Elephant Cake Pops!

Here's the result of my first attempt at Elephant Cake Pops!!

1 Dozen, individually wrapped, chocolate, Elephant cake pops.  

The Sweets Suite

I put together our first "Sweets Suite" this weekend for a little boy's first birthday!  The order included a beach pail pudding cake with lemon filling, coordinating cupcakes with white chocolate shells and a 6" smash cake for the birthday boy.  It was so fun to watch the collection come together and I loved the finished product.  Next time we'll add a few cake pops and sugar cookies match!  Horray for desserts!

Baby's First Smash Cake

A friend's little girl was turning one and mama was throwing a sweet bunny party in her honor!  She needed a little smash cake to sweeten the occasion and this is what we came up with:

The colors, bunny silhouette and font were all designed to match the party theme.

Baby Shower Bedding Cake

I recently received an order for a baby shower cake.  We made the decision to take inspiration for the cake from the bedding that mom-to-be had chosen for her baby girl.

Inspiration pic

[Almost finished] Baby Shower Cake

Top tier: purple velvet cake with cream cheese icing

Bottom tier: chocolate raspberry genoise  

Outer and details: MMF

Lavendar Sundae Cake Pops

Class Cookies

Cookies for an End-Of-Year Class Party...

Yellow and Blue Butterflies and School Logos

Congratulations to all of Ms Buell's Butterflies!

Teacher Appreciation

Having once been a teacher, I have to say, teaching is a rewarding, EXHAUSTING, heartwarming, and (OMG did I mention) EXHAUSTING job!  I mean, the part of you that is filled-up daily by delicately shaping the lives of future generations, can quickly be depleted again by the parents! effort it takes to keep up the requisite sing-song-y, sweet, smiling affect whilst coercing THE.LEARNING for hours on end.

In honor of every saintly individual- standing tall in front of the chalk-board 180 days a year, wiping noses (and bottoms) of children that they did NOT spawn, fighting the cesspool of mutant super germs passed on by little fingers, and maneuvering the land-mines of IEP meetings, parent conferences and field trips- I say thank you.  And by that I mean; 

THANK.YOU!ENJOY.A.COOKIE.AND.A.CUP.OF.COFFEE.

AND.POSSIBLY.EVEN.A.MOMENT.OF.WELL.DESERVED.QUIET.

AND.HEARTFELT.UNADULTERATED.GRATITUDE.

Steal this idea: Ceramic buckets with chalkboard detail from Michael's, concept and book-mark template from Modern Parents Messy Kids, cookie-pops and sprinkles from the loving fingers of a happy student.