9th Birthday Double Cheeseburger Cake!!

This cake was a major under taking, especially considering it was over 90 degrees that day! I used yellow cake for the bottom and top bun, two brownie mixes for the burgers-frosting the egdes and sticking crushed up oreo type cookies around the edges to give a meaty burger effect. The cheese is made of fondant-as are the lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles and mound of ketchup. The ketchup and mustard on the burger are colored frosting. The fries were simple and made from sugar cookie dough (from a tube) and just cut into strips before cooking. There are actual real sesame seeds on top to finish off the effect!

Hungry Girl Fluffy Lemon Squares

This is such a great swap for fattening lemon bars! The flavor is great and really lemony. When taking the picture I remembered some of the pointers I'd read about shooting food pictures. I used low light and contrasting colors, found that adorable pink lemon plate at Target last year. I just threw in the 200 under 200 book as a cute backdrop. Let me know what you think.

Chocolate Covered Pretzel-Fest

Meg's and I created an amazing array of chocolate covered pretzels....dark chocolate, peanut butter, sprinkles, white chocolate, colored sugar, peanut butter chips and pecans!! It was a great night of dipping and decorating.

Hungry Girl 200 Under 200 Book Signing

I met Lisa Lillien, the Hungry Girl herself, again! Yay she signed my book, and we got tons of free swag.