Sweet Celebrations

christmas partying

Christmas Tree cupcakes for a kid's Christmas party.  Yellow cupcakes, buttercream icing and gum paste stars.  Pretty cute and simple.

 

Also, this is a chocolate cake for another Christmas party.  A men's party at that.  The cake was chocolate cake with chocolate chips, the filling was chocolate buttercream and the icing was chocolate fudge.  Death by chocolate, huh?

 

belated easter

I'm a little late?  Yes.  But I still want to show you my Easter goodies.  I hope your Easter was wonderful and a time of remembering our Saviour and His amazing love for us.

sugar cookies

 

bouquet

 

small Easter egg cakes

 

closer

     

my munchkins at church

 

the family

valentine fun

Last week was full of Valentine goodies.  They were mostly for the kids and their friends and a good opportunity to try a few different things.  First of all I made cupcake ice cream cones for my youngest guy's friends at his sitter's.  They were red velvet cake and whipped cream cheese icing.

I love doing homemade valentines instead of the store bought ones.  And since my oldest is still young enough (K-4) not to care if we make them at home, I will take advantage.  I found cute fish valentines at www.brightideas.com.  I really like this website and have gotten several cute ideas from there.  I thought they turned out pretty cute.

My sister also made some for the kids at church.

Of course I couldn't let a holiday go by without sugar cookies so I did some for Big Man's whole class and a few for his teacher.

And last but not least, I made Bakerella's cake balls.  I thought they would be easier than the cake pops, but not true.  Turns out it's much easier to get the chocolate on the cake ball when it's attached to a stick than when it's not. 

 

a little more christmas

I'm a little bummed that the holidays are over and we're back to the "real" world.  Our Christmas was great and it's just a little sad that it's over.  So I thought I would share a couple more Christmas goodies just because I don't want to let go quite yet.  ;-)

This is a present cake with a reindeer sitting on the side done for, none other than, Ms. Kelly.  The decorations and the reindeer were all marshmallow fondant.

 

 

 

We decorated (the kids and I) some cookies like these for Santa and some other very special people over the holidays.

 

I also did a super cute non Christmas themed cake on Christmas Eve.  It was all boy for a little boy's birthday so check back later this week.

Merry Christmas

From our family to yours, have a wonderfully merry Christmas!

 

oh christmas tree

Finally I did it!  I made some of Bakerella's famous cake pops.  I decided to do the Christmas tree ones and they turned out really cute.  Not as perfect as Bakerella's, but cute nonetheless.  The kids helped me with these and that was fun.....and messy......and exhausting. 

I found that using candy melts was much easier than almond bark, not sure why but much easier.  I used red velvet cake and it was so yummy!  Making these is very time consuming and it makes SO many.  I had enough for my biggest guy's class, my mom took one to all of the teachers at her school and I plan on sending some to my little guy's babysitter to share with his friends.  And I still have a few left.  Wow!  In the future, I will used cake scraps from all of my baking instead of a whole cake.  That way I want have a trillion cake pops!  :-) 

So here they are.

  

And just for fun, my littles man waiting for his brother's Christmas play to start.  He looks like he's up to no good.....typical!

happy thanksgiving

Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving!  Enjoy your family and eat lots of turkey...or pie.  I choose pie! 

In honor of the holiday and just for fun, I thought I would share these adorable cake pops from one of my favorite bloggers, Bakerella.

   

If you would like to read more about these Turkeys click here.