Initial Sugar Cookies in Pink....

Hello all!  How has your new year began?  Mine has been filled with excitement and a few orders for various things and, of course, I will share them with you.  This particular project was kind of last minute, but it was great practice for me.  As always I looked to www.sweetsugarbelle.com for some clarity and wonderful and practical ideas and techniques.  I didn't want to just throw a "G" onto the cookies.  I wanted to give it dimension and depth.  So, here is the three picture story, so sad, of what I ended up with.  

Baked.  I tried marking the cookies with an edible marker to get a perfect circle, but ended up giving up on this b/c it was taking toooooo long and it was unnecessary.  

Here I am almost done.  Some "G's" are filled in others are not.  

A close up.  I would like to say this was the finished product, but in true Cara form, at the last minute I added a single edible pearl to each "G" and forgot to take more pictures.  

I have more cake projects coming up and still a few other projects just waiting to be blogged about.  I hope you enjoyed today's blog.  

Be still and know,

Cara

Christmas desserts. Too late?

I really hope your holidays were not too stressful and full of family and celebrating Jesus' birth.  I know it's late and maybe you are sick of looking at or thinking about sweets and desserts, but I still wanted to share these desserts before I completely forget about them.  I hope you enjoy!

Here it is, two of my Christmas desserts.  I normally make a banana pudding trifle, but decided to add a chocolate peppermint trifle to the mix this year along with a pumpkin and pecan pie.  I only took pictures of the trifles.  They just turned out so pretty.  LOL  Of course with a ton of poor lighting, here they are...

Banana Pudding Trifle

Side view

Chocolate Peppermint Trifle

Finally, this year, I made just enough.  Usually I make waaaaaay to much and have leftovers for days.  These were gone in about 2 days.  I think these will stay on the dessert menu for years to come.  

Here's to a year of clarity and purpose!