Bridal shower cookies

 I like to make cookies too! It's not always all about cakes.! These were made for a bridal shower, as you could hopefully guess. First, I made a super yummy sugar cookie dough with a hint of almond extract as the surprise to make it next level. I used a large canning jar ring to cut out these cookies since I'm all for being inventive and didn't feel like buying a circle cookie cutter.

After baking and cooking for a few hours, I whipped up some royal icing. Royal icing dries hard, and is tricky to work with because it dries out really quickly. I put plastic wrap tightly over the surface of any royal icing that I'm not using immediately so I have more time to work with it. First, I piped the circle outline of the cookies with stiff consistency white royal icing. Let this dry completely. Then, thin out some of the white icing stirring in small amounts of water until icing dripped from a spoon pools into itself. Use this icing to flood the surface of the cookie, inside the circle dam you just piped. Let this dry completely. Then, I piped a border and script on each cookie with royal icing I colored using food gel. This was tedious and I felt like I was contributing to my future carpal tunnel but I was happy with the result!

Hot chili peppers cake

This was a quick last minute cake I made today for my mom's friend. She asked for a plain cake. What is a plain cake? Give me an idea and I'm going to immediately over complicate it and come up with several different ideas and concepts to add to it. Chili chocolate cake.?! What colors.?! What can I add to plain? How plain??

 So, while this cake was technically simple, it was a good lesson in reigning myself in when applicable. Simple is not bad. I decorated the cake by piping some chili peppers and flames with icing colored with food gel.

Paisley design airbrushed cake

Ohmygosh.! So my best friend recently gifted me with an airbrush kit (😁😁😁) and being a crazy cake person, decided to take advantage of the freak spring blizzard by christening my airbrush.!

So I decided to make a chocolate Oreo cake with mint icing, because...Why not.?! I didn't have any fondant- I can't wait to use the airbrush on a fondant cake- but had a great time playing with my new decorating tool! I layered purple with pink and blue because I like those colors. 

 

 Looks pretty sweet, right.?!

 Then, I decided to pipe random Paisley designs with black icing because I like them.! I started with a simple flower outline and expanded outwards with swirls and loops and other accent shapes and dots.

 Edible sugar pearls made the cake really pop.! Love it. :)

Mario Cake

 My favorite little muffin just turned 5 years old.!!! Can't believe it. So of course I had to make him a Mario cake. He's been into Mario everything since I gave him my old n64 and games.

 This little goomba is the first figure I made for the cake.! I shaped him out of gumpaste tinted with food gel.

 Mario and Luigi I traced using royal icing. It makes decorations that can be more detailed but are very fragile.

 Here's my little sweet pea! He loved his cake!

 Here we are enjoying his party!