Happy Pi day my fellow geeks! Twice today, the calendar/time will read 3.14.15 9:26 (am or pm)! A perfect Pi day!! As always, my take on this “epic” Pi day is from a slightly different angle; hope these goes down as easy as pi(e). Oh, and have a relatively happy birthday Albert Einstein.
Um. Essential to life. Right? What’s not to love about coffee? As I paid homage to tea, I felt it necessary to compliment my other hot beverage of choice. The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Turkish kahve, in turn borrowed from the Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun ‘wine of the bean’.
Here’s how the cookies for my caffeine-addicted friend turned out.
Not all cookies make the grade. To prove the point, here are some ideas that I played around with that did not turn out as I had hoped. Whomp whomp. Please try to remember only the ones that made the grade. 🙂
Party time for a retiring manager of auditors. Yep, I was stumped for a couple of days on what cookies to make for this celebration. They didn’t want undo emphasis on the retirement aspect and no teasing about the number of years ‘experience.’ The only specifications were to make the cookies bright and happy. The client liked the general party hat and balloon idea.
The only other AUDITacious detail was that the retiring gentleman (and others in upper management) all went by their 3 initials; these were used to sign just about everything. So I incorporated that. That’s how I roll (the dough). Only the ‘write’ kind of custom cookies.
My hubby rock and rolled it back in the day. He is still going strong and is so much a great papa. But I couldn’t help but poke a little fun about the changes over the years (um, look at me calling the kettle black…). The concept all started mulling around in the back of my head in December of 2013 when I saw John Atkinson’s cartoon about ZZ.z top. Please, please, please go to his blog site, Wrong Hands! His sense of humor is downright brilliant and his cartoons oh so clever! You will be chortling all day! Thank you John for allowing me to “cookiefy” your original design and art work!
And happy father’s/dad’s/papa’s day all you handsome ROCKers out there! Rock and Roll forever!
Puns, play on words, letter rearrangements… I have serious issues.
2 shakes of a lamb’s tail
Hare today, (hair) gone tomorrow
Eggplant
Geek. Nerd. Techie. Egghead. Smart and quirky people warm the cockles of my heart. There’s a chemistry about them (tee hee). Here’s to those who claim the nomenclature on Valentine’s day! Um. Please forgive me for sneaking in a Star Wars reference (last photo).
Traditional cookies designs are not usually my “thing”… but conversation hearts open up endless possibilities on what to write. I went with simple food related topics on happy, bright colors. I didn’t know whether I preferred hand printing with food markers or stamping with “typewriter” font. Typewriter won the day but I have a few of the other too.
I started by using flood consistency royal icing in deep pink, sky blue, electric green, and white to cover heart shaped cookies. I let them dry overnight (8 hours- ish) before handling them again.
I mixed a little almond extract with red red Americolor gel and painted it on the top of my rubber letter stamps. To assure alignment, I Scotch taped the “word” together for even spacing. I experimented doing a few free hand too; that resulted in an old school, quirky typeface look.
The sky is the limit as to what message you want to convey! Let me know what works for you?!
Breakfast cookies? Well, technically we were invited to brunch so all bets were off (um. You already know I am “off”). The traditional egg and bacon breakfast first came to mind (some clever cookie-rs have gone down that route). But fate stepped in; the movie we were watching contained a song from the early 80’s. Okay, Elton John and Kiki Dee sang theirs in the mid 70s but its close enough. Hope you will forgive me…
Mama Mayer Bakery 