Thing 1 & 2 Gender Reveal Cakes

Hi! Remember me? If you can't tell I've been a little MIA lately, sorta busy starting a different busy right now. Anyway, I haven't chEATed on my readers. I've still been doing some baking. I recently made mint brownies, chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, chocolate and toffee cookies, chocoholic cupcakes, chocolate covered strawberries... I'm sensing a trend: CHOCOLATE!

I haven't been doing many cakes lately, but when I heard one of my very best friends in the whole world was having twins my response was something like this:

"congrats, I'm so excited!

can I do gender reveal cakes please!?!?"

This friend of mine already has 2 wonderful boys so we were all really hoping for a girl. For this reason she decided that she would find out the genders at the ultra-sound but it would be a surprise for everyone else (including her husband) at the party. I knew immediately I wanted to do Thing 1 and Thing 2 cakes and they turned out even better than I envisioned. And thank you to the other bestie for taking a decent pic of the cakes!

I didn't get a good pic of cutting into the Thing 1 cake, but the center was blue, meaning another boy for them. Here is the pic of the Thing 2 cake.

PINK! A girl! Woo-hoo!

I am so excited for this bestie to be having twins. I look forward to enjoying all the fun parts of twins with none of the hard part ;)

Sports Themed Cookie Pops

These were a "ball" to make.

Over the weekend I made around 150 cookie pops all with a sports theme for a little "all-star's" 1st birthday.

There were baseballs

personalized jerseys & footballs

basketballs and soccer balls

Oh the soccer balls... I hope you like them now because I don't think I'll be doing them again anytime soon. Trying to make pentagons with black and white frosting was a headache, I take that back, it was a BACKACHE. In the end they turned out so dang cute, and the cookie pop arrangement that was made using them were adorable.

Valentines 2012!

I had so much fun doing Valentine's orders this year. After 200 chocolate/toffee dipped strawberries, 10 dzn cupcakes, individual boxes, and several deliveries, Valentine's is over. The funnest part was people coming over and asking "do you have anything else I can buy?" Like a good organized chEATer I made lots of extras.

I found these adorable (food-safe) take-out boxes. They were so dang adorable and I love the peek-a-boo aspect of the above one.

This was a mixed order of the assortment that was made. Hope everyone had a wonderful love-filled Valentine's Day!

Simple Wedding Cupcakes

I was asked to make cupcakes for a small wedding recently. They ordered 2 dozen guava cupcakes, 2 dozen chocolate haupia cupcakes, and 2 dozen peanutbutter-cup-cakes. I was so excited to use the whole cupcake tower my hubba-bubba made me for Christmas and the whole thing turned out great!

As soon as people were invited to eat everyone headed straight for the cupcakes, and in a few short minutes they were gone. GONE. We had some serious cupcakes hoarding going on people. I had so many lovely compliments that evening and was so pleased to see people enjoy chEATday treats!

Prince & Princess Birthday Cupcakes

A couple weeks after my baby's birthday my older daughter turned 3! To help her celebrate I knew she wanted a princess themed party. We invited her little friends over and when we realized a good friend of hers was also turning 3 a couple days later we decided to combine their parties.

I was worried about the decor being to feminine so I stuck to a yellow crown for the cupcake toppers. I was so excited about these because they gave me an opportunity to use my new Cricut Cake. My son (age 4) said the crowns looked like fingers... he just might be right, oops! I haven't quite mastered this device, but am really excited about all the possibilities! I also wanted the kids to do a little activity so I went to Burger King and asked for some crowns, painted them with chalkboard paint and the kids used chalk to decorate their own crowns. The special birthday Prince and Princess had bright yellow crowns so they could feel extra special!

For the cupcakes I made minis and 2 large cupcakes for the guests of honor. I tried a new flavor, red velvet, and needless to say it will not be going on the chEATday menu. I'm sorry people, I just don't really like red velvet cake anyway and was more than embarrassed to serve it to my guests. Luckily, I had some extra Peanutbutter-Cup-Cakes in the fridge for the grown-ups :)

Valentine's Orders

I am officially taking Valentine's Day orders!

Chocolate Covered Strawberries (2 dzn/$20)

Chocoholic Cupcakes (1 dzn/$15)

*Can't choose between a dozen roses or chocolate for your sweetheart? Add $5/dzn to make them Chocoholic Roses as pictured here:

*Stay tuned as I may be posting how you can add on individual packages for

parents/siblings/children/teachers/etc...

leave a comment here or e-mail me for questions cheatday@gmail.com

Valentines Suggestions

I am thinking of doing a Valentine's special of Chocolate Covered Strawberries and Chocoholics, what do you think?