Tie Dye Birthday

After essentially taking a break since Christmas, a small, fun order is a good way to start back.

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Christmas Cookies 2014

I know, I know....I am posting this after-the-fact.  A lot has been happening and I keep forgetting to get these up.  I've been telling myself that everyone who is interested has already seen them anyway, and now it's January and still no post.  Nonetheless, I found two amazing cutters on Etsy back in October or November. They were the kind of amazing that I couldn't stop thinking about, so I ordered them.  In my mind they looked like the characters from the old school Rudolph movie...which made it even better.

Exhibit A:

Time-out....in pulling these pictures I found a third cutter, 
HOW ON EARTH DID I MISS THIS?!

 

It's going to be okay...stay calm. There is always next year, right? Let's all remember that these came from PlasticsinPrint on Etsy so we can track down the girl deer for "next time."

Back to business.

Exhibit B:

 

Exhibit C:

The Process:

Okay, so I took a few liberties with these.  I didn't like his blue clothes, and I added fawn spots to Rudolph...I couldn't help myself.  So since this isn't truly Hermey the Elf from the movie, I named him Randy instead.  My cookies, my rules.

They were a huge hit and made enough to share widely.  They were gifts to the trainers at the gym (yeah, I know....I asked if cookies were frowned upon - I was assured they would be happily accepted), they were cookies for Santa, Christmas dessert at two other homes, and three ended up in the trash yesterday.  Long ride for these little guys.  There was only one downfall....the little candies did not stick very well.  Meh, live and learn.

I am taking a cookie break until the next holiday or cute idea I see.  Adios until then.

Lumberjack Birthday Party

Sweet Travis is turning three soon, and his mama put on one heck of a party. Keri and I pulled together some cookies to add to the spread.  I got my inspiration from Sweet Sugarbelle (of course), you can see her versions here and here.

The process:

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2014 Christmas Baskets

Better late than never. These are the cookies for this year's departmental Christmas party door prizes.

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Caramel Apple Cookies

I made fall-themed cookies for fun, not for an order. I am a little behind in posting them, but they happened a couple weeks ago. I found inspiration from LilaLoa's caramel apple cookies...

...which led me on a wild goose chase for the correct ingredients. These cookies differed from my usual sugar in that I used green apple Kool-Aid to flavor the cookies and Watkins caramel extract to flavor the icing. Three out of three tasters said the finished cookies tasted just like the real thing, minus the sticky mess of course.  I grabbed some paint chips at Lowe's to use as reference, caramel is a tricky color to recreate, so I wanted some guidance:

Not too far off:

These cookies were hard to love after having just made the Frozen-themed order. But were much more convincing after being packaged:

Tonight I will ice 2014's first set of Christmas cookies...stay tuned.

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With the cold front came cookies....

Long time, no cookies. 

I'm going to be honest...I got burned out. I'm finally back to the point that I can look at a cookie without hating it. And boy, I think I really made a winning set to welcome myself back to the game. Not only that, the humidity has been super low with the weather change, which makes decorating SO MUCH easier. Ironically enough, my first request in some time was for Frozen themed cookies. Based on my humble opinion, and votes from my peeps, these may be the best ones yet. I'm pretty proud of these :)

I REALLY love them. I have a second project going, I hope to ice those tomorrow.

They will hopefully look and taste like caramel apples. I got my inspiration from LilaLoa, she is truly hilarious, and talented. You can see them here.

Since its been a while, I thought I would put a puppy photo in here too. She is 10 months old, holding steady at 38.5 pounds, and has effectively chewed through two dog beds since the cold snap....fun times in the terrible two stage.  Here she is, being a good girl, and helping me with the pot roast:

That's is for now, stay warm!

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Long time, no blog...

Why hello there.  I am currently trying to correct a misconnection caused by a delayed plane.  What better thing to do while you are on hold, than to update your blog, right?  Anyway, I was in Indianapolis last week, I am headed to Kansas City now (I hope), when I get home tomorrow I will have three days and then I leave for Uruguay.  Needless to say, I haven't weighed Harley lately, but she is huge and still gets prettier every day.

Surprisingly enough, I have gotten two orders knocked out in between these trips.  One was a wedding order, 10 dozen monogrammed cookies in eggplant and white.

The second order was for a "sip & see" baby "shower" of sorts.  So we went with 2 dozen baby's feet.

Also on the docket lately was a cabinet that John and I worked together to design, and he executed.  It looks pretty fantastic I have to say!

Alright, break is over.  I am not sure what the internet situation will be in Uruguay, but for those who don't know, I keep a separate blog for my periodic international travels, since there is never a dull moment.  We land in South America on Sunday, so if I get a chance, you can catch our stories over at: Summer Travels.