Cranberry Orange Scones

I was inspired by my friend over at Occasional Sugar because she bakes something new at least once a week! I cheated though and made these scones out of some scone mix from Oregon. Since I was taking them to the park for a playdate with some of my son's friends and their mommies, I shaped them into cute little stars and sprinkled some raw sugar on top. Pretty yummy!

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.

Kuhn Rikon Mouse Measuring Cup Set

I'm going to start highlighting all the cool new kitchen gadgets I'm slowly acquiring because I love them all! I love having fun stuff when I'm baking and I've found that the best way to do that is to get products that are made for kids. I especially love kids cookbooks because they're always so bright and colorful with TONS of pictures!

So one of my latest purchase came from Sur La Table at The Grove on our recent vacation to Los Angeles. I found this Kids Kinderkitchen Mouse Measuring Cup Set by some Swiss company and fell in love with the colors. One of my favorite kitchen tools are these measuring spoons that are just plastic, but they're all a different color, which for some reason makes it easier for me. I also got some Le Cruset pinch bowls (green and red ones) and a Le Cruset Turquoise spatual, but those aren't quite as exciting (but they are colorful!). Ok, ok, ok here're pictures...

4th of July Cupcakes

Here are some chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting I made for a 4th of July party. I like the ones with the little star sprinkles better than the glitter ones, but they all tasted yummy!

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