Cookie Birthday Cake

I have always wanted to make a tiered cookie cake and finally had the chance!
This cake was a blast to make, plus it is a surprise cookie cake, the middle two tiers are hollowed out and filled with candy.

This was a super easy cookie to make, over and done with in one day.  The nice thing about a stacked cookie like this is you don't have to let the icing dry for 24 hours like your regular sugar cookies.  I have actually found that stacking after about 30 min of a set time helps the structure say together while still keeping it easy to take a cookie off .
Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Stay Sweet Everyone!

Summer time cookies

Summer is finally here, sunny weather, beautiful flowers, warm breezes and butterfly's.

These cookies were made as a thank you gift for some very special teachers and volunteers right before summer vacation began.

These wonderful women devote their time to teaching the next generation.  I was lucky enough to work along side them throughout the school year as a volunteer for the Read 180 program.  This program helps students who are reading below grad level catch up.

I was part of a similar program when I was in the second grad and thanks to dedicated teachers I was reading at a college level before I entered high school. I was privileged enough to work with some awesome 5th graders and thanks to the dedication of their wonderful teachers and volunteers I think many of them will be reading at grade level by the time they start the 6th grade!

Be sure you take the time today to think about a special teacher that changed your life, and if you are able to go out there and thank them.  I am so grateful for all my educators did for me and what they continue to do in the world today.  These sweets are for all the educators out there!  Thank you for all you do!

Happy Graduation

Tis the season of mortar boards and gowns.

Facebook is a sprawl of happy faces and tassels hanging from hats.
There are two special graduates in my life this year.  First, Tyler a good family friend will be going out into the world of sports team management. He is going off to help manage a baseball team out west.  Good Luck Tyler.  These cookies were made for an impromptu graduation party that was thrown for Tyler.

My second special graduate is my hubby, he will be graduating with his MBA this week.  And by graduating I mean he still has 14 weeks of classes left but that's just how graduate school works.
I will be making him something special on his official last day of school.

Be sure to go and congratulate a grad today!  :D

Turtle Birthday Cookies

For those of you in the Midwest right now here is a little slice of hope for warm days to come....

Look at how warm these turtles look, basking on a nice sandy (brown sugar) beach in nice warm sunlight.
Soon (I really really hope) we can all be out enjoying nice sunny weather, instead of all this snow :(

These cookies were made for a super sweet little boy for his 5th birthday.
The big turtle cookie is filled with nerds and 5 jelly beans to celebrate being 5!

I should have a tutorial coming up soon for these fun turtle-tastic cookies!
Stay warm everyone!

Giddy Up!

Giddy Up ya'll!

These cute horse cookies were made for one of my old students 5th birthday!

The birthday girl is in love with horses!

For her Birthday her parents rented a petting zoo in lieu of gifts!  How fun is that!

I got to hand deliver these lovely cookies with my hubby the day of there party.
While there we got to pet bunnies, ducks, chickens, geese, lamas, goats and sheep as well as one very fluffy dog.

To top it off there was even a pony that looked a whole lot like the cookies I brought.

This cookie looks just like blueberry the real pony at the party :D

Unfortunately I was way to big for a pony ride, but the birthday girl sure did love it!
I hope you all love these cookies as much as the birthday girl did!

Have a special event coming up in your future? Feel free to contact me about custom cookies for the event, I am willing to try anything!