These homemade marshmallows are flavored like cotton candy, colored like cotton candy, and packaged like cotton candy!
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Pink Ribbon Party
I made these lovely treats for a woman who just finished radiation for breast cancer and was throwing herself a fabulous party!
The colors were PINK and BROWN. So cute.
Cookies…
Chocolate Cake Pops…
and Marshmallows!!
The pink ones were pomegranate, but ended up tasting nothing like pomegranate… I will have to try again one of these days because I love pomegranate!
I decided to try a little piped swirl for these. There were going to be a lot of guests at the party so the smaller the treat the farther it goes! I decided later that I’m glad I didn’t do the swirls with the chocolate mallows ….. 
These chocolate ones were a million times better than the first chocolate ones I made… dark chocolate is the key!
I hope the party was as fabulous as it was sweet!
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Yo Gabba Gabba Cake
Remember these cookies I made for a baby shower last year? Well this little guy just turned 1 on Saturday!!
His favorite thing is Yo Gabba Gabba, so naturally the parents went all out!
After much deliberation, we decided on one large cake for the guests, and one personal little cupcake for Baby Jude! It was his first time having sugar, and we had some dietary restrictions, so I made him a Dairy Free cupcake with Vegan Frosting… recipe will come later this week!
Without further ado, here is the cake I made for Jude!
On the sides of this tall cake I did each of the characters…
(oops we had a little cake accident next to Toodee up there..)
I surprised the parents and made the inside of the cake like a rainbow cake, but in the colors of each of the characters… the Brobee layer is even striped!
Poor little guy was exhausted after such a fun party!
In case you were wondering, yes there were a lot of colors on this cake!
Here is how I made the stripes for the green Brobee layer:
Pour a small amount of batter into the center of the pan. With the other color, pour a small amount of batter directly in the center of the pan again, right on top the first circle. Go back to the first color and do this again, right in the center of the circles. As you add more, the layers push out and create the above ringed affect. When you cut into the cake, you will see the vertical stripes! (This can be done with black and white or chocolate and vanilla to look like zebra stripes!)
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Will you be my…
…flowergirl? …ringbearer?
A good friend of mine is getting married next year and wanted to do something special to ask her little ladies/gent to be her flowergirls/ringbearer. She came up with the idea of doing a large decorated cookie for each of them. I just love how they turned out!
Here are the girls enjoying their cookies…
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Pink Baby Shower Cookies
Finally I got to make baby shower cookies for a girl!
Look at the perfection of this pink… I am obsessed.
I bought the little bow cutter a while back and this is the first (and perfect) opportunity to use it.
I did stripes and polka dots onesies with my 2 different color pinks.
I love these little pink bows!
Each favor got one little onesie and one little bow.
Oh and look at my new stickers!
Thank you to Dion for making a girl baby that I can do pink cookies for! 🙂
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Flavored Homemade Mallows
So I have been a little marshmallow crazy lately, thanks to Shauna Sever‘s book Marshmallow Madness. Instead of drawing this out, I thought I would just share some pictures of the many mallows I have been creating lately…
Milk Chocolate (my brother’s favorite):
Key Lime Pie:
Bubblegum (my coworkers’ favorite):
Vanilla (my husband’s favorite), but pretty colors:
So far my favorite is funfetti!
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Girly Butterfly Cookies
A while back I made these butterflies for a special little girl.
With those as inspiration, I made these for another little girl who was turning 1!
They were left unwrapped so that they could be enjoyed by the party guests.
Sometimes simple and sprinkles is all you need!
Kool Aid Marshmallows
To make these Kool Aid Marshmallows, follow all the steps of the Basic Vanilla Marshmallows, except add a packet of unsweetened Kool-Aid mix to the gelatin at the very beginning.
I chose Black Cherry because it’s my husband’s favorite.
I chose to cut into triangles this time to be different. And I made this batch in a casserole dish rather than the standard 8×8 pan. Turned out perfect!
I bet Orange Kool Aid would be tasty! Ooh or Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade… I ❤ Kool Aid.
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Circus Birthday {Girl}
A couple days ago I posted another circus birthday, but for a boy. This time, the circus party was for a little girl.
I definitely wanted to do circus tents again, because I loved the way my last ones turned out.
I recently bought a big assorted set of Wilton cutters. (Actually didn’t get too many duplicates, which was awesome! What does everyone do with all those duplicates anyway? I have a bag started..) Anyway, in it was a balloon cutter, and after seeing the balloon cupcakes for my last circus party, I thought the balloon would be a good addition to this cookie party.
(If I weren’t doing these for 2 year olds, I would have stuck a sting to the back of each balloon with a dab of frosting. I figured 2 year olds wouldn’t know to pull it off so I just left it out.)
I came across these adorable circus cookies by Nicole of Life’s A Batch a while back, and the mama for these cookies just loved them when I sent her the link. From these cookies I drew inspiration for the pink elephants.
We also liked the idea for popcorn buckets. I had seen these by Bridget of Bake at 350 a while back, and I also loved the ones from Life’s a Batch, so I combined the ideas into something I could create with my style of frosting/icing.
For the actual popcorn kernels, I was having a hard time deciding what I wanted to do. First I tried using only icing, and planned on layering blobs to create “popcorn.” But because my icing is similar to glaze, it wasn’t holding it’s popcorn shape the way I wanted.
I scraped that idea (literally) and kind of “gave up” and turned to my trusty buttercream… just started creating my blobs. They were kind of bumping into each other and not really looking like kernels anymore.. They needed butter. Problem was, I didn’t have anymore buttercream to dye yellow for the butter. I definitely didn’t want to make a whole new batch just for a couple tablespoons needed. So I winged it and started using icing. Not something I’ve ever done before. I outline in buttercream, fill in icing, and use buttercream for details. Icing on top of blobs of buttercream? What the hell is that?
I’ll tell you. It’s butter. MELTED butter.
Perfection. Accidental perfection.
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Easter Cookies
I love Easter colors!
The butterflies are a new cutter I bought recently. Much cuter than the round-winged Wilton butterflies I had before.
I wanted to make only eggs, but my friends (who I do a cookie decorating party with) wanted other shapes too…)
I love sprinkles. It’s like glitter. Makes everything better.
The rest were done with stencils and Wilton color spray.
I icing them solid white…
Then layed out the stencil on top (sorry no picture)…
Then went outside because the color spray flies everywhere… and kept spraying until it got a nice dark color. Waited a few minutes, then removed the stencil to find these beauties!
I bought my stencil on Amazon. This paticular one can be found here.
And this is why my husband does not help me decorate…
…and yes there is a “base coat” of sprinkles under the icing…
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