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This is my entry in the Just Ask Bucket List Getaway Giveaway. Just Ask offers a breast and ovarian cancer screening and is encouraging people to share 15 things that I want to enjoy in my lifetime as a reminder to be aware of my health. Want to enter? Head over to TodaysMama.com to get the details. 


My bucket list is as follows......

1. Take my family to Disney Land
2. spend a week in Hawaii checking out volcanoes and other cool things
3. Lose all my baby weight haha
4. Finally get my full license 
5. have another baby (maybe)
6. eat healthier than i already do
7. start a cookie company
8. do more fun things with my son
9. take some web design courses and brush up on my skills
10. get a doggy!!
11. workout more :(
12. have date nights with my hubby
13. buy a house
14. learn another language like spanish
15. visit new york

These are in no particular order and some are silly but whateves!

Is it christmas yet??

As i have said before i won't be doing much baking until after we move end of this month. That being said doesn't mean I'm not looking up great ideas for holiday cookies. I came across this totally adorable tutorial on melted snowman cookies i just had to post it. The site is called trulycustomcakery and this is the link to the tutorial. I personally prefer the recipe i found on Sweetopia.net for the royal icing which is here i use this one and some others depends on my needs for the specific cookie. Hope you guys like these as much as i do cant wait to make them!!

Another Halloween gone

Well last night was full of trick or treating and fireworks. My son had so much fun this being the first Halloween he could actually walk he loved every minute of it. He dressed up as buzz lightyear with wings and all and once he got the hang of what was going on he was on his way. I had already done Halloween cookies so I figured no point in that again you probably won't see much from me until December. Here are some pics of Halloween and you have to check out cakewrecks it's hilarious. Hope everyone had a great Halloween.

Party time!

Hey guys and gals well Carter's party went great. He loved seeing all the family and playing with his cousin they have so much fun. His cake turned out pretty good besides the modeling chocolate headboard. It was my first time using it and apparently white chocolate has more fat content than white I used white to get the brown colour I wanted but not to brown. Lesson learned it was so greesy and literally oozing oil. In the end it was moldable but flimsy. I used a 12x2 circle pan for the base and cut a rectangle for the bed all covered in buttercream. The fondant for the blocks went a little crumbly and cracked but I just molded it around the rice krispies blocks and it worked out. I watered down the gel food colouring with Bacardi because it's all I had. Recommended is vodka it works better than water for consistency. All in all it worked pretty well my feet were killing me after being on them all day but it was worth it I finished it off with characters from toy story carter loved it. Now onto Halloween!

Happy 2nd birthday baby!

Well as the title says my son Carter turned 2 today it was great but sad at the same time I feel like he's growing up so fast. In addition to his cookies I made him some marbled cupcakes. I halved a regular yellow cake recipe and did half in raspberry with purple colouring (buzz lightyear) and the other half vanilla with no colour. I think they turned out good and I topped them off with green buttercream icing. He was more than thrilled after a day at the pumpkin patch and his fave dinner of mac and cheese it was a nice dessert. Here are some pics let me know what ya think . The big cake is coming on Saturday woo!

Cowboys and spaceships

Hey everyone this is yet another go at sugar cookies. This time worked out a bit better I'm still experimenting with icing consistency and texture but im getting there. Keep in mind I have no icing tips because apparently I have lost mine so I have been piping straight from the bag which doesn't make for the best lines. These are for my sons second birthday which is this Wednesday than his birthday party is on Saturday. That's when the big guns come out or should I say big cake!
Without further ado the finished product cowboy hats and spaceships for toy story theme. The ships are purple but look blue for whatever reason my camera wouldn't pic it up.

sugar cookie fail!!

Well i was off my game today cookie wise but thought I would make some Sugar cookies anyways. I set out on a search for a new recipe just to switch it up a bit from the norm. That's when I stumbled across bakeat350 this site is awesome full of tips and recipes. I ended up going with this recipe which turned out amazing great flavor and a softer cookie which I prefer. For those who don't you can roll it out thinner and bake a bit longer i did mine about 8-10 mins just watched really closely. I did my usual royal icing recipe but didn't thin out my flood icing enough ugh by that time it was in the piping bag and there was no going back. I have done these cookies a million times ok well maybe like 10 and have never done this so off my game. I am almost ashamed to show these pics but live and learn having a toddler shaking the table while outlining is never a good idea and always remember to water down your flood icing. There is more amazing recipes on sweetopia tons of recipes as well as tips etc.

Adventures in fondant

Well this is my first blog post and my first time making marshmallow fondant. This will be used for my sons second birthday toy story themed cake. I think it turned out pretty well guess we'll find out when it comes to actually using it. I will also be making cowboy hat cookies and spaceship cookies I'll put pics up of those next week his birthday party is the 22 yay!