Christmas Cookies 2008!

Hello everyone!
I hope you're enjoying the holidays! This weekend I hosted a First Annual Cookie Decorating Extravaganza with some of my girlfriends here in Charleston, and thought I'd share some pics.


Busy rolling out the dough!
I purchased 5 orders of raw sugar dough from a local bakery (The Cake Stand, and the dough was fabulous by the way!) so that way all we'd have to do was roll, bake and decorate.... leaving the tedious mixing to the pros. We only used 2/3 of the dough, so the rest is hiding out in my freezer until whoever's birthday is next.


This cactus cut-out is my favorite! Reminds me of New Mexico.


Shannon brought her cookie-spritzing machine and her amazing cream cheese & orange rind-flavored dough! Yum.


A messy messy table...


Some spritzed cookies all decked out.


So many cookies! ...some more anatomically-correct than others! (yikes, I'm sure all the wine was an influence on the sillyness...)
These were dipped in white and dark chocolate, which is the usual way I decorate. (My chocolate of choice is Merckens, but that was unavailable to me this time. I used a grocery store substitute, but the results weren't as good. If you're going the chocolate route, use Merckens only!)


Snowflake action.


These I decorated the day after my party. We had soo many cookies rolled and baked off, we were unable to get to them all! I wasn't happy with my chocolate, so I tried a different approach with these: icing. I think I agree with the reviewers here, this is the "Holy Grail" of icing recipes! Check it out: allrecipes.com
...although, I will admit, these are SO sugary, you feel that immediate JOLT of sugar in your bloodstream! Makes you only want to eat one, though :~)

Happy holidays.
~P.

Oui oui!

Hello! It's been a little while since I've posted work....I've been so busy! I'll have lots of cool stuff to share very soon, so check back again soon. This was an order for 350 (!) Eiffel Tower cookies for a wedding this Saturday. They turned out pretty cool, and taste great. ;~)

Happy Easter Cookies!

Hello, all!

I've just finished up some special orders at Duet Catering for Easter...here's a sampling of them. Thanks for stopping in and have a good Easter!....by the way, it's snowing all weekend here in Cleveland! Yuck!

Is it Spring Yet?

Alright! It's been a little while since I've posted anything; I've been pretty busy! I have some spring-y cookies for you, enjoy! The second picture here is a mix of 3 different cookie packages I'm sending out--they may not make sense together except for color scheme. I know that I've mostly been posting pics of my side projects (jewelry & cookies) ...I need to update my main website with all of my new clay illustrations. I'm working on some cool projects right now that I can post in a week or so. Ciao!

Valentine's Cookies

Happy Valentine's day!
These cookies are on sale at Duet in the Riv. ...enjoy!

"Fall in Love"

Here you go, Janice!
These are the cookies that Vanessa commissioned from me for her wedding last year. I think there were 30-35 total, and she had ordered the ribbons from a company online. There weren't any extras that night!

Christmas Cookies!

...Did you know I'm a part-time cookie decorator? I do this once a week or so at Duet Catering in Rocky River. It's much more enjoyable when working in someone else's kitchen...this gets pretty messy!