Lab Coat Cookies

Diplomas and Roses

Graduation Cookies

I Love You to Alpha Bits

Trying to come up with fresh ideas for teacher's gifts at the end of the year is a little challenging.  Last year I totally blew it and didn't do anything.  I always give out cookies, so I thought about maybe doing Rice Krispie Treats.  

And then I remembered these Froot Loops treats I did awhile back and tried to think if there's any teacher appropriate cereal out there that would work when it hit me - Alpha Bits!  Perfect!

I used the classic Rice Krispie Treats Recipe (3 tbl butter melted with 4 cups mini marshmallow and 6 cups of cereal), doubled the recipe and poured at all onto a greased cookie sheet.  I greased my hands and compressed the cereal goo to give me high and dense treat bars.  

When cool I use a long sharp knife to cut into squares and managed to squeeze in 2 layers of nine treats in each of these adorable jars scored at TJ Maxx ($7.99! Total steal!) The came with chalkboard labels that I wrote our message on, tied them up with a fat yellow polka dot bow and voila! Teachers gifts!

Class Portrait Cookies

So it's the end of the school year and my big girl is graduating preschool and moving on to the wonderful world of Kindergarten.  To commemorate her graduating class, I worked with her teachers and asked them to have Abby's classmates draw self portraits for me to cookiefy and reproduce in edible marker.  Take a look at these masterpieces!  They are frigging adorable. They were pretty easy to reproduce as long as I kept the proportion pretty close.  I am in love with these and will do it again next year, but next time make two of each - one for the kids and an entire set for the teacher.  Enjoy!

 KEITH

 SUMI

 APRIL

 LOEURYN

 ABBY

 JOHNATHAN

 CHLOE

MILES

Con-Graduations!

Congratulations class of 2012!  My client for this school inspired dessert table had two grads to celebrate, one from high school, one from college.  Since one school's colors were blue and gold and the other's was purple and gold, naturally I decided to run with red, black and yellow plaid!  As you scroll through the images, I hope you enjoy all the school themed treats and props.  Enjoy!

The spread: Love our black board banner.

Banner detail.

Miniature chalkboards.

Lots of fun props really sell the graduation theme;  Piles of English Lit. books tied up with coordinating plaid ribbon with a giant apple balanced on top, a large blackboard welcoming the Class of 2012, a stack of black erasers sitting in front of a glass cube filled with chalk, a mortarboard on a white wire hat stand, a plaid lunchbox holding "class ring" Ring Pops.  All of these details help to elevate the treats from ordinary to something really special.

Chalkboard back drop.

A "pop" of red.  This guy has 2012 glasses on.

Our first go at using push ups.  I've seen this trend growing and happened upon some at my favorite little cake supply place, so I picked them up having no idea how I'd use them.  And guess what fits perfectly in a push up - mini donuts!  Who knew?  We dressed them up by spray painting their caps black and adding paper squares and hand made tassels to create these grad cap lids. Note the actual teeny tiny chalkboards used as food labels. Great find!

One of my favorite details.

Platter of grad cookies.

The hostess said these were the first to go.

Love these old fashioned molded candy pops.

Our cubby filled with vanilla "cap" cakes.

Molded chocolate grad cap toppers.

Jelly Belly crayons set in a modified box.

Please note the gigantic ruled paper backdrop.

More fun props: classic black and white composition books topped with a novelty giant pencil, and one of our glass vessels covered in wooden rulers tied up with a fat satin ribbon.

Ruler container detail.

Grad pennant cookie detail.

Cinnamon Honor Rolls - another fave.

Pirouette cookie bundles.

Congrats to all the grads this year!

Grad Cookies