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So this past weekend, I went to Spring Fling!  What is a Spring Fling, you ask?  Only the greatest thing ever!  In the fall, some folks were talking on Cookiers R Us  about sometime maybe being able to put together a "cookie camp" where we could all get together and talk cookies. So then Kay and May of Cookie Two Shoes decided to quit talking and do something about it!  They teamed up with Mike and Karen of Karen's Cookies and Spring Fling was the result!  It was a wonderful weekend in Louisville, KY.  There were something like 70 people there, all ready to talk cookies!  The weekend started for me on Friday, when I woke up really early (for me...I work nights) and carpooled with two lovely ladies down to Louisville.  It was a nice drive, about 3 1/2 hours.  (Just and FYI:  Cookie people must be a little crazy.  None of us had ever met, and we took a road trip together :-).  And we were all rooming with compl...

...for Baby Girl's 4th birthday. And then I took crooked pictures of it.  Sorry. Honestly, when it was all said and done, it wasn't that ugly any more.  But it did not come out like I had planned. The story behind the cake was kind of cute, though.  She asked for a unicorn on her cake.  No problem.  I can do a unicorn.  Then I asked her what flavor she wanted her unicorn cake to be.  She looked up at me, tilted her little head to the side and asked, "Can it be grass?"  "So the unicorn will like it?" I inquired.  "Yes," she nodded emphatically.  "No." She took it all rather well, and then when I asked what other flavor she wanted she said cherry.  I was a little taken aback, because I've never made a cherry cake before (I do, however, make a killer black forest cherry cake, but that's not what she meant).  I told her no problem and asked what she wanted her second flavor to be.  She said peach.  Peach....

And I mean simple!  But I remembered to take a picture this time.  Another parent from the boy's second grade class texted me this weekend and asked if I could bring cross cookies to school on Thursday for their Easter party.  So, being the pushover I am, I said sure.  Then she said nothing fancy.  So I went with it! (Hey, I didn't say it was a good picture.) Seriously, it took longer to mix the colors than it did to ice 24 cookies.  But it's been a busy week, and it is only going to get busier, so simple is good.  So that's it for today.  More Easter treats coming up soon! Enjoy!

I finally made some cookies!  But then I didn't take any pictures until they were all bagged up!  I rock!  Anyhoo, cookies for a girls' night out in red, pink, black, white and gold.  I made: Martinis (I'm not a martini drinker, so I don't know if the colors are realistic or not.)  I got the inspiration from a cookie out on the web, but now I can't remember who made the original.  :-( Diamond rings (The cookies were for a jewelry party, or I probably wouldn not have included the rings in this set.)  You can't tell, but the diamonds are sparkly.  Disco dust again. Party dresses This dress is my new favorite cutter. I don't know why I like this one so much.  It's just my favorite right now.  And lipstick, nail polish and hand mirrors Don't you just love the way the light bounces off the plastic?!  You can't see that the lipsticks have some black-on-black details. I painted all of the gold accents wi...

True to my word, I have not baked anything this week.  So, what better way to pass the time than to post old birthday cakes?  Here is the cake I made for the boy last year.  He told me what he wanted and we designed it together.  He was really happy with it.  And I only got one picture.  With my phone.  Seems to be a trend with me.  The ninjas on the second tier were cut out using the infamous Ninjabread Men cutters.  The pagodas were hand-cut with an X-Acto knife.  The throwing stars are modified snowflakes on toothpicks, made of fondant with tylose powder added, dried and stuck into the cake. I thought that the stars would taste bad, but I must have been mistaken.  They ate them all. That's it for this cake. Enjoy!

The big day finally arrived.  The Boy's birthday party.  We had it at his martial arts facility.  It was great.  All we had to do was show up with the birthday boy and cake.  They did all the rest.  And if I hadn't felt like making cake, they would have supplied that as well.  Backstory:  (When you have kids, you'll find many things you do require an explanation.)  A month or so ago, I asked the boy what he wanted his cake to look like.  Usually, he is very specific.  This year, he said "Ninjas".  Well, last year it was ninjas, so I was all out of ideas.  But I thought about it for a while and eventually decided to do a black cake with black-clad ninja figures crawling up it.  Brilliant, huh?  And I would have been soooooo popular with all the other parents after their kids ate the black cake.  He changed his mind. He wanted a spy cake.  I said, "OK.  What does a...

These are my cookie cutters.  They are in ziploc bags in a plastic bin in my basement.  I need to find a better storage solution. *Linked to LilaLoa http://lilaloa.blogspot.com/