Cookies to Cambridge

Waaaaaaaaaaaay back in May.  Yes, I did say May.  I'm a little behind on posting.  Did you notice?

So, back in May I was contacted about making cookies for a birthday...specifically a birthday for this ladies son and husband.  One who was turning 25 and the other was turning 70.  You can figure out which age goes with which person.

They were planning on celebrating the dual birthdays by going to a Cleveland vs. Red Sox game on June 14th.

So they wanted birthday baseball cookies.

Yes.  Birthday and Baseball.  Meld it together and what do you get?

This.

I thought it was a pretty good combination...and apparently they did too.  I got a great email after they had shipped to Cambridge, Massachusetts (and I prayed a lot for safe delivery) that the family and most importantly the birthday boys loved them.

Go Sox!

Play Ball!

Take me out to the ballgame....take me out to the...cookies.

It's my new version of the classic American baseball song.  Who doesn't love sugar cookies with baseball?

I can tell you the group that got these ate them all up before the tailgate was even over.

I didn't even have one leftover to snack on while we were packing it up before the baseball game started.

Not to mention this is the only photo I captured.  No "in-action" shots...I blinked and they were gone.

What was even better...those mighty Huskers won that evening as well.

PEEK

It's sports week here.  Still.

Hey, it's fall and that's what happens in the fall.

So take a quick peek at what sports themed cookies are heading out our door this week.

Both for the University of Nebraska fans...one for the UNL (Lincoln campus) and the other for UNO (the Omaha campus).

GBR

This past Saturday kicked off the 2012 Husker Football Season and like any good fan we were there.

And we had a tailgate.

And I brought cookies.

Oh and GBR stands for "Go Big Red" for anyone who's a non-Husker native.

Back to cookies.

I had searched online for inspiration and found some.  Only now I can't remember where they came from.  But I did not dream up this idea myself.  I apologize that I can't give credit where credit is due. 

At all.

I just executed it.

Dave wasn't quite sure what the brown ones were going to be when he saw them on the counter last week.

Do you know?

I wasn't able to take finished pictures before I took them to the tailgate.  So I just snapped some shots of the cookies relaxing at the tailgate party waiting to be enjoyed.

It's a Football.  Now do you get it?

Go Big Red.  And yes we did win.