Going Buggy Over You, Love Monsters and DINO-MITEs!

A baker's NIGHTMARE!!!!
On Saturday night as I was getting ready for bed I looked to see out dog carrying something that looked like a cookie bag...NOOOO....I ran into our basement where we keep the deep freeze. Sure enough I had forgotten to put the cookies back in the freezer that I had made for Trevor's school class for favors on Monday. I've had to pull those things in and out a hundred times and paranoid about forgetting to put them back in. Lollipop dinosaur cookies. How many did she get??? 2. OH PANIC. It was Saturday night and still had cupcakes to make for his class on Sunday. If I didn't make more dinosaurs I couldn't give any out. And they were so cute and I'd planned for so long to do that and had signed up and all....so what did I do?? I woke up at 3 am on Sunday to start cooking. Pat didn't quite understand my panic and devastation – just thinks those cookies are easy to do I guess! So I'm up at 3AM and find we are OUT of eggs! Luckily Pat was home in bed so I dashed the 2 min to the quick trip to get eggs. Normally a 3 day process to bake, flood and ice my cookies but I did it all in one day. Rolled out 8 dinosaurs - just to be safe....while those were cooling decorated the cupcakes that I had already made and ready to go. 12 for his class but then 15 extra that I wanted to try. And not just ordinary cupcakes. Root beer flavored cupcakes...and then decorated like little Valentine monsters and "going buggy over you" - with colored icing and candies. No easy task and took quite a bit of time. But fun to do. Then did the first step for the Dinosaurs - the flooding. That was all before 6 AM. Sunday night I finished decorating the dinosaur cookies and bagging everything up. I don't' think I know if I"m coming or going. Even the bagging and boxing up takes time! But I got it done…didn't exactly flood the dinosaurs as I had the first time but don't think anyone can tell! I thought it was worth posting another picture of the Dinosaur Lollipop cookies with my story. These are from the new batch. I need to mention the inspiration for these came from one of my favorite blogs....you can find them here.



Here are my Love Monster cupcakes. They were fun to make - had never made something fun out of the star tip. I found them on Wilton's website.
I packaged these up in cute boxes I found at Micheal's and took them to friends. I have to tell you putting those little boxes together and making sure the cupcakes didn't get smashed was a trick in itself too!














For Trevor's classmates I also took Going Buggy Over You Cupcakes - also from Wilton's website you can find here. Using a few candies for the features - candy corn nose, licorice and heart ears. I thought they were fun. I was a bit disappointed in the color of pink. I forget that with the pink you only have to use a tiny bit or it comes
out electric like most of these did!













So that's it for my Valentine's baking. All are made and delivered. Delivering Valentine's is a job in itself! Hope you all had a great Valentine's Day!