Easter Vanilla Sugar Cookies.

Today I baked some easter treats, vanilla sugar cookies for my niece's who will be away for Easter, so not joining us for dinner on Easter Sunday.

Cute little Easter bunnies and chickens were the cutters I chose.

Pink and yellow seemed to be a good colour choice, prettied up with cute little sugar flowers and fluffy bunny tails.

Yesterday Lachlan and I spent most of the day making paper chains, Easter banners and Easter colouring in pictures to decorate our house in readiness for the Easter weekend. I purchased the gorgeous Easter printables set from Style Me Gorgeous. 

 

The printable set also included cute chocolate wrappers to match. I put together this little gift for Lachlan's teacher.

Enjoy the days leading up to Easter, I will be making a special Easter themed cake for our family, so will be back with some details on this along with a wedding cake and birthday cake for Easter Saturday!

Ella's Rainbow Cookies.

Since starting my blog last year I have had the pleasure of meeting some wonderful people online. Claire from Scissors Paper Rock is one of these people. You may remember that Claire designed and made the invitations and dessert labels for my children's birthday parties last year.

Ella is her gorgeous little girl and she is turning 3 tomorrow and is celebrating with a Rainbow themed birthday party. I was delighted when Claire asked me to bake some rainbow cookies for the celebration. I used the invitation as inspiration when designing the cookies.

{ Photo and invitation by Claire Chadwick }

 

The cookies are vanilla sugar cookies with fondant icing. The cookies had to be posted to Queensland and thankfully they arrived safely and undamaged! Here they are all packaged up ready to go.

 

Wishing Ella a very happy 3rd birthday, thankyou for allowing me to be a part of your rainbow celebrations :)

Enjoy your weekend.
 

It's all about the boys this week!

After having a week of all things pink in the lead up to Claire's birthday, my baking this week has been all things boys.

The first cake was for a 40th birthday. This cake was cherry ripe mudcake filled with dark chocolate ganache and fondant covering. The electric guitar was hand modeled from modeling paste. All was going well with the cake until I went to place the guitar on top and the end broke off! I panicked for a moment, but luckily I could fix it with a little sugar glue.

 

 My eldest son's kindergarten teacher welcomed her new baby boy into the world last week, so I baked some cookies for her. Vanilla sugar cookies with fondant icing and a little message!

An aeroplane theme was the request for the next birthday. Oliver is turning 2 and his dad is a pilot. Chocolate cupcakes with buttercream swirls and hand modeled aeroplanes, also hand cut vanilla sugar cookies with fondant icing.

 

The last cake was for another little boy turning 2. His request was a Chuggington theme. White chocolate mudcake with white chocolate filling and fondant covering. The trains were hand modeled from modelling paste.

Next week involves some more fun cakes including a groovy 70's theme and Mickey Mouse, so be sure to come back later in the week to check them out. Enjoy your week.

Mrs KT :)

Sienna's Vintage Circus Party

{ Image courtesy Mrs A in the Cove }

 

 

Last week I posted about the cookies I made for my blogging friend, Leanne's eldest daughters 6th birthday. The party was held last weekend and was a huge success.

Please head over to Mrs A in the Cove, to see all the gorgeous details from the party. Sienna's Circus party was also chosen to be featured on Amy Atlas, who is the "queen" of dessert and candy tables, congratulations Leanne.

{ Image courtesy Mrs A in the Cove }

I am getting towards the end of organising Lachlan's Lego themed 7th Birthday Party to be held tomorrow, so please come back in the next few days to see all the photo's.

Enjoy your weekend and stay warm.

Mrs KT :)

 

Some of this weeks baking!

I am very busy this week with cakes, cupcakes and cookies. The first order went off in the post on Tuesday. Cookies for Sienna's 6th Birthday Party. This is the first time I have posted any of my baking, and thankfully they arrived safely the next day.

 These are vanilla sugar cookies with fondant icing. The colours were pink and pale yellow to match the theme of the party, which is a vintage circus theme. All the details of this fabulous party will feature over here early next week.

I had a phone call from a teacher's aide at the local school earlier in the week requesting some baby themed cupcakes to share with her kindergarten class, as the teacher is finishing up this week to start maternity leave. 

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We decided mini cupcakes were the perfect size for the kindy children, they are vanilla spongecake with buttercream and fondant baby bib's and onesie's.

Best wishes Jenny!

More cake creations will feature over the coming days.

Mrs KT:)

Lexii and Selena Turn 18 - Part 1

Lexii and Selena are friends who are celebrating their 18th birthdays in the same week. I have been asked to make cookies and cupcakes for them as part of their celebrations.

Today I finished off the cookies, the girls will be taking these to school tomorrow to share with their friends.

Lexii's mum has organised these treats for the girls and she tells me that Lexii is a girly girl and Selena is more of a country girl, who likes all things RM Williams! So Lexii has pretty dress cookies.

And Selena has longhorn cookies, which I had to hand cut from a template I drew, as I could only buy a mini longhorn cookie cutter.

The cookies are vanilla sugar cookies with fondant icing, they both have a little shimmer added with some lustre dust!

I will be making the cupcakes tomorrow for the birthday dinner, so drop back in then to see what I am creating.

Mrs KT :)

Milk and Cookies Anyone!

Easy chocolate chip cookies were on the baking list today. I have had the ingredients out of the pantry everyday this past week and haven't actually got to make them, so back in they went until today. I was determined to bake them as they are so quick and easy to do and taste wonderful.

I don't remember where the original recipe came from, I have scrawled it on a tiny piece of paper, so I am guessing it was off the television or out of a magazine.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

125g butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup coconut
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup self raising flour


Method


1. Preheat oven to 180C. Line baking trays with baking paper.
2. Melt the butter. Mix all dry ingredients together with a large spoon, add butter. Mix until well combined (I add a touch of milk if the dough is too crumbly).
3. Put rounded tablespoons of dough onto baking trays. Bake for about 10 - 15 minutes until golden brown. Remove from trays onto cooling racks immediately (I use an egg lifter to remove them carefully).


The recipe makes about 40 cookies. I usually put them into snap lock bags and freeze. Once thawed they taste as if they were fresh out of the oven.

Serve with a large glass of icy cold milk or warm hot chocolate, and try to eat just 1, this is the difficult part!!!


Mrs KT :)

Mickey and Minnie Mouse Sugar Cookies

I have had a really busy time the last few weeks so haven't had much time to do any baking, so it felt like I was having withdrawal symptoms. Luckily I had a little spare time today, so instead of tackling the mountain of ironing, I baked some cookies!

I purchased some new cookie cutters this week off ebay. I had seen some fabulous cookies on Flickr that were used as cupcake toppers, so headed off in search of the cutters and was able to find them. (Thankyou to The LoneBaker for sharing her creation) The cutters are Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.

They are a two piece cutter and stamp set. 

I used my favourite vanilla sugar cookie recipe, which I originally got from Cake Journal.  The dough produces a lovely, shortbread texture. The cookies are lovely with or without icing.


Vanilla Sugar Cookies

Ingredients (Makes about 25 - 30 medium sized cookies)

100g castor sugar
100g icing sugar
450g plain flour
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
200g unsalted butter, at room temperature

Method (Preheat oven to 170C)

1. Mix sugars, vanilla and eggs in a mixer with a paddle attachment. Add the flour and butter and mix until the dough comes together. Be careful not to over mix the dough.

2. Roll portions of dough between 2 sheets of baking paper and refrigerate for about 1/2 hour. Or it can be frozen in an airtight container.

3. When the dough is firm cut out using cookie cutters and place on baking trays.

4. Bake for about 15 - 20 minutes or until golden brown. Place onto a cooling rack immediately as the cookies will continue to cook once out of the oven if left on trays.

I used fondant icing for these cookies, so have this cut out and ready to place onto warm cookies.

They turned out quite cute and could be done in any colour. The taste testers are too busy building with their lego to try them, but I am sure they will go down a treat!

 Mrs KT :)

Emily's 8th Birthday Sleepover Party - THE PARTY!

The party day has finally arrived. I was up early this morning finishing off the cupcakes and baking gingerbread cookies to complete the candy / dessert table for my niece Emily's 8th Birthday Party. I had emailed the birthday girl some pictures of the cake and cookies, and she was most excited!

With the car all packed, I headed off to my sister's to set it all up. I was very pleased with the final result and hopefully the girls will enjoy the candy/dessert table as much as I enjoyed putting it all together.

 The cake took centre stage on the table and set the colour tone for the rest of the table. There were mini marshmallow, musk sticks, sherbet sticks, sherbet lollipop's, fruity mentos, fruit tingles and musk lifesavers for the candy. The desserts, all made by me, were vanilla and chocolate cupcakes, vanilla sugar cookies, gingerbread butterfly cookies and the birthday cake was chocolate cake. Party cups and plates by Sambellina.

The cake was a bed filled with little girls, all personalised with hair colour and style, to represent the sleepover. It was chocolate cake with butter cream and fondant icing. The decorations on the cake were made from modelling paste.

The cupcakes were my favourite recipe which is chocolate and vanilla sponge cake with butter cream swirls and fondant disc's. Pictured here with the vanilla sugar cookies.

I made gingerbread for the first time today using my friend's recipe from over at the Clayton's Blog.

 It is an easy recipe to make and tasted delicious.

The finishing touch was the cookies to go in the party bags. These were personalised for each guest.

It was a pleasure to create this for my niece, Happy Birthday Emily Rose xx

Sneak Peek : Emily's 8th Birthday Sleepover Party - Part 3.

The party is one day away and I have almost finished all the baking that I am doing for my niece. This morning I completed the cookies for the candy/dessert table and also the cookie bags for the girls to take home with them. Keeping with the Sleepover Theme, I searched Flickr and found some fabulous ideas which inspired these.

They are little girls in sleeping bags on a vanilla sugar cookie. Each is personalised with their name and hair colour/style.

The cookies for the candy/dessert table are also vanilla sugar cookies with fondant icing. As you can see I have been getting a lot of use out of my new Message in a Cookie set!

The cake and cupcakes are waiting to be decorated. Please stop by tomorrow to see the completed party setup.

MrsKT :)