A Daughter's Love

Wendy Crim-Anderson called me last week and told me that her sweet mother (Janice Crim) needed some goodies to help her feel better. Mrs. Janice has had a total knee replacement 3 weeks ago. Wendy told me that her mother loves my Chicken Salad on Croissants, my Fresh Fruit Tray, & absolutely loves my Banana Pudding.

I absolutely love mango's, strawberries, grapes (green and red), and pineapple. I am just an island girl at heart. This mango was so sweet and just ripe for eating.

My Banana Pudding is a Southern Tradition at our home!

I hope Mrs. Janice is feeling better soon! She has an absolutely precious daughter in Wendy! You gotta love children who want to do something for their parents when they are ill.



Thank You Wendy!

Autumn Is In The Air

With Autumn in the air, what a better way to celebrate than these darling cakes. The first cake is a wonderful homemade cake, in your favorite flavor decorated as an elegant pumpkin. The second cake is a darling cake for a birthday or for a school or office party.

Tailgate Fever

With football being in full swing, what more fitting than a Stadium Cake supporting your favorite team. Of course, my Neyland Stadium cake is a favorite among Tennessee fans. Weather it be the Tennessee Vols to Warren County Pioneers,this cake would be the talk of the tailgaters!

Katie Tubb And A Red Ribbon

Yesterday afternoon John and I took the children to the Fair and was so excited to see that Katie had won a Red Ribbon & 2nd Place with her Watercolor picture!

CONGRAT'S TO KATIE!

Grape Jelly

Dana Evans ordered a White Chocolate Cheesecake from me and 3 1/2 pints of my wonderful Concord Grape Jelly.

I hope you enjoyed them!

TRADITIONS

Today, Katie and I did our annual tradition. We went and registered all of our goodies at the Warren County A & L Fair. Katie has some art work, canned items, and a crocheted mat.

While we were out there, we saw of course some friendly faces while we were there. It is so amazing how a small community like ours can come together and have such a wonderful memorial that has been going on for 55 years. Yes, 55 years!

After we got things registered, we got ourselves in line for the first of many caramel apples and candied applies. All I can say is "My Lips Are RED!" It was GREAT! One memory that I keep having as a child, those wonderful candied apples! Of course, we brought Dillon one home. You ought to have seen his eyes. He was on the lawn mower and spotted it in my hand. A look I will never forget!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

The Birthday Marathon Day!

This beautiful cake is for my friend Lara Carter's daughter Caroline. Today they are celebrating her Sweet 16th Birthday! To make it look even more beautiful I placed it on one of my antique crystal cake plates.

Caroline is a beautiful girl!

Happy Birthday!

Amy Mayfield ordered this darling cake for her daughter Katy Mae's 5th Birthday. She also wanted some of my "Secret Recipe" Chicken Salad. Dots must have been contagious today or something. Lara and Amy both requested polka-dots.

Happy Birthday Katy Mae!

Pink, White, and Mint are so crisp and clean looking!


Sandra Rankhorn ordered this cool cake for her son's birthday. He's all about Dale Jr. and the 88 car. Sandra was so sweet with her compliments on how my cakes melt in her mouth.

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday!

My special friend Patti Clarke ordered cup cakes for Rae's Birthday and for Tailgating at tomorrow's MTSU football game. Patti requested my homemade white cake with white icing and my homemade fudge cake with chocolate icing. To make it special she requested Rae's initials monogrammed on them.

Happy Birthday Rae! I can't wait to see her as a beautiful bride this May! Congrats to the Clarke family!

I wanted to have a cream filling inside of each of the cupcakes, but Patti said, "Nope, can't do that cause somebody would get hurt." I just about died laughing!
Somebody's gonna dance tomorrow, not tonight, but tomorrow! lol

Autumn Is Just Around The Corner

Pam Youngblood ordered these beautiful cookies. She said that I could "just have fun" with them so.......with Labor Day over and Summer vacation a memory, I thought that it would be absolutely a wonderful time to whip out some autumn leaf cookies with orange buttercream icing and orange sprinkles. And of course, to tie it up I added a darling ribbon with happy

jack-o-lanterns.

Enjoy!

What's better than an Old Fashioned Sundrop Cake made from scratch. Yes, scratch. No lemon cake mix in this one. Real butter, flour, sugar, and some secret ingredients, and of course 12 oz. of Sundrop. It's my own original recipe. My customers tomorrow will enjoy a slice of this wonderful Middle Tennessee Tradition.

It's an award winner at the WC A&L Fair!

Warren Co. Football

Courtney Hollingsworth is a wonderful customer and teacher at WCHS. She called me a few days ago and told me that she has several football players in her room and wanted to give them a special treat! Enjoy!

Good Luck Pioneers!

Wilson & Cantrell Wedding

Wonderful Memories!

Summer e-mailed me these beautiful pictures of her wedding and I wanted to share them with you.
She was an absolute beautiful bride! Summer is a teacher in Cookeville and was so nervous about the final details of her wedding. I told her that there was nothing for her to worry about with her reception. After the cakes were delivered, she gave me the sweetest call telling me how perfect I made it for her.

This is a picture of Summer's cake. It was breathless!



Today, I got a couple of calls from my friend Patti Clarke. Rae is going to be married at their lake house in May of 2009. I am so honored to have Patti as my friend and am so excited about Rae's wedding!

Thank You Summer for the beautiful pictures!

Prayers and Cookies and Cookies and Prayers

As you may know, my family are members at Westwood Church of Christ. They have a wonderful program headed up by Beth Deason. It's called "Prayer Warriors". Each child that is in school, weather it be pre-school to college, no one is excluded is prayed for all year. Each child has a questionaire about them and where they attend school. You add a picture of your child and then, someone will choose a child and they are their "Prayer Warrior". This year we chose Sumner Hildreth and Kristy Navarette. Sumner is in the 10th grade at WCHS and Kristy is in the 3rd grade at West Elementary.

I know that Sumner is a HUGE UT fan along with her boyfriend Cody. So...I thought she would love these darling star cookies with her initial on them.

Kristy is the sweetest little one I have ever seen. She is like my daughter's shadow. So...I thought since tomorrow is the last big "Whoo Rah" of Summer (Labor Day) and autumn coming near, I thought she might need some pumpkin cookies with orange sprinkles!

My daughter Katie's Prayer Warrior is The Gribble Family. Hannah gave Katie the sweetest gift today and a sweet card. She gave her a darling choker necklace with ballet slippers and a charm bracelet with pointe shoes on them. Katie was thrilled! She begins pointe in ballet in just a couple of weeks and can't wait to get fitted in her own pointe shoes!

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR GOODIES!

The Grapes Are Being Harvested!

Yesterday, my Mother and I started working on our Concord Grapes. John and I started picking them on Sunday (yes in the rain) and yesterday we started the process. Our grape juice is absolutely beautiful!

I have begun taking orders for grape jelly.

1/2 pints are $4.00 each

My children will not eat store bought jelly and preserves, they only want my homemade recipes.

My Concord Grape Jelly is a 1st Place Blue Ribbon Winner @ The WC A&L Fair.

Have a wonderful day!

First Place Apple Dumplings

I found this recipe on the web and with all of the apples we are harvesting, I have just got to try it. It looks delicious! I will let you know how it is tomorrow.

Happy Anniversary To The Patrick's

Kandice Patrick texted me a few days ago and asked me to make something special for her husband Jerry for their 1st Anniversary. She said he loves his Mustang and that anything with the Ford emblem would be perfect. She decided she wanted some "fantabulous" sugar cookies and here they are!
Kandice is a fan of my White Chocolate Pretzels with Cinnamon Sugar Sprinkles.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KANDICE AND JERRY!

Star Wars/R2D2

Dena Evans ordered this darling 3D cake for her son Brett's 10th birthday. Brett loves Star Wars and everything about it. We chose to do R2D2. He is a Homemade Dark Chocolate cake with buttercream icing.
HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY BRETT!

I've Got Sunshine On A Cloudy Day

Well today is the first day for Ms. Tina Smith's class at the Learning House. And of course, it's a "Cloudy Day" and with it being Monday, I thought that these Sunshine Cookies would be perfect to help cheer up the kids on this cloudy day.
Jamie and Tina are some of our most favorite people and have the sweetest three children ever! I hope that they enjoy these cookies as much as I enjoyed making them for her and their fellowship last night!

HAPPY FIRST DAY AT THE LEARNING HOUSE!

Sharing the LOVE

Today I was at the grocery (can you imagine that I would be somewhere besides there) and thought about something that happened last week. My dear, dear friend Bridgett Powers gave me this BEAUTIFUL tray. She was on a trip with her son Clint in Nashville and when she went into Harry and David's she saw this beautiful tray and she said that she thought of her friend...ME. So...I thought I would share it with my friends in our "Young Adult" class at church tomorrow. I just had to put some wonderful homemade muffins on this tray. Double Chocolate, Chocolate Chip, Strawberry Struesel, Apples & Cinnamon.

Thank You Bridgett for thinking of me!

Where's The Beef?

Courtney Hollingsworth e-mailed me a few weeks ago about her husband's birthday. He loves cows. So......for the cow lover's a BWF cow. It has yellow horns and black and pink ears on top. I chose my favorite classic white cake from scratch and used a little buttercream icing to make it almost Moo!

Happy Birthday!!

KATIE TUBB'S BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE BUG!

YOU ARE THE APPLE OF YOUR DADDY'S AND MY EYE!

HAPPY 12TH WE LOVE YOU!

A Little Blog Catch Up

Sunday, August 17th is a very special day in our family and will be a special day for the Wilson family as well. That's my daughter Katie's birthday and Carrie Wilson's wedding in Kingston, Tennessee. This cake is going to be delivered tomorrow to Whitestone Inn. This beautiful cake is a classic white cake with white buttercream icing. Accented with white pearls and white ribbon fondant roses...this is a beautiful cake! Carrie also ordered some of my wonderful hand-pressed cream cheese mints. Beautiful white hearts will a compliment after the sit-down-meal reception.
Kandice Dyer-Patrick ordered these wonderfully sweet pretzels. They have been dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Kandice is a wonderful friend and I really enjoy talking with her! She is absolutely the sweetest. She has been making me some early Christmas gifts and when she came to pick her pretzels and Peach Cobbler, she brought my ornaments and she had made me the most adorable kitchen towel with Simply Joy Catering stitched on it! If you like classy, stylish items....then jump on over to her blogspot. I have it attached in my favorite at the bottom of this page! She's got a sale on right now...check it out!

Michelle Prater is a wonderful and thoughtful person! She is absolutely a precious friend. I am so blessed by knowing her! She ordered this cake for her husband Trad's birthday. I made a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing and complimented it with strawberries dipped in chocolate. Yum Yum! Happy Birthday Trad! Michelle is a wonderful mother too! Check her blogspot out...it's listed under my favorites as well!!!

Awaiting The Arrival Of Braylen

My new friend Kristie ordered this darling cake for a baby shower she was hosting this past Saturday. She gave me a couple of weeks ago a napkin so I could see the theme of the shower. It was the most darling little train and below it had a sweet little bow tied. The colors were Tiffany box blue, tan, and green. Kristie told me that I could have fun with it. So....I let my creative juices flow. I made the entire train out of cake. When I delivered to the shower, I wish you could have seen every ones excitement!

The Peaches Are Harvested!

Yeah! The peaches are ripe and are being picked every day! I worked on them all day yesterday and Katie helped me when she came home from school. She is so curious about cooking and she is a HUGE help!
Orders for Peach Preserves and Cobblers are still being taken.
Pint Jars $6.00
Half-Pint Jars $4.00
Frozen Fresh Peaches $6.00
Fresh Peach Cobbler $20.00

Look What I've Been Cooking Up!

Give that "Special Someone" a basket of happiness! Delight someone special with breakfast in bed. My jumbo muffins are sure to put a smile on their face! A basket full of assorted homemade muffins. They are great for the office, that special teacher, co-worker, or anyone who loves fresh, homemade muffins! Choose from blueberry streusel, peach melba, chocolate streusel and many more. Call for flavors.
Candy Collection Apples are here! I start them off with a crisp apple and dip them in my signature chocolate and they can be rolled in M&M's, Peanut Butter Cup, Cashews, Pecans, or Tropical (dried fruit and coconut) Please specify flavor!

Check this out! What more fun can you have than with this great basket/bucket? I know that everyone loves a little "junk food" and these can be delivered to the hospital or for birthday surprises too! They are perfect for that "secret sister/pal" too!

Entertaining Fruit Pizza are here! This pizza pie is one that everyone will be able to agree on. I take my original sugar cookie recipe and add my special cannoli cream. I then add only the freshest fruit and berries before topping the whole thing off with dark AND white chocolate! You will have to taste this one to believe it!

White Chocolate and Cinnamon Pretzels

Delight your senses with the unbelievable taste combination of a crunchy salty pretzel dipped in rich white chocolate and then dusted with cinnamon sugar. Truly delicious! For a truly unique taste sensation, try my dark chocolate dipped pretzels sprinkled in sea salt. This is a combination that you just can't pass up! Scrumptious!!

Chocolate Loves Delight Basket!

This basket is just perfect for the Chocolate Lover! Give this basket and you'll be guaranteed to be loved! Basket items must be ordered and each basket is uniquely different!

Can you say Chocolate Dipped Strawberries. These strawberries are absolutely mouth watering! From dark chocolate, milk chocolate with chocolate curls, white chocolate, almond slivers, to white chocolate with coconut. You can't go wrong with a tray of these

Chocolate Pretzels

Crunchy pretzel rods are covered in my signature milk chocolate and covered with chopped walnuts, pecans, candy pieces, sprinkles, cashews, or your favorite treat. A perfect blend of salty and sweet! Please specify your favorite!

The Last WhooRah Before School Starts

On Monday, Dillon had some of his friends out to swim and enjoy the day....with school starting Thursday, this was a fun day for all of them. I had to fix them homemade pizza's and my homemade hot fudge cakes. I got so tickled at Macrae when he yelled out "Ms. Joy you are my hero! I love you!" I did not know that hot fudge cakes was Macrae's favorite dessert. Macrae cleaned his dessert plate and when he finished it looked like he hadn't been served at all. Logan asked for seconds.
I remember when all of these kids were in diapers. Now they are off to the High School!

Go get 'em boys!