We're Engaged!

This week we had the pleasure of making cookies for an engagement party! The cookies display the proposal and are our signature sugar cookies. These cookies are perfect for any engagement event and we would be delighted to make them for you! All you have to do is come down to Polkadots and customize your order with our team. We can help you celebrate your big news by providing a delicious and adorable treat that you and all of your friends can enjoy.

Bachelorette Cookies

Here are a few types of Bachelorette cookies we have been making here at Polkadots Cupcake Factory! These fun party favors are cut out sugar cookies with colored royal icing for the decorations!

Pink Corset Design with White Piping

Men's Torso Design

Panty Designs

Polkadots Spotlight: Shoes

There are many topics that keep popping up in our shop - from owls and monkeys, Yo Gabba Gabba and Hello Kitty; to Longhorns, lingerie, and Angry Birds etc. Therefore, I thought it would be fun to showcase some treats sharing a particular theme every now then!

Almost all women love shoes, so what could be better than a cake or cookies that look like shoes?!? That way, everyone can enjoy them! First, we have a 6" round blueberry cake with lemon butter cream. It is decorated with fondant hearts, and topped with a handmade sparkly silver pump. The young man who ordered this brought it on a plane to surprise his girlfriend in Wisconsin. Talk about being thoughtful and romantic!

Next is a two-tiered pink and purple filigree cake with a gold bow and matching handmade glittery high heel on top. Our artists spend hours crafting such shoes out of materials like gum paste, fondant, rice krispie treats, and edible ink.

 Shoe cookies are also a popular request at Polkadots. An order called for leopard print dress and shoe cookies that coordinated well with the previous cake. Sometimes people don't want to eat them because they are too pretty, but once they do they say it was well worth it.

We've also made multi-colored heels, sparkly sugar print slingbacks, Cinderella glass slipper cookies, vintage Marie Antoinette shoes, and of course plenty of cowboy and western boots - being that we are in Texas!

As you can see, we are quite experienced in the edible footwear department, so please don't hesitate to call us whenever you are craving some sweet feet treats you can eat!

Family Ties

Hope everyone had a great father's day! We had a customer come in the other day with a great idea of making sugar cookie ties for a father's day gift. We loved creating various wacky ties for this special dad and his family. So, in the spirit of this special holiday, we featured these cool ties!

Happy Belated Father's Day to all Dads out there!

First Birthday Cake

I remembered when Clara ordered a baby shower cake for her daughter. They were expecting Chloe around this time a year ago. I can't believe time went by real fast. Chloe just turned one last week. She got her very own 6" round cake as her smash cake, while guests got the two tiered cake. Happy birthday Chloe!

Our next cake was made for Kinsley. She's also turning one. I just love the combination of green and fuchsia that her mom picked for her party theme. Adorable! Matching green and fuchsia cupcakes, and we topped the cake with "1" fondant figurine.

Another fun train theme birthday cake. Happy Birthday Pooja!

The last birthday cake was made for Hudson. His mom requested for baby blue color, green, and yellow star theme. We also made monogram stars cookies for the party favors.

 

I can't wait to have my own daughter or son! So I can plan for a fun 1st birthday party.

Fav project: Dino Birthday Party

I got a chance to do Jake's birthday party again this year! Last year Jake has a Super hero birthday theme, this year his theme was Dinosaurs. Here is some of his party ideas:

Jake's Birthday invitation specially designed from his mom at Invitingaffairs

Party favor bag:

Cupcake topper and wrappers:

Here is what I come up for his two tiered birthday cake.Michelle's request was to include yellow and green and both are black bottom cakes, chocolate cake with cream cheese and chocolate chip baked in. 

A few closed up of the dinos:

I love the combination color of bright blue, orange, green, yellow, fuchsia. It's so festive. The dinos are just too adorable. I want to include all the characters but keeping the dino from the invitation as the main focus.

I also made dino cookies for Jake's birthday party favor:

A special thank you for Michelle from Inviting Affairs to include us on Jake's special day. I can't wait to do his birthday party next year.

Mario oh Mario

Mario was my first video game when I was growing up, I remember of having this game on my game boy!

Mario was the most character cake requested. I lost count.. not sure how many of these cakes we made for the past two years. From the smallest size, 6" round:

An 8" round covered with fondant:

A 1/4 sheet cake:

Bigger Mario?

Oh Mario Party Cookie Favors!

Want more? I'll make more Mario cakes! Hope you are not Mario-out!

Monday Cookie Mania!

I remember my first hand iced cookies that I made during Christmas 2007. I iced them till late in the morning. You can call me crazy, but I just love the feeling once you were done icing them. Joy!

To decorate sugar cookies, you can use several medium - edible printing sugar paper, rolled fondant, and hand iced meringue powder. My favorite is using the edible printing sugar paper. It can be "painful" but it a shortcut.

Once you baked your sugar cookies, let them cool, iced them with royal icing, topped with the edible sugar paper right away, and border them with sugar rim - royal icing.

Here is a few that I made at the shop:

Here a few example with hand iced technique:

Thanks for looking and have a great week!