“Hey, where’s Perry?”

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Elaine

That’s how we responded when we were asked to bake some special cookies for a Phineas & Ferb themed birthday party. After a quick refresh on the specifics of the dynamic duo’s semi-aquatic friend, Perry the Platypus, we got to work! See some shots from our hours of fun below!

Here’s looking at you – eyes with black piping.

Then moving on to Perry’s handsome bill – also piping consistency. We used a true orange color for the outline of the beak and a more goldenrod yellow for the flooding fill in the beak.

Time to fill in the whites of the eyes…we used a white flooding consistency.

Time for the finishing teal color. We used a flooding consistency. First, we outline the square cookie, then flood, and use a toothpick to fill in the details! Now, he just needs to dry!

Finished product…

College Bound…

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Elaine

It’s high school graduation time and you know your getting older when your friends have kids graduating from high school! We wanted to celebrate high school graduation with cookies that recognized their accomplishments and most importantly…getting into a good college. We made message cookies, graduation caps, confetti, stars, and even some logos paying tribute to their future alma maters. Here’s a peak at the fun!

First, for a Carlsbad High grad going to UCLA to play water polo! We love the UCLA colors. First time we made water polo balls.

Next up….the Wildcats. This message was “Now You’re A Wildcat.” Wishing Carly good luck at the University of Arizona.

Of course, we had to make some cookies for her mom too!

Another grad on the east coast is headed to Endicott College in MA. These were some fun logo cookies. I thought this was a pretty awesome looking platter! The sea gull mascot was fun to do. The message for these cookies was “Watch Out Endicott”.

Wishing all the high school graduates the best of luck in college! Congrats on getting into some great schools.

End of Year Teacher Gifts…Flower Bouquets

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Elaine

We made these adorable flower pots for our kids teachers! I love the bright colors. Enjoy the “You Help Me Bloom” Theme!

The flower cookies were put onto lollipop sticks. I cut the cookie shape out of the dough and then press the stick into the back side and put a little extra dough over the top. Then bake them with the sticks!

To decorate them, first do the sugared middle..or else the sugar will stick to the other parts! Make a small circle with white frosting (I used a loose piping consistency). Then dip into the sugar crystals. I used orange here.

After you dip the cookie in the sugar, then you pipe the flower pedals and fill them in with the royal icing. I used a think flooding consistency so I could outline and fill at the same time. Warning…be careful because it will spread a little and you don’t want it to drip over the edges of the flower. If you are not confident, then pipe first and then fill the pedals!

Here are some of the finished pops….I couldn’t decide which colors to use to I made some white and outlined in pink which I thought looked great!

After they dried overnight…I made two bouquets and wrapped the rest in bags with toole. I wrap each cookie in a cellophane bag with a ribbon and then pushed each pop into a container with foam! Here are the finished arrangements! I love the way the message cookie brings the theme together.

Bippity Boppity Boo!

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Elaine

For the last several months, my girls have been fortunate enough to be part of a stellar group of youth singers and dancers, choreographed and trained by the lovely director and producers of the Coast Kids Theatre Group in Roger & Hammerstein’s, “Cinderella”! Cast predominantly as mice, the girls had so much fun learning their parts and participating as the whole production came together like clockwork.

So, as time marched on towards the opening weekend, we were first excited to donate a couple dozen glass slipper cookies to the very special matinee performance, which included, “Tea with Cinderella”, oh what fun! While delivering the cookies, so many of the talented players asked with wide, hopeful eyes, “Are those for us?” … A question that only lead to a greater one? Could we pull it off? Add another 100 cookies to our already busy, busy docket?

The answer was a yes (mostly because Elaine, baked all of the cookies in one day while I had an extra volunteer thing at the kids’ school (not to mention tech night rehearsals, if only there was an oven at the Star Theatre)) … But all jokes aside, and in the spirit of those fastidious mice, by the time the icing and chunky sugar had dried on the very last glass slipper cookie, we truly felt an awful lot like Cinderella’s dear friends – “Work, work, work, she’ll never get her dress done on time,” – but luckily we did, and the payoff was worth it, both casts of the production really enjoyed their special glass slipper cookie treats, individually wrapped to boot, and that’s a wrap! – April

Dance Divas – KC Dancegear Fashion Show

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Elaine

When my friend Tammie approached us about making cookies for a fashion show at her dance store, KC Dance Gear (along with an invitation for my girls to model), we were delighted to come up with some fun ideas for her special event! We started with a message cookies outlining the treats with her logo colors – we absolutely fell in love with the “Fashion Star” stars – so appropriate here, especially when paired with our little red chunky sugared stars. Click through to her lovely store here: http://www.kcdancegear.com/ Congratulations, Tammie on a successful show! – Elaine

Teacher Appreciation Treats!

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Elaine

It’s that time of year at Carrillo Elementary …Teacher Appreciation Week! So what are you doing for your kids teachers? Of course, we are baking cookies. We thought about the traditional apples, rulers, crayons, but then, how could we resist the opportunity to do something little more personal and unique (as well as a good excuse to use some new cookie cutters)!

So, for my daughter’s first grade teacher – who loves sports and used to be a PE teacher – we went with a sports theme, the special message inscribed: “YOU’RE A HOME RUN” paired with some baseball gloves, balls, and bats. Mrs. Sherwood loved them!

My older daughter’s third grade class just finished a unit on the solar system, so we we took the everyday, universal, “thank you” to a whole new level … our overall message: “Thank you for helping us reach for the stars!” The message cookie says, “Thank You Ms. Shultz”. We made a moon, shooting star, and some mini sugared star cookies!

Our school also has a Mandarin language program for third graders…so here are some cute “Mandarin Orange” slices for our special teacher!! How cute?!

Hope you find something fun to give to your teachers this week. Thanks to all the teachers out there who give so much to our children.

Thoroughbred Baby

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Elaine

We love new babies, we also love baking in honor of the little ones, especially if we get to experiment with new cutters! This time, it was mom-and-dad-to-be’s love of horses that spurred our interest in procuring a horse shoe cutter. The results are below and isn’t it a pretty package, some of our little babies even have jockey caps! Lucky Boy!

Shake, Rattle and Roll … Over

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Elaine

When asked to make some cookies for a baby shower, we immediately thought we’d like to try cute little baby faces. Later, we realized we wanted to do something special to shake it up and decided to invest in a baby rattle cutter, check out the total package below. The onsies are always adorable. We were on a sanding sugar kick this week, so the rattles and onsies are all sugared up!

Here is a picture of the three different cookies on the platter! Which baby face do you like the best? I had binkie babies…so those are my favorite.

We made party favors with three cookies in a bag.

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