Valentine Cheesecake

Valentine's Dino Cookies

Annual tradition- hearts and dinosaurs

100 Hearts Cake

The full-size cake I donated to the UMM Cake Auction

Yellow cake, chocolate creamcheese icing (a tried & true favorite), and a gold sixlet border

Piped on a variety of hearts to cover the cake in white, pale pink, hot pink, & red.

Heart Mini-Cake

This is a chocolate mini-cake with pink creamcheese icing and 2 handmade fondant roses

This was sold at the Waukeenah United Methodist Men's Annual Sweetheart Dinner & Cake Auction.
Labeled as "A romantic cake for 2"

Valentine's Cookies

Mustache & Lipstick hearts for one cookie order

There were 4 dozen cookies in this order, 2 dozen each of the pretty lips and handsome mustaches.

Hearts and Dinos for my most loyal Valentine's customer :)

Made some of the heart cookies with dino "footprints"

This is a selection of the other hearts that went with the dinos.

A Cake for Mrs. Ruby

Just before Valentine's day of 2013 our community lost a very well respected and loved member, she was an amazing lady- known for her kind spirit, her sense of humor, her generosity (especially with her time), and not least for her cake baking/decorating skills. Our church has an event Valentine's day where the men of the church bake cakes that are sold at live auction to raise funds, and every year Mrs. Ruby's son "made" a cake to donate...though suspiciously many of the years he wasn't even in the country- yet his submission came. That was always a red velvet cake, and always brought the highest price- we all knew who had really made it. This year she was not with us to donate her cake, so in tribute to her I made a cake to donate.

I thought it would be presumptuous to try and replicate Mrs. Ruby's Red Velvet cake, so I made Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing- and old fashioned favorite that I believed would do well.

Mrs. Ruby taught me how to pipe this design, it is called "Cornelli Lace", she even put some on my wedding cake because I love it so much. I think of her every time I utilize this decoration, and am proud to say I did it exactly the way she said it should be done- start in one place, don't touch the lines together, and end in only one place. :)

I think Mrs. Ruby would have smiled at how the cake turned out. And it didn't do too bad at the auction either, she would have been happy about that.

Valen-Dinos Day

When one of my favorite little customers was asked by his Mommy what he wanted to take to school to share for their Valentine's party, he said matter-of-factly "Hearts and Dinosaur Cookies." Haha, evidently they made an impression with him! :)

This year we have some friendly T-rex dinos instead of the stegosaurus.

3 dozen cookies for school, plus a couple to have at home beforehand.

Got some micro heart sprinkles, they were perfect for dinosaur scale decorations.

On just one cookie I added heart shaped teeth, for Rhett. :)

A Secret Cake

A cake was ordered for a Valentine's Day surprise.

But...the client didn't think he could get it all the way down to Gainesville without his wife noticing that it was in the car. So, they celebrated a day early.

Miss Macy's Order

Macy's Birthday is right around Valentine's day, and she is great about giving me a very specific order. I always know exactly what she wants.

Macy loooooves pink, so that is easy to keep straight. I had some cute pink wrappers, and she requested that there be a "standing up" heart on each cupcake- those are done in white chocolate and brushed with some shimmer dust.

Two dozen very pink cupcakes for her class, with standing hearts and some mini heart sprinkles.

Macy was specific with her cake order too, "pink on the inside, pink on the outside, heart shaped, with purple roses." That makes my life easy, no guess work.
Strawberry cake, pink cream cheese icing, and MMF roses- done!

Sweetie Bear Cupcakes

Valentine's Mini Cupcakes, for the preschool "Bear" class.

I ordered some red gummi bears (so I didn't have to sort them all out of multicolor bags), and used them and the red wrappers for the theme.
The child they were ordered for has to stay away from red food coloring, but his dad said that red gummi bears are safe.

Plenty of Valentine's spirit without any risk of triggering the allergy!

Love! Rawr!

What kind of Valentine Cookies can a boy be proud to take to school?
Dinosaur Valentines of course!

Sugar cookie dinos and hearts, decorated with royal icing.


Decorated individually, no 2 cookies look the same.


Experiments with piping tips, styles and sparkles.


The icing was a bit too runny for words...


Hearts! *love*