Happy Belated Easter!

I'm so far behind...I had planned on posting this on Easter Day.  Well, only three days late...not bad, right?  :)

As some of you know, my family has expanded recently.  My husband's daughter, her boyfriend, and our three grandchildren have all moved here from Ohio.  So this Easter was our first big family dinner.  It was so much fun to have the grandkids with us on a holiday!  Normally I ship gifts down to them, so it was a treat to actually get to watch them search for their Easter baskets!!!!  I made little cookie bags for their baskets that I think turned out cute:

Easter is always a slow time of year for cakes for some reason, so I normally get to actually make treats for my own family!  This year we did bunny cupcakes and bunny butt cookies:

I have some cute cakes for this week, so hopefully I'll get those posted in a more timely fashion!  :)  I hope you all had a fantastic Easter!!!!

It's Almost Easter!

I have to admit...I had NO idea Easter was this coming Sunday.  I knew it was at the end of April, but apparently the end of April snuck up on me fast!  I didn't realize it until I read it in CookieCrazie's blog, so thank you Pam!  I would've been soooo behind. 

Life has been a bit hectic lately.  We still have a full house with all three grandkids with us, so it's difficult to set time aside for cookies.  :(  But I just HAD to try to get some done. 

These cookies were inspired by many talented cookie artists.  It's so hard to know where the original ideas came from, especially when you get a cookie like the "peeps" one that everybody wants to do!  I try really hard to name the original designer, as I've had a cupcake cookie design that's been copied so much that no one can remember it was my design either!  :)  Okay, not the worst problem to have, but it's still nice to get credit for the original.

That being said, I think the original designer of the Peeps cookie was T-Woods on Flickr.  If anyone can correct me, let me know!  I have NO idea who came up with the chocolate covered bunny design, but it's genius as well!  I had such a good time creating this set.  Hopefully the grandkids will enjoy munching on them come Easter morning!  :)

Even posting this picture makes me smile.  :)  Which is the whole point of a cookie, right?!

This past weekend, I did a cake to match Connor's party invitations.  The animals are all modeled out of chocolate or fondant.  Hopefully he enjoyed his 2nd birthday!!!

And a close up of the monkey.  I was pretty proud of him, as monkeys seem to be my nemisis!

I hope everyone has a fantastic Easter!  We're pulling out all the stops this year....ham dinner, homemade gravy and biscuits, baskets for the kids, dying easter eggs, easter egg hunt.  Wow, I should get busy!!!  :)

Happy Easter!!!!

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you're enjoying the beautiful weather! This weekend has been amazing....I even managed to get a bit of a sunburn working in the yard!

Next holiday up....Mother's Day! I'm going to try to start planning early this year. We'll have lots of cookie packages and gift baskets available for mom, so stay tuned! :)

Chocolate Easter Eggs

Aren't these the cutest? These are white chocolate eggs. They're hollow, so we can fill them up with Easter treats. These are filled with jelly beans! And the little Easter critters are fondant. I just love these! :)

Easter is almost here!

Easter is one of my favorite holidays. I love making cute little treats with bunnies and flowers and chicks! :) It seems like the official "goodbye" to winter and the cold and the days with no sun. Easter seems like a good time for renewal and change. I've always thought that Spring is when people should really make resolutions! It's just fitting.

We have lots of Easter treats posted on our website. We can individually wrap cookies so you can add them to your child's basket, or you can drop us off items you'd like included and we can handle the whole thing! Also new this year are one cupcake containers (like the clear one in front of this basket), so we can add cupcakes to baskets as well. They're super cute!

Enjoy the season!!!