Candace Turns 30!

Over the weekend my friend Candace celebrated her 30th birthday by having a party for her close friends and family.  Her Mom and sister worked hard on the food and I took care of the table set up and desserts.  We had a lot of fun working on this party together!

Candace loves to play cards so a card themed party was perfect.

If you look really hard you can see the spade, club, heart and diamond fondant shapes on top of the mini cupcakes.

Playing card cookies!

White chocolate covered strawberries with sugar crystals... so good!

Happy Birthday Candace!

Happy 2012!

I've been out of town all week and did zero baking for New Years'; however, my sister hosted a gorgeous New Years' party and I have to show off the amazing pictures taken by my Mom!

Love the cupcake clock!

Blackberry trifle

Such a beautiful Christmas tree!

I love the canvas of my new nephew above their mantle.

A Christmas Soiree

Earlier I posted a picture of the Santa cookies I made for our Christmas party but below are other dessert photos. I made tons of desserts - just to make sure most everyone found something they like. Who doesn't like having options?! We had coconut macaroons, peppermint tarts, cake pops (fudge marble and red velvet), gingerbread cookies, mocha truffles, toffee, pecan pies, cranberry bliss bars, snowballs, etc. The only thing missing was an edible centerpiece, icing on the walls and fudgesicles hanging from the chandelier!

Remember the rose pomanders I made for my daughter's birthday party??  And remember how I promised I wouldn't make them again for a long long time?  Well I gave in and made red pomanders for our party... at least they're much smaller in size and didn't take nearly as long!

Hot cocoa station!

Gingerbread men.  I didn't have time to get them dressed for the party!

Red Velvet cake pops

The red trees are Styrofoam cones from Michael's wrapped in garland I found at Dollar Tree.

pecan pies, snowballs, peppermint candy

I found Starbucks' cranberry bliss bar recipe and they turned out GREAT!  I have an entire 9x13" pan of them leftover in the freezer ;)

Chex mix cones were a hit!  A nice break from the sugar overload :)

You can make the fanciest desserts but nothing compares to a glass of milk and a homemade chocolate chip cookie. :) These flew off the platter so I don't have any other pictures of them.

Santa!

I had some fun over the weekend throwing a Christmas party for loads of amazing friends. Here is a picture of the gingerbread cookies I made with a vintage Santa image I found on etsy. My new favorite thing is edible images and icing printers. I mean who doesn't have an icing printer? Actually, I don't... but maybe there will be one under the Christmas tree with my name on it! ;) Afterall, I put St. Nick's face on 3 dozen cookies... how could the guy say no to me?!  I'll post more party pictures this week.

November Afternoon

Days like today make me wish it was Fall year-round.  I can't get enough of the amazing weather, beautiful leaves and Fall foods.

I just happened to have a few leftover desserts from my weekend of baking and put together a little Fall spread of pure goodness.

Pumpkin cupcakes, sugar cookie bundles & apple pies.

I love these mugs.  They were a gift to my parents at their wedding.

Weekend Events

I had a weekend full of baking orders!  I wish I had gotten better pictures of everything, but here are a few pics that I quickly took - 

Preppy pink and green cake pops for a Sweet 16 birthday party:

Maple leaf sugar cookies for a Fall dessert party:

A Ladies' Luncheon/Conference at our church for 90 women (A purple and gold color theme).

Cake pops, mini pecan pies, coconut macaroons, chocolate truffles and mini pumpkin cupcakes. My Mom did the beautiful flower arrangements :)

90 sugar cookies with an edible image of the Conference theme on top:

BLUE!

The blog finally has some blue, thanks to my newest nephew, Harrison Grant! I did a dessert table for the Sip & See Shower we had to welcome my sister's new baby boy. With so many posts with green and pink, I've been anxious to have a "blue" event to blog about.

Ok, I don't like coconut, but I made these macaroons to surprise my sister (her favorite) and I LOVE them.  So good!

When the poms came down, these little goofs had tons of fun playing with them.

And let's not forget the guest of honor!  Harrison Grant 9/19/11