The past three months have whizzed by quickly, and I’ve been knee-deep in preparations for my son’s wedding on May 10. Aside from searching for a dress, and trying to starve myself a size smaller*, I managed to make these wedding dress cookies as a favor for the recent bridal shower. With the help of […]
Celia is a beautiful, little, 7 year-old girl who warmed my heart with her “ooooooh’s” and “aaaaaaah’s” when she came to my house and saw Daniel’s Communion Cookies. (“You should have a bakery!!” she exclaimed.*) And…she just couldn’t wait to share that she, TOO, was receiving her first holy communion on May 11!! Of course… […]
My exceedingly handsome nephew, Daniel, received his First Holy Communion last Sunday, and this was my contribution to his party celebration. I am having SO much fun with my new textured rolling pins…they make the sugar-cookie-decorating process much easier for me. Don’t get me wrong. I still love the look, taste and feel of royal […]
I am SO excited to share these cookies with you because I tried a new technique and I was totally thrilled with the results!! My goal has always been to perfect the piping, coloring and flooding of royal icing onto sugar cookies. With each new attempt, I felt I was one step closer to getting […]
I thought I’d have some fun with my shamrock cookie cutter and wish a Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all! “May your blessings outnumber The Shamrocks that grow And may trouble avoid you Wherever you go.” “A” *Sugar cookie recipe courtesy of sweetsugarbelle.com!
One of my lovely nieces is expecting a baby in December, and her mom asked me to bake a special cookie that we could present to the shower guests as a little thank you. After looking at (and buying) too many adorable cookie cutters, the bib was the winner. I liked the size, shape and […]
If you don’t love-love soft, colorful, happy, pretty sprinkles, these cookies are NOT for you. If you are like me, however, and crave them on cake, cookies, chocolate dipped pretzels and Carvel soft vanilla swirl ice cream (the best), then go ahead and take the butter out of the fridge…you are in for a treat. […]
I’m going to a bridal shower on Sunday for my beautiful niece, Nicole. I baked these as a surprise and I have to say that I had a really good time creating them. It took three batches of sweetsugarbelle’s sugar cookies to make 50 large cookies and, instead of making the royal icing from scratch, […]
Includes recipes for Spritz, Mom’s Best Peanut Brittle, Hazelnut Raspberry Almond Thumbprints, Pignoli Cookies, Vanilla Drop Sugar Cookies, Almond Diamonds, Susan Branch’s Lemon Squares, Sugar Crusted Snowballs, Italian Christmas Cookies, Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies, Molasses Sugar Cookies, Toffee Turtle Bars, Double Coconut Biscotti, White Chocolate, Cranberry, Pistachio Biscotti
Little a and I enjoyed our marathon holiday baking weekend, and there’s so much to share. Instead of snowflakes this year, we chose to decorate ornaments and trees: The basic sugar cookie and royal icing recipes came from Sweet Sugarbelle. I just love her blog and her cookies inspire me to keep trying, although I […]
Crispy on the outside…..soft, vanilla wonderful on the inside. These are goooood!! Print Vanilla Drop Sugar Cookies Ingredients 3 sticks butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 3/4 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 2 tsp cream of tartar 1/2 tsp salt Instructions Cream together butter and sugar until light and […]
Includes recipes for Bethy’s Pink Cookies, Pignoli Cookies, Chocolate Macaroons, Rainbow Cookies, Spritz Cookies, Chocolate Espresso Balls, Double Coconut Biscotti, Mexican Tea Cakes, Raspberry White Chocolate Bars, No-Fail Sugar Cookie Hearts, Neapolitan Sugar Cookies, Almond Diamonds
Tonight is our “Bayberry Babes” birthday girls night out but, as you can see, I did not bake the cake. Instead, I made these high heel sugar cookies as a take-home favor for each of the gals. I’m really getting into this cut-out-and-decorate sugar cookie thing…although, I’m not sure exactly WHY. The baking and the […]
The cookie baking blitz is on, so I decided to roll some dough and start with the cut-outs! Since there’s a bit of winter in the air, and I’ve been wearing my new hand-knitted mittens (thank you, Teresa :), I thought merry mittens would be the perfect choice. I used this No Fail Sugar Cookie […]
Today was our first “snow day”! School was closed and all my daycare children spent the day at home with their moms. With Christmas only 16 days away, I wondered how best to spend this precious day off. Write Christmas cards? Wrap gifts? Decorate the tree? All VIP, but not nearly as important as baking […]