Merry Christmas!

Strawberry cc with strawberry icing and a fondant snowflake.






 Red velvet with cream cheese icing decorated with a fondant wreath.



 

Chocolate cc with choco-peppermint icing topped with crushed peppermint.

Mini cupcakes I made for my husband's christmas luncheon.

Cookie

What does this:



Have to do with baking, you say.

Okay, so the past couple of months I have been making cupcakes for my husband's co-workers.  One day, my husband comes home handing me a piece of paper with a recipe written on it. Apparently, one of his co-workers wanted to see if I could make this cookie recipe.  A Maple Bacon cookie recipe, of all things!

I have to admit, I was very curious how it would taste but at the same time I was wary about recipes with weird recipes like these.  Not because I don't like experimenting with different flavors, but it called for ONE POUND of bacon!  I mean, I am one of those people who believe in the saying "bacon makes EVERYTHING taste good", but come on, ONE POUND?!  So, to make myself feel a little better I decided to only make 1/2 of the recipe (which meant I only needed 8 ounces of bacon). Doesn't sound and feel as bad than using 1 Pound of bacon.

Before baking:

(The bacon needed to be cooked and crumbled first which made the whole process a little longer) other than that it was a pretty easy and straight-forward cookie recipe.

After baking:

I have to say, it was very good! The recipe was almost like a sugar cookie and the bacon gives the cookie the bacon-salty taste that complement the maple flavor of the cookie. YUM! Bacon DOES make everything taste better :)

Espresso Brownie Balls

I have been inlove with Bakerella's cute cake pops for a while now. Although I love, love, LOVE her beautiful creations, I have yet to try something from her awesome book. The chocolate melts are a little scary to work with along with the different shapes to mold that I figure starting with the basic shape first is the priority.

  What I have been trying to work with lately are brownie balls, cake balls without the icing to keep everything together since brownies are so dense to begin with. Anyway, our last 2 big parties (my dad's and my mother-in-law's 65th Birthday) I was inspired to make brownie balls. A few tablespoons of espresso powder into my brownie batter... et voila! Espresso Brownie balls/pops.

For my MIL's Birthday Party I went with a peachy color scheme for the brownie pops.

For my dad's birthday, I ended up making just brownie balls because we had to hand carry them all the way to Texas and I was afraid that adding lollipop sticks to the equation (along with dragging a toddler and a preschooler) will end up into a big mess.

 Don't they look yummy?!

One of these days I WILL make an honest to goodness Bakerella cake pop, my son already picked out which one it will be.

I've been looking around online and lately, with the season turning and school starting up again, I've been seeing these apple-looking cupcakes. I thought I should try my hand at it. I found it pretty easy if you have the right tools. Namely: Ice cream scoop. No fancy tips, no need for ANY piping skills. Just scoop and place on top of the cupcake. I chilled the cupcake for a few minutes in the fridge so that when I dipped the icing into the red sanding sugar the dome shape stays. Just make sure you have enough sanding sugar. To complete the look  I added a pretzel stick and fondant leaf.

so, without further ado, my first try at making apple cupcakes!



Labor Day Weekend

Labor day weekend was spent with the family to celebrate my husband's Aunt's Birthday. And what is a birthday without a cake (actually, cupcakes)? 

Strawberry and Chocolate cupcakes, of course. With fondant flowers and chocolate cylinders.

I was actually very excited because I got to use my brand new icing tips and 12 ( of my 600 ct. package) of Cupcake liners. :) I know, someone got a little over excited and ambitious while ordering CC liners. I guess we'll just see how long it'll take us to finish ALL 600 cupcake liners.

HI

This is where I am putting all new pics of treats that my kids and I make.

Whoopie pies

Chocolate-peanutbutter filling

Toasted Marshmallow filling

Chocolate cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcake

Strawberry Cupcake

Chocolate Banana eggroll (don't knock it till you try it)  :)

Icebox Cookies

Hope you  like them.