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

Preschool Cupcakes

My son's last day of preschool for the semester was last Thursday, so I took in cupcakes for all the kids (and parents!). I decorated them with sprinkles and little fondant elephants and giraffes, but I think they would look great for a baby shower too! They were vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting. Oh, and hint of orange thrown in there too!


Here's the giraffe cupcakes. His name is Sprinkles, name by my son.

And here's the elephant! And is name is Sprinkles 2, also named by my son.

Decorating tunes... I think were a random mix of songs from the laptop. I don't have much music on here since we had to get it fixed last month, so I think it was a mix of oldies including "Teach Your Children" by Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

-J

M Corp

Logo Cupcakes: $2.50 each
Flower cupcakes: $2.50 each

Company logo and springtime cupcakes for an open house. Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting, vanilla fondant flowers and the logo in royal icing.

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

St. Mary's College Cookies

So my baby sister graduated from St. Mary's College this weekend. So for goody bags I made some cookies with the St. Mary's logo on them. The "G" stands for the Gaels, which is their mascot and are apparently knights... not birds like I thought, haha.

Decorating tunes included Justin Timberlake (first album!) and a couple random New Kids on the Block songs, like "Cover Girl" and "Tonight."

-J

Abby's Cookies

I made some favor bags of cookies for a little girl named Abby who turned 1 a week ago. Her mom, Jen, picked the perfect color combination of light pink, light green and yellow and the cookies looked beautiful together! "A" and "1" sugar cookies with lemon icing and sprinkles. Check out Abby's birthday party on Jen's blog here - so sweet!


And since I wanted to try out some techniques I made her a special little birthday cake cookie as well. It turned out so cute that I made another one for my sister for her birthday!

Decorating tunes had to be Taylor Swift's song "Fifteen" (and the rest of the "Fearless" album) because it's about her best friend Abigail and these were for a little girl named Abby!

-J

Chocolate Cake

Happy Birthday Sue cake! Chocolate cake with chocolate whipped cream filling and chocolate ganache frosting. Oh, and cream cheese frosting accents. A chocolate-lovers dream!