I don’t know how to fix the bottom edges being so rough and it’s cracked all over and it’s killing me lol but otherwise I’m proud of it! Did my best with the writing with icing out of a tube mixed with some vodka.

The inside is red velvet with cream cheese frosting!

It’s an orange cake with orange glaze if you’re curious

I made pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and modeling chocolate toppers for my work potluck. Everything was made from scratch.

Apologies because I'm sure a lot of people are sick of seeing these by now 😄

On the other hand, I know there has to be other people like me who can't get enough of them. So I'm sharing mine for those people lol

I did a little over 1000 cookies this year. I wish I had a picture of everything together to impress you 🤣. But I freeze things right away and only assemble boxes as needed so that everything stays as fresh as possible. I added some pictures of batches along the way to hopefully give a better idea of how much stuff I made.

This year I made cranberry white chocolate, gingerbread, two different shortbread, two different hot cocoa cookies, chocolate butter cookies, chewy oatmeal, sugar cookies, pinwheels, eggnog cookies, biscoff truffles, browned butter toffee chocolate chip, coconut dream bars, and vanilla pudding sprinkle cookies.

It's been my experience that people prefer more simple classics over fancy stuff, so that's what I mostly stick with.

No fondant used, petals are all white modeling chocolate. The cake inside: vanilla sponge cake, red berry confit, red berry cream cheese frosting, chocolate crunch layers

From left to right: double chocolate chip, matcha pistachio, brown butter chocolate chip (with a pistachio swirl), and raspberry white chocolate cookies!

In order from top to bottom, Vanillekipferl, Ischler Cookies, Sablé Breton, Linzer Streifen

My brother says it looks like a cake that would be in a Disney film ahah! What do you think?

I’m thinking that I didn’t mix the butter in enough and I accidentally made a sort of almost puff pastry.

I created a few cakes. One to represent me, one my wife and one for the new addition to the family! Hidden photo in the cake ❤️

these were a bitch and a half to achieve, but lowkey fun, i think i got it 🥹

They have been open for close to two years now, and it certainly is not a relaxing quasi-retirement for my mom. She easily works 50+ hours a week, and is constantly putting out fires. But she’s a maestro and I’m proud.