The Mighty eggs....

Just a little note to answer the question of where did I find the eggs I used on my cake.
The answer to that big question is......Hobby Lobby in a 9 oz. bag for $2.49.  They are Mighty Malts hide 'n' seek eggs by Necco, individually wrapped and taste great too.  

Enjoy!

Happy Easter!

To you and yours Happy Easter.  

St. Patrick's for the Dogs

Hope you all had a great St. Patrick's Day.  

My dog got into the green with some homemade 
green dog biscuits. 

They are Bailey approved as you can see, 

he did not leave a crumb in site.  

Not too bad since this was my first go at dog treats.  

Homemade St. Patrick Dog Biscuits


1 cup whole wheat flour
2/3 cup corn meal
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
1/4 cup oat meal
1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 cup low-sodium chicken stock
1/4 cup low-sodium chicken stock for basting.
Green food coloring


Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large mixing bowl combine whole wheat flour, corn meal,
pumpkin and 1/2 cup low-sodium chicken stock and vegetable oil. Mix well.
Now add a drop or two of green food coloring until you get your desired color, mix well.
On a lightly floured work surface, roll out your dough about 3/8 inches think and take a dog bone cookie cutter and cut out your shapes.
If you like a fuller plumped bone biscuits you can transfer you biscuits to the cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.   

To keep your biscuits flat, take a toothpick or fork to the center of each bone biscuit and transfer your biscuits to the cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake your bone biscuits for 10 to 12 minutes then basted with chicken stock, bake another 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool, your looking for a dry crunch biscuit. 


Store in an airtight container at room temperature.


Hope your four legged friends enjoy them as much as mine did.   

Spring Dance

Spring is around the corner and I'm counting the days.
Last weekend I saw my first two Robins and look what I found in the yard the other day.

So keeping with the theme of spring, here are some Spring Fairy Princess Ball Dress Cup Cakes.
Found the idea of them on line.

Here's how to make your Fairy Princess Ball Dress Cup Cakes with ribbons of buttercream ruffles.
This is a short cut version.
Start with your basic cup cakes, matching your cup papers with the color of your ball dress.
Bake and cool according to the package.
Set aside.
Take store bought sugar cookie dough, add a few drops of matching food color and kneed into dough until you reach your desired color.
You may need to add more flour to make it workable.

Next, roll out and cut out the top of your dress with a Onesie cookie cutter.
It worked best for us to have a thin cookie.
Bake according to the package; but, before they cool off , take your Onesie cutter and again cut the baked cookie while still warm.
Careful they are HOT.
Doing this keeps the shape uniform and precise because they spread during baking.
Let cool.

Now you can whip up your favorite buttercream or use a store bought version.

 I find the store buttercream to be a little to stiff.

Color the buttercream to match your cookie and cup cake paper.

Using a rose tip, ice your cup cake in ribbons.

Once they are done take a cookie and stick one in the center of each cup cake.
You want a hard cookie to do this.


We accented with a fondant flower at the waist of each dress.

Wishing you a fresh bright spring! 

Double-O Cup Cake

As I promised, Spy Cup Cakes.  

A thanks goes out to my sister who google these ideas on line.

Double-O spy cakes, yellow and chocolate fudge cakes iced in butter cream and topped with fondant spy gear.

For your taste buds only, top secret files. Once read must be consumed.  

Double-O flash light for your mission. 

Double-O spy glass for those little clues. 

No spy is complete with out a double-O camera.

Once your mission is complete leave nothing but the cake wrapper.

Are you ready for some Cake ?!

I spent the weekend baking cakes which were all needed for Sunday. 

Yes Super Bowl Sunday!

Two 1/2 sheet cakes in a football theme. 

I wanted to do the team helmets but due to restrictions I had to keep it simple. 

For the footballs, I used chocolate eggs and for the lacing I used butter cream icing. 

Then I moved on to the next cake, this was for my sweet sister's birthday. 

Did a Ganache icing and fondant ribbon roses dusted with crystallized pearl dust.

10" Round Chocolate Fudge Cake 

Next up spy cup cakes!

Santa's workshop.

December is the start of holiday parties and get-togethers. Mine had me making a not your typical gingerbread house, one made out of sugar cubes for a table center piece. It was a first one for me that did not come as a box kit. Where did I start? Going up and down the candy and baking aisles. I was selecting anything with possibilities. Below is what I came up with. If you decide to make one next year I would recommend you stock up on supplies after this season is over.   

Some things I just could not walk by like these items by Wilton and Martha Stewart.  

They were just too cute.

Sugar cube's. 

Wilton's Cookie Icing worked really well as glue for the sugar cubes. 

You still have to wait over night for it to be completely dry for solid walls. 

To begin, I used my graham cracker as a base for the walls over a paper doily. (You can use parchment paper.)

This makes moving it safer until it's completed.  

Use your cookie icing as glue/mortar on your cubes. 

Once you structure is dry with out worry of it collapsing (trial and error for me) move on to the details.

Using the cookie icing and white candy melts as adhesive for the details.

For details, I used red and white M & M's, candy cane candies, Mrs. Fields Candy Bark, Wilton Mini Candy Cane Sprinkles, meringue cookies, Candy Kisses, sugar cones and sugar sprinkles and dots and Ande's Candy Chocolate's Flipz's and mini marshmallows. I did say I went up and down the aisles.

Its all about what you want and for me I ended up with two styles of houses.

I had been going for the elegant and ended up with cute.  

For the fence I used Flipz the cake board for fencing.

I also dusted the M & M's with edible shimmer dust to give a frosted look.

Using Mrs. Fields Candy Bark as the porch and the mini candy cane sprinkles as broader around it.This roof top is candy melt coated grahams. If you're using the candy melts for adhesive then be sure the house is in a cool area. Candy melts do melt and you don't want your roof sliding into your veggie dip.

The sugar cones were coated with candy melts and rolled in sugar sprinkles and once dry other sprinkles were adhered with candy melts to the trees. 

This house I used Mrs. Fields Candy Bark as the roof and the Andes Candies as a door and shutters for the window's and sidewalk. Marshmallows were used for a snowman using a food pen for the face and sprinkle as a carrot for the nose.  

Candy melts were used to adhere the sugar cone trees, sidewalk and sign post, then accented as snow.

 Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas.