Archive for Cookies

Yes, we also make gourmet cookies. Moving to a new home is great reason to celebrate and my lovely customer wanted to present a bag of cookies to her new neighbors. We baked  6 dozen cookies in different flavors (Peanut Butter cookies not in the picture… they didn’t fit in the tray!). 

From left to right, Oatmeal cookies, Chocolate Chip, Orange Sugar, Dark Molasses Orange cookies

And this is how they were packaged. We included six assorted cookies in each bag and a small flower and bird with the tie.

I hope the recipients of these cookies enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed the smell of fresh baked cookies in my home. My favorites?

Oatmeal!

Hi Everybody! I’m so behind in positing and I have a few things to show you. I’ll work hard and get those new desserts posted asap.

In the meantime, I want to show and share with you a special celebration cake. My Lillie turned 4 years on the 4th of July! She is growing so fast and that makes me so sad, but I’m so happy to see  her grow up, learn new things and share with her new discoveries. I’m going to cry….

Any way, here are pictures of the cake, cupcakes and some of our wonderful friends that attended the party.

Here’s the Cake/Cupcake display!

This year, Lillie wanted to have Strawberry Shortcake on her cake. I decided to go with a small cake surrounded by vines and a couple of bid colorful flowers. The topper is a toy because I wanted her to keep it. The fondant covered cake is Chocolate (as requested by the Princess) and filled with vanilla buttercream.

 For the rest of the kids, I prepared cupcakes. I love the idea of not having to cut and slice. Each kid had his/her cupcake when we cut Lillie’s cake (No mess, Yeah!). Do you see the cookies? I forgot to take a closeup of them and this is all I manage to get a picture of.

 This time, I tinted the cookie dough in pink and green colors to match the theme. They looked amazing! I also decorated them with royal icing strawberries, number “4″, Strawberry Shortcake hats and “Happy Birthday” messages.

Pink and white cupcakes topped with edible pearl decorations.

And here are a few pictures of the party.

Lillie enjoying her piñata

Noah hitting the piñata

Antonio and Mayra Bañuelos

Maria (Lillies Godmother) & Abelito

Don't ask!

Grandma Doehrmann & Lillie

Liza (great friend) and Anakarina

Lillie's friends

Abbie hitting her first piñata

My brother in law, Ross and his girlfriend Maggie

Good friends

Thank you to all of our dear friends that shared this time with us. It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun.

For 8 years, I have been part of a celebration that takes part every year. Whether it is during the dreaded cold Winter or the hot Summers, the Doehrmann Family gets together to celebrate Christmas – or just to visit with each other. This year it was up our family, Jan (Matt’s mom), Ryan & Ross (Matt’s brothers), Amy (Ryan’s wife), and us (Matt and I) to host the get together.

I was in charge of the cakes and I was more than happy to do it. We had a few birthdays to celebrate. Jo Anne Doehrmann was having a birthday and all of her kids wanted to make it special for her. So, I decided to make cupcakes and display them in a three tier cake stand. Here’s Jo Anne (wonderful person and mother to he children) and her appetizer and dessert display.

My daughter Lillie decided that the cupcakes’ flavors should be Strawberry and Chocolate with Chocolate Ganache filling.

 Because Jo Anne was a music teacher it was only appropriate to have a musical touchto the desserts. I made fondant circles and added a musical note drawn with royal icing. Here is the cupcakes arranged in the stand. All around the cake stand I placed sugar cookies made featuring musical note, clef notes and guitars.

Here are the pictures of the musical cookies, decorated with royal icing.

And the guitars…

We also had the opportunity to celebrate Jan’s Birthday (Matt’s mom) and my lovely Lillie s birthday also (on July 4th). For both of them I created this cake. The flavor is Spice Cake topped with buttercream icing.

Lillie wanted crown candles and princess colors (pink mostly). For Jan, I wrapped the cake with a shoe decorated ribbon. I also made dresses and shoe cookies for  her.

And here’s my Lillie (Pooh) with her cake and having lots of fun at the party.

The Doehrmann Reunion was again and as always a lot of fun and it was nice to visit with all family members coming from various cities. Jan Doehrmann did a wonderful job preparing all the food and appetizers that everyone enjoyed. The kids rode horses, played with the dogs and enjoyed an awsome water slide.

Until next year.

Train Cakes are always fun to make. Whenever I make trains, I have to decide whether to carve it or make it from a cake mold. The following cake combines a little bit of both. I initially made it in the mold, but I had to modify it by carving it so I could make it look like Thomas.

Here’s Thomas the Train!

Thomas’ face is made out of chocolate and the whole engine is White Butter cake. It is all covered and decorated with buttercream.

One wagon was White Butter cake and the other one is Chocolate Butter cake.

And here are the sugar (vanilla) cookies we made for the party. There were 48 of them! The boy was turning 3 years old, so a chocolate  number 3 was made separately and ‘glued’ on the cookies. The numbers had a glow to them as they were brushed with luster dust for an extra touch.

I hope you enjoyed this cake. Like I said before, I enjoy making trains!

A very special cake for an even more special little boy’s baptism.

One of my best friends and Godmother of my Lillie had her son, Abel baptised last Saturday. I had the honor of making the cake for this celebration. The top and bottom tiers of the cake are tropical white cake with pineapple, toasted walnuts and coconut. The filling is buttercream and I also added a thin layer of apricot preserves to enhance the flavor. The middle tier is an orange cake with fresh orange zest and our classic buttercream filling.  Here’s the cake.

You can’t see it, but I added some chocolate crosses around the top tier. I bought the little baby (Precious Moments).

We also made him some  Thank You favors. Delicious chocolate covered Oreos with a monogram.

If you see closely, you might notice that the ribbon has the baby’s name and date of the baptism. I loved that idea!

You want to guess how many cookies my mom made?

…

120! 

I usually take my children to story time at this wonderful place called Connxions. Danielle does an incredible job with the kids and they all have fun listening to stories, making a craft and having a snack afterwards. Well, I decided to bring them my sugar cookies to share with them. Here’s what we made for the kids.

Cookie flavors are sugar and cinnamon and the are all the cookies are decorated with my special royal icing.

Here are a few baby onesies because there are some ladies pregnant so I thought they would like them.

Here are some shooting stars.

I think I like this better, what do you think?

Some cars for the boys…

And some adorable dresses for the girls (and moms). I love making dresses.

Everyone likes hearts.

And my mom wanted some beach balls.

I delivered the cookies the night before because sometimes I am not able to make it to story time. I hope everyone enjoyed them as we enjoyed making them. If you live in the area and you are looking for a place to take your kids to story time, check out Connxions. You won’t be dissapointed.

Here we have a few cookies that we prepared for my sister’s baby shower. Baby onesies are always a favorite!

And here are a few rattles also.  The cookies are vanilla and cinnamon and they are decorated with royal icing.

Congratulations to my sister and her new addition to the family, baby Mario.

This Giant Cupcake cake is very popular. We made another one of these cakes and decorated it with colorful butterflies that stand out against the fuchsia colored cake. The cake is butter white and it is frosted with vanilla buttercream.

The cupcakes are also Butter White cake, very popular flavor.

The colorful butterflies are made from chocolate. I can make almost any image or figure with chocolate to personalize your cake.

And the last picture of this lovely cake.

I hope you liked this cake. I enjoyed making it.

Once again I had the pleasure to bring sweets for parents and their children that attended Music Time offered by Kindermusik. Do you know what Kindermusik is? Well, Kindermusik  “is a classroom learning experience” where children gain wonderful experience with all things musical. At the same time they gather skills to become “better learners“.

Here are the cookies and other sweets that we made for them. They are all decorated with royal icing. The cookie flavors were Sugar (vanilla), Cinnamon and Chocolate.

Here are my bunny faces piped with the grass tip to make him look like real bunny hair.

Doggie Bones!! woof woof.

Baby duckies.

I love these bunnies. They are covered in royal icing and then dusted with shredded coconut to give them ‘hair’.

Spring colorful flowers with shiny sanding sugar in the center.

We also brought an assortment of cupcakes. We had chocolate butter, white butter and my tropical cake with walnuts, pineapple and coconut. They are all topped with our home made buttercream and adorned with a small candy on top.

These birds were my favorites! I drew each bird by hand. It wasn’t very easy at first, but then I got the hang of it and they kept looking better. Since it is spring (thank goodness) I thought about making them super colorful. Do you like them?

Sweet and colorful butterflies.

I think everybody at the Kindermusik event enjoyed our treats. We also made chocolate covered marshmallows, but I didn’t get a picture of them. They were very good. I had two kids come to me and tell me ” This is the best mashmallow/cookie that I’ve ever had in my life“. You know how that made me feel? Wonderful. That’s one of the reasons I do what I do… I love seeing people enjoy what I do with their eyes and mouths.

Well, that’s it. I hope you like the cookies and remember that we can make this and much more for your celebration. They are perfect edible favors and everyone will certainly enjoy.

Oh! and don’t forget to visit Kindermusik’s website if you have children and are interested and something like this. It is a wonderful experience to expose your children to. My daughter Lillie has been going to these classes since she was able to attend and now that she is almost 4 years old, she still enjoys it. Jenn Horak-Hult is the director and she is simply amazing at what she does.

My son Noah was born on December 4th and I his birthday party was just yesterday. Don’t ask me why… if it wasn’t one thing, it was another. We did it anyway and that’s what counts.

His party theme was Animals and here are the cookies that I made for him. We have sugar, chocolate & cinnamon cookies. They are all decorated with royal icing and the animal was made out of chocolate.

I saw some beautiful strawberries at the grocery store and decided to make him some chocolate covered strawberries.

And finally here’s a picture of my handsome son.

Yes, I did make him a cake. Well, I made him cupcakes. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of them (bad mom!). They were very cute, we had chocolate (with chocolate ganache in the middle), vanilla and walnut cupcakes. They were frosted with buttercream in two tones, white/blue and white/orange. For a topper, I bought these adorable animals from William Sonoma made from die cut paper and printed paper attached with wooden picks.