A purple dragon

Thats right, purple dragons!
My favourite colour and one of my favourite mythical (?) creatures all in one!
Thank you so much Janet for your order!
I did need to buy the cutter just for this order, but I figure the price is worth it (even the shipping from England!) Getting interest already with prospective new orders ;)  I searched online for hours, trying to find a decent looking dragon, that didnt just resemble a funny looking sea horse...I eventually came across the "Welsh or St George Dragon" he fit the bill quite nicely.

BUT! It is very fiddly, with legs, tail,wings etc, very fragile too, I had to make the cookies a bit thicker then usual, next time I think I will make them thicker again, I had a bugger of a time even just cutting them out and not having them fall to pieces on me, I did eventually work out that A LOT of flour to dust the cutter was a good thing, as was cutting them straight on the baking paper so I didnt have to move them. Even after I figured all that out, I still managed to lose half of their silly tongues (that hang out their heads!)

After all that drama, icing them was a dream! I think this was one time when the image I had in my head came to life in front of my eyes.

I could have really gotten quite carried away with detailing on these babies, I did how ever manage to restrain myself to disco dust, gold and silver paint and a little luster dust.
Looking forward to making many more!

Pirate, Bouquet,balls and a give away!

I have been a busy little bee lately, enough orders to keep me on my toes :)

Firstly here is the 13th birthday bouquet I didnt get around to posting last time

Customer asked for rainbow bright colours

Lots of girly stuff, present, star, dress, cake, party hat etc..

Tiara with the birthday Girls name on

the colourful birthday cake

all boxed up and ready to deliver!

My customer left me a note to say the birthday girl enjoyed it so much she asked for another for Christmas!

Next up was an order for sports balls, For a little boys 1st birthday. I had heaps of fun making these, have seen them done with fondant but wasnt sure how the RI would turn out but i all went well!

one of each of the balls and a special WCE colours grow suit !

Then I had a pirate cookie card to do for my cousins little boy to take to a pirate party.

okey dokey, now for some great news! Yesterday my page on FB fan count skyrocketed! by about 50 Likers! wowzers! So to celebrate I am going to be giving you all the chance to grab an Easter pack of Biscuits! Consisting of $25 worth of bunnies, eggs and other assorted easterish things! :)
To enter all I want you to do is be a follower of my blog, leave a comment saying so (= 1 entry!) For an additional entry "Like" my FB page here, then leave a comment saying you have (or do!) for a lucky third chance at winning follow me on twitter here and leave a comment saying that you have. All up you need to comment 3 times to have 3 entries, make sense? LOL, good luck everyone!
Winner will be announced on Friday 15th of April, plenty of time for me to send by Easter!
Only open to Australian residents.

Western Cookies, Pretty Kitties, more to come...

Orders are coming at me left, right and centre! This is a great thing..really!
As such it has been a busy week, one order of pretty Kitties for a 4th birthday, consisting of 16 kitty heads and one large flower with message.

Next up I had a 40th Birthday order with a Western theme, I know I said I never wanted to use that cactus cutter again, but it wasn't so bad..  :)
It was actually quite different doing the Western thing, different to what usually gets ordered anyway.
I especially liked the horse shoes and sheriffs badge.

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I also have a 13th Birthday bouquet to finish up tonight, so will put up pictures with my next post, another busy week coming up, a wedding congrats pack, birthday pack and sports themed 1st birthday!

Rango Family Fun Day!

I will start at the beginning, this has been a learning process and heaps of fun for me!
To my complete and utter surprise, I received an email from someone asking me to quote on 200 biscuits for a movie premiere!
At first I was a bit hesitant, the original email was asking for a Chameleon head, blank, as in not decorated, also decorating supplies ie: icing and maybe red raspberry lollies for eyes...
My head was racing! I have never seen a Chameleon cutter, I was thinking I was going to have to make a custom template and hand cut 200 biscuits!!
I was eventually contacted by the promotions manager at Paramount Pictures, who simplified things a bit, They wanted a quote on 200 biscuit blanks in cactus shape (Rango is a western themed movie)
Green icing and toasted coconut for the spines of the cactus.
Also 2 people to man a stand and help the Kiddies decorate the biscuits.

So after much calculation (LOL) I sent in a quote and it was accepted almost straight away, ok, so now is where I freak out, the big day being only 8 days away!
I purchased a cactus cutter (which has now more than paid for itself!) and started making dough, lots of dough, enough for 200 plus cookies, I made about 20 extra just in case.
I decided on butter cream icing, as it holds it shape on the cookie and wouldnt be as messy as say a glaze or royal.
I also ordered my VERY FIRST business cards! That was excitement in itself! something I had been meaning to get around to for ages, and this was the kick in the bum I needed to make it happen. While I was at it I also ordered 2 T shirts with "Becca's Biscuits   Custom Cookie Creations" on them for myself and a friend to wear on the day. I recruited said friend who was more than happy to help out (many thanks Brett!)

here he is in the custom T shirt!

I spent a day baking, baking, then baking some more, I toasted about a kilo of shredded coconut, then made up vast quantities of green butter cream icing, which I then packed in individual sand which bags, I figured the kids would make less mess that way, rather than having a bowl and knives for them to spread it on, also a bit more hygenic too!

Cactus cookies, naked!

On the day, I arrived at Marion event cinema nice and early, met up with Brett and we set up our table, I  was amazed at all the things that were being set up! There was a jumping castle and green snow cones, Lizards, snakes to handle and hold, face painting, and of course biscuit decorating! Imanaged to get a couple of photos of the first two kids decorating their biscuits

 but after that, there just wasn't the time! It was beautiful chaos! 2 hours just flew by and before I knew it, we were packing up and saying good bye.

All 220 biscuits gone, I only had 4 breakages, I gave out heaps of business cards and even chatted to a few people about what I do.

Even better is that I have been told To expect to be doing it again!! YAY!! I had so much fun!!


About Rango:

Cast Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin 


Synopsis 


Rango is the story of a lonely chameleon who can play any role, yet doesn't know who he is. His journey takes him from the solitude of a terrarium to the vastness of the Mojave desert where he adopts the persona of vigilante lawman Rango, convincing the occupants of the town of Dirt that he is the solution to their looming hydration problem. Rango is forced to confront his identity issues as the townsfolk, including love interest Ms. Beans, begin to actually believe in him and the role he has concocted thrusts him into an uncertain reality. Rango must learn the meaning of friendship, complete his quest and uncover the conspiracy behind the town's missing water.
It looks like a great film! I hope to see it soon! :)

A card that is a cookie, that is a card, is a cookie...

I wanted to try something different, have a product that was a little bit unique in the cookie world, (very hard to do, I think EVERYTHING has been done that can be!)
I came up with the idea of a cookie card, basically a rough A5 size sheet of cookie, topped with one large cookie cut out shape and up to 5 minis.

My first one I was pretty happy with.. For my friends 21st Birthday. looking back now, its quite rough, but it was also a bit of a rush job, my bad!

the second one was actually a Christmas card for a little girl, ordered through one of the girls from my Mums group (extended family) The little girl is right into horses, I was sure I had a horse cutter, turned out I didnt!
LOL, oh well, I got there eventually with a bit of creative icing!

I heard that this little girl loved it so much, she didnt want to eat it!

I also did two for valentines day, but alas, again for some strange reason I didnt take any photos! I can't believe I did that!!

This birthday card I had major dramas with! The original one I made, I had all finished right around Christmas, I was leaving to go on holiday in Darwin and had planned to pack this up and post off to the lucky girl that day, but when I picked it up I somehow managed to drop it and break it into a million pieces! Disaster!!! I had no time to make another!!! I messaged my friend who had ordered it and explained the situation, I wouldn't be back until the new year, luckily, she was fine with me doing it when I came back.
So after I came back, I made this one up and posted off, this happened the day before the devastating flooding in Brisbane which of course made all postage deliveries grind to a halt.  2 WEEKS  (!!) and many phone calls to Aus Post later, the Birthday girl FINALLY got her card.

This one has to be my favourite so far, it all just worked!

This is the photo Her Mum posted on my FB page, she chomped straight into it!

Absolutely gorgeous!!!

Cookie cards are $14.95, your choice of theme and colour, A5 size cookie sheet topped with a large cookie cutter shape and up to 5 minis!

Valentines day 2011

Finally it is the day after! LOL, it wasn't that bad, had a few orders for Valentines things with a baby shower thrown in there too.
Here are some pics of orders...

I had an absolute blast making these, I pretty much had creative license! I also received the sweetest email from the customer and his wife after Valentines day thanking me for them.

This was another customers order that also had some mini conversation hearts and  glitter heart teddy, for some reason I didnt save the Pictures to my computer and I have been having a bugger of a time trying to get te images off Facebook! no idea whats going on there, so there will have to be a catch up post at some later date! Sorry!