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This is a collection of pictures from projects before I started my blog, or projects that didn't get their own post.  They're not really in any order.  Let me know if you would like more information on any of these projects.


This is a Queen of Sheba cake that I made from my Craftsy class, Decadent Chocolate Cakes by Alice Medrich.  I made a post about one of her other cakes here, and here.

I got this cutter at Kroger and made Valentines Day cookies for the Operations team at work. 

German Chocolate cupcakes for Eric at work.  The home made frosting recipe came from Julie and it's a keeper!

I had fun making this ginger bread house for Christmas pictures.  I love the Necco Wafer candy roof.

I copied these from a book.

These were made when I was enrolled in a Wilton cake decorating class.

This was Billy's Minecraft birthday cake.

Minions copied from pictures I saw on Facebook.

This poor cookie was made with store bought sugar cookie dough.

I got a new recipe for sugar cookies and started making football players with this teddy bear (minus the ears) cookie cutter.

 These cookies are from my first Wilton cake decorating class.  This was before they trusted us with cakes.

I saw a video on YouTube showing how to make butterfly sugar cookies.   I started reading about Color Flow and this was my first attempt at it.  I can drag a toothpick with the best of them!

This was the first cake I decorated in my Wilton cake decorating class.  Billy was really into Nyan Cat.

More techniques learned at my Wilton class.

I brought these to work for Halloween while I was in the Wilton class.

This was my final project in my first Wilton class.  It was hard but I learned a lot.  I was on to the second class in the series.

These two pictures are of a cake I made in my second Wilton class.  We had moved from butter cream to royal icing.  We weren't doing fondant in class yet but I read about it online and tried it here.

This was my final project for Wilton class number 2.  I wasn't very good at making roses so I figured if I had to make this many of them I'd be pretty good by the time I was done.  This was the cake on the cover of one of Wilton's cake decorating books.  I found the stencils for decorating the sides on E-Bay.

In Wilton class number 3 we learned how to make flowers out of fondant.  I was excited to learn how to do this but disenchanted with the results and the taste of it.

These are more flowers from Wilton class number 3.  It wasn't part of the class but I learned how to paint microwaved Candy Melts on mint leaves to make beautiful edible leaves.  You can see them on these cupcakes.

This cake was my final project from Wilton's third class.  The roses were made from gum paste.  The cake was covered with fondant.  Even the cake board was even covered in fondant.  

I made this cake for a co-worker's baby shower.  It's butter cream but it looks like fondant because I smoothed it with Viva paper towels.  They're the only paper towels with no pattern on them so it works well.

Since Wilton class number 4 didn't make, I was left to my own devices.  That's when I found Craftsy.  I watched the videos for Modern Butter Cream and this was my first cake.

I was on a terrible project at work where we all had to spend every day in a conference room.  People started bringing snacks so I make these.  The cupcakes are a Duncan Hines spice cake mix.  The frosting was from my Craftsy Modern Butter Cream class, and the flowers were from my second Wilton class, made of royal icing.

I need to write a post about these muffins.  I was on a quest to duplicate Starbucks's blueberry muffins.  They are awesome!

These pictures are from when I started discovering molds.  In the first picture, the cameo is real.  I made a mold from it with materials I ordered when I bought a new Craftsy class.  

Then I discovered First Impressions online and got the mold that resulted in the cameo on the left.  I used it to make the cookies below.

I bought a book called Cake Decorating at Home.  These cookies and cupcakes were featured in it.

 I don't know the name of this dessert, but it's yummy!  It has pound cake, marscapone, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and is finally drizzled with strawberry syrup.

Happy Birthday to Boss Man!

I bought a class on Craftsy by Jessica Harris.  It was called Clean and Simple Cake Decorating.  Shortly after that I found her blog and copied her cake.

I made these roses from Candy Melts, which are a big part of Jessica Harris's decorating technique.  I also learned how to do this on Jessica's blog.

This was Billy's birthday cake.  It has something to do with a video game.  Planet Side 2 maybe?

Another birthday cake for Billy.

CakeCentral.com had some articles about techniques that look like lace.  This was the only thing I have made that I think I actually cringed when people at work ate it.

These are orchids that I made after taking another Craftsy class.  It was called Exotic Sugar Orchids by James Rosselle.

Another Craftsy class: Classic Sugar Flowers by Nicholas Lodge.

Another Craftsy class: Southern Sugar Flowers by Maggie Austin

Last minute cupcakes for Boss Man on Boss's Day.

Day of the Dead cupcakes.  These were so fun to make!  The directions I followed were from My Cake School.

I fell in love with these Santa cookies and snow flakes by The Baking Sheet and just had to make my own.  I found the cutter at Not Just Cakes by Annie.  Santa was my first cookie cutter that was made on a 3D printer.  Soon I was making my own 3D printer cookie cutters.

Star Trek cookies made from the tutorial at The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle.

I found these cute lip molds at Hobby Lobby.  I put a couple of Candy Melts in each and microwave them a few seconds, then put them in the freezer a couple of minutes.

Sweet Sugarbelle has a great tutorial on how to make these Leprechaun cookies with an upside-down ice cream shaped cutter.

My friend Kelly and I made these cute onesie cooies for her friend's baby shower.

Here I was playing with putting cookies on sticks and doing royal icing transfers for the letters.  I will probably make the peeps again this Easter.  So easy and so cute!

And for my other friend/coworker Kelley, I made these shoe cookies since she is a little crazy about shoes.  I'm getting a shoe education from her.

I found this large bunny cutter at Cake Carousel in Richardson.  This was the first time I experimented with putting cookies in plastic bags with ribbons.  I found it works really well.  Our admin took the first one, then Boss Man and his co-boss snatched up the rest for their kids.  These are so simple to make.  The tails are made with the star tip.  Use a small (4mm) black sugar pearls for the eyes.  I used half a pink Wilton confetti heart for the noses.  Tip number 3 for the ribbon.  I need to make these again!

Valentines Day roses turned out nice on sticks and in plastic bags.  They were given to the operations team at work.

This is the cake I made for my own birthday this year.  It didn't come out as I had hoped.  I want a do-over.