Teeny Tiny Halloweenies

How? How did what started with me volunteering to bake seven (SEVEN) plain sugar cookies for a project at Baby Sugar's preschool Halloween party result in over THREE HUNDRED COOKIES?  I think I have some sort of cookie dismorphic disorder.  It all started out with these plain gigantic pumpkin cookies.  Then I added the facial features so the kids could do a little mix and matcheroo.  Seemed innocent enough...

Then I thought I should make the kiddos in her class a little take home Halloween treat.  Oh, and something for her teacher.  And the teacher's aid.  Oops - don't forget the nice lady who runs the school.  Maybe I'll bake them each a nice spooky cookie.  Nothing crazy. OOOOOR I could bake them each over a dozen mini cookies, package them in small mason jars all tied up pretty with an orange satin bow.  Yeah!  That's what I'll do!  And there you have it.  Take a gander at the madness.  Enjoy!

Packaging.

Happy Halloween!

The Cookies That Tried to Kill Me

Ever take on a project and think WHY?  Why did I agree to this?  Well this is that project.  And only because it took so freaking long.  This was an order for wedding favors - Ten dozen of them.  I thought it would take three days max.  WRONG!   Five days later and they were finally finished - right down to the wire!  No matter the late nights and impending carpal tunnel, I love these wedding cookies because they're personalized from  the dress, hairstyle and bouquet down to the groom's  boutonniere and tie color and are such a great little personal memento from happy couple's big day.  Enjoy! 

 The bride and groom in cookie formation.

Autumn Wedding Spread

Over. The. Top.  This dessert table was for an insanely gorgeous wedding held at the Monaco Mansion in Santiago Canyon.  The only guidelines were that it be elegant and autumn inspired.  But not the acorns-fall-leaves-and-cornucpoias kind of autumn.  Just the palette should be fall inspired using chocolate brown, champagne, deep burgundy and a hint of orange. Within those parameters, we came up with this beautiful and  delicious spread.  Enjoy these gorgeous photos from Frame 36 Photography.

Fresh raspberry topped brownie bites.

Rose topped Nutella-filled cupcakes.

Cupcake detail.

Oreo truffles.

Miniature French macarons.

Toffee coated double chocolate cake pops.

And finally, we created these sweet sugar cookies of the bride and groom as the take home favors for the happy couple's guests.  You can read more about them here. Congratulations again, Vanessa and Dennis.

Pajama Party

What a fun birthday party idea!  My client wanted a slumber party themed dessert table for her little girl.  But the party was during the day and no one was sleeping over.  Hmm...  That one was a head scratcher. Basically the kiddos were coming over in their jammies to enjoy some morning-after breakfast-themed treats.  The hostess really wanted a parfait bar, as it's one treat her little one enjoys.  She also requested a "cereal bar" and the rest was left to my imagination.  Check out our pics to see the rest of all the sweet details.  Enjoy!

Dessert table "bed" with "Sweet Dreams" banner.

The birthday girl, Sofia, is really into Curious George so the hostess requested we incorporate him into the dessert table somehow.  I lucked out and used my little one's "Curious George and the Birthday Surprise" book propped against a sweet pink and white striped pillow at the head of the "bed."  She also wanted one of our Bedtime Story Sugar Cookies to stand out and be special just for Sofia, so we did a lone Curious George cookie amongst a plateful of Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" inspired ones.

Bedtime Story Sugar Cookies.

Cereal boxes tied up with personalized pink spoons.

Our breakfast inspired birthday cake is maybe one of my all time favorite Oh, Sugar! creations.  The birthday girl specifically wanted her cake topped with a stack of flapjacks and the rest was up to us.  Well, no way could I resist making bacon-shaped cookies to spell out Sofia's name, and I finally got to use the random gummy fried eggs I found at TJ Maxx awhile ago. (I KNEW I'd find a use for them!)

Cookie pancakes!

Back view of cake with "fried eggs."

A twist on Rice Krispie Treats using Fruit Loops.

Peanut butter Fuzzy Slippers - get the tutorial here from Hungry Happenings.

Parfait bar.

Topping bar.

These silly things were the surprise hit of the party!

Jammie sets as to go favors for the kids.

Happy birthday Sofia!