Cookie Purge

Normally I'd put each one of these cookie orders in a separate post.

But let's be honest.  I'm not normal.

So here's my cookie purge.  It's what I've been working on this week.  Some birthday cookies, graduation cookies for a photographer to give to her senior clients, wedding shower cookies, and don't forget the baby shower cookies.

Seriously.  Lots.

And lots of frosting.

Anyone want to come over and eat the extra frosting?

So before we start gorging ourselves on leftover frosting...look through these photos.  It'll make you feel good while you eat.  I promise.

Phew.  Now let's get back to eating that frosting.

Just please bring your own spoon.

Cookies & A Camera

One of my closest friends asked if I'd make some cookies that she could hand out at her photography booth at a wedding expo this Sunday.

I was happy to oblige...and it allowed me to try this nifty thing I saw on one of my mostest favoritest blog ever.  Yes, I'm aware that's not great English.

Me smart.

The blog I'm referring to is "The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle" and the amazing Callye.  She posted back last month about how to use your airbrush to make lace patterns on a cookie. 

Seriously.  How ingenious.

I'm not even going to try to explain it...you need to read her blog to see.  Not to mention read every other post she has.  It's just that good.

So I read...and then re-read the blog post to make sure I didn't mess up.  And away I went with my fingers crossed.

Step 1: Flood cookies (white works the best...however I'm not opposed to trying other colors) and let dry.

Step 2: Buy lace and a embroidery hoop.  Put lace into embroidery hoop so it's tight.

Step 3: Place one or two cookies (depending on their size) onto a cookie sheet. 

Step 4: Go shopping or take a nap.  Kidding.  Just seeing if you're paying attention.

Step 4 (for real): Put the lace & hoop over the cookies.

Step 5: Get your airbrush gun ready (yeah, so I forgot to take a picture of that...sue me.)  Load it with whatever color you'd like to use.  I picked purple, black and blue. 

And spray away lightly over the two cookies.

Step 6: Lift the embroidery hoop directly off of the cookie.  Don't smudge, drag it across the cookie or do anything to mess with the top of it.  It's wet becuase of the airbrushing. 

Don't you feel like a genius?

Step 7: Spray the rest of the zillion of cookies you have.  Switching colors and putting in clean lace whenever you feel like it.

Then let them dry overnight.  And the next morning wake up, forget it was day light savings and bum around the house thinking it was 9:30 am, but in reality it was 10:30 am. 

Finally realize the time change, freak out and beg your husband to help you packaged them and drive in a mini-blizzard to deliver the cookies at exactly 11:30 am. Right. When. The. Wedding. Expo. Started.

Nothing like arriving by the hair of your chinny-chin-chin.

At least they looked pretty.  Right?

Wedding Bells are Ringing

A co-worker asked if I'd make cookies for a dinner she was hosting at her house in honor of a couple who had recently gotten married.

And I said yes.

It was a perfect time to use a new dress cookie cutter I bought.  And a new ring cutter.

I have a problem buying new cookie cutters.

It's like crack.

From what I heard they all enjoyed the cookies and the happy couple took home the extras to enjoy!

The State War

Sunday, Dave and I along with my brother and the parents of one of our friends (the groom) threw a wedding shower.  My job was to bring desserts...

...I like desserts.

...I like chips too.

Just in case you were wondering.

The bride and groom are from two different states so I decided to do sugar cookies (shocking) in the shape of their home states.  Mike is from Nebraska (yeah!) and Denise (who I'd like to preface that I love dearly - is from California). I like California.  I really do.  But I love Nebraska.

Denise, I'm kidding.  Sunday night Denise spent the entire time hocking her California cookies to prove that everyone loved California better.  Even though everyone in attendance (other than her parents) were Nebraska citizens. 

Either way I think everyone loved the cookies.

And since I can't just go small - I made cupcakes.

I'm not going to lie - they were Duncan Hines Vanilla box mix cupcakes.  I tried to church them up by adding some vanilla bean to the batter and I made buttercream frosting, but I can't take any credit for the acutal cupcake.

On the cookies I used candy hearts to mark each of the respective couples hometown - Lincoln, Nebraska and San Diego, California.  However Dave took it upon himself to place the candy hearts in other locations on the cookies - namely marking the spot where Mike's family has a cabin up near the South Dakota border and where he and Mike spend a lot of time fishing and hunting