Fundraiser

There is a fundraiser this weekend for a young man who loves baseball. Two dozen special cookies cookies are our contribution. I'll post a picture of the finished basket presentation as soon as it is available.

Like the Easter cookies, this cookie is our basic sugar cookie topped with a thin layer of butter cream icing, then topped with fondant. The red stitches were piped on using royal icing.

Mumsie's Easter Cookies

Mom and I sat down and made some cookies for the family Easter. The best looking ones were made out of fondant.

We used the usual sugar cookie receipe and topped it with a thin layer of butter cream icing, then placed the fondant on top and decorated.

These were much, much easier to do than the dipped royal icing cookies and I believe they look better too. The downside is that not everyone likes fondant.

Easter Resolution: No more cookie fundraisers

The peeps are all baked and on their way to the Central PA Humane Society as I look forward to hosting the family Easter Dinner next weekend.

Mom is coming over some evening while we decorate our personal cookies, and we'll put the pictures up when they are complete.

Meanwhile, my next project is baseball cookies for a fundraiser on April 24. I have decided that cookies are for marketing purposes only. They are waaaaay too much work for what you get in return. I would really like to concentrate on upscale fondant cakes.

Right. We'll see how long I can hold that thought. Ha.

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More Yummy Easter Carrot Cookie Photos

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Easter Cookies

Adopt a Peep 'cause they're invading Blair County. See posting below to benefit the Central PA Humane Society.

This old fashioned Eastertide postcard on a sugar cookie is printed with edible ink onto (edible) wafter paper which is similiar to rice paper, but made with potato starch. There are 14 different designs available and they are all on large, postcard-sized cookies that measure about 3 1/2" by 5" and are 3/8" thick.

Check out the Sweet Little Bunny cookies. These bunnies are also printed on wafer paper and attached to a sugar cookie. Which one is Peter Rabbit? These cookies are over 2" in diameter.

The night before Easter, be sure to leave one of these huge (almost 2" by 5 1/2") sugar cookie carrots out for the Easter Bunny along with a frosty glass of milk.

The Peeps are Coming! The Peeps are Coming! The Peeps are Coming!

Adopt a Peep!

Don't be left out in the cold when Blair County experiences an invasion of sugar cookie chicks this Easter Lenten season.

The Sugar Buzz Factory is baking the cutest sugar cookie Peeps on the planet to raise money for our furry friends at the Central Pennsylvania Humane Society (CPHS). All of the cookies are homemade without additives or preservatives right here in Blair County using flour, sugar, eggs, lemon juice, baking powder, vanilla and food coloring. Each Peep is approximately 2" x 2 1/2" and is about 3/8" thick.

A dozen of these handsome Peeps is $12.00 and is packaged in a kraft box with a handle. They are so adorable, you're gonna want to cut air holes! Choose: All Yellow OR Mixed Colors

You can pick up your Easter Peeps at Fresh Bark (CPHS's Thrift Shop located across the road from the shelter) as long as supplies last. To ensure your get your peeps, call Debbie Pierce at CPHS: 942-2477 or email Leslie: lhayes78@atlanticbb.net. We'll try to keep a supply at Fresh Bark right up to the holiday. A portion of the proceeds go directly to CPHS.

Toilet Cake

Sometimes I wonder about my friend's sensibilities.

This cake recently came about because my friend, Bob, was looking for a humorous birthday cake for his two friends who were turning 60. And he got it.

The bowl was three layers of vanilla cake with raspberry filling and the tank and toilet paper roll were Devil’s Food layered with vanilla butter cream. Everything was covered with fondant.

The poop was chocolate butter cream, the water in the bowl was tinted piping gel, the handle on the tank fondant, the toilet paper was preforated fondant and the lid was custom made out of wood. There was a detachable card on the inside of the lid that everyone signed for the birthday couple.

Because we had never done this before, it was an engineering challenge. A sturdy platform (cake’s heavy!) had to be built for the tank that included a back so the cake tank wouldn’t lean halfway through the party and we had to find small hinges for the lid, which also needed a place to be attached so it could be opened and closed.

All of the wood was painted white to seal it and to make it washable. The platform was covered with blue and white checked washable vinyl wallpaper to imitate a typical bathroom floor.

Now that we’ve made this cake for Bob, we can make one for you. Contact us with your event: be it an anniversary, birthday, an open house, renovation celebration or any party for a plumber.

Steelers Win Superbowl

There are certain aspects of football and the Superbowl that appeal to me. Like the idiot commercials, the unsportsmanlike conduct, the frenzied yelling and screaming during the game that would ordinarily draw the police, and the snack food.

The cookies were David's idea to send to Ben stranded down in Texas for the past few years. They are sugar cookies topped with Royal Icing, "Steelers" is written in chocolate buttercream and the colored logo thingys are made of fondant.

Cookie Madness

Today was cookie delivery day for the most part and thinking back, the 2008 holiday season t'was truly the season to bake cookies: 100 to the senior citizens at the local church, 170 plus to Blair County Children & Youth, about 70 to take to a friend's party, 40 to the Humane Society volunteers & workers, 150 for Christmas baskets, and hundreds more for a cookie & egg nog party here at the house.

Adding that up makes about 800 decorated cookies, not including the chocolate chip cookies and Key Lime Pies. No wonder I feel like I've done nothing else during the evenings and on weekends.

The neighbor kids agreed to help me out with the extra broken and messed up cookies and they have been making out pretty well. So well that we finally had to establish a secret code to communicate: I hang a "Cookies!" sign in the dining room window to let them know when there are broken cookies and they stop by on weekends and after school to collect their paper lunch bags of goodies.

I'm gonna settle in for a loooong winter's nap.

Christmas Light Cookie Ingredients

We have had requests for the ingredient list for the Christmas Light Cookies.

While the exact recipe is Top Secret, I can tell what is NOT in them: additives, fillers and preservatives.

All of our cookies are lovingly made fresh from scratch with the purest ingredients right here in Blair County--just for you.

For example, we use real butter, not margarine, imitation butter, I Can't Believe this Crap's Not Butter or butter-flavored grease in a can. We also use real eggs, not imitation low cholesterol eggs. If your cholesterol is high, you shouldn't even be looking at cookies, let alone reading a blog about baking. Your cholesterol probably just rose 10 points the past 5 seconds.

Anyway, we believe that good old-fashioned ingredients not only taste better, but are healthier than all the imitation stuff on the shelves, which is why we stick to the basics: eggs, butter, flour and sugar--and this is why our cookies are as good as what Grandma used to make.

Sugar Cookie & Icing Ingredients

Sugar: regular and confectioner's

Flour

Butter

Eggs

Baking Powder

Vanilla

Lemon Juice

Food Coloring

The Cookies are accented with purchased decorations such as non-pariels, Sparkling Sugar, jimmies and dragees.

Buy A Cookie, Be A Light

When a foster child is initially taken from their home, they often leave with nothing. This season, the Sugar Buzz Factory is helping Blair County Children & Youth raise money for their Special Fund which supplies these children who are spending the holidays away from their family with the extras in life, such as Christmas presents and warm winter coats.

As of today, all of our Christmas Light Cookies are being sold as a fundraiser. If you would like to purchase these cookies (pictured in the post below) all of the profit will go to the Blair County Children & Youth Special Fund, and your checks should be made out to them as well.

Individually wrapped cookie: $2.00

6 cookies in a gift box: $11.00

12 cookies in a gift box: $20.00

And yes, we know that's expensive, but it's for the kids.

Thank you in advance to all of the folks who are making this possible by volunteering their time, talents and commercial kitchens: Beth & Larry, David, Tessa, Nancy, my mother and anyone else I can talk into icing, wrapping, packing, selling and delivering cookies for this drive.

By baking zillions of cookies in the next couple of weeks (in our spare time) we hope to be able to make every Blair County child's Christmas merry & bright.

T'was The Month Before Christmas

Three tiered cake covered in moss green fondant.

Covered in lights and poinsettas & ornaments & ribbon.

T'was the month before Christmas

And all through Blair County

People flocked to Peterman's

To see what's gonna matter

Christmas Light Cookies, Extra Cake & Cake Pops in the background.

The Christmas Light Cookies

Were strung up with care

On licorice wire
Eat some, if you dare.

Sugar Buzz Bites & Cookies, yum!

The Cake Bites were dipped

And displayed with aplomb

In hopes that Saint Nick

Would soon be along

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work

And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,

"Merry Christmas, Blair County!

And to all a good-night!"

2009 Price List & Order Information

All baking is by special request, so be sure to ask if you don’t see what you want. I'll be glad to work with you to design a unique cake for your special occasion.

FUND RAISING
I'll work with you to design a fund raising package to suit your organization.

BOOKING
The Sugar Buzz Factory will only book one large order--such as a multi-layer wedding cake or a major fund raiser--per month in addition to smaller requests.

DEPOSITS & PAYMENTS
Large orders and Multi-layer cakes require $200.00 deposit to hold the date, and the balance is due in full two weeks before the event.

All other baking is done on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Cash or check only. Sorry, I do not accept credit.

DELIVERY
Multi-layer cake delivery and assembly is included in the price of the cake within Blair County. There is a mandatory transportation charge outside the county. Small orders will have to be picked up.

2009 PRICE LIST

COOKIES Chocolate Chip Cookies $0.50 ea. Chocolate Chip Cookies with Black Walnuts $ 0.75 ea. Decorated Sugar $ 1.00 ea. and up, depending on size & decoration, Min. order 3 dozen, Individuallly wrapped, add $.25 each.

CAKE BITES regular $ 1.00 each, Fruit stuffed $1.25 ea. Min. order 3 dozen, individually wrapped, add $.25.

CAKE Fondant Covered Wedding / Event $ 4.00 per slice & up
CAKE Butter cream, $ 2.00 per slice & up
CAKE Additional decoration, Butter cream, Gum paste & Fondant: Quotes on an individual basis
DESIGN CONSULTATION Free
CAKE TASTING $40.00, by appointment only

KEY LIME PIE: Best pie north of Key Largo! graham cracker crust, $10.00 ea. Add your own whipped topping
KEY LIME PIE: Macadamia & Cashew Chocolate Graham Crust $15.00 ea. Add your own whipped topping

KEY LIME PIE MINI TARTS: 0.75 each

GENUINE CENTRAL PA HOMEMADE RASPBERRY SYRUP TO COMPLIMENT THE KEY LIME TREATS: 4 oz./$6.00

KEY LIME PIE IN A JAR WITH RASPBERRY SYRUP: 4 oz / $4.00 each

FLOWER POT CAKE a real flower pot with a real cake baked inside, topped with gum paste flowers $30.00 ea, Limited quantity-Check for availability
FLOWER POT CAKE REFRESHER $10.00 ea, “Re-pot” your cake Cupcakes: Plain Butter cream Swirl $10.00/ doz., Min. order 3 dozen

CUPCAKES with butter cream swirl $10.00/doz., Min. order 3 doz.
CUPCAKES with Basic Fondant or Gum paste Decoration $20.00/ doz., Min. order 3 dozen
CUPCAKES Stuffed Add $5.00/ doz, Min. order 3 dozen
CUPCAKES Fresh Fruit Stuffed Cupcakes with Key Lime Glaze Market Price, Min. order 3 dozen

Peterman's Open House

Catch The Sugar Buzz Factory on Sunday afternoon, November 16 at Peterman's Florist Open House in Juniata, PA--located on Chestnut Avenue, a.k.a. 4th Avenue--just north of the Juniata Sheetz.

We'll have a stunning holiday cake on display and we'll be serving up cookies, cake and cake pops.

BRING A GLASS OF MILK!

And we'll post pictures of the event RIGHT HERE as soon as possible.