Cookie Update

I have been baking a fair amount of cookies, sometimes I shoo them out so fast I forget to snap a photo!  So here's a quick rundown of a few cookies I made recently!

Baby Shower...It's a Girl!

Old Fashioned saying....charming!

Baby shower cookies are some of my favorites!  Soft colors....everyone is so excited!  Then I made these basketball cookies for a friend.  I really wanted a little texture, and found this post by Sweet Sugar Belle, and she showed her cute basketball cookies she airbrushed with netting.  I hunted all over this house for netting to no avail.  So I called Christina, off at college, and explained my dilemma.  She reminded me of some hideous tank top I bought her that was...mesh.  So I chopped it up (while I had a minor panic attack in her closet full of clothes), and it worked out pretty well.

Finally I made SuperBowl cookies.  I borrowed the best idea ever from my cookie friend Baked By Rachel , the deflated footballs!  Then I did get my hands on netting and tried the airbrush thing again, and gave the footballs some texture.  Worked out well.  So back to the ovens....lots of dough to roll!!!

Still a few months of basketball to come...

  

It's A Boy!

So real quick, I did a boy shower recently, and I loved these cookies. The more I make the more I am convinced that I like them simple. Blue and white was she wanted, no polka dots (darn, I love polka dots) and no glitter. Okay, I kept the disco dust away!
And since I had a little leftover dough, I had some random shapes for a few miscellaneous events. Pretty straightforward, nothing exciting, just "eatin'cookies". Of course I made one special one lest someone forgets about me.

My Disappearing Act

It has been wildly busy. A few 15 hour days, no time to eat, let alone cook and bake. I did get a few sugar cookie orders out the door. First was a Notre Dame vs. Michigan State tail gate. Now let me put this out there right now. I hate Michigan State. It isn't personal, it's Big 10. When I was at Iowa in the 80's, they were the team to beat, I can't let it go. Needless to say the cookies were for the good guys. Logo cookies no less, and they had to travel, so smooth royal icing was my only option so they would be presentable. I think they looked pretty good. And as a side note. Notre Dame won!

The next was a baby shower. These are a free form baby head I found in an old LA Times article from 1999, pastry chef Cynthia Heir designed them. The mom-to-be is being induced today, so I guess it is safe to say my cookies won't throw anyone into labor. That is a good thing.


Next on the agenda is Halloween. I am stocking my freezer with ghosts and pumpkins before my European road trip so I am ready for the ghoulish festivities when I return. European road trip you say? Yes, and I am planning on blogging from abroad! Get in there and bake!