a day of love&snow

While snow storm Nemo was making its way through my area I decided what better time to make some valentine cupcakes and test out a new vanilla icing, and it was a success. We managed with 6-7 maybe a little more in areas of town of snow not too bad as I love snow and my new vanilla icing recipe is absolutely amazing. I couldn't stop eating it with a spoon. At first I was a little worried about trying the icing as its completely different than my others which aren't so bad tasting just sometimes it didn't come out to the right consistency and would cause me a head ache. This one used flour and milk and less butter and granulated sugar instead of powdered I was really wondering how it was going to taste while making it. It was a very simple recipe and the end results was this amazing creamy texture that wasn't overly sweet and didn't taste like pure butter or too much sugar. I was very very happy and next time I'll be trying the chocolate version. 

{a basic chocolate cream cupcake}

{look at that fluffiness}

Chocolate Chip Madeleines

So its been a while sorry been busy with my little one. I came across a new obsession and that would be Madeleine's  You know those small cake-like cookies that are perfect for dipping in your coffee in the morning. It all started when my mother in law came back from France with a bag of them and they were amazing and I wondered why I never made them before or even tried them before that. So I was on a mission. I started with a basic french one and I got the approval by my mother in law that they were delicious which is good since she's from France so from there I searched what other types could be made. So yesterday I made a chocolate chip variety and it was delicious.

My favorite time of the year!

I absolutely love Halloween its my favorite holiday, I love all the pumpkins, ghosts, etc. When it comes to decorating I think its so much fun to decorate since you can do scary, spooky, you name it there's a way to do it. For my first order back after taking a break as I got used to motherhood was for some Halloween themed cookies for a school dance so I was very thrilled to get this order and to be back to baking. I decided to make a Frankenstein, Skulls, Spiderwebs, and a simple Trick or Treat one with the colors of candy corn. Take a look!

School of Fish

So if you haven't learned already I will be taking a few months off to get prepared for the arrival of my daughter in early September. Our last order came in during the first week of August for some bridal shower cookies, but they weren't your typical bridal shower cookies. We created 7 dozen in multiple tropical colors of tropical fish, these were very cute and I love some of the color combinations they are very pretty together. I do have to say making tropical colors is hard when you don't have all the colors you need :/

Summer Time

I don't know what it is but I do love the summer, maybe its because there's no school or that my birthday is in the summer, but summer is just so much fun (unless your almost 8 months pregnant and the heat drives you crazy which is this year, but that's another story).

Anyways my sister was going to a work bbq and asked me to make some summer themed cookies so of course I did. The platter was made up of watermelons, beach balls (not my favorite to make but everyone likes them), flip flop and ice cream cones. The ice cream cones are my absolute favorite cookie cutter right now, they end up so cute not sure why I haven't used it before.

Whoopie Pies

Ok so I gave in, I have knew what they were, but never actually thought about how easy they were to make. I decided hey maybe its time to expand my menu a little more, so that's what I did. Sara's Sweet Treats is now making whoopie pies.

At the moment i'm still waiting on my pan made by wilton to come in the mail, but I really wanted to make some so I decided to scoop the shells with  an ice cream scoop. It works, but my ice cream scoop is definitely way too big the whoopie pie were massive compared to the average size of 3 inches, but they were yummy. My testers did approve of them tho.

We will be offering 10 different whoopie pies and they all seem so yummy. All the recipes I have made sometime before either in cupcake form or for something else. Today I only tested out the Original which is a  chocolate shell with vanilla filling (which is the basic whoopie pie you see), but we will be offering:

The Original
Take 2 - chocolate shell with chocolate filling
Red Velvet - red velvet shell with cream cheese filling
Pumpkin Spice - pumpkin shell with cream cheese filling
Banana Lover - banana shell with cream cheese filling
The Reverse - vanilla shell with chocolate filling
Oh Vanilla - vanilla shell with vanilla filling
Chocolate Chip - chocolate chip shell with either chocolate or vanilla filling
PB & C - chocolate shell with peanut butter filling
Raspberry Heaven - chocolate shell with vanilla raspberry filling

1st birthday order

We had the honor of making cookies and cupcakes for a little girls first birthday. It was fun and the cupcakes we're awesome!