I believe I said earlier that I was making cookies as my favors for my wedding. We have about 50 guests coming & I was planning on making 2 flavors of cookies with 2 designs. Then I went on Google to find me some clipart to make tent cards for the professionally made cupcakes we're having.
*BAM*
So now I have a couple other designs floating around in the ole noggin. I think I'll just keep to the 2 flavors, but I'll have 2 shapes to each flavor so that means I'll have 4 cookies per guest.... which now that I look at it is 200 cookies. Hmm.
Maybe just 3 cookies per bag... We shall see how much ambition I have come May.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Birthday cookies
My old roommate, Jo had a birthday recently. I decided to be budget friendly & make her cookies. I asked her who her favorite Disney character was, she said Cinderella. I even printed off some Cinderella stuff. Here are the cookies. I ventured into non circular ones for the first time. I need to get some more cutters.
I also need better colors, I have Wilton colors. I don't like them. I tried to make red, it turned out pink so I thought I'd ad a tiny bit of another color to darken it up. No, it turned brownie burgandy. Orange was neon though, pink was very pink.
These ones were for one of the renters recovering from surgery & for my mom & aunt.
Close up of some of Jo's.
She likes Twilight (see howling wolf), Harry Potter (Hogwarts crest in pink with hearts on corners & wrong lightening bolt). The rest were sort of random & learning how to pipe better. While I'm happy with the majority of my lettering, I really need to do that on less of a slant.
I used the chocolate sugar cookie recipe from Joy of Baking (the only thing I changed was extract I think), and a thinned down MP Buttercream from Karen's Cookies.
I have learned that I'm not liking the cleanup of icing with proper tips & couplers. I DO LOVE the control of them though, and that far out weighs the cleanup.
I found a local supplier for Americolor, unfortunately it's $30 for 12 small bottles. I think I'll go for it, since online they are WAY cheaper but adding in shipping/customs it's almost the same & I don't have to wait.
I also need better colors, I have Wilton colors. I don't like them. I tried to make red, it turned out pink so I thought I'd ad a tiny bit of another color to darken it up. No, it turned brownie burgandy. Orange was neon though, pink was very pink.
I used the chocolate sugar cookie recipe from Joy of Baking (the only thing I changed was extract I think), and a thinned down MP Buttercream from Karen's Cookies.
I have learned that I'm not liking the cleanup of icing with proper tips & couplers. I DO LOVE the control of them though, and that far out weighs the cleanup.
I found a local supplier for Americolor, unfortunately it's $30 for 12 small bottles. I think I'll go for it, since online they are WAY cheaper but adding in shipping/customs it's almost the same & I don't have to wait.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Child Cookies?
A co-worker asked me today if I'd be able to make alphabet cookies for her sons next birthday. It's in the middle of June, which is after the wedding so it should be doable. This is the first time anyone has asked me to bake anything for an event.
I'm not quite sure if I should charge her, she was the one who brought up payment. It's not like I have a lot of experience in decorating cookies. I'll definitely have to pick up Americolor gels. The Wilton colors I have just are too, meh. I don't like the color they give, red tends to be on the dark pink side no matter how much color is used. I want my red to be RED! These I'll have to get before the wedding as I'm not going to be using Wilton colors for that.
TGIF
Might remember to post pictures of Jo's birthday cookies I made last week, but as my camera is all-the-way-over-THERE. I won't be doing that tonight.
I'm not quite sure if I should charge her, she was the one who brought up payment. It's not like I have a lot of experience in decorating cookies. I'll definitely have to pick up Americolor gels. The Wilton colors I have just are too, meh. I don't like the color they give, red tends to be on the dark pink side no matter how much color is used. I want my red to be RED! These I'll have to get before the wedding as I'm not going to be using Wilton colors for that.
TGIF
Might remember to post pictures of Jo's birthday cookies I made last week, but as my camera is all-the-way-over-THERE. I won't be doing that tonight.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
RINGS!
The rings are here *bouncebouncebounce*
They're shiny & look AWESOME *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
I highly recommend Mint & Richter Designs. People looked at me like I was crazy leaving it up to an Etsy shop for these important rings. Having searched a lot on the net to see what regular jewerly stores could do for us, these guys have what we wanted. I just thought I'd get the rings in a small envelope but they really put a lot of effort into the packaging.
*sigh*
Will post pics after the wedding in... 80 days... ok maybe after the honeymoon. OK probably after I got all caught up with work after the honeymoon.
They're shiny & look AWESOME *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
I highly recommend Mint & Richter Designs. People looked at me like I was crazy leaving it up to an Etsy shop for these important rings. Having searched a lot on the net to see what regular jewerly stores could do for us, these guys have what we wanted. I just thought I'd get the rings in a small envelope but they really put a lot of effort into the packaging.
*sigh*
Will post pics after the wedding in... 80 days... ok maybe after the honeymoon. OK probably after I got all caught up with work after the honeymoon.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Mini Rant
FedEx Ground doesn't move on the weekend. What is the point of updating the tracking with "Departed FedEx location" if it actually isn't DRIVING anywhere. BOO.
One of my former employers had stuff shipped from Texas or the east coast ALL the time. Texas to Red Deer, AB was a 4 day trip. That's regular speed, if we wanted a team it was there in a couple days.
No wonder FedEx Ground is the unwanted step child.
One of my former employers had stuff shipped from Texas or the east coast ALL the time. Texas to Red Deer, AB was a 4 day trip. That's regular speed, if we wanted a team it was there in a couple days.
No wonder FedEx Ground is the unwanted step child.
Wedding update
Our rings have shipped, we bought them off Etsy from this store. Fed Ex ground is not being the best at updating where they are, we know they left Saint Paul MN on Friday night but haven't had an update since. My local FedEx guy said FedEx ground was the unwanted stepchild of FedEx.
After the harrowing experience of ordering our centre pieces off Ebay, they arrived wonderfully. They're a bit bigger than what Sweetie was thinking and I love that they don't look cheap.The colored tulle arrived so we can take the ugly pink (I don't like pink) bows off the arch we got for a steal & replace them with green & blue ones :)
We have our guest book, my dress, favor bags, cookie recipes & vows are written. All over venues & vendors are booked, just need a final confirmation from them. 82 days until the big day!
In baking news I've made my own granola bars, tweaked this recipe from Allrecipes. I didn't have rolled oats, just quick outs. Tasted good but didn't taste like store bought. I added 3-4 Tablespoons of ground flax to my dry ingredients. My 2 cups of stuff were: mini chocolate chips, craisens, dried cherries & sliced almonds. I did what some of the commenters were saying & flattened it pretty good before going into the oven, and flattening it again once it was out. I didn't have any issues with crumbling. MM MM tasty.
I ventured into banana muffins this weekend, I only had 2 banana's so the ones I made could have had more of that flavor. I split the sugar between white & brown, used half whole wheat flour & added a Tablespoon of flax & a dash of mini chocolate chips to this recipe. I also added a bit of cinnamon & nutmeg. The oven time isn't correct at all from what the commenters were saying, I only had my muffins in the oven for about 20 min. Toothpick came out clean. I resisted the urge to frost them with a peanut butter buttercream. Gotta fit into that wedding dress ya know.
After the harrowing experience of ordering our centre pieces off Ebay, they arrived wonderfully. They're a bit bigger than what Sweetie was thinking and I love that they don't look cheap.The colored tulle arrived so we can take the ugly pink (I don't like pink) bows off the arch we got for a steal & replace them with green & blue ones :)
We have our guest book, my dress, favor bags, cookie recipes & vows are written. All over venues & vendors are booked, just need a final confirmation from them. 82 days until the big day!
In baking news I've made my own granola bars, tweaked this recipe from Allrecipes. I didn't have rolled oats, just quick outs. Tasted good but didn't taste like store bought. I added 3-4 Tablespoons of ground flax to my dry ingredients. My 2 cups of stuff were: mini chocolate chips, craisens, dried cherries & sliced almonds. I did what some of the commenters were saying & flattened it pretty good before going into the oven, and flattening it again once it was out. I didn't have any issues with crumbling. MM MM tasty.
I ventured into banana muffins this weekend, I only had 2 banana's so the ones I made could have had more of that flavor. I split the sugar between white & brown, used half whole wheat flour & added a Tablespoon of flax & a dash of mini chocolate chips to this recipe. I also added a bit of cinnamon & nutmeg. The oven time isn't correct at all from what the commenters were saying, I only had my muffins in the oven for about 20 min. Toothpick came out clean. I resisted the urge to frost them with a peanut butter buttercream. Gotta fit into that wedding dress ya know.
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