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For my friend's Bridal Shower, I wanted to give her cash, but I didn't just want to hand over the money. I wanted to give it to her in a special clever manner. I came up with the idea to make $2 bills into origami roses and then arrange them in a vase for her. It was a big hit.

It has been a while since I updated this blog. I was going through my phone and found these images that I thought I would share.

Zombie Birthday Cake:

St. Patrick's Day Cookies: Green Dye added to the sugar dough to make the cookies green.

St. Patrick's Day Birthday Cake:

Spurs Birthday Cake:


Rainbow Brite Birthday Cake: The cake was yellow but I made the batter all different colors so the cake was rainbow colored.

4th of July, American Flag, Apple Pie:

Graduation Cake:

Bachelorette Party Cookies

Cookies for a Bachelorette party. The lips were from a football cookie cutter. I just shaped them once I cut them out. You can find a penis cookie cutter at Spensors, but I made my from a piece of paper cut out and a knife.

Mardi Gras 2012

Valentine Lady Bug Cookies 2012

Made from a simple heart shaped cookie cutter:

Halloween 2011

Here is a Birthday cake. Decorated with candy corn and little plastic spiders.



Here is a from scratch carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.




Recipe:

4 Eggs

1 1/2 cups Vegetable Oil

2 cups Sugar

2 cups Flour

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Cinnamon

3 heaping cups Grated Carrots

1 cup Raisins

2 tsp Vanilla

8 oz. Crushed Pineapple drained

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and Flour a pan. Beat eggs and oil with a mixer. Gradually add sugar. In a separate bowl, sift flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. Combine the egg mixture with the flour mixture. Mix for 1 or 2 minutes. Stir in carrots, raisins, vanilla, and pineapple. Mix until blended. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes. Cool.

Frosting:

8 oz. Cream Cheese

1/2 cup Margarine

4 cups (1 pound) Powder Sugar

pinch of Salt

1 1/4 tsp. Vanilla

Blend cream cheese and margarine with mixer. Add sugar, salt, and vanilla. Mix until well blended.

Frost cake and refrigerate.

85th Birthday Cake

A birthday cake for my Grandmother's 85th birthday. I was going for kid-like theme. The top two tiers are yellow cake with vanilla buttercream icing. The bottom tier was chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing. The stars on the top are dyed white chocolate.