Slowly but surely.....I'm catching up my blog!  Easter week was one of the busiest I've had, so much that I didn't even get to prepare my Easter dinner until that morning....sad, I know lol.  But, the week was fun helping my daughter do 25 Easter baskets and doing my own orders for that week which included 7 dozen of these babies:

Baby Chicks

Thanks Bakerella for the design!

 

It's really been that long?  I've really been that busy?  Wow, I've barely even touched a computer since Easter so my blog has been neglected :(  I've got new content though!!!


I'm soooo grateful to be busy with projects but need to make time for my blog so time to catch up:


Here is a 1st birthday cake I made for a family that prefers whipped cream to frosting.  So, not having much experience in this area, I found that decorations WILL MELT on whipped cream but sugar sheets won't!  Imagine that!

My oldest son kept saying that he just wanted to cut into this cake.......I did too  :)

Here in California, we don't have substantial 'winter' weather, especially this year we've only had a few days of light rain.  Now that it's spring, it's outside raining cats 'n dogs!  When it rains....I bake.  They go hand in hand for relaxation but it also warms up the house LOL.


So, I started out making sample cookies for Spring & Easter, trying to get a feel for what I want to do for the parties that day but the humidity seemed to affect my royal icing :(  so I wasn't too happy with the outcome.

Well, been AWOL for a few days thanks to a certain restaurant letting me 'have it my way'.  Food poisoning is the most horrible...well that's another story...

Anyway, weak & lightheaded as I was (4 pounds lighter too) I had a cake to do and had to keep to schedule.  This was a 58th Anniversary cake, red velvet & white velvet w/strawberry filling.  Pretty easy to do, since I couldn't over do it at the time:

With cookies packaged & ready to go, I was able to finish the Green Velvet Cake Pops and package them...they are now ready to go!

Packaged Cookies

Green Velvet Cake Pops

Cake Pop Bouquet

Is it weird to be in love with your own cookies? Lots of fun doing these as I had to get creative without St. Patrick's Day cookie cutters.   

Locally, I was only able to find "1" shamrock cutter:

For the pot 'o gold cookies, I used an upside-down pumpkin cutter and added another 'foot'.  I'd say it worked out pretty well... :))

I used a round cutter for the leprechaun hats and the gold medallions:

I decided I would do my own birthday cake for tomorrow, and that it would be a topsy turvy...my 1st one!  These type of cakes are usually done with fondant over buttercream (I didn't want to waste fondant lol), but you can do it with buttercream.  I used fondant accents and even made my own flowers...I'm so proud!