Boo!

I'm sorry if I scared you, but it is Halloween after all!  Can I console you with a itty bitty chocolate cupcake?!  HOPE School held their annual Harvest Party this evening.   Little ghosts and princesses running around everywhere. So cute! 

Extra Frosting

What d'ya do with some extra frosting?!  Mini-cupcakes are always a delicious option! Extra frosting? But there was no blog entry with scrumptious pink frosting, you say. Well, it was left over from a cake I made for my Aunt Sandy's birthday :)  Anyway, while the cake was great...the pictures, not so much.  So you'll just have to settle for looking at these cute little cupcakes!

Healing Hearts Northwest Wine and Chocolate Gala

Healing Hearts Northwest had another spectacular fundraiser tonight...wine tasting at Lincoln Center!  The event was full of yummy desserts, delicious wine, and hundreds of generous people making sure that HHW's next trip to Rwanda is a success!

We love you, Marlene!

This week Mission Possible held a fundraiser to support the wonderful woman who hosts us each year in Honduras.   After several years of remission, Marlene's breast cancer returned.  Having breast cancer in a developing country presents additional challenges that are hard for any of us to imagine.  Yet this woman will not let these challenges beat her.  Thank you to everyone who has helped us support the Carias family in this fight.

Sprinkle Time!

I've always loved these rainbow nonpareils!  I also love how many different names sprinkles have...jimmies...ants...I think my favorite is hundreds and thousands.

Swirl Brownies

A little bit of brownie...a little bit of cheesecake...not a bad combo, if I say so myself!  

Banana Muffins

I couldn't decide whether to call this post "banana muffins" or "banana-bread muffins."  I'm still not sure what the correct name of these yummy little breakfast treats is...but oh well!  They're delicious and that's all that matters!  Sorry, Mom, no nuts in this batch...those are on the way!

Fall is Here!

Bourbon Peach Hand Pies

Okay, I know these aren't the prettiest things I've ever made, but yum, they sure are good!

Only three months late!

My madre keeps insisting that I put these pictures on my blog.  I know that it's now October and I made these Fourth of July cookies on, well, the Fourth of July, but she won't give up.  As you can see by my wet hair, I enjoy swimming in the lake as much as I enjoy baking cookies. (Not a huge fan of this picture, but it's the only one I have of the cookies!)

As you can see, I also baked a scrumptious flag cake.  Oh the anticipation, as we cut into it, hoping that it actually looked like a flag!  Everyone cheered as we pulled out the first piece and, oh my goodness, there actually was a flag inside!

Too Yummy!

Well, the brownie bits with raspberry buttercream that I made the other day were just too yummy, so I had to make them again!  Plus, I had a dinner party to attend that they were prefect for.  Plus, I had some delicious raspberries left over.  Yummy, yummy...just as good the second time!

Itty Bitty Cupcakes & Kickball

What's the perfect compliment to kickball?!  Well, mini-cupcakes of course.  Mission Possible held the 2nd annual kickball tournament this weekend to raise money for our service work in Central America.  Kickball provides the perfect distraction from the craziness of law school.

Healing Hearts Northwest

Flashback to the first official cookies from Jujubee's Bakery!  As I mentioned in that first post, my aunt and uncle are part of an organization, called Healing Hearts Northwest, that does medical missions to Rwanda.  They perform dozens of much needed heart surgeries each year and work with the local community to build their medical programs.  I brought back the Rwandan flags, Africas with the heart over Rwanda, and the swirly hearts for a fundraiser they're having this weekend.  They put so much work into fundraising to make sure they can continue to help the people of Rwanda, so I'm more than happy to make them cookies any time they need.

I think the flags turned out mucho better this time.  The lines are much straighter and much more precise.  I also decided to line the Africa cookies with color, instead of white this time, which I'm happy with. It's kind of funny...if you look at the Africa cookies for too long, they start to look like Great Lakes....hehe (Can you tell I've stayed up way too late baking?!). The trickiest part of this whole order was definitely getting all the cookies to look cute in one big box.