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dip-dyed mini marshmallow hearts

  This one goes in the category of quick and easy to make, always appreciated in my house. But I’ll warn you that they do take a while to dry. As in, a few hours. I’m not entirely sure what one would do with tiny bite-size dip dyed marshmallows, but I’ll let you use your [...]



kid-friendly candy pops for Valentine’s Day (easy! good for last minute)

I had to share with you one more Valentine’s Day treat I made for elsewhere. Red Tricycle asked me to come up with a kid-friendly sweets idea for the holiday. To test the kid-friendliness of these candy heart pops, I made them with my four-year old. I can assure you, kid-friendly indeed.   These are [...]



Harlequin romance novel cupcakes

On this Valentine’s eve, I thought I’d take just a moment to pay homage to the great people I like to call… my publishers. Because as I’ve mentioned before, getting a book deal is really, really hard. You need just that one group of people who will your way and like you and like what [...]



sweet peek: stamped conversation heart cookies

This sweet peek inside Sugarlicious is a bit different from the others. This isn’t exactly what you’ll find in the book, but I wanted to demonstrate how you can mix and match different techniques with different sweets so the ideas in the book serve as a starting point for much greater creativity. In the book, [...]



crushed conversation heart cookie pops for the TomKat Studio

I realize these crushed conversation heart cookie pops merely emphasize my penchant for smashing hearts, and it continues the conversation heart overload I’ve been experiencing (here and here). But the colors in a box of conversation hearts are just so pretty, don’t you agree? And look, I kept one heart whole on each cookie, for [...]