My favorite holiday. Stuffed with gratitude and full bellies. 
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GOBBLE.lets
Smaller cookies, a couple of bites in the eating, were requested this year. Pondering what a bunch of small sized turkeys, baby turkeys if you will, would be called in the MMB world … I settled on gobble.lets or goblets for short. (okay, technically baby turkeys are called poult. But I didn’t want anything even remotely associated with pouting around my poultry…). Set in the colors of autumn (mixtures of Americolor egg yellow, orange, terra cotta, chocolate brown and wedgewood blue), I channeled random visions of Thanksgiving crafts over the years.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Handprint turkeys.
This little guy was shape shifted from a maple leaf.
Happy Thanksgiving 2015
Hope you ride the gravy train over the turkey terrain to Mount Mashed Potato. May your pies pile up to the skies.
Grateful for my family, friends, and followers… oh and grateful there’s no rationing of sugar and flour. (Cookie cutter Bed moulding from Truly Mad Plastics , gold background stencil Killer Zebras, ‘give thanks and sweet as pie stencil from The Cookie Box).
My best to you all!
FOWL Play
My sister has been hosting Thanksgiving for untold number of years and it it is my God given duty to bring cookies for the dessert table. Usually, that table is quite full so this year I made turkeys just for the kids (by that I mean mentally a kid so it qualifies a few more folks than you would think). These cookies combined The Cookie Architect designed wave cutter with a small candy corn cutter (both found at the wonderful Truly Mad Plastics web site.) The colors utilized were Americolor egg yellow, orange, chocolate, and sky blue (each icing batch had a drop of egg yellow gel to balance all of the hues).
Oh yeah. And one of the turkeys is not like the others. Getting my Sesame Street on.
ACORNucopia
Signed by George Washington on October 3, 1789 and entitled “General Thanksgiving,” the national decree by the fledgling government appointed a day “to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God.” Later, on October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for the observance of the fourth Tuesday of November as a national holiday. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday to the third Thursday of November (to extend the Christmas shopping season and boost the economy). After a storm of protest, Roosevelt changed the holiday again in 1941 to the fourth Thursday in November, where it stands today (taken from earlyamerica.com).
Here is the cornucopia of cookies I am taking to our celebration. There are a lot of people coming, and with the pies and other desserts also being served, I felt like bite sized cookies were most appropriate. Hope yours is happy, fulFILLING, and nap worthy.
The cornucopia was big a** cookie!
Acorns with personality.
All the leaves are brown and the acorns are (not) grey (cue Mamas and the Papas)!
Thanksgiving Gratitude (with Attitude?)
My favorite holiday. Family, friends, food, and a long couch on which to take a nap. Oh, um, and a little odd sense of humor 😉
Trekkie turkey. Live long and prosper?
T.Hanks.giving thanks. (so sorry Tom Hanks. your acting and name are perfect.)
Decree of thanks to all who follow this blog. Especially thankful for our 2 daughters (without whom I wouldn’t be creating cookies or have learned how to blog.)
Lastly, I’d like to serve up some gratitude:
Thanksgiving 2013
My warmest wishes that you are surrounded by happiness…whether that relates to family, friends, football, or a comfy horizontal surface after dinner.
Thanksgivukkah
Do you prefer those potatoes mashed or shredded? Lotta or latke? Traditions of family, food and thanks not merging again for tens of thousands of years. I am so incredibly lucky to have my funny, smart, loyal family. And, of course, we love our food. Fabulous, fantastic food. Hope you and yours enjoy too!
A Geek’s Thanksgiving
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth…a sense of humor. – Anonymous
I ate some pie.
Happy Harvest
Sugar is in season (isn’t it always?). I used the edible confetti from Ink4Cakes (http://www.ink4cakes.com/Confetti-Colored-Edible-Papers_c_57.html) to make the straw, hay, and corn silks. Love the texture it gives!
Mama Mayer Bakery 