Sweet Lil Dreams Confections
White Fondant Flower Covered Baby Bootie Cake Toppers
My mom made these beautiful flower covered baby booties and sent them to me to photograph for her – all the way from Costa Rica! They’re so dainty and sweet. She made these using the same pattern as the pink baby bootie cake toppers. These were my mom’s version of these Beautiful Handmade Floral Baby […]
Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Cake
This cake was a collaboration between my mom and I. I made the cake and she made the decorations. I transported everything to the party venue and put the decorations on right before “cake time”. The strawberries were made with fondant and turned out so cute! (Cake journal has a great tutorial on how to […]
Purple Brush Embroidery and Mendhi Cookies
This month I plan on blogging all of my crafts and creations from the past 6 months or more since our move (and a little before) that I’ve meant to post but haven’t. I have cookies, crafts, recipes and more to photograph and put up on the blog. I’m excited to share all of it […]
Alice In Wonderland Painted Cookies
My mom has started exploring a new aspect of cookie decorating: Painted Cookies! When I came across Arty Mcgoo’s painted cookies that she does, I instantly thought of my mom since she is a very good artist herself. (By the way, weirdly enough, when I just checked out Arty Mcgoo’s site to link up to […]
Airplane Cookie Cake for Mr. Happy Feet’s Third
Last week Mr. Happy Feet turned three years old. My mom and I made his cake together. I made the cake and she did the cookies. This is our second cake made with decorated sugar cookies. The cake was a six inch, double layer chocolate cake with Swiss meringue buttercream (SMB) frosting and filling. The […]
Lace Heart Cookies
These delicate lace heart cookies were inspired by Haniela’s Honey Cookies and My Little Bakery’s amazing lace cookies and were my mom’s first attempt at this style. I really love how these turned out and how she made it her own. So feminine. I am envisioning the above stripey heart in patriotic colors for Fourth […]
Dress Cookies
Pastel Pretties My mom made these dress cookies a while ago. These make me think of 50’s prom dresses. Little Black Dresses A beautiful little black dress cookie is featured in Peggie Porschen’s decorating book “Simply Spectacular Cakes” and was my mom’s inspiration for the cookies above (please ignore the wrinkled paper ;)). Although she […]