Dental cookies – again!

I love making cookies that are different, unique and a little bit silly. I was asked to make cookies for a dental hygienist. I could have made a bunch of tooth cookies. But where’s the fun in that?!?

I asked if they were Crest or Colgate people. Crest is was!

And the dental xray cookies. I’m not sure if you can spot it, but there’s an X-ray of a set of dog teeth in the background!

The anatomy cookie. I had thought that I was going to actually label the different parts. But when it came time, I decided that it would make it look messy. Should used a larger cookie. I’d say “next time”, but we all know that I never do the same cookie twice!

And here’s the set. VERY happy with how they came out!!

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Thank you cookies

 

As our school year is coming to a close – 6 days left – I wanted to do a little something for the teachers. I made this set for Jake’s teacher. Since Ben is graduating from Kindergarten, I think that his teacher needs something graduation-ish. But that’s for next week!

Questions on how I made this set have already been coming in. I’ve been thinking that I need to start doing some tutorials. Photographing the cookies in stages and writing out the process…

I used a cookie that was iced with royal icing. Dried overnight. Then I used my food writer to draw in the petals. The food writers are like *painting* with food coloring. I finished them off with some yellow royal icing in the center. Honestly – they did take me some time to draw in all those petals. But I loved the effect!

 

 

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Broken pinky toes…

I won’t bore with you all the details behind this particular set of cookies. First of all, it’s not really my story. I wasn’t even there. All you really need to know is that a pinky toe got ‘stubbed’. And this certain individual – has been subjected to a certain amount of teasing regarding the situation. While I do feel bad for him (and his pinky toe), I felt as though some cookies were warranted.

Hopefully some chocolate cookies will make his toe feel better.

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Updated Ordering Information

Hello!

I had thought that I’d updated my blog – but apparently not!

I am no longer taking cookie orders. The decision process was kinda lengthy and I won’t bore you with that story…

I WILL still be making cookies. Just as a hobby though.

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Navy wives

I grew up a ‘military brat’. My dad was in the Air Force.

We moved. A lot.

I’m REALLY good at moving.

BUT I never experienced him leaving for an extended period of time. These cookies were made for a group of women whose navy husbands were on the USS FARRAGUT. For 10 months! So they looked to each other for support. And became “Sea Sisters”.

 

And now that everyone has returned to shore – they can celebrate and eat cookies!

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Minecraft

It’s not often my kids have a special cookie request. I know, I know – I just did the bigfoot cookies… But a request for someone other than themselves is rare.

These went to a birthday party with Jake this evening. His friend is a huge Minecraft fan.

Hopefully, he’ll enjoy these!

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Who doesn’t love a cookie after dental surgery??

 

Say AHHH!

Going to the dentist. It’s just one of those things that you’ve gotta do. Not always – enjoyable – but it’s much worse if you DON’T go, right?!

Now having wisdom teeth pulled – that’s a whole different ballgame.

 

I wish this guy (and his family) all the best today as he endures the visit to the oral surgeon.

There’ll be cookies to nibble on tomorrow…

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Earth Day – 2013

Earth Day was yesterday. I made this one HUGE cookie in celebration!

 

The boys and I will do some gardening this weekend. They each came home from school yesterday with an assortment of seeds. Marigolds and carrots. Should be quite the little garden.

Plus we have our worm farm worms that need to be released this weekend as well.

And now that you know that I have worms in my house and no one will ever want to eat one of my cookies again… I’m going to go hide in my kitchen now!

Don’t forget to recycle!!

 

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Health and Fitness Expo

Just a quick post on this fine Sunday morning!

These are some cookies that I made for the Heart and Vascular booth at the St. Bernard’s Health and Fitness Expo. The “B” that looks like a heart is a new logo for the hospital. I had been wanting to try it out on a cookie for the last few months. I saw this as a fantastic opportunity!

Despite the fact that there were 7 dozen cookies – I heard that the platter was empty in under 2 hours.

Maybe next year I’ll make a platter that can be raffled off!

 

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Family China

I have been on a kick lately. I have been trying out some new techniques.

You saw the ‘tufting’ from a couple weeks ago. This week, I wanted to try a technique called ‘cracked glaze’. Sweet Ambs – a fantastic, mouth dropping cookie maker – has a tutorial on her webpage. https://www.sweetambs.com. Check it out. And while you’re there, check out her cookies. You can even buy them!! Think Mother’s Day…

Back to the cracked glaze. She walks you thru how to achieve the cracked glaze look on a video. I watch the video. And then I decide that “Hey! I can do that!” BUT turns out, I can’t. At least not on my first try. I did not have some of the recommended equipment/supplies and thought that I could supplement with stuff that I did have. Nope.

This is a saucer and cup that I did not attempt the cracked glaze on. I decided to leave them as is.

There will be another attempt! Just not this week.

 

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