Daisy Lollipop Cookies

I made these Dasiy cookie Lollipops for a fundraiser at our church. These will be sold by the youth this Saturday and the earnings will go towards "World Youth Day".

Busy month

Looks like I have a super busy month. I never planned to have my blog\online baking book turn into making orders for others...but hey what the heck...I am a stay at home mom right now and really its fun for me. Also gives me and my daughter something fun to do together she loves to help. I would rather make things for other people than have "me" eating it! LOL . So if you have a friend or family that need Cake, Cookies or Cupcakes made for a special occasion just send me a message. A weeks notice is preferred but not always nesassary.



here is what I have to do for the month of June

*Twilight cupcakes ( for a group of girls who are Die-hard Twlight fans who are having a twilight theme party)




* 1 1\2 dozen cupcakes (Graduation theme)




* Graduation Cake

* Cupcakes which will be sold by the youth at our Church fundraiser for "World Youth Day" (Daisy theme cupcakes and Daisy Lollipop cookies)

* Cupakes, Cake or Cookies for a church Breakfast (also goes towards fundraising) Not sure what I have planned to make yet for this.

* Also I may sign up to finish the Wilton Cake decorating course (learing to make professional wedding cakes, and making fondant and gumpaste flowers)

Stay tuned to see how all these projects turn out......better go get my Bake on!!!

Children's Art

It was so cute today....I just have to post these pictures that my 2 1\2 year old daughter & her best buddy colored these pictures today for me and they were hoping I would post it on my blog. So here they are.....

Here's My daughter's Cake she colored...She says this is her wearing a "pink" princess crown & that is her beautiful cake creation.....she is almost in the lines...I think its the perfect cake, too bad it's ingredients are paper and wax crayons.

And here is my daughters best friends work of art. She was so cute and proud that we took pictures of it. She will be even prouder when she sees I posted her cake on my blog.. She sure likes a colorful cake, that is quite the icing job. Great job Joelle!

Strawberry Cream Squares

I am On a huge Strawberry kick lately. I seriously got to stop. Well I am going to stop snacking on the goodies I make, unfortunatly. Tomarrow new diet or just better eating! Sorry sugar-- I have to kiss you goodbye for a little while. Wish me luck..it is going to be very tricky making cakes & cookies. But I make it for you right?! I can do it! I will not deprive! One cupcake wont kill me right??!..... Anyways here is a super fresh summer recipe. It is not a heavy dessert, aside from the sugar it really is a lower calorie treat. It was a hit with my 2 year old daughter she kept asking for more. I will be making this again for sure.

These are the ingredients you will need:

1-1/4 cups Honey Maid Graham Crumbs
1/4 cup butter, melted
frozen strawberries (about 4 cups)
1 pkg. Strawberry gelatin
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. lemon extract
3 cups thawed Cool Whip Whipped Topping, divided
make it

Here is what to do;
Mix graham cracker crumbs & butter together.

Pour mixture into a 9x9inch dish and pat down to form a crust. Set aside remaining graham crumb mixture.




COMBINE strawberries, dry jelly powder, sugar and lemon extract in medium saucepan; bring to boil on medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low; simmer 3 min. or until jelly powder is dissolved, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat.












Cool 20 min. to room temperature.

Gently stir in 1-1/2 cups of the whipping topping; pour over crust.REFRIGERATE 3 hours or until firm.

Cover with remaining whipped topping; sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture. Cut into 24 pieces to serve or bigger.

Strawberry Pie

Nothing reminds me more of my Nana & Poppa than good old fashioned homemade "Strawberry Pie" They used to make this every summer for the Family. (well not this exact recipe, but close enough)

Hot & bubbly right out of the oven..nothing smells better that this...

Though my Poppa always made his crust from scratch. Ok...Shame on me..This is my first attempt to make a Fresh Strawberry Pie..I did NOT make the dough from scratch(this time), I wanted to master the filling first..because seriously it is not as easy as it looks. It could be too runny, to chunky, to thick..But I know I did the perfect pie because my hubby ate half of it on his lunch break. I made this for our company on Sunday, looks like I am making a second one for tomorrow..this pie is Not going to last long in this house.



In the picture above...always prick the dough with a fork around the whole shell. This will prevent the shell from lifting and making weird bubbles.


Start with some freshly washed and hulled berries and mix them with 1 cup of sugar, 1 tbsp of cornstarch, 1-8tsp of salt and 3-4 cups of berries.
Those are some red juicy strawberries;

No. that is not snow below, That is the giant mound of Sugar covering the strawberries. Could you Imagine it snowed Sugar??? ...I didn't tell you this was a Fat Free pie! Seriously joking.




Fill the uncooked Pie crust with the filling mixture. The sugar will pretty much melt onto the berries looking like a glaze.

And some about 1 tbsp of butter on top. You do this after you pour the filling into the 9 inch pie crust.



Then cover the filling with the top. Crumple\staple the edges of the pie to get it to stick on. And using a pasty brush rub on a tiny bit of milk and some melted butter. Make sure to cut some holes in the middle to allow some steam to escape.
Place on a baking sheet in the oven at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes, then lower the temp to 350 degrees and cook for another 20 minutes or until the crust starts to golden brown and the berries start to bubble..

Keep an eye on your Pie.... If you notice the edges are getting too brown like I did....I had to place strips of tin foil around the edges of the crust about 25 minutes while it was cooking.

Note: **It is VERY important to eat this with Vanilla Ice cream**


Enjoy!!

Cookies

Any Ideas what this is going to say??.......unscramble if you please....
oh, and there are a few extra letters to mess you up. My family will get this right away.

Did you figure it out???

OLIVIA!!!!!!

yes these are her tiny toes....so cute eh? But you cant eat them!

I just realized that already my daughter will be 5 months old this Saturday. Wow where did the time go? I thought Id make some cookies in honor of her..(too bad she cant eat them yet...but WE can! )

So something horrible happened....the letter "O" was smushed! .....
So sad. it did look pretty. lets all pretend that it never happened...better yet...just dont even look at the letter "O"....
Looks like now her name is "Livia"...

Just some simple cookies. These cookies are made of Vanilla sugar cookies..and iced with royal icing (the brown icing is made of Chocolate royal icing).. I got the color scheme idea from my daughters baby blanket. pink with brown polka dots. Since she cannot eat these..just yet..she can be comforted by her blankey and we can be comforted by indulging in these cookies.

Sorry...just had to throw in another cute baby feet picture...
A little side tracked..we were talking about cookies right?!

Lollipop cookies (Elmo)

These Elmo cookies were made as a loot for my neices 2nd birthday and she is a Sesame Street fan! The cookies are sugar cookies, and decorated with Royal Icing.



How to make Cookie Lolipops:

* First I made my usual favorite Vanilla Sugar cookie recipe (which you can find on my site).
* Then I cut out the dough with Stars and circle cookie cutters from my 101 cookie cutter set.
* Right before I baked the cookies, I used lolipop sticks and pressed into each cookie about half way and covered the stick on the back of the cookie with extra dough the make sure that the stick is going to stay put.
*After the cookies have cooled. I out lined them all with white royal icing using tip # 3 for piping. Then let that cool for at least 30 minutes. this outline is going to prevent the thinner icing from leaking out the edges when filled in.
Then fill in the cookies with a thinner consistancy royal icing with the color of your choice..this is called "flooding"

Elmooooo!!!