Moroccan Wedding

What a gorgeous, cool and exotic wedding. Violet, my sweet client, married David on 11.11.11.  The only thing more memorable than their wedding date was their spectacular venue; the Hotel Figueroa in Los Angeles.  This cool boutique hotel is a Moroccan fantasy.  Dark, moody and romantic, it had all the glam and drama any bride could hope for.  And Violet made my job of setting up her dessert buffet that much easier by supplying 90% of the sweets herself from the fabulous Porto's Bakery.  Oh, Sugar! did the table design, cake pops and of course, sugar cookies.  Take a look at these gorgeous photos generously shared by Ben Gibbs of Ben Gibbs Photography.  Enjoy!

The set up.

I love a bride who's willing to have a little fun. Violet wanted to incorporate some meaningful touches about  the groom and herself into the table, which we accomplished through our sugar cookies.  There was a large platter of cookies with the Hand of Fatima, tying in their Moroccan theme. And for the bride, Violet requested some Hello Kitty cookies, her signature red bow changed to purple to coordinate with her color scheme. 

The bride approves.

And for the groom, we did a plate full of KISS cookies.  No, not romantic, lovey-dovey XOXO cookies.  KISS as in the glam rock band.  This is when I fell in love with Violet.  I think the more a wedding reflects the couple's personality the better.  And I'd say mission accomplished because as I was setting up, the bride's good friend  took one look at the cookies and laughed, "That's SO Violet!"

You may now KISS the bride.

Detail of Gene, Paul, Ace and Peter.

And now for a behind the scene laugh.  The KISS face cookies were so labor intensive I only made two of each.  I created two dozen more of these KISS logo cookies with a cool ombre effect using sanding sugar. The bride saw the cookies and loved them.  The groom saw them and told the bride she'd jumped the shark and maybe we needed to reel it in a little bit on the dessert table.  Violet sweetly let me know to go ahead and put the face cookies on the table, but they'd be taking the rest of the KISS cookies "to go."  No offense taken!

Oh, Sugar's cake pops.

Toffee coated double chocolate cake pops.

Gorgeous jewel toned French macarons.

The rest of these decadent confections come from Porto's Bakery and are some of the most gorgeous  delights I've ever laid my eyes on.  Stunning!

Congrats again Violet and David!

Happy Thanksgiving

Here's a collection of Thanksgiving and autumn themed cookies we did for the winners bidders on an Oh, Sugar! certificate for a charity auction.  Indian corn, pumpkins, acorns and turkeys and that traditional autumn color palette. Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy!

Merry Elf-ing Christmas

Merry Christmas!  I love love love the movie Elf and wanted to commemorate this feel good holiday favorite in a set of sugar cookies.  The problem is there's too many memorable characters, scenes and lines!  Here's my take on Elf's greatest hits.  Enjoy!

The complete set.

Buddy the Elf (What's your favorite color?)

Love his gorgeous 'fro.

Buddy's long, long legs.

Papa Elf in all his jowly glory.

"Santa!  I *KNOW* him!"

Spaghetti with maple syrup.

Spaghetti detail.

Elf four food groups: Candy, Candy Canes, Candy Corn and Maple Syrup.

Buddy's job - Etch-A-Sketch assembly.

"Son of a nutcracker!"

"Not now, Puffin!"

NYC snow globe.

Merry Christmas!

You May Now KISS the Bride

More offbeat cookies from our Moroccan themed wedding.  These Kiss cookies were the bride's gift to her groom as a special surprise to celebrate his love for the fab four of glam rock.  Enjoy!

Cool ombre effect in sanding sugar.

Kiss and make up.

Cookie Quickie: Hand of Fatima

Cookies from our Moroccan wedding.

Cookie Quickie: Hello Kitty!

Here's our collection of Hello Kitty cookies for an upcoming Moroccan themed wedding.  Makes perfect sense, right?  She's a favorite of the bride's and asked that we change her signature red bow to purple to tie in with her color scheme.  We aim to please so we were happy to oblige.  Enjoy!

Play With Your Food: Mr. Potato Head

So.  I had an idea.  A cookie of everyone's favorite spud with moveable parts. Pretty cute, right?  Then I posted pics on Facebook and he kinda blew up.  Like scary blew up.  Like 500 new fans in 24 hours blew up. Like a FB fan contacting the VP of Design at Hasbro to show them this set of cookies blew up.  Like a cookie cutter company considering making this a set of cookie cutters blew up. Crazy exciting and crazy weird. So funny what capture people's imaginations.  You just never know.  Anyhow.  Here's the cookie that rocked my Facebook world.  Enjoy!

 The complete set - hand cut from paper patterns.

 Keepin' it real using the old school parts.

 Look at that body!

Introducing the many faces of Mr. Potato Head: