Giddy up

I love this mini cake. Maybe it's the colors ...no...maybe because it's small. I don't know I just really like it.....oh I know it's the whole cowgirl idea.....yeah maybe one day I'll have some pink cowboy boots and ride like a cowgirl.... Yeee haw. Ok, I had nothing else to do so I made it. I'd been wanting to try my new mini pans and didn't really know what I wanted to do. So this is what just popped in my head. It's 2 mini cakes all covered in fondant so are the little accessories. I tried to make it look cute and girly and I think I pulled it off. So I had to make a matching cookie, of course little pink & tan (embossed) cowboy boots uh maybe it's cowgirl boots. Someone correct me! Anyhow wasn't that hard to do took me about 15 minutes....hmmm can you tell. Maybe you can, was just in a rush to do something for a spare 1/2 hour that I had free. Well you got the point. Hope you like it as much as I do. Yeeeh haaaw! lol

Mario's back again.

My camera wasn't working so this is a picture that Rosita took and I stole from her my space. They loved it and that's what counts. Cake was 2 tier, top was vanilla cake with whipped cream and fresh strawberries and bottom cake was chocolate with whipped cream and bananas. Little story behind it.Here we go....I had went to sleep at 3 am Sunday morning working on Mario and other little things, so I set my cell alarm so I wouldn't wake anyone at 6am. I figured I'd get some 3 hours of sleep, well I don't know how crazy I slept but my phone was under my back and the alarm never went off. So...I woke up to the morning sun in my face at 8am (nice sleep hhhmm....snore) and was real behind because we were supposed to leave my house to the bay area at 9am. Didn't happen! My little one decided he's was going to stick his finger in my already iced smooth cake...aaarrrrgh! I am going ballistic and late...... I begin to fix the cake and finally start to put my top tier on when ......yeah how'd you guess...it fell over and messed up by bottom and ruined my top. I was just about ready to give up on cakes. In my rush to scream and run off like those crazy runaway brides, I break a glass cup spill what's in it all over the floor. SHOOT ME PLEASE!!!! Well just thinking about it erks me but it turned out and we were late to work but the cake arrive in one piece after gluing it together with Crazy glue for a 2 hour drive. lol I'm just kidding. Well it turned out, let's put Mario to rest for a while...please. Thanks for tuning in.

Mario in DEMAND!

This is a another Mario order. Now everywhere I look I see Mario. lol I made 25 Mario cookies. I really need to find a cutout for this little guy. I used several different cutters to get different shapes until I came up with this. Time consuming little things, but I think they're turning out better as we go along. Believe it or not, I used a flower cutter for his mustache, small oval cutter for nose, round 2" cutter for face and hat, a Wilton tip for eyes, a small heart cut in half for ears. The "M" I wrote with royal icing. It's a No Fail Sugar cookie recipe which you can find on Cake Central and Antonia 74 royal icing. I hope this is the last week of Mario Bros, I would like to see new things come my way. I guess I shouldn't complain I should be happy to be busy. I will post the 2 tier cake for the same party tomorrow not done yet, actually haven't even started it. Long night.... gotta go. Thanks for looking.

Christmas cookie baskets

I just made these today, they're filled with sugar cookies and iced in almond/vanilla royal icing. With just 3 days till Christmas I'm baking away. Just not for me of course just orders I need to get done by tomorrow....whuuuuh. I guess I should get back to work and stop bragging on baking....it really smells good...pumpkin rolls with cream cheese filling.....brazo gitanos.....mmm...eggnogg cakes.... Ok so I've gained a few more pounds but I can't help it. I'll make another New Year's resolution to lose weight like I have every other year but never get around to doing it. Ha Ha Ha Don't you wish your cakes were as good as mine, Don't you wish you cakes were as good as mine. Don't you? Dut Dut Dut. Don't you?

Purple ornament cookies

I now love purple. I found this cookie idea, of course nothing like the one who first designed them but I tried. I thought they were cute and different for the holidays. We always see red and green everywhere so I decided to go with purple Christmas ornament cookies. Everything but the ribbon is edible, it's just for looks. Bought the box plain and stamped it all over (Stampin up stamp set) and put some ribbon and a tag. Voila, this is what I ended it up with. Hope you like it!

Here comes the bride....

I was in a cookie mode today, these were just some of 20 others I decided to pull out of the cookie bucket and just make. I used fondant on the cake and long dress with royal icing decorations. As for the dove (I love) and the heart dress I only used royal icing. I like the fondant on the cookie because it's so easy to wipe off if you mess up or just didn't like it, whereas the royal you just have to keep it or throw it or eat it. Of course in my house everything gets eaten. Well I'll post a few tomorrow when I get done with them. I'm also having camera issues, I think I should start asking Santa (my husband) for one. Yeay me!