So for Thanksgiving this year I tried baking a sweet potato pie, enhanced with bourbon and a brown sugar layer between the crust and the filling… Â Honestly, I was disappointed–especially with the crust. The recipe was much more involved than I ever do for crust, and did not come out well for all the effort! Needless to say, the filling was pretty good…
I had fun creating these custom bachelorette themed cookies for party favors this week! I used my Grandmother’s sugar cookie recipe and SweetSugarBelle’s royal icing recipe again 🙂
I had a little extra time, so I started experimenting with some additional arrangements….
I’ve noticed some of my favorite blogs use cups and mugs of steaming hot beverages in their overhead shots. I like the warm, cozy feeling the beverage gives to the shot, and I had the perfect dish towel to go with it… I’ll work on adding more to my layouts to pump them up!
And some fun with minis <3
What better way to commemorate the end of summer than with s’mores cupcakes? Thanks to Sally’s Baking Addiction!
These delicious chocolate cakes are filled with a fluff marshmallow creme filling, topped with milk chocolate frosting, sprinkled with crushed graham cracker crumbs, and topped with a gooey, toasty marshmallow!
Let’s take a look:
Even if summer is winding down, fall is a lovely time of year and presents many scrumptious baking opportunities… stay tuned! 😉
They don’t look like all that many altogether…. and yet I keep having to buy larger storage bins for all my sprinkles 😉 Not a bad problem to have in my opinion. Some people have collections of shoes, watches or cars. I have a growing collection of fun and festive sprinkles! It’s not even enough to have one of each color… then there are varying shapes, and sanding sugar or larger crystals, or iridescent or pearlized, flavored or not, single color or mixed etc. The options are endless. <3
Finding time for baking has been difficult lately, but I squeezed in these chocolate cupcakes for a joint birthday celebration of some friends. I saw a photo in a magazine that inspired the tinted frosting trio. Next time, I hope to incorporate a fun variety of flavors and fillings!
I’m a bit out of season, but I couldn’t resist experimenting with these ‘littles’ a friend gave me. 🙂 I have been inspired by work like “Minimian” (originally seen here) and Audrey Heller, and creative juices started flowing after the snowstorm earlier this year…
DARING SKIIER….
ONE ICE SKATER…
TWO ICE SKATERS…
THREE ICE SKATERS…
ANOTHER DARING SKI STUNT…
Happy Easter! These little Cadbury’s mini eggs are easy to find… 😉
smeared frosting… true to life… I’ll clean it up next time 😉
My weekend baking project was this strawberry layer cake (previously made back in June 2012), and is one of my favorite cakes to this day. This time, I had a chance to snap a few photos before taking it to the cake tasting event in my neighborhood.
Here’s the cake at the “cakeluck” in process of being devoured…
Success! It all got eaten 🙂
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I had fun trying out a new cookie decorating technique…
I made some mistakes and have a list of improvements to make, but I also have a list of ideas for future decorations swirling around in my head and am eager to practice more!
I happened upon SugarBelle’s blog and used her royal icing recipe for these cookies (Note: After finishing my cookie experiment, I saw a much more recent post from SugarBelle with an updated royal icing recipe and tips here!).
Here are the ingredients ready to begin my royal icing adventure…
The recipe called for mixing up VERY stiff icing to start from for tinting and watering down to desired consistencies for decorating. I think I was pretty successful in this (and my wrist felt it too after mixing in all of the coloring!)
The only two green tint colors I had were these two…
Let the tinting begin! After multiple rounds of adding a couple drops at a time and stirring…
Even if not quite the two green colors I had imagined, I eventually got a decent contrast and figured that was the best I could do with what I had… time to expand my green tint collection!
(I apologize for lack of photos during this process…) I then watered down my ‘pipe consistency’ icing with a spray water bottle, placed it in a piping bag with a #3 tip, and prepared my ‘flood consistency’ icing by watering it down even more, and placed it in a squeeze bottle. Starting simple, below you can see one cookie that has been outlined, and the other that has been outlined and then “flooded’.
And then there were these…. 😀 I went crazy with multiple compositions!
(I’m wishing I had more than four $1 gold coins…. I think it would have made for more of an impactful message ;))
Since I didn’t have anything rainbow to add to the mix, I created one out of Washi tape 🙂
And let (a little too) loose with the edible gold glitter!
Happy Valentine’s Day <3 Â I enjoyed photographing these chocolatey minis.
