My cookies for Austin Bakes for West (Texas)

All done and ready to be packed up :) I really wanted to keep with a Texas pride theme. I had a million ideas but these won out and I'm thrilled with the way they came out. Four dozen full sized cookies and five dozen minis, I could of done more but sleep won last night. I hope they all sell out along with all the other wonderful donations that are going to be there... If you haven't already, check them out AustinBakes.com or Facebook @atxbakes.

Happy Birthday Miss Hannah Banana

Monster Mash has gone teen... Welcome to Monster High

I've secretly liked these characters since the first time I saw them, there is just something fun about imagining what happened to all those monsters after the cameras turned off... they all got busy and made some kids :) For those that don't know Monster High, they are high school characters inspired by popular monster "parents" and they keep coming out with more. This set was for a very special girl so I wanted to make them as awesome as I could. The characters are Clawdean, Frankie Stein, and Draculaura. These were all hand painted and matched her theme perfectly.

Pink Princess Party

Somehow I hadn't done any Disney Princesses yet and then got 2 for the same weekend... This was my first set for a young fan of my page. She was having a small birthday party and asked each of her friends who their favorite princesses were. We did one for each of her friends (Belle, Ariel, Mulan, Rapunzel, Pocahontas, Jasmine, and Snow White) along with some fun crowns. She knew I had done some rootbeer flavored cookies for the Wizard101 guys (where her dad also works) so we threw in some rootbeer flavored hearts to try out too :) I was concerned as to how I was going to get all these different princesses to look like a complete set and I found this great illustration on deviant art and used it for my inspiration. They came out super cute and my young fan was super excited to hand them out to all her friends.

Gone With the Wind... baby shower?

These were a lot of fun, a friend asked me to help her out... she was planning a baby shower for her best friend and the theme was Gone With the Wind. She wanted to focus on the green dress that Scarlet makes out of the curtains. I wasn't sure where these were heading when I agreed to do it but after a bunch of sketches, these came out pretty cute... The onesie represented the dress but I had to include the crazy feathers in her hat too. I wanted to do some with text, doesn't it remind you of the old title cards they'd put before the movies? I hope the friend likes them :)

Beach theme bridal shower in Maryland

When my friend asked me to help her out with some cookies for a beach themed wedding I thought... I've got this cool idea I've been dying to try. The colors were navy and coral so I did the sea shell and little heart in the wedding colors and left the sandy cookies to whatever colors I could come up with (I added the fun little crab since the wedding was in Maryland, and they love their crabs in Maryland). The wedding is this weekend so we'll see how the bridal party liked them but they came out just the way they were in my head so it's a win for me :)

Beach Party Birthday

I got a call from a friend, who also does cookies, asking for help. She was planning her daughter's birthday party, and didn't have time to make her own cookies... What could I do but say, YES! She had these really cute invites that she was trying to match that had flip-flops and this great beach ball on it. I thought for a long time how to avoid having to do two separate cookies for the flip-flops and then it hit me... a heart! I'm sure someone else has thought of it before, but I've never seen it so I was new to me. The colors worked out great, nice and bright. They all got bagged up with little flip-flop bags and flip-flop keychains tied to them with different colored ribbon, it was a very cute presentation that she had figured out. I had a blast making these and I'm really glad I was able to help out a friend.

Christmas Time...

I tried 2 different recipes for Christmas this year... Orange Gingerbread courtesy of Sugarbelle (orange gingerbread recipe), and Vanilla Eggnog, that I made up on the fly. Overall I wanted to keep a really fun and traditional look to these. I gave away way more of these than I was able to keep... I think I was decorating gingerbread in my dreams :) Everyone seemed to love them though, and I can't wait till next year to see what fun flavors we come up with.