Hope your Christmas is splendid. This platter of trees was made to serve many people little bites (because there were lots and lots of different cookies on that dessert table!). Inspiration was from the 2013 post by Melissa Joy’s Cookies. Melissa’s creative juices flow in abundance; she is a playful and brilliant cookier!
Now a cookie can put someone in their place! um. at the dinner table. A dear friend has used my cookies for years to personalize her Christmas Eve table scape. Trees seemed to be my theme for Christmas 2014 and so it was for her place cookies.
Enjoy the autumn colors and scents. Let the coziness of fleece and fireplaces begin.
Can you imagine being married 61 years? Quite the accomplishment so I wanted the cookies at their party to be sweet and elegant yet celebratory! I used ivory and a dusty rose (dark pink with a splash of ivory) and some gold highlights to that end.
The customer gave me this photo of Nonna and Grandpa. I wanted a lace like frame so I pulled out a sugar sheet and a trusty Martha Stewart edge punch and voila!
Nonna is said to make the best meatballs in town and Grandpa the same in wine.
Here’s a toast to many more years!
Every once and a while, cookies turn out EXACTLY like I imagined. That is the case for the cookies in this first picture. I wanted just the right amount of detail and aging to go along with the magic, mystery, and mischief that is Harry Potter.
A little bit of Ivory Americolor, my trusty Rainbow Dust edible ink black pen, a couple of good artist brushes and I was off to the races (or Quidditch?). Loved that I could find the recipe for Polyjuice potion! Is there nothing not to be found with a good Google inquiry?
The birthday girl’s only request for her Harry Potter themed party was to include all the house and Hogwarts crests. Oh and a snitch or Deathly Hallow sign too.
Platter ready for delivery! Mischief managed.
Away from home for a month, Alex was hoping for a celebratory welcome back to Buffalo. She was thinking about a poster/sign at the airport but her mom did her that and one better. These are the cookies she was given upon her return from the Dominican Republic. No telling if she shared any…
Can you tell me a little about the birthday boy, I say? Well…he likes beer, she says. Interesting thing to say off the bat- anything more, I ask? He likes Michelob, regular. And he has a pontoon boat and likes Dale Jr. And it’s a ‘turning 50’ party blow out, she adds. Is it okay to tease him about his milestone age? Please do. And away I go…
It’s his 50th birthday:
In his NASCAR dreams:
Been wanting to use another of John Atkinson original designs (Wrong Hands blog site– such funny comics with wit and grit)! Thanks again to John for allowing me permission to put it on a cookie!
Brew.ha.ha:
The two platters for the party. The funniest part of this whole order was the set of pictures sent by the party host. 2 were from when Tony was young; then several were from a party in Canada where some over-imbibement happened. I was specifically instructed to include the on.all.fours.and.hurling photo. That was a first for this cookier!
Let me first say that Sydney is a fabulous swimmer (she’d have to be to make the Northwestern D-1 team). Hearty congratulations and good luck to Miss S as she heads off to Chicago this fall. All that hard work paid off! Go rule the pool!
That being said, I have to admit to a dislike.affair with purple cookies. There. I’ve said it. The darnedest color ever to match and impossible to get colleges, companies, logo masters, etc to commit to one shade. Really, really. Go google, say, ‘Northwestern University logo.’ 50 different shades pop up. And that’s the way it is with almost everything purple. ARGH. I decided to choose two shades & go with that. At least I know they all had the same level of deliciousness!
The country club/golf fund raiser theme was “diamond in the rough.” The client’s only instructions were ‘we want a diamond…’ I asked ‘diamond?’ …not “rough” like a fairway rough or a diamond sitting in a fairway rough? ‘Nope, a diamond. And put it in a bag with a ribbon…100 bags.’ Okay. What could I do with quick efficiency and (because I am who I am) in a design that I had not seen before? Here are the resulting cookies:
(PS: These cookies would also be great for an engagement party or bridal shower!)
I started with a simple superman “s” shaped cookie cutter and flooded them with white royal icing. That dried overnight before I added the blue.ish accents (which only had to dry a short time…like an hour or so) before I free-hand/penned in the diamond outline. I used an Americolor black pen. Here’s a quick pic of the general steps I took to get it done.
Diamonds were my new best friend.
Perfect size for the setting, eh?
Mama Mayer Bakery 