Merry Christmas!!

Wow!! It's been a crazy couple of weeks around here...but all the cookies are baked and orders filled for Christmas. Thanks to all my wonderful customers. I hope everyone enjoyed their cookies :)
I have decided not to take any new orders until after January 1st. But I have lots of new ideas brewing so check back soon!
I plan to take the next couple of weeks off and have fun with my kids! I hope you will enjoy time with your family as well. The real reason for the season is the birth of Jesus...may we all strive to remember this during this busy and sometimes stressful time!
May you all have a blessed Christmas and Happy New Year! ~ Donna

Christmas Cookies

Ok....so finally...here are the available Christmas cookies...they are $1.25/ea and will be bagged with ribbon, as usual. The cookies pictured here are about 4 inches. I also have three larger ones available that are about 6 inches tall...there is a christmas tree, snowflake, and snowman. They are $1.50/ea. And... I now have personalized Christmas "favor tags" to go on the bagged cookies if you are interested. They will say Merry Christmas and then "From: enter your child's name". They are $4.00/dozen. I will need orders for the tags by Sunday night if your cookie order is for 12/18-12/19. The deadline to order cookies is 12/13. Please call me if you have any questions at 453-0334. Thank you all and I hope you have a Merry Christmas!! ~ Donna

Bachelorette Shower Cookies

I had this request for bustiers, panties and lips. They were for a bachelorette party and done in the colors that were being used in the wedding. These were fun!! :)

Party Hats

These party hat cookies are cute for any kind of party and make nice "favor bags" because they are so large!

Kung Fu Panda

I had a customer request cookies to go with a Kung Fu Panda themed birthday party. I couldn't figure out a way to make him "kicking" but this is what I came up with... I hope the birthday boy enjoyed them :) I had fun doing something a little different!!

Fall Cookie Bouquet

My mom's birthday was earlier this month and she requested cookies. I decided to do this fall bouquet for her...

Turkey Cookies

Turkey cookies I did for Thanksgiving....

The Winner Is...............Stacy Gibbs

Congratulations Stacy!!! Thanks so much to everyone who entered. I enjoyed reading everyone's comments and looking at their blogs. I will have pics and info about Christmas cookies available soon!
I hope everyone has had a Happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful day with their families! We have been to Homer to see my husband's family and then back to Bossier to eat AGAIN with my family :) I'm so full I feel like I could not eat for a couple days!! This Thanksgiving I thank God for family, friends and all His many blessings! And thanks to all of you, my awesome customers, for letting me bake for you!! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!!

Super Heroes Cookies

This was a fun and challenging order to do....my first super hero cookies. I really like the spiderman cookies and am planning to do those for my boys birthday next month. Tucker really likes spiderman and he LOVES to eat cookies :)

Don't forget to leave a comment on the post below for the cookie giveaway!!!!

Rubber Duck Cookies

I did these rubber duck cookies for a 2 year-old birthday party. The customer wanted boys and girls hence the pink bow and blue hat!

COOKIE GIVEAWAY!!!

Ok...I've been promising it and here it is....a GIVEAWAY!!! Christmas is right around the corner and I'm excited to start taking orders for Christmas cookies. Baking Christmas cookies with my mom and sisters is a tradition in our family and is really how this whole "cookie business" got started! So, in honor of that, I'm doing a COOKIE GIVEAWAY :) All you have to do to enter is leave me a comment telling me your favorite cookie on my blog. I will put your name in a drawing for one dozen FREE CHRISTMAS COOKIES. Deadline is Nov 26th at midnight. I will announce the winner on Thanksgiving Day!! Make sure you leave me an email address if you are not a blogger so that I can contact you if you win! Good Luck!!! ~ Donna :)

1st Birthday Cupcake Cookies

Happy 1st Birthday Addison!! I really enjoyed doing these cookies and I thought they turned out pretty cute. They had lots of icing on them...I would like to have seen Addison getting into one :) Shannon had these personalized tags for me to put on each bag since they were the "party favors", thanking everyone for coming to the party. Too cute! The large cookies were about 5" tall and the small were about 3". There were 30 of each! LOTS of cookies!!! Thanks again, Shannon :)

Jungle Cookies

I had so much fun making these cookies. They were for a "jungle" themed baby shower last weekend. I really like the giraffes.....which just so happen to be one of my favorite animals at the zoo also! :) My friend Martha took these pics at the shower and was kind enough to let me copy them from her blog for mine :) Thanks, Martha!!!

House Cookies

I did these house cookies for some newlyweds....a cute idea for a couple's shower or housewarming party...

Soccer Cookies

These cookies were done for my friend Shannon. Her daughter, Olivia, had her first soccer game this week, so they brought these for a snack. Thanks Shannon! :)

Baby and Wedding Shower Cookies

I made these "baby" cookies for a neighbor who just had a baby boy. I thought they would be cute for a baby shower as well...

Experimenting with my wedding cake cookie cutter...

Halloween Cookies

Just a few Halloween cookies I did for fun....I really like the candy corn!

Clown Cookies

I did these clown cookies last weekend for my niece's "carnival" birthday party. They were alot of fun! Thanks to my sister, Tanya, for letting me bake for this special occasion! We had a great time at the party :)

LSU Cookies

Calling all LSU fans!!!...Check out these LSU cookies I did this weekend. They could actually be decorated in any school's colors. I also have "baseball" cookie cutters now. I'm having so much fun experimenting with all these! Let me know what you think :)

Dump Trucks and Tractors

My very good friend Maureen has a precious little one that just turned ONE a couple weeks ago. Broox's (the birthday boy) party theme was BIG trucks. I did dump truck cookies to match the adorable invitations and also a few tractors to go along with the whole theme. Maureen took these pics at the party and was so sweet to let me put them on my blog. Thanks Mo! To see more pics from the party you can view her blog at http://www.wilkinsonphotography.net/.

Crossroads Retreat

A couple of weeks ago I went to Crossroads Retreat Center

in Lindale, TX for a scrapbook retreat. About 12 of us girls

went and scrapbooked all weekend! It was a wonderful

weekend of fun with the girls!! The food they serve us

at Crossroads is fabulous....but you gotta have snacks, right?

So...I brought along these "heels and hats" cookies for us to

munch on between meals and LATE at night :)

Cookie Bouquet

This is a cookie bouquet I did for my friend Sheli.

She just had a birthday a few days ago.

This was my first cookie bouquet to ever do and

it was much easier than I thought it would be!

I'll definitely be doing more of these.

They are great birthday treats!

Cookies!!

Well, I've been busy experimenting with new
cookie cutters that I've gotten recently. Here are
pics of a few of them but I have more to come!
I also have new Halloween, wedding and baby
shower cutters that I can't wait to try out!

Tractor cookies I just did for fun and took to

a family get together.

These are the cookies I did for my friend Martha.

She was one of the winners of the free cookie contest.















Strawberry cookies done for a "Strawberry Shortcake"
party. Thanks to Jennifer for letting me bake
these for Katelyn's party!

Winners of the FREE COOKIES!!!

Congratulations to Sheli, Jennifer and Martha....they all won FREE cookies!!! Thanks to each of you for letting me bake for your special occasion. I will be posting pictures of the cookies soon so check back and let me know what you think! ~ Donna

Minnie Mouse cake with fondant accents

This cake is decorated with all buttercream and a few fondant accents. It could be done with Minnie or Mickey in any variation of colors.

SPECIAL OFFER!!!.....

For the first three people who respond to this offer....you will receive one dozen cookies FREE of charge. Cookies will be baked in the shape of your choice and decorated. They may also be individually packaged in clear bag with ribbon if you so desire. This offer expires August 1st. I look forward to hearing from you! ~ Donna

Treats fit for a Princess....

My daughter requested a "castle cake" for her 6th birthday party. I spent weeks planning the creation of this cake. The main challenge was the towers and turrets...and also how to get them to stand without destroying the cake! Once I had a plan, the cake was relatively simple to do. I enjoyed doing it and my daughter loved it. Thanks to my "dear hubby" for helping with the "assembly" of the towers!



For goodie bags I made these crown cookies and added the princess and prince frog suckers to the bag for an extra treat!

Just getting started....

Ok, I went back a few months and found pics of cakes I've done since the first of the year. A couple were simple "character pans",and the Thomas cake was created using several different ideas I came across online...

Cake and cupcakes done for my nephew's "Jungle" party.

Thomas the Train cake for my boys' birthday party.

K-5 Graduation cake for my daughter.

Another K-5 Graduation cake

Why I started baking cakes.....

I have always enjoyed baking and decorating cakes and cookies. I started out just doing "Christmas Cookies" for my family and co-workers. After my children were born, I began to bake the cakes for their birthday parties. My boys had a combined birthday party this year...they are ages 1 and 2....and they love choo choos, especially Thomas. So I baked a 3-D train cake with boxcars and a caboose. They loved it, and I really enjoyed doing it! After having several people ask me to bake cakes for them...I realized that I should start working from home...baking cakes and cookies! I feel that God has given me this opportunity to be at home with my children and at the same time earn an income doing something I enjoy. I treasure my role as "mommy" and enjoy the blessing that they are to me each and every day. My desire is to provide custom cakes and cookies at reasonable prices. I love to be creative and welcome any new ideas.