This Week's Sweets

Miniature Cheese Cakes

Buttery graham cracker crust, topped with creamy cheesecake and fresh berries.

Made these for an event up in Park City. Along with some hello dollies, lemon sugar cookies, and chocolate dipped brownies. I confess, I ate a few. oops.

My hubby is headed to Europe on Thursday, so I'm taking the kids on a road trip to Lake Tahoe and up thru to Oregon. Stopping in Nevada to visit dear friends and do some baking (she wants to learn how to make hi-hats). I'm looking so forward to some down time and some good conversations. Also can't wait to get to Portland and enjoy the amazing food scene.

When I return, look forward to some more sweet recipes and tips!

Winter Wedding

Here are some pictures from a beautiful Winter wedding. We did a dessert bar and a cupcake tower wedding cake. Photos by the talented Heather Tycksen at Heather Tycksen Photography.

Cupcake tower wedding cake in reds and creams. Cream-filled chocolate cakes topped with chocolate ganache and personalized monogram cookies. Chocolate cakes topped with cream cheese frosting and tinted coconut. Vanilla cakes topped with home-made vanilla almond marshmallow cream and dipped in white chocolate. Vanilla cakes filled with fresh raspberry butter cream and topped with amaretto-whipped butter cream and fresh raspberries.

Cupcakes surrounded the tower on an elegantly dressed table.

Close-up of the personalized sugar cookies.

The dessert bar included: Milk chocolate dipped peanut butter blondies, meyer lemon bars, mini berry-topped cheesecakes, white-mint-dipped brownies, sour cream sugar cookies, white and milk chocolate dipped strawberries, and coconut macaroons.

I had so much fun. And thank goodness my mama came to the rescue and aided me in dipping and transporting these sweet confections. Aren't moms the best? Well mine is anyway.

New Menu Addition.

I have had several requests for mini cheesecakes, so this holiday weekend I decided to give them a try. It took me a couple tries to get them right - the first time I made them the crust wasn't moist enough and the cheese cake wasn't thick enough, but in the end we figured it out and they turned out délicieux!



I topped them with fresh berries and an apricot glaze. The picture isn't the best, as I took it whilst running out the door, late for a 4th of July BBQ, but you get the idea! They will be priced at $36 for 2 dozen, with a 2 dozen minimum.

And on a side note...I think I have completely spoiled my children for life. There were perfect rice krispie treats, amazing chocolate chip bar cookies, and yummy sugar cookies also present at this BBQ. But no. My kids needed the fancy shmancy cheesecakes. They would settle for nothing less. At one point I looked over while I was chatting with some friends and Thomas (my 2 year old) was double fisting it with berries and cheesecake remnants all over his face. Not good. Not good at all. :)