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I will be unable to take orders at the moment.

Hopefully, I’ll be back in business and ready to bake again to take orders for events starting in November 2011.

I do have a show/an event that I plan to prepare for, on October 29th and 30th so keep that in mind. Lots of yummy treats to show and share with you.

*** I have a valid reason though…. More on that later ***

There are two more projects that I am trying to finish hopefully this week.

One of them is a chocolate image of a Super Why character for a dear friend. She is planning on setting it on top of  her home-made cake. The other one involves cookies that I should have done a looong time ago. For one reason or another I never got to work on them. This week I said “enough is enough”, so we (both of my kids and I) decorated them two days ago. Anyway, I hope I can manage to post them by the end of the month.

Thanks for visiting the site and I can’t wait to help you again with your party needs.

I miss baking tremendously (sniff…).

I recently posted the latest wedding cake on my site and blog.  I was so excited to do so with much better quality pictures than what I usually take. I don’t really have the best camera in the world you know.

The secret behind those beautiful pictures is a wonderful person who will do the honor of being my wedding cake photographer.  I really loved the quality of his work and the attention to detail he put in taking those and other pictures of my creations.

His name is Archi Trujillo and his website is called Converging Photography. You can find more information on his website and blog.

Here are more shots his has taken of some of my treats.

If you are ever in need of a photographer for any event, visit his blog. I do have a link on my website for your convenience.

I’m sure you’ll be glad with his work as much as I was.

Thank you Archi!

I have been participating on this event for the past couple of years. I’m talking about the Family Music Night offered by Kindermusik.

This event is always open to families of all ages that are interested in having an amazing time around music, fun activities, crafts, and much more.

Anyway, back to the treats right? My mom and I made lots of treats for the event. I always try to bake something different to the event, but our cookies have to be there. Here are some of the pictures.

Easter Cookie Tray

 Cookies inpired by candy & chocolate.

Eggs and Peeps

Robin Eggs' Cookies

Pink and Yellow Peeps

Yellow & Blue Peeps

We always bring cake to the events and that day was  no exception. Here we have Lemon Cake soaked in lemon syrup and frosted with a simple lemon frosting. We made cookies looking like limes, lemons, oranges, kiwis and my favorite fruit… watermelons. 

Spring Fruit Cookies

Mini Chocolate Cake cupcakes.

Chocolate mini cupcakes with ganache

Mini cupcakes with chocolate frosting

We made our Cake Balls in Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, Caramel cake with Dulce de Leche buttercream & White Butter cake with vanilla frosting. They are all covered in a light sugar glaze.

Easter Cake Balls

Personally, having my children enrolled in Kindermusik since they were babies has been one of the most wonderful experiences I can give them. They have gained so many skills not only music, but developmental skills.

If you are interested in learning more about Kindermusik, you can email at info@piedpiperstudios.org  or call 515-221-2948.

I am so excited to share this huge and delicious news in the cookie area.  I have created a new cookie recipe that will please a lot of people, especially if you are a fan of chocolate chips.

My husband (Matt) is a huge fan of chocolate chip cookies and even though he always eats (a lot of them) and loves (I think) my cookies, he often gets tired of them. He keeps asking me to make him and the kids regular, normal chocolate chip cookies. What do you mean normal?

Here is the problem. Typically, a regular chocolate chip cookie will rise and/or have a bumpy look like this so I cannot decorate them.

Well friends, here is the latest addition to the list of sugar cookie flavors.

A flat chocolate chip cookie that I can decorate!!!!

You know what the best part is?  It is flat enough that it can be decorated like a regular sugar cookie and just a delicious as a regular (normal) chocolate chip cookie. The texture and flavor are both pleasing.

I did manage to get a few cookies decorated, but to be honest… they were a disaster. My piping royal icing was very soft and I couldn’t get the results I wanted, so the decorations were breaking a little bit. They were still eaten though and loved! And I even managed to ship some of them.

I got very positive feedback on this cookie, so I can’t wait to start making them for people.

Stay tuned for some Valentine’s Cookies very soon!

I have cookies and cupcakes to share with you. A customer wanted me to make Onesie cookie but the mommy to  be didn’t really like pastel colors. No problem! Here we have the colorful yet cute onesie cookies designed for her.

And here an image of the cupcakes. These cupcakes are Tres Leches cupcakes with a Dulce de Leche frosting.

If you want to learn more about the Tres Leches cakes and cupcakes and the Dulce de Leche frosting, please visit my glossary (in a few days) to get more detail information about what they are all about.

I love dogs and I love all Disney cartoons. This cake combines a bit of both for a little boy turning 5 years old.

Isn’t he adorable? Inside this cake we have Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting and it is covered with Buttercream frosting.

Pluto was made out of chocolate and so as the other decorations such as the doggie bones, the water bowl and the food bowl. I Love it and so did Josh, the birthday boy.