Super delicious birthday cookies

From KSDK:

You probably know Susan G. Komen for the Cure for the annual race to raise money for breast cancer in St. Louis. The local affiliate has raised $19 million and NewsChannel Five has been a sponsor for the past 12 years.

Nationally, Komen has invested nearly $1.5 billion in breast cancer research and support. It's a powerful fundraiser that's now going to lengths to preserve that power. Legally challenging any other groups that use "for the Cure" in its name; groups like "Cupcakes for a Cure" and even "Mush for a Cure" in Minnesota.

So it's Christmas Eve, and this festive fella will be popping down our chimneys in just a few hours!

This is the last Christmas cake that I donated to the "Nutcracker Sweets" charity event.  Again, I found a sweet little Santa face online and printed it out.  I then hand cut several pieces out of fondant to give ol' Saint Nick a little more dimension.  Then I got out the glitter and gave Santa's hat a nice dusting!

Again, these pics didn't turn out so great, but it looks better when it's larger (just click on the picture).

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!

Here is another cake I donated to the "Nutcracker Sweets" charity event.

For this cake, I found a cute Christmas tree graphic online and printed it out.  I cut the entire tree out of green fondant and then painted each of the elements (trunk, star, tinsel, and ornaments) using luster and petal dusts.  Otherwise, it's just a simple buttercream cake!

Stop back in on Friday and see the last cake in the Christmas trilogy!  Maybe we'll even have some eggnog - well, I'll be having eggnog anyway!

About a week ago, I donated a few small 9 inch holiday cakes to the Partnership for Family, Children, and Adults annual "Nutcracker Sweets" charity event.

On this snowflake cake I used my Cricut Cake to cut out this snowflake from modeling chocolate.  Unfortunately, I didn't realize until after the cake was gone that my camera was on night mode - sorry!!

Check back on Tuesday for another Christmas themed cake!  Next Friday is Christmas Eve!  Don't get on Santa's naughty list!!

Hello, lovelies! I have a new cake ball post coming up shortly, and then a super awesome (but currently secret) project to reveal next week.



But in the mean time, I just wanted to share with you yet another awesome baking-relating piece of jewelry. And this time, it's supporting a charity. Oh, yeeeeaaah.



Pink Sugar Bakery is selling these little cupcake gems for about $15 each, and $5 of that goes to the Wildlife Conservation Society. Did you know that tigers are really, super endangered species? They are, but with your help, they don't have to be.



Plus, the necklaces are really, really cute (and you know how I feel about helping others AND cute things, right?!)



I'm sure you've probably seen these before, since they're making their way around the cake/cupcake/food blogs, but just in case, you should consider this worthy investment in your cupcake accessory collection! :)

We interrupt the normal flow of levity and cakery for this very important announcement:

Icing Smiles is a relatively new non-profit organization that helps get cakes to children with critical and terminal illnesses.  I found out about the great work Tracy Quisenberry was doing a couple of weeks ago and immediately contacted her to see how I could help.  As I read through the website I was overcome with emotion.  Others have been too... so much in fact that poor Tracy is now having a hard time growing her organization quickly enough to connect all us bakers with all these children fighting for one more birthday.

I have offered my baking services, and I wish the economy and my finances would allow me to offer this organization my financial support as well.  Tracy, not to let a little thing like the lack of a fat stack of cash stand in her way, has submitted her idea to the Pepsi Refresh Project.  The Pepsi Refresh project is where people like us can vote for altruistic projects that we deem worthwhile.  At the end of the month, the top 10 contenders get $25,000 to help get their ideas off the ground.  Icing Smiles desperately needs this money and this is where we can help!