Unexpected cookie gifts!

[navygreen]

I did a lot of secretive mailing a few days ago. Today, my first friend received her box of surprise cookies, so now I can put the pictures up! :-)

You see, I mentioned last week that I was baking cookies. This friend jokingly asked me to send her a bite... with sprinkles. Now, since I'd not made many sugar cookies with sprinkles, I figured that showing a picture of them so soon after she'd commented would be a dead giveaway. So I waited and waited...

tigrrgrr sure was surprised, and I love it! *grins*



I had all these fun icing colors leftover after making the cute birdies, and I hated to waste them. Instead, I whipped up a batch of cookies just for my family. You see, we don't get to eat that many sugar cookies because the cookies are always for someone else! I played around with our cookies, just having fun. In turn, we had some easy, whimsical designs:



I worked on the cookies at the dining room table, and when I finished, I began to carry the racks to the kitchen for overnight drying. I wasn't careful enough, and one big cookie began to slide... I scrambled to save it, but in my haste, I wiggled more cookies. Before I knew it, SPLAT! I had five bold, vivid, and very wet cookies face-down on my hardwood floors.

Thank goodness they were just cookies for us! It would have been awful to lose so many on an actual order - yikes!

It took us about four days to finish up our special cookies, but that's good, right? We didn't shovel them all in just one day. :-)

Comments

[tigrrgrr.livejournal.com]

I totally love my cookies! And I wouldn't have suspected a thing LOL!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you love them! :-)

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering what it would take to convince you to experiment with gluten-free bakingnesses so that the Daphyn can purchase some of your kickass cookies! :D

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Well, I looked into all the alternatives for egg-free, dairy-free cookies for someone else. I can always check out the gluten-free stuff, too.

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

You can make your own flour mixes or Bob's Red Mill makes an awesome baking mix (which is what I use for my zucchini bread now - you can hardly tell the difference between that and whole wheat flour once you add a little xanthan gum) that is reasonably priced, if you don't wind up checking it out it is OK but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask :D

[traceylalala.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are just too cute! Now all your LJ friends will be dropping hints! =P

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *giggles*

[annaed770.livejournal.com]

*DROOLS*

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I'll take that as a high compliment! :-D

[jillerbob.livejournal.com]

love them! I just gasped at the HoPE cookies.

[katielovesmatt.livejournal.com]

so cute, and the little sprinkles make them so fun! great!

[joannhollenbeck.livejournal.com]

Those are all beautiful works of heart! I love the orange heart one and the green hope one the best.