I like you a'bot!

I made these robots for Wyatt's class snack.

I used a juice box (with an added chocolate heart) for the body , apple sauce for head with googly eyes hot glued on, Reese's peanut butter cups for feet (hot glued), pretzel rods cut in half (wrapped in plastic wrap) and glued to the side of the juice box, I hot glued a spoon onto the back of the juice box for the apple sauce.

 Since it was so close to Valentines Day I wanted to add this cute little tag. I found it online.

So much love!

Happy 3rd Birthday Aryana!

I feel so special I got to make these for Aryana's birthday. She loves Frozen, like every other little girl in the world right now. It was fun to see her face when I walked in with these.

Elsa and Anna joined in on the party too!

I made chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I arranged the cupcakes on the platter first and then used my 1M tip to pipe the rosettes on. I went through and covered up the holes with a star of frosting. I made snowflakes with white chocolate and silver bead pearls for the bottom of her dress. I first piped them onto wax paper and once they dried I added them to her dress. 

Lucy was so excited to meet the princesses!

Princess cookie cake

Lucy wanted to share a cookie cake with her preschool class this year for her birthday celebration.

Since this was the year of princesses for her we went with that theme to decorate it. She loved all the pink and the bling on the crown.

Here's the recipe:
 • 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour maybe less
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 ½ cups chocolate chips (I used a mixture of butterscotch, white, and milk chocolate)
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions
1. In large bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
2. Gradually add flour, salt, and baking soda, beating until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
3. Spread in greased 16 inch round pizza pan. Leave 1 ½ inch border to allow for spreading. Bake at 350 degrees maybe a little less for 15 to 20 minutes. Cool cookie in pan on a cooling rack. Decorate as desired.

*I had my husband draw a crown on paper then I traced it onto the cookie with frosting. I didn't trust myself to freehand it. I used silver bead sprinkles and M&M's for the accents. 

This is Lucy at school. Her teacher has them blow out the candles on the pretend cake so they don't get spit on the real one. Smart lady!

Baby Shower For Theodore

  I made these cake pops for sweet Stephanie's baby shower.

I did two different flavors, coconut and lemon. 

Coconut:bake a vanilla cake with some coconut extract (about 3-4 teaspoons), crumble cooked cake with 8 oz. cream cheese, make into balls, being careful not to have large cracks and put on a baking sheet, insert a stick (about half way) with white chocolate and freeze for 20 minutes, carefully dip in chocolate (I used blue candy melts for these), and cover with toasted coconut.

Lemon:follow same steps as above but use lemon cake, yellow chocolate melts, and cover with crushed lemon heads. I put the lemon heads in a ziplock baggie and crush them with a hammer.

Can't wait to meet baby Theodore!

I love the daffodils to go with the color theme. So cute! And what a yummy spread!

McKell made these delicious "Swig" cookies. I love these so much! When I go home to Utah I always make a point to go get a cookie there at least every day. I should learn how to make them!

Lemon water to go with the yellow and teal theme. 

Thanks for popping by!

Princess Party!

Happy 5th Birthday Lucy! 

This girl loves pink, princesses (especially Princess Sofia,) and everything sparkly and shiny. Having a pink and gold princess party made her day super special!

She wanted a castle cake and this was the most simple one I could find. I'm not very good at frosting cakes so thankfully my 5 year old didn't notice the imperfections. 

Lucy wanted a pink cake so I used a strawberry cake mix.

We spray painted the sugar cones with an edible paint but you can't really tell.

We used sugar cubes for the turrets and strawberry wafer cookies for the windows and doors. I found the flags at Hobby Lobby and piped Lucy on one of them.

I woke up the next day to find this. Ahhhh! Thankfully it wasn't too hard to fix. I had extra frosting to fix the side wall and I also used it to "glue" the cookies back on.

You can see the gold cones better here.

Lucy also wanted to do a pink chocolate fountain. Lucy wanted to use pretzels, marshmallows, wafer cookies, strawberries, oranges, and gummy bears to dip into the chocolate. 

She also wanted to make pink lemonade and serve them in glass jars with gold straws. This was the best picture I have of those. Behind them are the star wands we spray painted gold for the girls to decorate during the party.

The princesses ate a fancy lunch of corn dogs, chicken nuggets, Cheetos, and veggies, (all Lucy's favorites).

Princess Lucy

The princesses also decorated face masks and got to go on a treasure hunt to find their take homes. My friend Michele helped me make bracelets for each of them. I'm sad I didn't take a picture because they all turned out so cute thanks to Michele.