Thanks for the new pan, Mom!

I baked these pineapple "cakes" in my new dessert shell pan. I will never serve another plain store bought shell again. I really like the combination of pineapple, coconut and blueberry and I also used one to show off the first sugar paste flower I ever made. I have a feeling I will be using this pan a lot.

More Summer Inspiration

Now that it is officially summer, I thought I would share more summer inspiration with these luau pictures from a recent event at a local school's last day. The thoughtful principal provided her staff with a dessert buffet including pina colada cake pops, white chocolate macadamia cookies, dipped nutter butters decorated like flip flops and bright cupcakes.

Where are you Summer?

It has been so unseasonably cool here that when a co-worker asked me to come up with something for her to take to a bbq I thought it needed to be something that tasted like summer since it didn't feel like summer. Her only request was she wanted them to be hand held and she wanted to use umbrellas. One trip to a supercenter and I was set

Summer Desserts-lemon cake pops-coconut cream mini desserts-pineapple jello shots

Lemon cake pops

lemon cake, cream cheese frosting, vanilla candy coating, crushed vanilla cookie crumbs

Coconut cream mini desserts

vanilla cookie crumb and vanilla candy coating crust, coconut cream pudding, whipped topping, toasted coconut

Pineapple Jell-O Shots

pineapple gelatin with whipped topping