Baby Sprinkle

This past weekend my best friend Alynn and I threw a Baby Sprinkle for our good friend Christine.  A sprinkle since  sprinkle is not quite a shower and this is her second baby. Since I like to pretend I am the hostess with the mostess I naturally volunteered to make all things sweet. There was success........and there was failure.  Um, I shall focus on the success thankyouverymuch.

I had on the agenda: vanilla peppermint cupcakes, mini donuts, mini tiramisu shots, and sugar cookies.

I made the donuts per usual but I either had too much going on in my kitchen and missed something, OR the humidity got to my icing once again because the donuts tasted just fine, but the icing looked like I had dipped each one and then dropped each one on the floor. SO, scratch those. Besides, the morning after I made them, Alex went to get one and actually did drop them all on the floor so.........

I made the tiramisu shots and forgot to take pictures. I took pictures of all the food before everyone got here, which meant that the tiramisu was still in the fridge.  Woops.  I don't drink coffee so I wasn't sure if they were good or not. Everyone that tried one said they were yummy, but not too many were tried so, not sure what that means. Should a baker only bake what she likes to eat?!?!?!?

Next, cupcakes.  I eventually decided mini cupcakes are better than regular cupcakes because people tend to eat them more. More = better. Obviously. I made my regular mini vanilla cakes and then made and incredibly thick icing with a delicate hint of peppermint. She's having a girl so I tinted them pale pink instead of pale green.

Sugar cookies. I love making sugar cookies. My cookie cutter collection is not only growing out of control, I have a strange feeling it is nowhere near done. With sugar cookies I am again of the mind that smaller is better. Popping a bite size cookie in your mouth is quicker, cleaner, and easier than holding on to one and dropping crumbs and sugar crystals everywhere. So I made small and medium pink hearts. I literally made over 100 cookies and there was maybe 12 left when all was said and done. 

Finally, I saw on a craft blog somewhere how to make these, and I thought Christine's shower was as good a reason as any to try to make some. Turned out very cute! They are made using, you guessed it, cupcake liners. Lord knows I have plenty of those laying around!

 Thanks for stopping in. I still have Macarons on the brain and will attempt those again soon. Wish me luck, I'll need it.