My hundred dollar cookie!!!

I entered this Christmas cookie in a contest and won a $100 certificate to Williams-Sonoma!!  I was so excited!!!  Sam says that now I am famous... He's so funny!

Velda's daughter turns 29...

Velda's daughter turns 39 today.  Velda wanted a "modern art" style cake for the occasion.  This was fun.  I had never done a cake quite like this one.

Gingerbread houses...

One of the first days of break from school the boys wanted to do gingerbread houses.  They had tons of fun!  I think they ate as much frosting and candy as they put on the houses...

Oh, Christmas Cookie... Oh, Christmas Cookie...

I have spent the majority of the last 3 days making my Christmas Cookies.  I tried a few new things this year.  The "snow globe" cookie was really fun to create!  In addition to the cookies pictured, I made Christmas pine trees and mittens... They have all been eaten by my monsters already!  I'll have to remember to take pictures as I go along.  Here they are:

And some close-ups:

I put some sugar glitter on the snow for these cookies.  You can't see it very well in the pictures.

Two birthday cakes for Velda

Velda asked me to do 2 different cakes for this past weekend.  The first was for a Sweet Sixteen Party.  For a girl who apparently loves movies.  Velda asked for the Birthday message on a movie ticket.  I added the popcorn and coke to make it a little more fun.

The second cake was for a Lakers Fan.  Velda sent me a picture of a cake and asked me to replicate it.  I did change a few details.  I used Royal Icing to make the Lakers Logo for the cap.  The picture she sent me had the logo printed on fondant.  I thought this turned out really well.  It looks cool!  It was a lot easier than I had anticipated.  

Christmas Party cupcakes for Grade 2...

These are the cupcakes I made for the Christmas Party for Sam's grade 2 classroom... They turned out cuter than I thought they would.  I didn't have a lot of time to make them and I was having difficulty with the oven...

Happy Birthday Dorian!

These cupcakes were for Dorian's friend's birthday.