Courtney Coggins

Thanksgiving 2017 This year for Thanksgiving was really laid back and not stressful of course my cooking was cut in half. The only dessert I cooked was pecan pie no cakes!! But to be fair there was only five of us and one was a two year old that only wanted mac and cheese.  The Chef is in!! I couldn't believe I got him to set still for more than one second and got this great picture of him he loves to be in the kitchen with me and wants to help. I have let him help me ice a cake and small stuff like that and he loves it. The start of cornbread dressing this is a must at Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house. Sweet Potato Casserole Of course my only dessert Pecan Pie which is a much bigger deal if you  know how I am about my cakes but we wouldn't have eaten them with just us, maybe a slice or two but the rest would have gone to waste. I forgot to get a picture before everyone dug in so I had to get a quick one before it was...

Vikings Lagertha Shield Cake Its time for the new season of Vikings and what a better way to kick off the new season than with a Lagertha shield cake and its such a pretty color. Of course it wasn't all smooth sailing as usual I made a mess before I even started. Also you can check out my Instagram for pictures of my cakes and anything else I cook along the way. Link to the full video:  https://youtu.be/3flxobvFg6o https://www.instagram.com/courtney_coggins/ So yes this happen I was getting everything together and I dropped my powered sugar jar and it went everywhere. To top that off I got a chewing out by a two year old for my mess I made. Cash came in there looked down at it and said "what did u do !!" It was the cutest thing he wasn't happy with me. It took me forever to clean it up because I couldn't stop laughing.  I used a whole package of fondant and colored it with my teal gel food coloring. Wilton makes what they call a ribbon cutter ...