Oreo Treats

A week before Mother's day, Ryan asked me if I could come up with something to hand out at church for all the mothers in the ward.
Sure, I can do that...no problem.
I ended up doing chocolate dipped oreos. I had just enough chocolate transfer sheets to do them.

I think I ended up with 80 packages with 2 oreos each.

They turned out beautiful and I think all the mother's liked them a lot.

 They also handed out a booklet, so I bundled them all together with a cute bow and tag to complete the ensemble. 

Who knew I would have to work so hard for my own mother's day treat :)

General Conference

This month for Visiting Teaching we get to talk about our favorite talks from General Conference. There were so many wonderful ones to choose from, so I downloaded the Conference Highlights off the church website and burned them onto a CD.

Of course I had to give it a little something to "gingerize" it a bit.

I've even enjoyed listening to the exerpts from Conference. 

It's a great way to get a little spiritual dose now and then while in the car.

Diaper Quad

A good friend of mine is having a boy. I thought about doing my usual diaper cake, but thought she needed something different, something boy-ish, something with 4 wheels....

I looked at a few tutorials online and kind of mixed them together and added a little somethin' somethin' of my own and voila!

I might change a couple things when I attempt this again, but overall, I'm happy with it :)

(The license plate is a gift card to Target)

Onesie Lollies

I've seen this idea online a while ago and couldn't wait for a chance to give it a go. When a friend had a little baby girl, I knew it was time to experiment.

Each little lollipop is a onesie rolled up and wrapped.

The flower on the front of the tin has a clip on it so someday she could use it in her hair, unless her older sisters get to it first :)

Still & Quiet

For my Visiting Teaching lesson this month I told a story about a boy who went to a butterfly Farm with his mother. He ran around trying to catch a butterfly, but they just flew off whenever he came close. His mother told him to slow down and sit quitely for a minute and soon enough, he was covered with butterflies.
I related this story to the Holy Ghost and how if we are always running around crazy, we won't be able to hear the promptings.

As the quote says, " We must allow ourselves to be Still & Quiet enough to Listen to the voice of the Spirit"

Pirate & Princess Pops

For Christmas, my sister gave me this Cake Pops book by Bakerella.
I've been hooked on her site forever, but was super excited to get this book and try these little beauties for myself. 

I guess I just never had an official occasion to make them, so the book just sat and sat waiting for me to use it.  Finally.... my chance came.  The Young Women were having a bake sale fundraiser for girls camp.  Perfect! 
   Miranda and I flipped through the pages trying to decide what would be good to make for the bake sale.  Finally, we decided on the pirates (you can see it on the front cover above).  I thought the boys would love it, but the girls needed something too.  I searched for ways to make a princess, but didn't find anything.  So, I just figured out a way to create my own :)
   I baked the cake (chocolate), bought all the supplies...now I was ready to make cake pops! 

Without further delay.... here they are!

Meet the Pirates for the boys....

And the Princesses for the girls....

I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.  I had issues with the edible markers so had to resort to making their faces with colored chocolate. 

The Pirate bandannas and princess tiaras are made with giant heart sprinkles....
Miranda came up with the pirate mustache idea, I like them much better than the smile
and we added these little earrings for them too..

I'm just OK with the princess faces, there's just something not quite right.  This was definately a learning process and I will make some changes next time. 

We ended up with 50 (25 each)

It was a little army of pirate & princess cake pops :)
Overall, I'm pretty happy with my first cake pop experience...next up.... baby chicks!

New Beginnings Cake

Miranda volunteered "us" to create a Wedding type cake as the dessert for their Young Women's New Beginnings. So, I began searching for a fun idea to create.
I ran onto THIS post and knew it would be perfect for the occasion.
Miranda wanted it to be all white, so white it would be :)
Here is how it finally ended up. 

Pretty good if I do say so myself. I felt it was lacking a little somethin-somethin, so I quickly whipped up a topper right before leaving.
Whew... much better!

She also wanted the flowers glittered...love it!

It was a fun and fairly simple cake to make. And the best part...Miranda and I made it together :)