Butterflies Are Free

Butterflies, so pretty and delicate, just like these cookies!

Here Comes The Sun....

Put a little sunshine in your life. These sunny cookies are made from my favorite cookie recipe. Such a simple recipe with only five ingredients. I never tire of making them or eating them!

The luck of the Irish

Once again, my favorite cookies dressed up for St. Patrick's Day. Hence the title.

As you may have noticed in my pictures, my icing has been discoloring. Patches of a lighter shade appear after the icing sets. Perplexing to say the least, ugly to say the most. I called my sister-in-law Joanne, whose recipe, I use and asked her about it's cause. She suggested that perhaps I am getting water in the icing. Ahh Haaa! That is a possibility because I started painting the icing on the cookie and my brush may not have been entirely dry before I used a new color. Also, I have taken to sprinkling a little water in the icing while trying to get the right consistency. And maybe when I pipe on,the icing the tips are not completely dry. I have to exercise diligence to make sure that no water gets in the mix. We'll see how it comes out.

The Promise of Spring

The winter has been harsh but the promise of spring is here. Some of the trees have buds, crocuses have bloomed, lawns are appearing from under the layers of snow and my heart turns to.....COOKIES.
I made this sunny batch of cookies for a friend who is recovering from surgery. Do you know the healing power of cookies??? Especially when they look like spring.

Tea Time

I made these cookies for my mother's birthday.
My sister decided that she wanted to make the birthday cake so, I graciously allowed her to. She made a German Chocolate Cake which was out of this world!
Back to the cookies. The recipe was my great, great grandmother's which she baked in a wood burning oven. My mother remembers eating these cookies when she was a little girl and she remembers that they were good. Back then I guess they would have been pretty tasty seeing how sweets were a rare treat. I found them to be bland and dry therefore decided they needed some icing. This addition greatly improved the taste and the looks. I had to guess at the time and temp., which I got right on the second try. Why, you may wonder, did I make teapots? Two reasons; #1. I found teapot cookies cutters at N.Y Cake & Baking Distributors and could not resist buying them.
#2. My great, great grandmother called theses cookies "Tea Cakes", so I thought it would be appropriate to use these cookie cutters. My mother was surprised and pleased which made me very happy.

pastels

I like simplicity and I love these cookies! I truly enjoy piping the icing onto them in spirals, I love the rhythm of it. To me, they look like pastel colored pearls, and they just melt in your mouth. It is hard to eat just one!

Summertime, Summertime

What is summer without watermelon and lemonade? Now you can enjoy both in the form of cookies!! Who doesn't love sugar cookies? The lemon slices in addition to looking lemony,(is that a word?) they taste lemony because they are covered in a lemon glaze.
The watermelon slices just look pretty and taste like scrumptious cookie. Maybe I'll try making the glaze with watermelon juice, wouldn't that be interesting?

Who needs another tie anyway?

Such a sweet way to tell Dad that you love him! Who needs another shirt or a screwdriver anyway? This is my "go to" sugar cookie recipe, the perfect combination of sweetness and tenderness, mouth watering delight!

Your Name in Lights, no, wait, I mean Cookies

I think this is such a fun way to display your name, or express a sentiment. Then you can eat your words!! hahahaha!

Spring

Yay!!! Spring is here and whose thoughts don't turn to flowers and butterflies, especially the kind you can eat!

Hippity Hoppity......

Yay, bunnies and chicks and eggs, oh my! It is that time of year when all the Bunny Beanie Babies come out of hiding and all the beautiful eggs I made with my girls when they were little get put on display. I was inspired by that memory to decorate sugar cookies. So, my girls, these are for you!

For the bit of Irish in us all

As you know, St. Patrick's day is around the corner so I was inspired to make these wonderful sugar cookies. I got the recipe from my sister-in-law Joanne. I have always been a great fan of her cookie skills and a little jealous too. Every Christmas she would bake the most beautiful and delicious cookies and I always wondered how she managed it all. She was a regular Martha Stewart, I was not. I am happy to say that my cookie skills have greatly improved. Decorating them is what I really love.
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