Sugar - Cookies, Cakes and More

My Little Pony, 2.0

2012-12-15T16:44:00.004-08:00

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:

Damask Wedding Cake

2012-10-14T11:47:00.002-07:00

My sweet cousin Ashley got hitched this past week. She asked me to do her cake. Her main directions were that she wanted a black and white damask pattern with a lime green layer and black ribbon.

The bow was my addition. They loved the cake.

The cake was a caramel cake with browned-butter caramel filling and a buttercream finish. The damask pattern was hand piped in royal icing.

Congratulations Ashley and BJ!

Elephant Baby Shower cookies

2012-10-04T13:32:00.002-07:00

A sweet neighbor asked me to make cookies for her baby shower this coming Saturday. She asked for elephant cookies, similar to these she had seen online. I had five or six cutters she could choose from, and she chose a slightly different elephant shape. I made a few changes to the sample cookie she liked, and she loved how they turned out.

Happy baby shower Aubrey!

Tangled

2012-09-08T14:22:00.002-07:00

A co-worker of my husband's asked me to do their little girl's birthday cake again this year. Last year I made her a giraffe smash cake for her first birthday. This year, it was a Tangled cake.

The cake was chocolate with a buttercream filling. It is finished entirely in buttercream icing. I used a technique called a buttercream transfer for Rapunzel.

Happy Birthday Brynnlee!

Sock Monkey Birthday

2012-09-08T14:18:00.000-07:00

My husband's cousin's daughter (got that? LOL) asked me to make a sock monkey cake for her little boy's first birthday. Well, two cakes actually. One for him to smash and one for everyone else to eat. It was a fun project.

The cake was marble on the bottom with Bavarian cream filling, and chocolate on top with the same filling. It was finished in fondant.

The smash cake was half chocolate and half marble cake, with buttercream filling. It was finished in buttercream icing with fondant decorations.

Happy Birthday Boston!

Raindow Wedding Cake

2012-09-03T15:22:00.002-07:00

My cousin and his partner had their commitment ceremony this past weekend. I was asked to make the cake. It was definitely the most colorful cake I've done yet!

The cake was marble cake with Bavarian cream filling, finished with buttercream icing and fondant.

Congrats Dru and Chad.

CTR cake

2012-08-26T13:34:00.001-07:00

My son, Daniel, was baptized a member of our church yesterday. We had a luncheon after the baptism, so I made him a cake. It was a marble cake with buttercream finish and fondant decoration.

Congratulations buddy, so proud of you!

Fuschia & Teal Wedding Cake

2012-08-26T13:31:00.002-07:00

My nephew, Spencer, was married a week ago. His cute bride asked me to do their cake. She wanted something a little different, and loved the idea of a non-white wedding cake. They loved their cake, and so did I.

The bottom tier was strawberry cake with strawberry filling and the top tier was lemon cake with lemon filling. The middle two were false. It was finished with buttercream icing and fondant flowers.

Congratulations Spencer and Stephanie!

"Girly" Elmo cake

2012-07-28T19:23:00.000-07:00

Our former renter who had me do her little girl's first birthday cake last year had me do her second birthday cake this year! Mommy wanted a "girly" cake, Kaia wanted an Elmo cake. SO, we compromised - a "girly" Elmo cake.

The cake is a marble cake with Bavarian cream filling. It is finished in fondant, including the Elmo figure, with royal icing flowers.

Happy Birthday Kaia!

Phineas & Ferb cake

2012-07-28T19:19:00.000-07:00

My oldest turned eight a week ago. His favorite TV show is Phineas & Ferb, so I threw him a P&F party two weeks ago and made him a P&F cake for last weekend. He loved it!

Chocolate cake with buttercream filling. The topper is a toy.

Happy Birthday Dan!

More Cupcakes

2012-07-16T15:24:00.001-07:00

I have had a few occasions that required cupcakes in the past month. First was my birthday. I refuse to make my own cake, but I did make Rolo cupcakes, and planned a potluck BBQ with family to celebrate. These were the cupcakes:

Believe you me, they were tasty.

Second, was my aunt's fourth of July/20th Anniversary party. I made 4 dozen cupcakes (and a red velvet cake) for the occasion. Half of the cupcakes were cookies and cream, and half were orange creamsicle:

They were all gone before I got one.

Lastly, was my son's birthday party this past weekend. It was a "Phineas and Ferb"-themed party, so I made Perry the Platypus cupcakes.

They were a hit!

Super Heroes

2012-06-18T11:49:00.001-07:00

Because both my Dad and my Father-in-Law are "Super", I made them super hero cookies for Father's Day. They both thought they were great! It's a good thing... I didn't start them until around 3pm on Saturday afternoon and was up until 1am finishing them! They aren't perfect, but as long as the Dads liked them, we're good!

Gourmet Cupcakes

2012-06-08T15:31:00.000-07:00

I am branching out into the world of gourmet cupcakes. I have listed available flavors on my Cupcake Flavors page on the left hand side. They will be priced starting at $15 a dozen.

I made some super yummy orange creamsicle cupcakes for a party on Memorial Day, but I failed to get a photo of them. Trust me, they were GOOD.

There is a neighborhood GNO tonight here in my neck of the woods. It is a talent show. So for my talent, I'm bringing cupcakes. Tonight's flavors are:

Cookies & Cream

and Almond Joy.

Hope I made enough!

Tiki Cookies

2012-06-05T13:48:00.001-07:00

I have been doing so many cakes lately, I felt like I needed a cookie fix. So, I decided to make some fun new summer cookies. The first batch are these Tiki statues. Aren't they fun?

I used the "Kona Coast" digital scrapbook kit by Julie Billingsley as inspiration.

Fazio Wedding Cake

2012-06-01T13:39:00.003-07:00

Months and months ago my cousin Rachel asked me to make her wedding cake. She and her fiance wanted something different. So, we went with square tiers, each rotated on it's axis, with a whimsical piped design. I think it turned out well, and the happy couple loved it!

The bottom tier was red velvet cake with cream cheese filling. The second tier was false. The third tier was white cake with raspberry filling and the top was red velvet with Bavarian cream filling. It was finished in butter cream icing with edible beads and royal icing accents. The cake took 10 pounds of sugar, 25+ pounds of icing and almost an entire 16 oz. bottle of red food coloring. I kid you not.

Congratulations Rachel & Justin!

Poky Little Puppy Cake

2012-05-22T09:00:00.000-07:00

I love doing cakes! I have been getting a lot of orders from word-of-mouth advertising. A big THANK YOU to all of you who recommend my services!

This is the latest cake - another first birthday cake. The theme was The Poky Little Puppy book. I had the book growing up, and bought a new copy for reference that I will give to my boys now that the cake is done. It was a chocolate/white marble cake with Bavarian cream filling, finished with buttercream with fondant and royal icing accents.

Happy Birthday Larric!

Two 1st Birthday Cakes

2012-05-17T18:38:00.002-07:00

Last week I had orders for three cakes. The first two were for a friend's daughter's first birthday. She last ordered the Angry Birds cake for her husband's birthday. For CC she wanted polka dotted cakes. Easy enough! I made her a 10" red cake with black polka dots (chocolate cake with buttercream filling) and a 6" "smash" cake that was white with red polka dots (white cake with buttercream filling). I also made fondant toppers of a "1" and "CC" for the tops of the cakes.

Next I made an Elmo cake for a neighbor's grand-daughter's first birthday. Her little brother was born the day before! Luckily they had the party before that. This cake was also chocolate with a buttercream filling.

Happy birthday CC and Paisley!

Gold Plates Baptism cake

2012-05-05T09:11:00.001-07:00

In my church, children are baptized when they are eight years old. This week I made a cake for a little boy who is getting baptized today. It has the gold plates on it, the plate that we believe the Book of Mormon was translated from. I hope he loves his cake!

The base cake was a chocolate/white marble cake. The plates part was chocolate/white marble cake with Bavarian cream filling.

Congratulations Andrew!

Cat in the Hat cake

2012-04-29T14:05:00.001-07:00

My baby turn one year old tomorrow. I swear he was just born! We are having a party for him today with our family, and I made him a Cat in the Hat cake for his party.

It is a chocolate cake with raspberry filling, finished with buttercream icing and a chocolate transfer.

Happy Birthday Jer-Jer!

Morrow wedding cake

2012-04-29T14:01:00.000-07:00

I have a really hard time saying no to cake requests from family. So, even though I knew I'd be making a birthday cake the same week, I agreed to do a wedding cake for my biological mom's-cousins-son's wedding. Follow that?

Luckily, the cake was fairly simple in design. The only snag was that the groom has Celiac disease, so the top tier had to be gluten free.I was given the instructions that the bride liked white-on-white designs and the wedding colors were Navy and white. So, I went from there.

The top two tiers had a simple swag design with navy ribbon, and the middle tier had a more intricate piped design. Their florist added flowers later. The couple used their own topper.

And, here is the happy couple cutting the cake!

And, some more images of the cake at the wedding:

Relief Society cake, takes 2 &3

2012-03-20T15:55:00.003-07:00

This year is the 170th anniversary (or birthday) of the Relief Society. My cake was such a hit last year that I was asked to make two this year. And, because I can't say no (and I thought that they would be due on different days, not both today) I agreed.

The first was basically the same as last years' cake, except it was a carrot cake with cream cheese icing.

The second is a chocolate cake with a simplified RS logo.

Happy Birthday Relief Society!

Woody Cookies

2012-03-05T14:40:00.000-08:00

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.

Valentine's Day 2012

2012-02-14T12:44:00.000-08:00

I have been busy around here making Valentine's Day treats!

First, I had an order from a friend for two dozen lacy heart cookies. I ended up having 9 different patterns, each in two color combinations. I used the recent tutorial from Sugarbelle on piping lace onto cookies.

Next, I made robot cookie hearts for my boy's school classes. Again, I used Sugarbelle for the idea. I just love her! The boys were very pleased with their cookies.

And last, but not least, my boys and I made bug Valentines for their classes too. Totally not edible though! The printable for the jars can be found here.

Hello Kitty Cupcakes

2012-02-14T12:37:00.000-08:00

One of my neighbors orders cupcakes for his daughter's birthday every year. This year she wanted Hello Kitty cupcakes. Even though I already had a couple of orders this week, I couldn't say no...

They were chocolate cupcakes with buttercream icing. The toppers are 100% edible and made of royal icing.

Happy Birthday Kiana!

Hello Kitty cookies

2012-01-27T07:33:00.000-08:00

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!