Makes you salivate a little, yes?  Imagine how much you’d want to eat these desserts if your Mom had hidden all the sugar in the house…3 weeks ago?  I’ve mentioned I don’t believe in using fake sugars, but I don’t have any rules against FAKE FOOD.

You may recall a wonderful visit I had from my friend Hillary, the woman I credit with teaching me to sew.  I knew a few things about sewing when I met Hillary, but she taught me how to bravely sew.  Hillary taught me how to take 3 dresses, rip them apart, and piece them back together into 1 killer costume.  I can’t sing, but I can sew, and therefore, I was the best dressed no-lines Emerald City cast member in “The Wiz”, circa 1989.  What can I say?  It was the 80′s, and we all secretly wanted to be Molly Ringwald in “Pretty in Pink”.  I’m too embarrassed to admit how many times I’ve watched that movie while sewing clothes for the girls.

After our visit, Hillary and her fantastic daughters returned home and made us a thank you present.  Some people send cards (and by the way, Hillary did you make that card too?  It’s so pretty that I can’t take it off my fridge.).  My friends handcraft with felted wool.  Because my friends are AWESOME.

The girls have been so excited by these play treats, that, A) They are in the same perfect shape by which they arrived B) They never leave their tea table in the play room.  C) They are never used as anything other than, “fancy food”; they are never stuffed in a play purse, or otherwise lost in their play kitchen.  The girls don’t even want me to touch them.  As Sara says, “These are very, very special, and although they look real, we cannot eat them.  But we want to eat them.  Always, we want to eat them.”

I’m posting close ups (as good as I can get with my rookie camera skills) so you can see the immense detail.  Every “sprinkle” is a hand sewn bead, even those tiny itsy-bitsy white dots on the chocolates.  The white chocolate with the detailed nut on top might be my favorite.  It’s so classy!  Hillary even sent a stack of beautiful chocolate brown dessert plates.  We often spread those out, and make sure every doll gets just one dessert.  Because, after all, fake dolls need to monitor their fake sugar intake. We can’t have Tippy Toes, Rainbow, and Cinderella up all night on a sugar buzz.  Bon appetit!