Bonnies

The Jersey cookies above represent the fabulous ladies of the St. Bonaventure women's softball team.   You can check them out here:  http://www.gobonnies.com/sports/w-softbl/index

 After two days of doubleheaders... Here is The team enjoying their cookies and Wawa...

Had lots of fun making them... Here is the process....
Night One- Make the cookie dough
Night Two- Cut out and bake the cookies, make the royal icing
Night Three- Flood the cookies (Add the base shirt design- white, brown, yellow)
 

Night Four- Add the names and numbers to the Jersey's

Here's to more sweet success for the team!  Go Bonnies!!!! 

1st Holy Communion

 

Today was a big day for my  niece, her 1st communion.  She was nervous but did a great job. She looked beautiful.  I'm such a sap, got a little teared up when she entered the church.  She is growing up so fast... Were has the time gone...  She and I looked for cake designs on the internet together.  We found this cake which she loved but wanted me to change the colors to dark brown and blue- no problem...
Here are some pics of the cake and the day...


 

 

What a great looking family...

 The dynamic trio...

Easter

Hoppy Easter everyone!  Here are some of the goodies I made for my family... I had a few days off this week and was able to decorate. Had lots of fun playing with royal icing and chocolate....


Just before the egg hunt- Crazy Uncle Joe wanted to hunt for eggs too...

 Playing around with my new chocolate molds...

Awaiting their personalities...

 Drying bunnies and ducks...

 Had to wait while each row of the basket dried... Darn royal icing- made it a little too thin

 Duck and Bunnie Pretzels (got this idea from pinterest, love that website)

 The finished product...

April Orange madness...

I have been victorious in my struggle with my neighborhood squirrels... This is the first time in three years I've managed to grow tulips from bulbs. Chicken wire is my new best friend... I have the most beautiful orange tulip blooming in my flower bed. That flower inspired my icing color choice for the two birthday cakes I made this weekend. 

 Happy Birthday to my sister and my boyfriend's mom!  Hope you had a great birthday!

Pop Pop is starting them out early...

Peace and Zebra's

 Another niece is turning 8.  The trend for 8 year old's appears to be zebra print cake with peace signs...  This time I made a black and white version.  Here is the birthday girl....She had zebra print flip flops to match the cake....

The pieces of the cake drying.  I found milkshake straws and love the them.  I used them to dry the Curly cues as well as for support in the middle of the cake.  They work great.

 Getting things together...

I tried something different and it worked!  I tried the zebra stripes on the inside technique from My Cake School.  If you aren't a member, you should join- the video are great and she provides lots of helpful easy to follow tips... http://www.mycakeschool.com/blog/how-to-make-a-cake-with-zebra-stripes-on-the-inside/ .  I was so excited I forgot to take a picture of what a cut piece looked like but it definitely worked.

 

Happy Birthday!

Bridal Dresses

Made these bridesmaid dresses in honor of a friends upcoming wedding. Not sure you can see the detail but I added pipping of white to the dresses and added touches of orange and blue as they are both sports nuts and it went with their favorite teams.  I also surprised her with his & her   "Jersey's"...

 Note: the puffiness of cotton candy will not last...

 It melts and then maked the hearts look a little "tragic"... Not the look I was going for a bridal party but oh well, they were still kinda cute...

A Mooshi Monster Party

My oldest niece turned 8 this week.  The cake requests are getting more specific with age. This year she wanted a purple and black zebra striped cake with a Piece sign on top with Mooshi Monsters hiding behind the peace sign... Whew... No problem- I can do that!   She is really into Mooshi Monsters and entered a contest to design her own.  With her mom's help they submitted an awesome drawing into the contest. As a surprise my sister sent me the picture and I turned it into a 3-D model for her cake.  She was surprised and loved it!

Here is the cake coming together...

Cake was strawberry flavored- I made "zebra stripes" by adding some black food coloring to the batter...

 The pieces drying...

Lilly's awesome creation- Disco Dazie (I hope they win)

 Lilly and Lindsey added their Mooshi Monsters to the cake...

 Two helpers during the cake photo shoot....

Sisterly love...Happy 8th Birthday!