Christmas Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcake with chocolate Bavarian cream filling 

Frosted with Madagascar vanilla bean butter cream

Decorated with fondant/gumpaste leaves and holly berries

Snowman Cake

Christmas Cookies

Decorated Sugar Cookies

These cookies are made with a little almond flavoring in them to make them extra special!

Fruit Cake and Fudge

It's that time of year again! I made 3 fruitcakes this year. I also have been making lots of fudge. I've made 25 pounds of fudge so far, and will probably make another 15 pounds before Christmas gets here! I love Christmas time.

Cookies for Santa

These are the cookies we made to give to Santa tonight. I made these using a technique that I had never tried before. I colored the dough green (for the trees), then thinned down some dough and colored it yellow and red. I decorated the cookies with decorator tips using the thinned dough and then baked them. The decorations are baked right into the cookies. I thought it was a great way to make cute cookies without having to make frosting!

Fruit Cake

This recipe can make even the fruit-cake-haters come back for more! It's made with a buttermilk cake base with candy oranges, coconut, dates and walnuts. To top it all off it has an orange juice glaze that soaks into the warm fruit cake so it's nice and moist.

Oh, fudge!

Christmas time reminds me of fudge. My grandma would make us fudge every year for Christmas. I made 25 lbs of fudge this year from her recipe. The fudge that is pictured is milk chocolate fudge and peanut butter fudge. I also made semi-sweet fudge with almonds. It's SO yummy!

Santa

I made this cake for a family Christmas party a couple of years ago. The sprinkles on his clothes really made him sparkle!