Pictures!

Here are the pictures from Saron's, Julie's and my day of hard labor, and a couple other evenings.
The only thing I forgot to capture was the strawberry jam.


First up, we have the whole lot. From front center, clockwise: 12" cake, iced and filled; 5 dozen iced sugar cookies; 9" cake, filled and iced; 6" cake, filled and iced; 5 dozen chocolate cream cheese filled cupcakes; and peaking in on the right hand side some cream cheese mints--I only made one batch of those, but there are 200 or so little ones.


Here's a close-up of the lovely icing job that Julie did on the cupcakes.
















And here is a close-up of the 6" and 9" cakes. Saron, very patiently, sifted all the cake mixes and mixed them up for the cakes. The cakes are white with chocolate chips in the batter. Then the filling is raspberry jam with fresh strawberries on top (no raspberries yet). The icing and filling is white chocolate cream cheese buttercream. Hard to beat!
I will ice the cakes properly later with a crisco based icing to help them hold up in the heat and make them a little whiter and neater looking.





And last, we have the cookies. Just normal sugar cookies, but in three different shapes: hearts, stars and flowers, each shape has a large version and a small version. And three different icing colors: cream, rose and mauve (which was supposed to be dk. pink, but had an accident).