Crafting Cat Chicks!

Seriously what do you give to a woman who loves baby chicks, stamp crafting, cats and keeps her own bees. Well custom cookies of.....

baby chick faces...

beehives ( I used a candy corn cutter for these)

the place she works,

and cats! (these were colored using edible ink pens)

What a fun thank you gift to receive from her awesome friend JoDee!

Minecraft Cookies & Cake

Is your boy or girl obsessed with Minecraft?? My 7 year old is. If he was allowed to play it all day I just think he might. If you are not sure what Mine Craft is you can click here to find out. 

For his birthday he wanted Minecraft cookies so I did a couple different things. 

For his treat to take to his class I did some creeper and TNT cookies.

For his small party with friends I made some color canvas cookies that are just white flooded cookies with the coloring image outlined in black icing using the wet on wet method. 

Then the kids used edible ink markers to color them they way they wanted.

I had talked to my son and before all these events took place and asked if he wanted a cake for his birthday or cookies and he choose the cookies but on the actual morning of his birthday he said he was excited to have birthday cake that night. I was like "oh I thought the cookies were what you had decided to have." but he said "you have to have cake on your birthday".

Luckily I had some cake frozen in the freezer so I just quickly made a cube shape and the decorated with Melty Bead art!

Icing Smiles iPod Cookie Cake

I belong to a local ICES group which stands for International Cake Exploration Society. I joined the group to learn more about making cakes and making friends who love to play in sugar like me.

Cookies by far are the thing I enjoy doing and I dabble in cakes here and there. Well Icing Smiles contacted this group I belong to and asked for a volunteer to make a cake for a brother of a boy who is suffering from Leukemia. No one else said they were available so I said I would do it.

Icing Smiles is a nonprofit organization that provides custom celebration cakes and other treats to families impacted by the critical illness of a child.  This is actually a awesome opportunity and I was happy to be able to help out this family who is going through a very rough patch in their lives. 

The cake I was to make was for a 16 year old boy named Jonus. 

His mother told me he loved his iPod, headphones etc.. 

I originally was going to just do a rectangle cake in the shape of an iPod because I thought it would be simple. But I really want to put in some cookies so I took even a little bit of easier route and made a chocolate cake with chocolate butter-cream and topped it off with some iPod and a teenager listening to some tunes!

It was a little rough making the cake because the filling I had made failed and I had to completely start over on the bottom tier. Luckily I was able to recover and get it done on time.



The cookies up close.



Lately I don't really love covering cakes in fondant but I did make some ear buds out of it to be the border of the cake.





His whole family came by to pick up the cake so I go to meet his parents his younger sister and his little brother who has Lukemia. I really felt so good to be able to provide this service for their family and I hope that the chocolate cake brought a smile to their faces.



If you want to learn more about the Icing Smiles organization please click here. You don't have to be a business to volunteer to those who need these services. This is a country wide organization and they are always looking for some one to donate their time and talents to help those who are suffering from a critical illness.

Kindergarten Rodeo

I was a volunteer at my sons Kindergarten Rodeo party last week. I signed up to do cookies of course and thought I would make it an art project for the kids as well.

So I made boot and hat coloring cookies for the occasion.







All of the kids loved it and took time to color them just the way they wanted them to look. Rainbow themes were pretty popular among the children.

I had to stay at the cookies station but they had fun horse races, water gun target shooting and roping chair cow games for the kids to enjoy.

Then they all got to eat lunch around a "camp fire". I thought it was cute.

Here is a shot of the cookie my son did that day as well as one he did today.
These coloring cookies are a great idea for any kind of children's party or even for a crafty project for adults.

Coloring Cookies

Made coloring cookies last month. I saw the idea on montreal confections you tube channel. I had a friend who wanted to do some peace sign cookies for her daughters birthday. She said she just loved to draw them all the time. So I told her that I could make them like a coloring page in just a black out line and then the girls could use the edible in markers to color them up.

So I made them up and made a few extra little ones for my kids to try out first. Here they are coloring.





Here is one that I colored in. It works like a charm.



Some that I did for the party.



My kids finished project. My daughter keeps asking if she can color on some more cookies. So I think they were a hit. This is a great idea for a birthday or a party where you want your attendees to be a little creative. :)



All wrapped up and ready to go to the groovy party.



Oh and a pic of my son with the peace sign cookie he colored. I also saw how you can do this on a fondant covered cake and think I will try that some day as well.