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| Cheerful Heart Cookies, Memorial Service Cookies |
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| Emmett Godfrey and B |
Monday, March 9, 2015
Cheerful Heart Cookies (For a Memorial Service)
Our dear Uncle Emmett died on January 10th after battling cancer. :( I wanted to do cookies for the after memorial gathering, but wasn't feeling flowers, since I'd just done some for another memorial just a week before (post to come soon) and they just didn't fit him. So I did a huge platter of cheerful hearts, as a tribute to a guy with a wonderful heart. So fitting.
A Tribute to Emmett Godfrey
Bee Cookies - Thanks a Buzzillion
So it has been a while since I posted here because I sort of let it get away from me and when I would think about it, it would seem like far too much trouble to get caught up. So I am going to make a series of quick posts tonight without a lot of explanation uh, rambling, about each set. Or at least that is the plan. We shall see how that goes. I apologize in advance if I omit words or mess up on punctuation, as I am on the back side of migraine aura and my head is never quite right for a day or so.
My husband is friendly with one of the board members at the college where he works. During one of their conversations, it came up that he and his wife produce their own honey at their farm. Jeff mentioned that I am a freak about local honey. Months passed and then one day near Christmas, he received a call that there was a gift for him waiting at the front gate. The wife of the board member brought us some honey for Christmas. Absolutely made our day. (This is truly THE best honey I have ever had!)
So as a thank you to them, sometime in January, I made these and took them by his office. He told Jeff that he'd truly married up! They loved them and were touched by the thought.
Ideas came from these places: http://www.klickitatstreet.com/2012/05/bees-on-flower-cookies.html
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/244601823487640797/
My husband is friendly with one of the board members at the college where he works. During one of their conversations, it came up that he and his wife produce their own honey at their farm. Jeff mentioned that I am a freak about local honey. Months passed and then one day near Christmas, he received a call that there was a gift for him waiting at the front gate. The wife of the board member brought us some honey for Christmas. Absolutely made our day. (This is truly THE best honey I have ever had!)
So as a thank you to them, sometime in January, I made these and took them by his office. He told Jeff that he'd truly married up! They loved them and were touched by the thought.
Ideas came from these places: http://www.klickitatstreet.com/2012/05/bees-on-flower-cookies.html
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/244601823487640797/
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| Bee Cookies, Thank You Cookies, Thanks a Buzzillion Cookies |
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| Snowflakes, Bees, Flowers |
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Winter "One"derland Cookies
Did these for a friend's god son's 1st birthday party.
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| Winter "One"derland Cookies |
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Cookies for Thanksgiving - Gobble, Gobble!
So I did a few trays of these for some friends for Thanksgiving. Wow are they super quick and super easy, but also super cute. Used the idea from the Bearfoot Baker to make the turkey heads using mini acorn cutters. Then I saw these online and although it isn't the same cutter at all, it certainly reminded me of using my candy corn cutter, so I used the candy corn cutter for the wings/feathers.
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| Turkey Platter Cookies |
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| Turkey Platter Cookies |
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| Turkey Platter Cookies Undecorated |
Just Something a Little Bird Told Me
So I am sitting here the morning before Thanksgiving with tons to do to get ready for the big day, so what would make more sense than sitting here procrastinating by catching up on some posts of cookies I've done since the long ago October 4th post. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. ;)
Anyway, I did these about a month ago for my cousin's daughter's baby shower. She originally wanted 4 dozen and I was up for it. We planned that she would pick them up when she was in Birmingham on Thursday of that week and I'd planned my baking and decorating accordingly. She lives in Atlanta, so just zipping over for cookies isn't really an option if she wasn't going to be in the area. Then she called me about noon on Tuesday and said her appointment had been changed to Wednesday and could I have them for her then. My response? Uhmmm, no! I'd not even started them yet. I explained that to her and she said she guessed she would have to cancel then. I felt bad and was kind of excited about doing these because I'd come up with all alternative uses of cutters for these, so about an hour later I sent her a text and asked if she'd be okay with just two dozen, because I knew I could have that many ready in time for her and that way she'd still have some. She liked that idea, as did I.
Now for the alternate cutter usage: For the larger birds, I used a Valentine's Day heart with an arrow through it and trimmed off the pointy part of the heart. For the smaller bird in the middle, I used the snail cutter from an animal set from IKEA. There's also one tucked in there that is just kind of silly looking, but I used a football cutter for it. For the bird cage, I used my large tombstone cutter and trimmed a good portion of the length off of it. And for the birdhouse, I used the little church cutter that I have and trimmed off the steeple. Obviously, I didn't trim the scalloped squares, but was thrilled with how my semi-freehanded little birds came out. I actually found an image online that I liked, printed it and halfway traced it on to the cookie with a food color marker. I think these turned out really cute and I love that I didn't do what I always do, which is run out and buy yet another cookie cutter to make them.
Anyway, I did these about a month ago for my cousin's daughter's baby shower. She originally wanted 4 dozen and I was up for it. We planned that she would pick them up when she was in Birmingham on Thursday of that week and I'd planned my baking and decorating accordingly. She lives in Atlanta, so just zipping over for cookies isn't really an option if she wasn't going to be in the area. Then she called me about noon on Tuesday and said her appointment had been changed to Wednesday and could I have them for her then. My response? Uhmmm, no! I'd not even started them yet. I explained that to her and she said she guessed she would have to cancel then. I felt bad and was kind of excited about doing these because I'd come up with all alternative uses of cutters for these, so about an hour later I sent her a text and asked if she'd be okay with just two dozen, because I knew I could have that many ready in time for her and that way she'd still have some. She liked that idea, as did I.
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| Bird cookies |
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Gender Reveal Cookies
These were so cute, but it was cloudy and rainy the when I was trying to get pics, so all of the pics were horrible! So I did this visually deceptive collage to make up for it. The theme was "Beau or Bow?" using mustaches and bows. I totally stink at drawing mustaches, btw. And I am still scared of piping lettering on small cookies, thus the writing you see on these is done with a food color marker.
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| Gender Reveal Cookies, Beau or Bow Cookies |
Pumpkin Patch Cookies, Tractor Cookies and Frozen Cookies
Had two separate birthday parties going on this weekend, so I did 4 dozen cookies for the two parties. One was a pumpkin patch party and the other was Frozen themed.
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| Tractor Cookies, Pumpkin Cookies, Frozen Cookies, Snowflake Cookies |
I was a bit scared of the Olaf cookies because I had no frame of reference for them. I looked at various pictures and immediately thought of my carrot cookie cutter. I printed one of the images of him, cut it out and laid it on the carrot and it was perfect! I did trim the leafy portion of the carrot. Then I just did the "wing it" thing and did his face freehand while looking at a pic of him online. Could they have been better? Absolutely, but I am still okay with them.
Taco Cookies
Did these for a friend's son's birthday.
Used a carrot cutter for those peppers and was too lazy to thin the red icing for them, so you'll notice their icky texture. Not nuts about the margaritas.
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| Taco Cookies |
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| Taco Cookies |
Pink Ribbon Cookies
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friend's workplace had a pink ribbon bake sale. The company
manufactures sewing machines, so I did stitching around the edges of the
pink ribbons, and did some buttons and sewing machines as well.
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| Pink Ribbon Cookies, Sewing Machine Cookies |
Roll Tide and DZ Cookies
Haven't posted in a while, so I am going to do several back-to-back posts to catch up. Here are some Roll Tide Cookies and Big Al Cookies I did for the opening game this year. I also did some of the Big Al ones for my niece's birthday and some for a friend's mom. I did another set for a friend's niece who just pledged Delta Zeta in her first year at UA.
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| Big Al Cookies |
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| Alabama Cookies |
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| Big Al Cookies |
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| Delta Zeta Cookies, University of Alabama Cookies |
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