Getting ready for Easter

This adorable Easter basket just arrived in the mail today!

I ordered it from Jennifer Tuttle at Miniholiday on Etsy.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6838993

The quality basket is filled with a solid chocolate bunny, a bag of M&M's, a Hershey bar,

chick peeps, jelly beans, a lollipop, a sugar coated decorated egg, foil covered chocolates and a bunny topped candy dispenser. The basket is trimmed and topped with a bow of silk ribbon.

I also had to have the perfect frosted egg sugar cookies.

I plan to use these goodies in an Easter holiday display in my bakery.

Miniature swap

Look at the tiny details in this fantastic aquarium! I just love it!

Rhonda contacted me after seeing some of my cakes on my blog. We decided to do a swap. She made this adorable aquarium and sent it to me.

In return, I made her two beautiful cakes. One is dark chocolate with white chocolate accents. The second is a sweetheart rose cake.

Enjoy Rhonda!

Chocolate Temptation

This is a scene from my little bakery. The chocolate wedding cake was a special order from Blue Kitty Miniatures. I just had to have an all-chocolate wedding cake in my bakery.

The plate of candies and Valentine cookies I ordered from Sue's Little Things on Ebay. She makes such wonderful and detailed miniatures.

http://stores.ebay.com/sues-little-things

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5725162

Enjoy!

Valentine's Day Bake Table

This is a bake table that I made for my bakery for Valentine's Day.

For the last week, I have been playing with polymer clay making little cupcakes, candies and tarts. It is all trial and error for me. I threw away quite a few little cupcakes as I was having trouble frosting them without getting the frosting all over the bottom of the cupcake.

This dark chocolate heart shaped cake is topped with pretty roses. The candy in the dish is just little pieces of leftover clay.

I made the pretty white cake topped with roses yesterday. I tried to blend the clay to give the petals of the roses a variagated look.
I am having so much fun working on my bakery that I have been neglecting my actual "job" of making bears!

Le Petit Patisserie

Here are two photos of a Whitledge-Burgess class that I am taking after the Chicago International in April. The name of the double room box is "Le Petit Patisserie".

The retail shop features a faux marble floor, a large shop window and ample sales counter and wall shelves for the display of the delicacies created in the kitchen. The kitchen features a floor of faux marble tiles inset in a dark stained wood grid as well as a ceiling with heavy beams.

I just love the Country french decorating theme.

This gives me the perfect "excuse" for buying and making more cakes and desserts!

A view inside my bakery

The details are better on this little cake.

I made pink roses and tiny lavender flowers with petal and round cutters.

Here is a view into my bakery from the street.

"Little Lulu" was born

What a sweetheart!

"Little Lulu" is the lastest of my creations. I finished her up last night in-between housework, dinner and working on another miniature cake.

She is made from mohair that I hand-dyed rosy pink and spring green.

Her pretty colors remind me of spring. I am in serious need of some warmer weather!