Personalized Valentine's Day Heart Cookies - February 2015

I made these personalized heart sugar cookies for my daughter Carissa to give out to her classmates and teachers at their Valentine's Day party.

💗 My Valentines 💗

More details coming soon... 😊

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40th Anniversary Mini Cake - September 2014

After I made the 50th anniversary cake for my husband's parents (see that cake here) I had a little mini cake left that I didn't end up using.  So, I decided to make a little cake for my parents. They had just celebrated their 40th anniversary earlier in the summer, so I thought it would be a sweet little surprise.

I covered a little cake that was 3-4 inches with white fondant.  I airbrushed the fondant with a pearl sheen food coloring.  Then I used white icing and I think a #2 round tip to make the cornelli lace pattern on the fondant.  The numbers were made from white fondant that I rolled out into a snake then flattened evenly and formed the numbers with it.  Then I airbrushed the numbers with the pearl sheen and added the edible pearls to them.  I placed them on the cake and voila!

Now, here's the funny part of the story [and to explain why the 4 looks a little wonky ;) ]...  For some reason when I was making this cake I originally didn't make a 40... I made a 30!  Don't ask me why. Don't ask me why it didn't dawn on me that I was older than that and I'm the middle child. Unfortunately, I didn't catch it... at all.  It wasn't until the kids and I brought it to my parents house. They were surprised and thought it was so cute and nice... Then my mom laughingly said, "But you meant 40, right.?"  GASP!  Then it all came flooding in... ugh.  I couldn't believe it!  They were all like, it's okay, it's still so pretty, it doesn't matter, let's go have some.  Ha!  There was no way!  So, I went into the kitchen and proceeded to make my pretty little 3 into... a 4.  Unfortunately, the fondant had already hardened some, so I had to be careful and couldn't change it too too much or it would crack.  :/  Fortunately, I was able to work with it enough to get a 4 out of it.  Phew!  ;)

And if you'd like to see proof of this silly little story, well, here you go...

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Heart Shaped Cookie Cakes - February 2012

I made this heart shaped chocolate chip cookie cake and some heart shaped mini cookie cakes for my family and me to enjoy for Valentine's Day.

Above is a picture of the mini cookie cakes before I put the border on the edge.

A cute alternative, and not quite as Valentine-y looking.

To make these cookie cakes I just followed the directions for the cookie cake recipe on the back of a package of chocolate chips.  I baked the large cookie cake in a heart shaped spring-form brownie pan, and I baked the mini cookie cake in some heart shaped silicone cupcake molds.

After the cookie cakes were baked and completely cooled I flipped them over so I could use the smooth flat surfaces to decorate on.  I used white buttercream icing to decorate them.  For the large cookie cake I first put the ruffle on the outer edge of the cookie cake using a star tip.  I used a large heart cookie cutter to make a shallow indentation in the middle of the cookie cake.  Then I used a round tip to pipe my lattice lines.  Next I made the inner ruffle on the heart indentation.  After that I made my loop ruffles off the inner ruffle and on the sides of the cookie cake off of the outer ruffle.  If I was doing this over again I would've done the loop ruffles first and then the border ruffles so it would look a little cleaner.  The border ruffles would've covered the ends of my loops if I'd done it that way, but I was making it up as I went along so that's the way it went.  :)

For the mini cookie cakes I used a round tip to make the lattice pattern, the dots, the cornelli lace pattern, the circles, and the lace pattern.  Then I used the star tip to make the ruffles on the edges of them.

My family liked the Valentine's Day treat, and we all enjoyed eating them.  Yummy!  :)

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Valentine Heart Cookies - February 2011

I made these Valentine heart cookies for my son, Caleb's, 3rd grade class Valentine's Day party.

To make these cookies I followed the directions on the sugar cookie mix to make cut-out cookies.  While the dough was mixing I added a little bit of red food coloring to it to make the dough pink.  I rolled out the dough and cut my hearts shapes out with a cookie cutter.  I baked the cookies and let them cool completely.  Then I put some vanilla buttercream icing in a piping bag and used a round tip  to pipe on my designs (I think I used a #4, but a #3 would probably have worked better, I just couldn't find mine).

I really like the way these cookies turned out, like little old-school valentines.  :)  Caleb enjoyed sharing them with his class at the party.

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Now We Just Need a Really BIG Christmas Tree Cake - December 2009

I made this Christmas ornament cake for my daughter, Cara's, 5th grade Winter Party.  This was at the same party as the snowman cake that I made (see post - Frosting the Snowman, was a Jolly Happy Cake...).

More details to come!  :)

[Right now I'm just trying to get everything on the blog, then I'll go back and fill in details; you can read a little longer explanation here if you want.  BUT if you have any questions in the meantime, in general or about this cake, please feel free to email me by clicking on the 'Contact Me' tab at the top of the page and using the email address found there, and I will try to get back with you as soon as possible.  Or you can always ask questions or leave a comment about this cake by clicking the comments link at the end of this post.  :) ]