Gannon's Pirate Ship Cookies

Well we've been celebrating it since Thanksgiving but today is the "actual" big day. My oldest turned 6 today, and these are the cookies that he took to school for his friends.

Happy Birthday Gannon!

~ Enjoy! ~

Kroff Inc. Logo Cookies

I was asked to make some logo cookies and based of the company Kroff Inc. (http://www.kroff.com/) and based on their logo, I came up with the following cookies.

Thanks Liz and Rob!

~ Enjoy! ~

Cookies for the clinic

Yesterday I had my annual physical, and had the joy of bringing these assorted holiday cookies into the clinic for all of the doctors and nurses to show how much I appreciate all that they do.  

~ Enjoy! ~

Sea Turtle Cookies

Leslie's niece is in school to be a Marine Biologist, and she thought it would be fun to send her a care package with some cookies. So a dozen Sea Turtle cookies are all packaged up and on their way as a surprise. Thanks Leslie for the order.

~ Enjoy! ~

Judy and Lou's Anniversary Cake

Judy and Lou celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with family this past weekend, and with a Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese frosting.  It's been some time since I've worked with Cream Cheese frosting, so I had a bit of a learning curve, but overall the cake was well received.

Happy Anniversary Judy and Lou!

Thanks Julie for the order!

~ Enjoy! ~

Cherry Pie Cake

I've done posts before as a part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker (www.foodbuzz.com) program and I’m pleased to announce that I was given the opportunity to try out both Duncan Hines ® and Comstock-Wilderness Fruit Fillings and create something that was yummy and delicious.  My original idea was going to be a trifle that I planned to serve for dessert for my son’s birthday, and then I got a wild idea and came up with this.  Which we enjoyed this evening with my in-laws for his birthday.

Cherry Pie Cake

1 box of Duncan Hines ® French Vanilla Cake Mix and the ingredients to make the cake

1 can of Wilderness Country Cherry Pie Filling

Butter cream frosting

Prepare the cake according to the directions on the box. Bake in a 10 inch round cake pan that you have sprayed with a cooking spray with flour. Bake the cake for 40 minutes. Remove from the oven, and remove the cake from the pan and cool. Once the cake is cool, spread buttercream frosting on the sides of the cake and on the very edge of the top creating a ridge. Spread the entire can of cherries on top of the cake taking the pie filling up to the buttercream ridge.  Using the buttercream frosting make “lattice” lines with frosting across the top and detail the edge to look like a pie.

~ Enjoy! ~

Ingredients for the cake minus the buttercream frosting.

Cake with buttercream frosting and cherries on top.

Buttercream "Lattice" on top of the cherries.

Fluted frosting on the sides.

My six year old blowing out the candles.

Cutting the cake.

The inside of the cake.

What's left after the first round...two more pieces got eaten, but I'm not pointing any fingers.
 

As part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program, I received a coupon for a free Duncah Hines (R) Product and a free Can of Constock-Wildreness Fruit. The opinions & views expressed above are my own, and I thoroughly enjoyed my experience!

Thanksgiving Cookies

I've taken a few days away from here to enjoy some time with my parents, so I'm a day late in posting some of my Thanksgiving cookies that I have been making. 

I'm anxiously looking forward to Christmas, and all of the variety of Christmas cookies I get to do. 

So here are some cookies that I made for a few orders, for my middle son's Thanksgiving Day feast, and also for our church.