Zig Zags and Polka Dots

Moving on to the next holiday...

My sister Bonnie and I found the porcelain egg crate at Williams Sonoma.  I immediately started thinking of how I could use it.  It's perfect for mini-cupcakes!  And of course, the cupcakes had to look like Easter eggs.  I used royal icing to spell out "Easter".  Before she saw the pictures, Bonnie couldn't figure out how it was going to look like the word and not just a bunch of letters.  Sometimes when I explain my ideas to her, she has a hard time visualizing them - I just say, "Trust me." 

They really are mini-cupcakes - see?

I think this would make a cute gift.

And now, for the cookies I've been waiting to do for years -
Easter Eggs.

I was born to do these cookies.

I have been doodling like this since high school.

And I always thought it would look good on an Easter egg.

I was right. 
Well, it looks good on an Easter egg cookie. 
And cookies are so much yummier than eggs anyway!

These really are my favorite - hence all the pictures, just couldn't help myself.
(I think it somehow justifies the hours I spent bored in lecture classes.)

You can order some for your Easter baskets.  

6 cookie minimum.

Just have your Easter bunny call me.
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Spring, Spring, Spring!

Oh, how I love spring!  I love the weather, longer days, the colors, the flowers.  If you've read my Cookie Archive post, you already know that flowers are my favorite cookies to decorate.  Well, I've had an idea for a flower cake sitting in my head for a month or so and I've been just dying to try it out!  Not that I ever need an excuse to make a cake, but it helps motivate me when there is a recipient other than myself.  My sister had two occasions she needed Sweet B's this past weekend - to welcome the new neighbors and to wish another neighbor "Happy Birthday."  Perfect!  I made cupcakes for the new neighbors and my flower cake for the birthday girl! 

Here's the idea brought to life - pretty much what it looked like in my head.  (Fairly simple in design, yes.  Simple and sweet.)

But, remember it's a birthday cake.  And because I don't do just your ordinary birthday cake...

I write on the sides of cakes. 

(Note: I got to use my new revolving cake stand!)

When I was doing the cake for TC, I was stressing to figure out what to put on the side.  My sister informed me that most birthday cakes don't have anything on the sides.  Oh.  I guess you're right.  But not Kari's cake!

And Kari loved her cake!  I was afraid she was going to be disappointed that I didn't bring her cookies, she's one of my biggest fans.  But if she was, I couldn't tell!

Since I was doing the purple and green for the cake, I decided to make the cupcakes purple and green as well.  (For ease and picture's sake.)

The neighbors only got 6 - the rest were for us.  (Tee-hee!)

Happy Spring!!

(Even though the official start is a couple of weeks away, I'm already there!)