Red White and Blue Stars

These I made purely for fun.  I haven't been doing enough of that lately.  It was nice to make some cookies with no pressure.  I got this idea from Bake 350, one of my favorite blogs.  Its my basic sugar cookie recipe divided into three portions and tinted with food coloring.  Since there is only a bit of royal icing detailing the top, I am able to keep some in the freezer to pull out whenever I need a little sugar snack. 

Cowboy Wedding Cookies

I created some fun cowboy cookies for a wedding this weekend.  These were different from any sugar cookies I've previously done and I had a lot of creative fun with them.  It's nice to do something other than the wedding cake and dress sugar cookies.  :)  I was really happy with how all the details came out on these. 

I was able to use some green disco dust on the cactus! 

Matt and Lisa's Briday Shower Cookies

A Michigan Wedding needs some Michigan Cookies!  Matt and Lisa are getting married on Mackinac Island so it was only appropriate to do some Michigan Mitt and Mackinac Bridge Cookies.  I was really happy with how the Michigan Mitt cookies turned out.  I even had great success with using disco dust!!  I love a little cookie glitter! 

The bridges turned out "ok".  Not my best, but everyone really liked them.  A little more time and effort and I could have done much better. The little red heart really added a touch of love! 

All bagged up and ready for a home!

Now I have 60 lighthouse sugar cookies to prepare for their wedding next week!  3 Michigan lighthouses!  I baked them up yesterday in the 95 degree heat wave.  My small kitchen warmed up quick!  But they are all baked up and ready for decorating.  I'm going to work on the decoration plan today and maybe start them tomorrow.  I also have a 4 dozen wedding cake/dress sugar cookie order for next weekend that I need to start moving on!  After this I think I need a break from baking for at least a week.  :)

Cupcakes with Gum Paste Flowers

I made some chocolate cupcakes to practice making some gumpaste flowers on.  Gum paste is so simple to work with, but my hands were all red from mixing in the red food coloring in.  The flower punch out set has 4 different size flowers that you can create.  After rolling out the gumpaste you cut out the flowers like you would with a cookie cutter and push the plunger and they poop right out!  They dry fairly quick.  I think I'll be using these flower plungers a lot in the future. 

4th of July Cupcakes

I made some chocolate cupcakes to bring up north with us to share.  I found cute little flags and "fireworks" to decorate them with at Michaels.  Complete with vanilla buttercream and red,white and blue star sprinkles.  The perfect 4th of July treat!

Summer Strawberries

I saw this idea on Bake 350 and knew I needed to create these. They are almost too pretty to eat. I had a lot of fun creating them. I haven't had time to get out and pick some real Michigan strawberries yet, so these will have to do for now.

All packaged up and ready to go!

leahs wedding

What a great wedding Leah and Nick had! Everything went beautifully. Despite the high temperatures, everything held up great. For this dessert buffet I did 200 cupcakes-strawberry with strawberry buttercream, chocolate with vanilla buttercream, and white (tinted purple) with vanilla buttercream. I also did the bride and groom cake on top-funfetti with vanilla buttercream. Yummy! (I tested the leftovers) The cookies that I made included white chocolate cherry shortbread, peanut butter chocolate deluxe, shortbread with chocolate bottoms with a monogramed "W" stamped in, Oreo Truffles, Chocolate Chip, brownies, and sugar cookies. The candy assortment included all the best! I did all of it and it was tons of fun! Her colors were dark purple which I was able to incorporate into some of the candy and design elements. I stenciled a purple flower design along the top boxes just to give an extra touch of color. My dad made the cupcake stand for me, which worked out perfectly. It will definetly get lots of use!