Bunnies and Ducks - Easter 2013

We got ducks in time for Easter this year. Dean had fun watching them grow up and releasing them into the pond. I made cupcakes for his class, and peeps for the front yard. 

 

See below for pinterest ideas on these. My mom used her cricut to cut the white wrappers and I drew on the faces. The peeps were made from foam from Micheal's craft store.  

Valentines 2013

Dean got a treat this Valentine's Day and showed some love to his teachers with a snack!

For his classmates, I printed the card and put it in the round favor bags from walmart with Goldfish. We also send chocolate dipped heart-shaped marshmallows on a stick for a snack. Kids liked them, me not so much. The were cute, but not too tasty to me. I put white chocolate chex mix in a large mason jar and painted the top, added some ribbon and twine for a simple little teacher's gift. See below for the recipe and valentine idea. I saw many different versions of the dipped marshmallows, below is one similar.

MSU Cake

Last month was my little cousins birthday, and he and his family are huge I mean obsessively huge MS STATE fans. It is a rare site not to see them wearing their maroon and white, and in most cases the whole family shows up to family events in their STATE gear. So, when my cousin asked me to do a cake for her oldest son's birthday, it was obvious we were going in the bulldog direction with it. When trying to thing of what I could do that wasn't sport specific and not just the words MSU on the cake, I was reminded of the headache I received the one time I made the mistake of going to the EGG Bowl in Starkville. YIKES, cow bells are awful, especially when you are for the apposing team. A cowbell to me describes this kid to me in every way, the true State fan that he is, the in your face kind of fan. Not that we don't' agg him on sometimes. :) So for all the aggravating we have done to him in the past, I felt I should do his cake justice and not plaster the Rebel in the middle of the cake with a big HOTTY TODDY! So here is what I came up with.

The cowbell was constructed using store bought rice krispie treats molded together.



All the rest of the decorations are made of rolled fondant. And just FYI making maroon fondant is a timely process and a work out for your arms. I used burgundy gel color.



Thanks to Jenny who assisted me on icing and rolling fondant on the cake. That part scared me because of all the nightmares that happen on Ultimate Cake Off. It wasn't too bad in the end.

Happy Birthday Dustin

Today is my hubby's birthday. He has been into skeet shooting lately; so, I made him a cake with skeets and shotgun shells. I guess this is going to be a tradition. Every birthday make a cake with his favorite hobby of the moment. I love you, Dustin!




























I covered small disks of cake for the skeets and molded the shotgun shells with gum-paste. All of this is eatable, not that I like eating gum-paste. The cake was pretty yummy, if I do say so myself.

Cupcakes and Cakeballs

I recently attended a cooking school class with my mom and two of our good friends. We had a blast. Even though cakeballs are too sweet for my tastes, the cupcakes were delicious. Here are the cupcakes that we made. Mallie and I made the carrot cake cupcakes, and my mom and Melissa made the double chocolate cupcakes. We also had caramel apple cupcakes which the other girl that joined us in our class made. Those were the yummiest. I also tried my hand at digital scrapbooking this weekend. What fun!!

Bike Cake

My husband's birthday was this weekend, so I wanted to try my hand at cake making. I saw a blog where someone made a bike out of chocolate. I went a bit further and tried coloring white chocolate with food coloring. Though my piping tip was too big and it got a little messy I thought it turned out pretty good for my first time.