MONSTER TRUCKS!!

My 5 year old son is currently obsessed with monster trucks. So it was no surprise when he requested a monster truck cake for his birthday. In addition to a cake we decided it would be fun to make cookies for favors. I was a little nervous to do this so the royal icing master Amy Norris made these amazing cookies.

The birthday boy really wanted to help. So we set him up with a little cookie decorating station and let him go to town. He was in heaven.

I love the tongue action.

Once the cookies were complete it was on to the cake. Hayden wanted a stadium complete with jumps and crash cars. He was very specific with the positioning of the items on the cake as well as the trucks we used. Here is the finished product.

The boys LOVED it!!!

So much fun!!

Happy Birthday Hayden!!

Baby Shower and Birthdays

This week we got to ship some cookies off to North Carolina.  Received an order for some Baby Shower cookies, and the client that ordered them just had a birthday so had to include some special birthday cookies with her order.

Happy Birthday V!  Hope the baby shower is a success!

Brandi Carlile Cookies

So do you ever get a crazy idea?  I got one a few weeks ago, I actually originally had the idea back in December, but there wasn't enough time to fully carry out the plan so it got put on the back burner.  What is the crazy idea you ask?  Well my idea was to make cookies that represented Brandi Carlile, her band, and her charities, then try to get the cookies delivered to her at a concert.  I'm happy to report that the cookies were made, delivered directly to Phil (one of her twin guitarists), then this happened.

Thats right, Brandi Carlile instagrammed the cookies!  When I saw this on my phone while waiting in line for the concert, I couldn't speak.  I was so happy that she liked the cookies enough to post about them.  Super high for the rest of the night.  After the concert we decided to wait by the busses to see if we could meet the band and get a picture.  Phil came out first and recognized me as the one that gave the cookies.  His brother Tim came out a little bit after and I told him I made the cookies, he said "Oh my God"  and said they had taken so many pictures of them.  After a little while longer Brandi came out, and her tour manager, Rachel said no pictures.  I told her I was the one that made the cookies, and she thanked me, and told me I was super talented.  Pretty crazy to have someone you think is amazing tell you that you are talented.  She said they didn't have time for pictures, and we told her that we were also going to a show the next night, she then gave us Rachel's number and said we could have a photo session the next day.  

Needless to say I was wide awake at 2:45 as we walked back to our car.  I just kept looking at the phone, and rethinking of the conversation I just had with Brandi Carlile.

The next day, Rachel let us know that we could come back to the dressing room after the show.  She said it would be a real quick picture, but when we got back there, Brandi was quite chatty.  She said they had all eaten some of the cookies and they tasted as good as they looked.  She also said her wife was impressed with the charity ones.  

And I guess since this is a cookie blog I should show you some of the cookies.

Flowers and Butterflies

I am a little late getting this post up, you know life gets in the way. A good friend of mine asked us to make a cake and some cookies for her daughters 1st birthday. The theme was Flowers and Butterflies. The number of guests expected reached to 100+ plus so we made 100 cookies and a 2 tier cake as well as a smash cake for the birthday girl.

This was the 1st cake we had done that I was going to be at the party to see the reaction. Needless to say I was stressed. After a slight break down this is what we came up with.

The cake was buttercream with gumpaste decorations. I really like the butterfly sitting on top of the cake. Here is a better view of it.

Here are the cookies that match the cake.

Although this was the most stressed I have been the end result was one of my favorites and the birthday girl loved it!!

Wyatt is 1!

My Baby is 1!! So to celebrate we had a Cowboy themed birthday party with treats by 2 Amis Bake. We made cookies, cupcakes with mini cookie toppers and of course the smash cake.

The little buckaroo enjoying his cake. He LOVED it!!!

We are still alive!

So they always say time flies the older you get, and I have to say they are correct.  I can't believe we haven't posted for almost 6 months!  But we are back. . and should be posting a few things in the next few weeks.

This weeks project was a graduation cake and cookies for a young man graduating from Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts.  These cookies gave me a little challenge, first in finding male ballet silhouettes and then figuring out how to get them on a cookie.  After the many hours with the Kopy kake I was very pleased with the outcome.

Christmas Cookies

This post should have been done weeks ago, but sometimes life gets in the way of cookies.

Since Amie and I had so much fun doing the Thanksgiving Cookies we decided to come up with some Christmas cookies to do.  We also needed to do cookies for our friends Annual Holiday Party. So in the month of December I think we made close to 1000 cookies.  I think we are both ready for a break, it's short however, we have orders to fill next week.

So why you all come here, the pictures.

 This was the one dozen assortment.  We did a Santa, Snowman, Snowflake, Bird, Gingerbread Man, Candy Cane, Candy, Ornament, Mitten, Hat and Tree

 The Box of 5

 The Blue and White Assortment.

Thanks to everyone who thought of us this holiday season and placed an order.  Hope Everyone enjoyed their cookies.