Happy Valentine’s Day!

My oldest daughter volunteered to bake 100 Valentine cookies for a bake sale at her school. She had told me that they had to have pink icing. I love to bake, but I am not the greatest decorator and the thought of piping icing on 100 cookies had me break out in hives before we even started. I suggested to drizzle the icing, but that did not fly. Luckily I found these instructions where you spread the icing with the back of a spoon. It is not perfect, but much prettier than spreading it with a palette knife and much quicker than piping.

In the end we baked and decorated 150 cookies. (I wanted to have some leftover, but I guess I went a bit overboard…) It took us from start to finish 4 hours and 6 batches of this recipe.

Mummy Cookies in a Hurry

Every year my kids’ piano teacher has a Halloween party at her house and she asks that everybody brings a few treats. After doing some research I decided to make Mummy cookies. I made my standard sugar cookie recipe and picked a Gingerbread Man cookie cutter who strangely enough has his arms raised slightly threateningly.

The plan was to cover the cookie with white icing, let it dry and add the lines for the bandages and the eyes later. But then life happened. When the cookies were cool enough to ice them it was 6:30 pm, a half hour before the party. So I toned it down to the bare minimum and drew the lines and the eyes only. Luckily the kids recognized right away that the cookies were supposed to be mummies. There was also another benefit: the cookies tasted fantastic they were so fresh. This sad guy is the last one of the bunch.