A Princess costume for Kristan

I'm sure many of you know Kristan from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen.

I read her blog every day. She always tells such funny stories. Her blog always starts my day off good.

If you haven't read her blog stop now and go check it out... 

Confessions of a Cookbook Queen

So anyway I was reading her blog today as always and she had the cutest little witch cupcakes....she always comes up with cute ideas. She told a story about one Halloween when she was a kid. It's super funny as usual. Y'all should read it..... 

Glamorous Witch Cupcakes

After reading her blog today I just knew I had to come up with a princess cupcake just for Kristan.  After all, every girl deserves a princess costume for halloween.....with a real princess hat.

I made cupcakes and covered with a round piece of fondant. Next I cut a flower shape and placed it on top of rounded piece. Ice cupcake with buttercream icing. Lay fondant on top and shape skirt a bit. Next i just sculpted the body and head. Then I made the hat. Last but not least.....sprinkle with disco dust.

Every princess needs sparkles!

Hope you liked your princess costume....better late then never.

*note* candy and trick or treat bag were scrapbook embellishments I purchased last year.

~Throw on your heels and get to baking~

REMEMBER 9-11

Ten years ago today America was changed forever. Our hearts were broken.

Terrorists came into our country and destroyed lives. They had no regard for the lives they took. They thought they would crush us....they thought it would make us weaker, but HATE never wins! It only made us STRONGER!

AMERICA will always stand TALL, stand PROUD......and AMERICA will always have HONOR!

Brave men and women went into those buildings to save lives.....to search for survivors. They didn't think about anything but saving others. True HEROES....Honestly, hero doesn't even begin to describe them.

There will never be a day that goes by that I don't remember what happened.

Unlike the terrorist, I will never let HATE consume my heart.  I will treat others with LOVE, RESPECT, and KINDNESS.

Today let us remember those lives that were lost. Let us remember to always have LOVE , RESPECT, and KINDNESS in our hearts.

WE WILL NEVER FORGET.

They are FALLEN.....but NOT FORGOTTEN!

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To make a 9-11 Remembrance cookie......

Make pentagon shaped cookies and let cool. I cut mine out by hand.

Next use a stencil to draw out the design on the cookie with a food marker. I use 

Wilton food writers

Then outline your cookie with black royal icing. I also outlined the white and blue parts (shown below)

Then I filled in the white areas, let dry about an hour. Then I did the red, blue and black.  If your colors have bleeding issues wait until each color dries about an hour before filling in the next.

Then with a #2 tip outline around all areas with black royal icing. With a #2 tip write REMEMBER in white royal icing under the twin towers as shown below.

Let dry. 

Hope you all enjoyed my ten days in memory of 9-11

~Throw on your heels and get to baking~