than cake! She chose different pastel colors for the cookies to go along with all the colors in her wedding. They were sugar cookies with royal icing and sugar sprinkles.

Yo Gabba Gabba

Hello Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend, I know I was super busy this past weekend. Here are some Yo Gabba Gabba cookies I did for a birthday party last Friday. They were fairly big at 4" and looked great with all the characters together. I only made a dozen, but whew- they were time consuming! Worth it though, since they turned out way cuter that I'd imagined!

Here's a close up of Brobee and more pictures can be found on my flickr.

For those of you not following the tv woes of the preschool crowd, here's a picture of the characters.

Decorating tunes this time came from the local country radio station.
-J

So I'm more into making cupcakes and cookies, but ever since I started working with fondant (which was what, a good week ago?) I've been wanting to try covering a cake with fondant. This past weekend a good friend asked if I'd make a cake for her and her husband's 5th wedding anniversary so I took on the fondant challenge!

She just wanted a small cake that at least sort of resembled her wedding cake but she wasn't picky at all and would have gone for either fondant or icing. That was nice because I wasn't sure how the fondant was going to turn out since I'd never covered a cake in fondant before. I figured if I tried it and it didn't work, I'd just use white buttercream. Her original wedding cake was white fondant-covered tiers with pink ribbon, draped fondant and some piping. She provided the ribbon and the flowers and the rest was up to me.

The tiers didn't come out perfectly smooth but I was pleasantly surprised with how nice the draped fondant looked, especially since I hadn't originally planned on doing that. I can't wait to get back in the kitchen and try some more! So here is the cake...


This was a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling and vanilla fondant. No chocolate because her daughter does NOT like chocolate!

Decorating tunes were mostly nothing this time, but I turned on a few Hanson songs towards the end.

-J

Harlow's Hairbows

I took a break from the baking craziness to make a few more bows for Harlow's Hairbows and they've just been picked up by the East Sac children's boutique, Koukla Kids! It's so exciting, I feel all professional and all now! So you can either buy my hairbows directly from me or stop in at Koukla and purchase them there. The store is SO stinkin' adorable! Here's a couple pictures of the store. That's Christopher and his friend Peter hanging out on the couch (and little Katie on the floor).

Polka Dot Baby Shower Cake

This past weekend I made a polka dot cake for a baby shower! Chocolate cake with raspberry whipped cream filling, vanilla whipped cream frosting and pink, green, and yellow polka dots (I just love that color combination, especially for summer!). So yummy! I think it looked so adorable with the writing, but looking back at it, I think I wish I'd done the writing in a little bit brighter pink. I don't know, I do kind of liked the contrast though.

Decorating tunes were some random iPod selections, mostly Jonas Brother's album from last year, I think "A Little Bit Longer."

-J

Birthday Cake Cookie

My birthday and my sister's are 6 days apart. So since we spent my birthday together in San Francisco this past weekend I made her a special birthday cake cookie as an early birthday present. Next I think I want to try making one with sanding sugar. Or little decorations to make it look like a real cake!

-J