Mardi Gras and Tink

I was very lucky this week because the two sets of cookies I did used some of the same colors. If you decorate cookies... you will understand why this excited me! :)

My friends little boy turned a year old! He was born the day before mardi gras last year, so they decided to do a mardi gras theme party this year! She asked me to make favors for the party and a cake topper for his smash cake.

Here is a picture of the cake with the topper on it

I think Elliott had a fantastic birthday and I am so happy I was able to be a party of it!

I was also asked to do cookies for a friends daughter that was turning 18. She was throwing her a Tinkerbell themed party, so I made some Tinkerbell inspired cookies!

I have a busy week ahead of me, so I better get back to baking! :)

Hectic couple of weeks...

I have been so swamped with valentines day, that I didn't get a chance to post last week. Since I live in Louisiana, we also had Mardi Gras going on as well. It has been a hectic couple weeks, but hopefully things will slow down a little so I can catch up.

Here are spiderman cookies I did a couple weeks ago

Did these Thomas the trains shortly after

I was also asked to do Toy Story cookies. I was so nervous about these... but my friend loved them! 

Another friend of mine asked for pirate favors for her grandson's birthday

And then came Valentine's day. I baked, iced, and packaged about 800 minis in about 4 days. I was/still kind of am tired! lol 

This is what my son gave to his friends in his class

I also achieved a goal this week!! I had set a goal of one day having a set of my cookies go "viral" and what happened was good enough for me! I had the Pretty Little Liars facebook page share my Pretty Little Liars cookies . I couldn't have been more excited to have over 30,000 likes!! 

Thanks for reading and for your support!! Off to make more cookies! :)

TV Show Collaboration

I have met some wonderful people on this cookie journey. These incredibly talented woman are some of them! We all chose our favorite TV show and made them into cookies!  

I was undecided on which show to choose, but in the end I chose Pretty Little Liars. 

Sarah from Sweet Surrender Cookie Co chose How I Met your Mother

Anne from Flour Box Bakery chose Downtown Abby

Jill from Jill FCS chose Gilligan's Island

Stephanie from The Hungry Hippopotamus chose The Simpson's

Hillary from The Cookie Countess chose Glee

Trinnie from TLC (Trinnie Loves Cookies) chose Happy Days

And because my friend Angela from Oh, Sugar! Events is so awesome, she choose three

Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives

Seinfeld

And PeeWee's Playhouse 

How incredible are all these cookies?? I am so lucky to have such wonderful and talented friends! :) Make sure to check out each of their pages!!! 

Fun with Oreos

I know it has been a month since Christmas, but when I had this idea this morning... I just had to share! I had found quite a few packs of holiday Oreos on sale after Christmas and I bought all I had found since my family loves them. Needless to say... we still have a few packs of Christmas Oreos at my house. While I was decorating cookies this morning, my son was eating a few and a light bulb when off in my head! There are already deigns on the Oreos so why not use that as a pattern and decorate the Oreo with icing! Here are the four designs that were in the pack:

Here are the same four decorated with royal icing:

If you don't have a recipe for royal icing, one can be found on my friend Sweet Sugarbelle's blog.

Royal Icing Recipe

These only took a few minutes to do since the design was already there!

I know of two other times of the year they produce holiday Oreos... Spring and Halloween. 

Don't let the designs limit you though!! With Valentine's Day coming up, you could pipe hearts, lips, "X" & "O", etc. The possibilities are endless!!

Wow! It's been a while!!

SO much has happened since I last posted! Two of the biggest of all these would be that I quit full time job and will now be able to stay at home with my kids and I hit 1500 fans on my facebook page! Both are like a dream come true!! So lets just get straight to the point and catch up where I left off!

let's start with some of the birthday platters from October

Here are a few of the Halloween cookies I did

I was lucky enough to be able to participate in a fall cookie swap with some of my cookie friends. I was the host, so I wanted to include a little "gift" for each of my friends. I let my four year old son draw on a cookie and send it to each of them. Here was my submission for the swap followed by the cookies my son drew. 

 I really enjoyed being a part of this swap and all the cookies we received were beautiful and delicious!!

Next up we have some Thanksgiving cookies

My next platter is one of my favorites! It was for a shabby chic first birthday party

The cookies in the above photo were inspired by my good friend Sweet Sugarbelle! I am hoping she will be putting a tutorial on her blog about them soon.

Next up is Christmas!! I decided to offer cookies trays with drop cookies and sugar cookies this year. My husband also agreed to dress like Santa so I was also able to offer Santa delivery. It was a huge hit!

Here are a few of the Christmas platters I did... along with the minis that I sent to my son's class to hand out to his friends.

 I really liked that reindeer in the above photo. I used a bunny cutter for him! :)

That is all for the rest of 2012... so let's move on to 2013 starting out with my New Year platter!

  The skyline photo was inspired by my friend Anne at Flour Box Bakery! If you haven't seen hear cookies... head over NOW! Okay... well not right this second, because you need to stay a little longer to finish looking at the rest of my cookies! ;)

These were done for a winter "One"derland party

 I made these for some friends 50th wedding anniversary! What a huge accomplishment for them!!

My husband is part of a company called American Milsim. They are an airsoft company. They traveled to Shot Show in Vegas this week, so I made them some special cookies with their logo.

Okay... so these cookies were a first for me! I have never seen Star Wars (I know I am probably one of the few that haven't) so I had to have major help from my friend Callye aka Sweet Sugarbelle. I had to replicate her cookies so please don't be too harsh when you look at hers compared. She is super human... I can't compete! ;)

And finally... the last cookies for me to be caught up!! These are for my sister in laws grandchild. Her theme was Enchanted Unicorn. I made the unicorn for the cake topper. Sticks were put on some of the other cookies as well. I will try to add a photo of the entire cake when I get one. 

Well... if you have made it through this whole post.. THANK YOU!! I will try to be better in keeping up with this blog! I will soon be doing my 1500 fan giveaway... so stay tuned for that!!