Growing up

So my baby is growing up, she will be 8 in January

and I thought it was time to start learning to

peal potatoes. She was so excited, the only thing she

didn't like was all the pictures I was taking.

They just grow up too too fast :(

She was really good at it just

REALLY SLOW!!

Her excitement was short lived though

I think it will now be a challenge to

get her in the kitchen to peal.

One  of her favorite things to do is watch any kind

of cooking and especially baking shows. Saturday

we watched an amazing cake decorating show

on TLC, only wish I could remember what the

name was so that I could DVR it.

Cute as a....

Cute as a .....

A cute little cookie for a precious

new Christmas gift.

Thank you so much Mrs. Dennis for your order

Christmas Trees

'Tis the Season.....

I had so much fun making the cute Christmas Trees for my friend Erin at The Vintage Pearl  for her holiday open house.

These are green Christmas trees with light green and cream "Christmas bulbs" and red glitter garland. You can't really tell the colors too well by the pictures but they were so pretty, if I do say so myself :)

Hopefully I will be getting better with my pics soon, Tom and the kids got me a new laptop and photoshop for my birthday. Now maybe I'll learn how to use it soon.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Back in Business

I have received several phone calls lately and just wanted to let everyone know that YES I am back in business and just in time for the Holiday rush. I have been trying for over a week to get back into my blogger account and have had the hardest time ever, LOL seems all that time off made me forget my passwords and I  had misplaced all my important paperwork.

Anyway thank you all for your thoughts and prayers during our very LONG and extended summer. We were out of our home for 5 month and boy were they long months. The good new is that we have all new stuff, granite, sink, stove, dishwasher, washer, dryer, furniture, Crumbled Cookies Office, all the fun cookie/cupcake making stuff and the list goes on and on and on. So I have to say Thank you to Jesus for making everything turn out so much better than before and thank you to my insurance company and agent for making everything go so easy.

Don't forget to place your orders now, my December calender is filling up and I don't want you to miss out.

Unable to Take any Orders For a While

Hi everyone,
Yesterday while getting dog food I received a phone call from my alarm company that they were dispatching the fire department to my home due to the smoke alarms going off!!! I thought there is now way, it must be a malfunction, I had just left not too long ago. I called my husband and we raced home. The house was on fire and the dog was in the house. The kids and I prayed the entire way home while racing through traffic and all the road construction. I called my BFF and asked her to get to the house to get Maggie since she was only about a mile from our house. Anyway after we got there the firemen had put it out already and were trying to secure the home so we could go in. What Happened? Well the dryer malfunctioned and caught the whole laundry room, garage, bedroom and half bathroom on fire. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE YOUR DRYERS ON WHEN YOU ARE NOT HOME!  The home is not livable at all and we will be out for a minimum of 2 months we have been told. All of my cookie and cupcake stuff is stored in the bedroom off the laundry room (its my Crumbled Cookies Office) so it will be a while before anything is up and running again. Did I mention that we are due to go on vacation Friday?
The awesome thing is that what the devil tried to make a bad situation and God turned it around for good. Our dog was fine, we get new wood floors (ours go through almost the entire home) new carpet in the bedrooms from the smoke damage, new paint throughout, clothes laundered and brand new ones too, new insulation in the attic, new ac ducting, basically you name it we are getting it!
I'll try and post pics when I can. But have a fun and safe rest of the summer.
Blessings to you and your families.

Tiffanie

It's been a while.....

It has been quite a while since I have been able to post. First my camera died (wow-I had no idea how much I used it) and then Thankfully I have been very busy with all of your orders. Thank you all so much for you support. Wedding and Baby Shower Season is definitely upon us.

My Little Pilot

brock loves to fly with his daddy

he loves "fixing" it too.

Easter Egg, Bunny and Duck cookies

Such fun to make.

Thanks Kim, hope you and your family enjoyed them.

Cupcake Icing Styles

Recently I was asked about my cupcakes, I really have not had much time to post much about them. I plan on trying to post at least one new item to my blog a week. Anyway I was looking through my camara and found some pics I had taken of different ways I can do the icing and thought I'd add them.

I think my favorite is the white flower with sprinkles in the center. With yellow icing and black sprinkles it would look like a sunflower, perfect for the spring.

I also did some that looked like green grass with Easter eggs over the weekend, but my camera broke and I was not able to take pics before my family ate them up. I'll make more later and put the pics on here.

I have been talking to my son about what type of birthday party he wants, he wants a football and or baseball party. So I think we are going to do cupakes with "green grass" buttercream with footballs and baseballs on them, I can't wait it will be so much fun.

Thank You Kristen

          Thank You Kristen and Daiichi Sankyo for your March orders.

The Vintage Pearl

I recently ordered my very first (but definitely not last) necklace from The Vintage Pearl and fell in love. I had the flower and circle one made with Reagan and Brock's name on it. I also ordered the flower for Reagan for Easter. I cannot wait to get something else. She also posted one on her blog that I want next, it is a circle with 2 hearts fused together.
Anyway I wanted to thank her for my beautiful new jewlelry, so what could be better than cookies ;)  I did large and small squares with her logo and her new "nest" design. If you have not already please check out her blog and website.

Thanks again Erin and The Vintage Pearl.

Hippity Hoppity, Easter's On It's Way!

If you have not placed your Easter order already, not worry there is still time. Let me know by Tuesday and I can have them done for you just in time. Email me and we can come up with a wonderful Easter design just for you. Also I have other flavor cupcakes but have not posted them as of now. They will be posted in the weeks to come.


I hope you all have a very wonderful and Blessed Easter weekend.

Girly Birthday Cookies

Happy Birthday Rita and Christina

hope you had a wonderful day.

Amy thank you for thinking of me for this order,

I loved making these "girly" cookies.

Pink flowers with high profile flowers and

candles are a fun touch.

Hope you enjoyed your Vanilla Bean cupcakes

with Latte Buttercream too.

Thank You  Joe S. and your company DAIICHI SANKYO for your 

orders this week.

Brock is always so tired after school, if he doesn't fall asleep on the way home from half day k4 then this is him on the way home from getting Reagan at 3.

Basketball Cookies

gar Recently I was asked if I could do Basketball Cookies for a first and second grade basketball team. I really enjoyed making these, I haven't done a lot of "boy" cookies and look forward to making more.

Thank you Michele J.

Thank You Grace Christian School

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Grace Christian School for asking me to participate in your Decadent Desserts Festival. It was awesome and such a privilege to be asked, I look forward to doing it again next year.
I would love to post a pic, but for some reason my computer and camera have conspired against me and don't want to cooperate. So I'll try again tonight.

Decadent Desserts

Decadent Desserts

Grace Christian School

1st ever Dessert Festival

come see me SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27th 1-4PM. myself along with 16 other sponsors will be there to showcase some of our desserts. There will be carousel rides, Java Dave's Flavored coffee and live music. Tickests are available for purchase online (this will save you $2 per ticket) or at the door.

Also bring a nonpershiable food item for Loaves & Fishes for a chance to win a gift certificate from one of the sponsors.

This will be a great way to sample some wonderful desserts.

Hope to see you there

you can purchse tickets and see information on the website: http://www.decadent-desserts.net/

Matilda Jane Cookies

So over the weekend I was invited to my very first Matilda Jane trunk show, and the clothes are so so so cute. My friend asked me to do cookies for her guests that would be coming to the show, so we decided that rose pink and blue with brown writing in addition to doing their signature flower and dots. I think they came out really good, did I ever mention that the are some of the softest sugar cookies you will ever have :)

would have had a better pic of these, but like usual I forgot to take pics until I

was there to deliver these cute cookies.  

Thanks again Rachael for the many orders you have placed.

By the way ya'll she makes the cutest stuff for your ones

you'll have to go to her blog.

Chocolate Fudge Cake with Chocolate Ganache

This is one of my very favorite thigs to bake. It is my one of my dads favorites, so for his birthday my mom called and asked me to bake it for him. This takes a ton of time but it is well worth it and everyone will be so impressed. (this is a very dense cake, so if you like fluffy this might not be for you)

Cake:
3/4 C. butter, softened
3 C sugar
3 eggs, room temp.
4 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 t. vanilla
3 C. flour
1/2 t. salt
3/4 C buttermilk
1 1/3 C. boiling water

Chocolate Ganache:
3 C. (18oz) semisweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 C half and half (you can use heavy cream)
2 T. butter cut up
2 t.  vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 and prepare cake pans

in a large bowl., beat together 3/4 cup butter and sugar on med. speed until light anf fluffy. Then add eggs and 2 t. vanilla and beat until well blended. Add melted chocolate and beat 1-2 min.

Mix together flour, baking soda and salt.  Add to chocolate mixture in two additions alternately with buttermilk. Beat until well blended. With mixer on low speed, add boiling water and beat until smooth (batter will be really runny). Pour batter into prepared pans and bake 35-40 min, let cool in pans about 10 min and then unmold onto roacks and let cool completely.

Ganache:
in a microwaveable bowl combine chocolate chips and half and half. heat about 3 min or until melted and smooth when stirred. Stir in 2 T. butter and 2 t vanilla. Cover and refigerate a couple hours (mine usually takes about 3 or more, just keep checking it).

Assemble cake and refrigerate at least 4 hours or until the ganache is firm. This cake is really good cold and even from the freezer.

I found this somewhere online a few years ago and have made a couple of changes to it that I think make it a little better, if I can find the original recipe I have then I will post a link to it.

Enjoy~
wish I had pics of mine to show you how awesome this is, but I guess you'll just have to try it for yourself ;)

Cupcakes

Thank You Rachael for your orders this week.

Vanilla cupcakes infused with vanilla bean and almond flavor. And for the coffee lover it has a Latte Buttercream topped with a dark chocolate covered espresso bean.

Reagan and I at her Valentines Day school party,

Brock is always trying to get in the middle of things.

So we took one of him, and it is truly Brock:

What a Crazy Animal!!!!

My new cards

            I love my new cards, they are so so so cute. I got them from zillo.com

Birthday "Cupcake" Cookies

I know these pictures are not the best, I am learning how to use my camera more and more. You would have been able to see the color so much better if I would have had more natural light, but I always wait until late in the evening or early in the morning to take pictures. Well actually I forget and that's when I usually remember :)

Anyway these are for a little girl at school. They are a teal cupcake liner with white polka-dots (love dots) and a light pink for the icing with white sprinkles topped by a sparkling pink cherry. What a fun school birthday treat.

To me the packaging is just as much fun. I always deliver in a pink bakery box with white tulle or ribbon tied around.

Decorated Sugar Cookies

Decorated Sugar Cookies are always a child's favorite. These are vanilla bean sugar cookies iced with royal icing and sometimes (depending on the design) colored sugars, edible pears etc. Let me know what design you are looking for and we can come up with something that will work great. Also if you want a certain color to match napkins and such we will need a sample of the color and will do our very best to match.
Decorated Sugar cookies come packaged in a cellophane bag with color paper shreds inside for a great presentation and topped with matching ribbon. Here are a few examples:

Gourmet Chocolate Chip

These are the best chocolate chip cookie you will ever have, they are not your usual chocolate chip cookie. The Gourmet Chocolate Chip cookie comes with or without walnuts and have a special top secret ingredient. Again they are out of this world and you have to try them for yourself to know what I am talking about. One of my closest friends said they are like the "chippers" you used to get at Woodland Hills Mall. Once again no pics today but will get them up ASAP.

Oatmeal Raisin

Oatmeal Raisin cookies are a much loved cookie by old and young alike. The Crumbled Cookie oatmeal raisin have plump raisins (nuts if you like). These oatmeal cookies are not your average oatmeal cookie, they have a nice fall flavor added to them. Again no pictures today but will get one posted within a week.

Zesty Lemon

Lemon cookies are I think my mothers favorite cookie. These are soft lemon cookies great for summer and spring or when you are wishing for summer or spring to come ;) Zesty Lemon cookies are soft and lemony (if that's even a word) with a little powder sugar on top to show off those cracked surface. If you like lemon or lemon bars you'll have to try this one. I don't have a picture right now but will have one up within a week for you all so see. (I'm sure my mother will be so excited to receive a few of these)

Peanut Butter Chip

Peanut Butter cookies are in my opinion so hard to make perfect. I think one of the key things to making them great is to ALWAYS use fresh peanut butter, if you use something you've had for a while they taste funny or old. I also am not a fan of crunch peanut butter cookies and like to have something additional in them so that the peanut butter in not too overwhelming. My Peanut Butter Chip cookies have a little crunch on the outside but are soft and chewy on the inside with chocolate chips and peanut butter chips and topped with a little sugar for that old fashion look you love. (you can request without any chips or with only one kind, you can also request crunchy or creamy peanut butter)

Chocolate Cloud

Chocolate clouds are my husbands absolute favorite. They are like no other cookie you have ever had. They are a light chocolate crunchy meringue on the outside and then when you bite into it, it is a wonderful soft chewy chocolate surprise with a little chocolate chip here and there. They great for your cookie lover, someone who has tried all the "regular" ones but also very elegant which makes them really good for showers and weddings.

Tuxedo

Tuxedo cookies are almost like a brownie. They are a soft chocolate cookie with white chocolate chips. If you love chocolate you have to try this one.