My Little Pony, 2.0

I had My Little Ponies as a kid. They have a newer version now, but seeing as I've been blessed with four boys we don't see many of them around this house. I was asked to make some cookies with three specific ponies a few weeks ago. It was fun!

Rainbow Dash:

AppleJack:

Pinkie Pie:

Woody Cookies

I got myself into a bit a of a bind this past week. My second son is turning 6 this week and we had his family party yesterday (Sunday). I normally do the "big" cake for that and serve cupcakes at his friends party. I also had a big cookie order due that I had to mail out today (Monday). I started the cookies early enough, and then I got the flu, and then I got a migraine. I ended up finishing the cookies mid-migraine (thanks to Excedrin Migraine.) The cake was about the most boring cake ever, so I'm not even going to post it here. Don't even ask. But, here are the cookies - I made a new cutter for them and now Buzz has a buddy! Heeere's Woody!

I put a photo of the cutter up on my Facebook page to let people guess what it was. I got some pretty entertaining answers, so I thought I'd share them here! Here's the cutter:

The responses I got were: a Scottie dog, some kind of person, a dachshund, "the guy who is all tied up in 'The Prince Of Egypt'", a praying angel or a dinosaur.

Hello Kitty cookies

A friend of mine asked me recently if I could do "Hello Kitty" cookies for her little girl's birthday. I jump at any chance to do girly cookies, so I agreed. I have had the Hello Kitty cookie cutters for a while now. If you all remember, I made Halloween cookies with them back in October. These were just your basic Hello Kitty heads.

I did make a few extra and had some fun with them. This is Hello Kitty's cousin - Hipster Kitty!

Happy Birthday MJ!

Belle and Buzz

I received an Etsy order last week for a split dozen Disney princess and Buzz Lightyear cookies. I have done Buzz before, but not and princesses. The Mom gave me a list of princesses and I chose to do Belle. I worked out a design and went to work. I had a tough time with her face. Characters are so hard to get right! I hope she is close enough for the birthday girl!

Vintage Hot Air Balloons

A friend of mine from back in my college days contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I would do some cookies for her daughter's first birthday. She is planning the party with a hot air balloon theme, as the baby's first year has "flown by." How cute is that? I designed the cookies to match the birthday invitation, which had a vintage feel about it.

Happy Birthday Reese!

Baseball Birthday cookies

A good friend of mine had a birthday yesterday. She has two boys herself, and her family is BIG into baseball. So, for her birthday, I made her some baseball cookies. 

Happy Birthday Karen!

Cars 2, two

See? I told you there was a fourth car to the Cars 2 series. I got photos immediately after the cookies were done this time (lesson learned). Introducing... Francesco Bernoulli.

 And, all together... the Cars 2 gang.

Cars 2 cookies

I bought these Cars 2 cookie cutters a few months back. I finally got around to using them this week. I'll admit it, I was a little overwhelmed at the detail the cookies require. Character cookies can go so wrong so easily. You have to get certain parts just right or they won't look like the intended character. I'm not saying mine turned out perfectly, but they did turn out a lot better than I feared they might.

There were actually 4 cars in this series. I had all 4 cut out and iced - a dozen of each one. I sent the majority to school with my seven-year old for his "All About Me" day today and the rest were sitting out of reach on my entertainment center, waiting for their turn to get photographed. At least, I thought they were out of reach. I went in to the family room this afternoon to check on my boys, and they had eaten every last "Francesco Bernouli" cookie. While watching Cars 2, ironically. They are little stinkers they are. So, I have no pictures of Francesco. Maybe next time.

Hello Kitty Skeleton Cookies

This is my last batch of Halloween cookies - really! I had leftover cookie dough & leftover icing sitting in my fridge just calling to me. And, I had a brand spankin' new set of Hello Kitty cutters just begging to be used. I saw some fun HK Halloween cookies floating around the web, so I thought I'd give them a shot. This is my take on Hello Kitty Skeleton cookies.

Halloween cookies are done!

I can't do math in my head. If I could, I may have said "no" to one or two orders of Halloween cookies. I had five customers who wanted cookies. In my head that equaled 5 dozen cookies - no prob. In actuality, when I went through the orders in my head, four of those five people wanted two dozen cookies. That equals nine dozen. Oops. Good thing I realized that before making the cookies. But really, who could I have said no to? Four dozen go to my boys' school classes, two dozen are for my Mom's work, two dozen are for my cousin's work and one dozen is for a neighbor. I started the cookies on Monday and finished them today. Not bad, time-wise. And I didn't have to spend 12 hours a day making them either. (So glad I didn't do the Dia de los Muertos cookies for the boys' classes!) 

I made some minor changes to a couple of the designs, and added a fifth character to the lineup. I still like the skeleton best.

This is what eleven and a half dozen cookies looks like:

Yes, you read that right. Eleven and a half dozen. I ended up making some for my hubby's work too. Ain't he lucky?

Square Pumpkin, and others...

I thought I was done with Halloween cookies, but then I found these cute napkins at Hobby Lobby and just had to make cookies out of them.

I need to get some better icing tips for the details, really. But I think they are cute!

Dia de los Muertos

I have been seeing sugar skulls and cookies all over the web as Halloween approaches. I have wanted to try making some, so I did today. I based my design off an amazing needlework pattern I found here. Mine is a simplified version, of course, but still a lot of detail!

More Halloween Cookies

I made some cookies this week just for my kids. I wanted to try out some new Halloween designs, and our cookie jar only had two half-decorated cookies in it. Two - that isn't even enough for one each. So sad. So, here you go, some new Halloween designs.

 These are all made with my skull cookie cutter.

 The skeleton idea is all over the web, but I thought I'd give it a shot. The mummy was inspired by another cookier, but I can't remember where I found them!

School Fundraiser cookies

My boys' school is having a safety fair and fundraiser tomorrow night. My cookies sold really well last year, so I volunteered to make more for the bake sale this year. I ended up making 4 dozen cookies. 

Inspiration came from the following:

Spiderman cookies (with tutorial)

Erlenmeyer flasks

Cauldrons

University of Utah cookies

I bought this drum and feather cutter over a year ago.

I have meant to use it for the past year. 

I finally got around to it this week.

We are big University of Utah fans at our house. Even our little boys are die hard fans. I had some left over cookie dough from the Batman cookie order, so I made up some Utah football cookies. I think we'll take some to the game with us tomorrow. My oldest thinks they're "Awesome!"

GO UTES!

Batman Cookies

I love return customers. I am always happy to do custom orders for them (or for anyone!). I love knowing that people enjoy my baked goods. It makes me happy. I recently got an email from a woman who I had made Buzz Lightyear cookies for last year. She wanted Batman cookies for her son's birthday this year. I happily obliged, we settled on the Batman logo, and here we are! I shipped out two dozen of these babies this morning!

Thanks Erin and Happy Birthday to your little superhero!

Soccer cake & cookies

I had a request a few weeks ago for a Real Salt Lake cake with coordinating soccer ball cookies. The order was picked up last week, but I'm just now getting around to posting it.

Here is the cake:

The cake was a vanilla cake with banana cream filling (with real bananas). The finish was buttercream frosting and fondant.

Here are the cookies:

I used a different soccer ball pattern than last time and I think I like this one better.

Jungle Animal Cookies & Panda Cake

Our downstairs neighbors have the most darling little girl. She turned one a couple of weeks ago and I got to make the cookies and cake for her birthday bash!

These are the cookies, made to match the party decor:

This is her cake:

They love pandas. I loved being able to use my new pillow cake pans and the 3D teddy bear pan I was given almost a year ago! The panda bear was chocolate cake with a buttercream finish. The pillow was chocolate/vanilla marble cake with buttercream filling and a fondant finish.

Happy Birthday Kaia!

Summer cookies, take 2

My husbands family had a reunion this past weekend and I decided to take some summer cookies. These are the first I've done since Jared was born. I got my inspiration from the "Summertime Fun - Backyard Play" digital scrapbook kit by Jady Day Studio. 

They were all gobbled up and I received many compliments on how cute & tasty they were. We also took a set over to our neighbor for her birthday!

Jungle Animals

I have a big order coming up at the end of July which includes 3 dozen jungle animal cookies. I figured I'd better try some out before then.

These need some tweaking also, but they're a good start.