Hockey Cakepops

Dessert and sports...a combination that will win a man's heart at any given time...but, I won my man's heart years ago, I am now just trying to hold on to it! So for his birthday, I made these cakepops in his favorite team's (well let's face it, the best team ever) colours, a player, representing him, a puck and a stanley cup. I really loved making these, and am especially happy how the stanley cup came out! Hope you guys like these too-and I can't wait to see the hubby's reaction!! Happy birthday sweetheart!!

It's high time the Canadiens win the Stanley cup again!!

A cookie platter

So...you could say I have discovered something new...but I don't think it's that new...there are just a few absolute cookie experts out there that have inspired me to start doing my own...the cookie platter experts. Check out The cookie Artisan's cookies on Flickr...I just keep gawking at them! Anyway, all this to say, I have started making my own-this was my first, followed by the Swiss Themed cookies from the last post-I just waited to post these up till my friend's birthday had already been celebrated. Needless to say, she is a great sewing artisan herself, and this was my hommage to her talent! I really like how they turned out and she said they were a hit at her get together! Now, because no one needs anything from me at the moment, I will have to make something fun just for me, I have an oscar themed look in my head, we'll see...hope you guys like them!

The entire platter

The sewing lady

Birthday cakes 

A little taste of Switzerland...

Ok, this theme is unusual for me. I mean, my name is Heidi, and I have gotten way too teased about it to go and embrace it with cookies...but the other day, I was taking a look at a few things on etsy.com (my new favorite online shopping destination) and saw these Heidi, Peter and Grandpa prints and thought ooooh, what a great way to welcome my friend Nancy who will be coming to visit me from Canada in a few days! What else could I use? Mountains, the flag, Edelweiss...that was pretty simple. I started looking for cute ways to represent money...didn't work out, but animals-our brown cows, our mountain groundhogs and Peter's goat seemed a good choice. 

I wanted to give it some sparkle, I got a bit carried away with the cow here... it was too late to change it though, I would have had to have a spare cookie (I didn't) and redo the entire cow (didn't feel like it)...

I love the goats, they are my favorite.

Heidi, Grandpa and Peter, I forgot grandpa's pipe, but you know, he'll live longer if he doesn't smoke...

The edelweiss is my husband's favorite. I quite like it too...

The flag. I think it looks quite nice actually.

So here are my swiss cookies. If you think they are too cliché, then let me tell you something, I am half swiss, I live in Switzerland, my name is Heidi and I love animals. What do you want!! You have to embrace the things that are lovely in life, whether they are corny or not! Hope you like them!!

Last chance to make valentine's day treats!!

So this is it, this Valentine's day is basically over, here in Switzerland...not the country that is most festive when it comes to this day of the year, but I remain strong in my love of everything with hearts. I took the last few moments of this day to make some valentine's day cakepops- and one other that went with the colours that I was using, and I wanted to try it anyway...

These are all cake pops I have already seen at one time or another, and wanted to give them a go, 'cause I thought they were too cute not to try! 

The heart bird...cute! Sprinkle hearts for the beak and tail...

A happy cute cloud...

A bird chasing love on a cloud...and the regular hearts...

The happy lady cloud wanted to be taken with the hearts as well...

And last but not least, the russian doll-nothing to do with valentine's day, just something I wanted to try from Clare O'Donnell's cakepop book, thinking it would be too hard to do. But it went just fine, despite the fact that I played it by ear...

Hope you like these! Happy valentine's day everyone!!

Valentine's day cupcakes

It's Valentine's day tomorrow, and although a staggering number of you out there seem to hate this holiday, I actually love it. Why? Because I love being in love, because I love the colours, because I love to bake special valentine treats! Granted, tonight's offering is hardly original or even creative...but it's valentine's day people! It's about hearts and cuteness, not about being edgy!! So here I present to you, the ultimate holiday cupcake, of course, the red velvet, here decorated with cream cheese frosting, sprinkles, hearts and lips! I hope you have a nice day tomorrow and enjoy the treats!! :)

A few cakepops!

Ok, let me start by saying that I didn't have time to do this, nor to write this blog...I should be in bed.I start work for real tomorrow and have to get up at  like 3 in the morning...but I just couldn't help it...it's like I couldn't stand the fact that the last time I baked was pre-work-I don't want to start work and suddenly not have time anymore!!! So I baked the cake this afternoon, and crumbled it with icing a few hours later, and once the husband was home, I made these.

I have wanted to try teeth for a long time now. First thing I have got to get straight is, don't try to make them to realistic. I wanted them to have the roots otherwise no one would recognize them, but I should have made a friendlier looking top and made sure that the shape under the chocolate was nicer, 'cause although they are cute, they are a bit wonky...they were also in the fridge too long, so they cracked-which is why I drew the other face...

Then, a direct copy of bakerella's popcorn bag. I unfortunately didn't have the mini marschmallows, I think it would have made a nice more real looking pop corn, but on the very plus side-look at how my edible ink pens worked out!!! First time ever that they do!!!

And last but not least, because I will be working for the next four days, my Valentine's day present for Andy. Cake bites that are made to look like cake truffles. Generally speaking, not great in the end, but they are ok, I guess, and they taste perfect!!

Hope you like them! Gotta go to bed!!!

New business email...

Maybe some of you don't know me and would like to order some things you've seen here? I now have a facebook page Thatbakinggirl and my new business email is That_baking_girl@yahoo.com. I will be happy to send you an email with prices and information until I get my website! Thanks for looking in!!

Pink flowers...

I know, I know...you are supposed to take pictures in the daylight, there are less shadows, the colours are more true to life, but you know what? I bake in the evening, and there is no way to be certain these cupcakes will still be here in the morning! So sue me! They taste heavenly, and I have already eaten all three from this picture!  So I take pictures at night, and hope that the photo shop thingy in iphoto is good enough to show you what I see. In this case, everything is fine, but the colour. In reality, these are not peachy, they are a soft pink. The important thing is I finally tested the meringue buttercream for flowers, and boy is this ever the best icing! These are the prettiest flowers I have ever made, and they didn't take long either! I put the non-pareils in contrasting black and hot pink, just for fun-I think it turned out great! What do you think?

A little array of things...

My friend passed an order yesterday, and decided, let's have an array of things I can make, but not in huge quantities. We decided on the colours blue and white, flavours chocolate and vanilla. These are the result!

Cake bites... just wish the chocolate wouldn't dry with a kind of pattern in it...see blue bite on the right?

Mini cupcakes with flowers beads and shine...

This was my idea, I didn't tell her I would do butterflies...but I think they are wonderful!

And cakepops for the 2 kids... I wanted to keep with the colour scheme, but didn't want it to be too boyish...the purple is nicer in reality though...

The carrier box...

All in all, quite happy with how that went! I just love doing this. Doesn't it feel great to do things we love? What a dream...

A fruitful morning...

Some mornings, and let me start by saying that these rarely happen to me, everything is right on track. Everything you planned to do before getting the baby out of bed magically works out. This was such a morning. Ahhh. I woke up at 6.15 because the cats were going crazy. Figured, why should I go back to bed, I have cakepops to make. I had made the balls yesterday evening, so all I had to do was figure out what kind of look I was going to go for. Now, because they are for me, I tend to not want to have just one design, so although I only made 13, it still took me an hour...The first look was a test...something I had seen and figured could be relatively easy to make, and have a nice finish... I was right! 

The marbled cake pop:

Then I wanted to do something pretty, but simple...the use of coloured sanding sugar is always great for simple and pretty...:

And then I just wanted to have a bit of contrast, with the swirls...

Here I just felt that so close to Valentine's day, I couldn't just ignore these colours...(I know the background absolutely doesn't match, but whatever...)

And in the end, to show you what was inside, I went ahead and took a bite. Awww, wish you guys were here to share... but then again, more for me!! Yummy!!!

And to finish my story about the perfect morning, I did an exercise video, showered, took the pictures, put them on my fb page, got my baby, fed her, and now I am sitting here, writing to you, and it's not even 10! Wonderful! A great start to a day, and 12 more cake pops to eat!! Can life be any sweeter?

A new challenge! Snowboarding bride and groom!

I am rather proud of myself...but psschhht! Don't tell anyone! I have, in the last 3 days or is it 4, started and perfected, and perfected again, and changed a few things, and finally finished my first wedding cake figure! And I think it came out really really cute! Had I known I can actually do this, I would have made my own 6 years ago! 

Anyway, story behind this : a friend of mine told me she needed a wedding cake topper with her and her future husband as snowboaders, with the clothes and the board and that she thought I could do it. I, of course, read this before going to bed, and couldn't fall asleep for at least 2 hours...I went on the computer, started looking for examples, found only one, looked for tutorials, anything really...the next day I started thinking... so I made the base, and it went well. Then the next morning, I made the body of the man, and I thought, wow! Not bad, and from then on, I was on a roll. I think I changed his arms about 4 times total, and hers twice. He got a second head, and then I added a bit of sugar and sprinkles to make the base look more like snow! Here is the result!! You know the best part? I didn't lose it once! No tantrum, no throwing bad figurines on the walls, nothing! Yay! What do you think?

It's starting!

Well, this is it...I am up for business! A friend of mine put up an add for me, and I finally forced myself to put up the facebook page I had been preparing for the day the actual website would go online...now there is a glitch with the website, I don't know if there will be one for a while or not, but the facebook page is on, and now I am nervous. Will anyone, ANYONE, react to me and my little business? Do I have enough stuff at home to fill orders? Do I have enough skills to really start? Well one thing is for sure, if I continue practising, I will never fit into my normal clothes again, so it's time to branch out! Wish me luck! This dreamer is tired of only dreaming, it's time to DO! Look for my Facebook page Thatbakinggirl and "like" me! That sounded a tad desperate, but you get what I mean...and by the way, sorry, terribly sorry about the terrible writing. I am not too eloquent under the usual circumstances, and well, even worse when excited!