Snowflake Sugar Cookies

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

Pre-oven

Some of my army cooling.

 Outlined.

THE FINISHED PRODUCTS:

Design 1 - Royal Icing with White Chocolate design

Design 2 - Royal Icing with Glitter

Design 3 - Royal Icing with Pearls

Design 4 - White Chocolate with Sugar

MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! JOYOUS KWANZA!

AND A VERY PEACEFUL WINTER!

Naughty or Nice? Christmas Truffles

Any time of the year where truffles can be made is the "Most Wonderful Time of the Year"..  But these are especially yummy!

THE NICE

Milk Chocolate Gingerbread

White Chocolate Candy Cane     

     Dark Chocolate Raspberry

THE NAUGHTY

Milk Chocolate Whipped Cream Vodka

White Chocolate Eggnog

Dark Chocolate Red Wine

Be naughty & nice! And, have a happy holiday!

Christmas Tree Cupcakes!

These are Martha Stewart's Christmas Tree Cupcakes.  They taste delicious.... HOWEVER, what a pain in the butt! It is next to impossible to get the cones to stand up in the oven, no matter how perfect your "x's" are.  If you plan on making these, I would brainstorm a different technique to get the cones to stand or find a cake pan in a cone shape (that would be awesome!) Also, the whole nut in the bottom of the cone thing does not work so well if there is a legitimate hole in the bottom of the cone.  I used foil instead.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..

And if I cannot have it, at least my cupcakes will!

My favorite kind of tree to decorate is an edible cupcake one!

The pictures don't do them justice; the tree has edible glitter on it so it looks like snow glistening in the sun when in the light!

Then, I made my own little trees with the leftover cupcakes!

Yes, that is Mrs. Clause holding my cupcake.

And, if it is good enough for her and her guests, it is good enough for anyone! ;)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

MAY YOU BE HAPPY, HEALTHY AND FULL OF SWEETS!

John's Birthday Cupcakes

Sour Patch Kids Cupcakes!

I made these cupcakes for my boyfriend's birthday -- he is a sour patch kid fanatic so when I stumbled across the recipe on Ingredients Of A 20 Something I knew I had to make them for his birthday!  It is a basic yellow cake BUT the icing IS SOUR and the flavors of a sour patch kid!!

RASPBERRY!

(By the way, who knew? I always thought the red was cherry.)

ORANGE!

LEMON!

And last but not least, the birthday boy's favorite..

LIME!

I bought the Tart and Sour Flavor Enhancer off of Amazon to make the icing sour.  The icing is a Swiss Meringue Buttercream with the sour flavor & raspberry, orange, lemon or lime extract.  

I just love the way all of the colors look together! So so pretty!  The birthday boy is thrilled with my choice so this should be a good birthday..

Gotta go, time to eat cupcakes :)