Fall or Thanksgiving cookies

These are Vanilla Bean cookies.  They are covered in Vanilla Bean  flavored Royal icing.  I'm really happy on how smooth they came out.  I finally figured out the right consistency. These cookies flew!

Acorns, Leaves and Pears

Pears (I love how these came out)

Leaf

Thanksgiving Dessert Dominican Cakes

These cakes I made are not artistic in their nature because the client wanted something simple, merely to be enjoyed for their taste, but delicious they were!  Dominican cake with plum and cream filling covered with Suspiro (Dominican Frosting) or boiled meringue.  I had to make one for me as well!

 

This was for a customer 10x10 round

 

I made an 8x8 for the family

Damask - Black and Green Tablescape

This year I wanted to do something  different for Thanksgiving.  I didn't want to use the traditional colors and icons used for this celebration. So I decided to use Damask and Sage green.

I made these little favors that also served as place cards for everyone sitting at our table. Inside are two Ferrero Rondnoir chocolates. These are simple mini lunch sacks that I cut a piece of Damask scrapbooking paper and glued on and added a punched tag with a ribbon. With a black pen I wrote our guests' names.

Menu card tucked into a pocket folded black napkin decorated with damask ribbon I found dirt cheap at Micheal's. I made the menus with Photoshop using a Damask stamp. Trimmed it with a similar green cardstock and used Chopin font.

 

Dinner tables for 12 people. I had beautiful yellow roses pn a black vase and smaller vases for the centerpieces and pears to bring in some warmth and whimsy to the black and sage green colors used. As a runner I used some damask material.

Closer view

The desserts consisted of Dominican cake, apple pie, pumpkin pie, coconut flan, Vanilla bean cookies, and delicious fruit turron.

Witch Cake

This is a pretty big cake and I enjoyed every part of decorating it! The flavor is Vanilla/Hazelnut, with nutella filling in the middle.  Frosted first in yummy vanilla buttercream and topped with MMF.  The Moon I did with two semi-circle pans that I put together with nutella filling and frosted and covered with MMF just like the bottom cake The only difference is that the Moon is made out of a pound cake recipe so that it would hold it's shape.   My favorite part of making this cake was making the witch and her side-kick black cat, these are also MMF. I LOVED how they came out!  This cake feeds from 50 to 60 people. This is my interpretation of Debbie Brown's cake.

Witch around the Moon

Closer look and my molded witch, so darn cute!

Screaming Cat holding on to broom!

Halloween Cupcakes

The flavor for these cupcakes was Leelee's Vanilla specialty covered first with Vanilla Bean buttercream, and topped with vanilla flavored MMF tinted in Royal blue and sprinkled with edible white glitter.  The hats, brooms and pumpkins are all made of MMF.

Halloween Pumpkin Cookies

I love how these cookies came out.  Golden brown and perfectly even.  These are Lemon Chiffon sugar cookies decorated with lemon zest flavored MMF. To die for!!! Great now for Halloween or without the Jack-o-lantern eyes, nose and mouth, they can be great for Thanksgiving.  These cookies are huge, 3x4.

Pumpkin Patch Cake

Today is Sunday and I got home from having lunch after church with some good friends, put a cake in the oven and continued working on all the things I have to do for Lauren's birthday dinner, my Thanksgiving dinner theme for this year, (menus, favors, napkin rings, place settings, and details), surprisingly I'm ok with what I'm doing for Christmas, thank God. Then I proceeded to decorate the cake. The decoration is very simple but I think it says Fall well.

Flavor: vanilla/lemon covered in MMF. The little pumpkins I did like in 5 minutes and did some little vines, leaves and that's all folks!

Thanksgiving 08 Dinner

I love a pretty table especially for such a beautiful time of the year where the family gathers and thanks God for every blessing. This past year I bought these two pretty stamps and decided that I would use them to do my menus, napkin rings and place cards. You can't really see in the pictures, but I heat embossed the stamping leaving a nice puffy outline. I used nice pearlized papers in green, pumpkin and tan. I inked the edges of the menus and place cards with a sepia color. I bought a piece of fabric that has leaves and made napkins. I used a pretty sage colored tablecloth. For the centerpiece I used candles and draped a vine of leaves around it. I also made leaf cookies in the same colors as party favors and placed them in a plastic wrapper with a ribbon in similar colors.

Thanksgiving 08

This was my dessert cake for my last Thanksgiving dinner. The theme was Fall Leaves.

Thanksgiving Cookies

Great alone or as a centerpiece if placed on sticks