Valentine's Day

We did some Valentine's Day themed baking over the weekend. We are probably technically behind the 8-ball and these posts should have been up last week but ohh well!

After a slight mishap in the kitchen I had an extra Hello Kitty cake that was, lets just say, unusable (came out of the pan in pieces). Tyler being the guy that he is, instructed me NOT to throw the cake away and he would eat it.

I decided to spruce it up a bit and make him his own Valentine's cake.

 

Krista decided to get in on the action as well! Hers is a little more gagging, I mean sentimental.

Happy Valentine's Day to all Holy Hannah's followers!

Just for Fun

I had a few left over cake balls the other day and decided to put them to good use! We have many supportive friends at the gym that we love sharing treats with. And we feel that everyone deserves a small dose of chocolate after a hard work out at the gym :)

And in the spirit of Valentine's day (which is fast approaching, hint hint Michael and Tyler...), I used red candy melt topped with some heart sprinkles. I can't wait to show you our other valentines treats soon :)

Hamline

Challenge #2 from Auntie Shannon was just as successful as the first! Her eldest son Zack swims for the Hamline Pipers, and cake pops were in order to celebrate the last meet of the season. The school colors for Hamline are gray and maroon, and we had a heck of a time trying to color our butter cream frosting to a good dark maroon. We finally hit it and they turned out great!

Here is what the actual Hamline logo looks like

The Slew

Go Pipers!

Great Grandma Bossard

Great Grandma Bossard was so excited for us when she saw the article about us in the Woodbury magazine. She proudly showed off the article clipping to all of her friends at the nursing home! We brought her a couple of treats the other day to share with all of her friends.

Thanks for all your support GGB :)

Happy Birthday Kathy!

One of our many supporters had a big birthday last Saturday. Kathy Gustin turned the big 5-0! We celebrated at bowling and Kathy was so excited to hand our her birthday treat. She even ate one for us :)

Happy Birthday Kathy!

Go Pack Go!

During the Superbowl yesterday, Emilee and I decided to make good use of our time and bake some cut out cookies.

Tyler John all excited for the big game

I got these awesome Message In A Cookie cut outs for Christmas from my boyfriend's brother Ben. He drew me for secret santa and I think his wife Becky may have helped him pick a few things out for me:)

These cut outs let you create words to press into the cookies.

Since we were a little short on time, we didn't have time to color the dough we used. We plan to do these again later in the week to hopefully have some cuter results.

Go Pack Go!

Superbowl 45 Champions!

They were a ton of fun! Thanks Ben :)

North St. Paul

Our cousin Brent swims for the North St. Paul Polars. Our aunt ordered some cake balls for the final swim meet of the year. She gave me the ultimate challenge, asking that the logo be imprinted on the cake ball somehow. Here is the logo:

We tried several different kinds of cake spray paint/frosting but they were all unsuccessful. They didn't dry on the smooth candy melt. Plan B was to pipe the logo onto the ball with buttercream frosting. This proved to be much more successful, see below:

We decorated half of the cake balls in the logo and the other half were swirled by Emilee Ann. It was nice to have a little variety with them. Overall, I think the logos turned out better than I thought they would.

Go Polars!