Door County Custom Cakes and Cookies

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~~~~~There are a few weekends that I won't be available to help you with your order, I am running another Half Marathon so please make sure you plan ahead.~~~~~


Thursday, December 30, 2010

Looking ahead...

Well, I have to say I am glad I am done with Christmas Cookies, as much as I love the season, I am tired of decorating, Trees, Stars, Mittens, Snow Flakes and everything else I decorated as Christmas Cookies this year.  So as  I attempted to 1/2 my recipe, and of course needed to decide what to bake with that 1/2 recipe of cookies.  I settled on some hearts in preparation for Valentine's Day, some Summer Bugs, and made up some Circles and Snow Flakes to send out.  Didn't think the recipient would want pastel Hearts and Butterflies from me as I was once upon a time his boss.  My mom is here visiting, and well being the Art teacher that she is she convinced me to "dry brush" on a cookie for decoration.  I enjoyed it, I still have a lot more practice to do.  I also tried making roses out of icing, this was my first "successful" attempt, as the roses didn't just turn out into a big pile of frosting, you could tell that they were roses.  After I snapped a picture of the heart with roses I attempted to "dry brush" pink on the top of the roses to give it a little more character.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Little Elves

Well my three little elves were busy today delivering the last of our Christmas Cookies, we had one more request so we set to baking and with the help of my 3 little elves delivered cookies to the Hospital today as well as the Post Office for a surprise for a friend.  Of course the treat won't make it before Christmas but they should be a sweet surprise on Monday. 

We also started thinking about summer after all those winter/Christmas cookies so we made up some strawberry cookies, and we even made up some chocolate royal icing to make chocolate dipped strawberry cookies. 

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Christmas Baby


Finished up the last of our Christmas Cookies and made some baby cookies for some dear friends that just had a baby girl last night. 


Thursday, December 16, 2010

Santa Moons and Christmas Cookies

My friend Karen let me look at a book from the library called "Cookie Craft Christmas" by Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer.  I used their idea for my "Santa Moon" as my 5 year old calls them.  I use a moon cookie cutter and well you can guess the rest. 

The Christmas Cookies are some that I donated to the Myca's Childcare Auction.  These are an example of the 2 dozen cookies were in a silent Auction, and the YMCA earned $35.00 for their childcare to purchase new toys.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Christmas Cookies

Made and shipped some cookies to James' Aunt out in Colorado for Christmas, here is a sample of what she will receive.  There were Star, Trees, Mittens, Santa Hats and Snowflake Cookies included.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Christmas Cookies

Here are some sample Christmas Cookies that I donated along with a gift certificate for 2 dozen cookies. 

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Pirates

Had the joy of making my oldest son a Pirate Ship Cake for his 5th Birthday...the guests also got to decorate their very own pirate ship cookie.  All was good for the party.