Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving

I had two different orders for Thanksgiving this year. One was for a school and she wanted something fun and age appropriate for elementary aged kids. The second was for a repeat customer who always has a big family gathering and everyone bakes but her, so she wanted to bring something extra fun this year to show off... here's what I came up with. I kinda wish I had more to do because these were so much fun to design and make.

Don't these remind you of school? They were inspired by the stack I get of them every year from my son... I love them!

Thanksgiving set number two, not the best pic but I love them Gobble, Gobble! Happy Thanksgiving y'all

My cookies for Austin Bakes for West (Texas)

All done and ready to be packed up :) I really wanted to keep with a Texas pride theme. I had a million ideas but these won out and I'm thrilled with the way they came out. Four dozen full sized cookies and five dozen minis, I could of done more but sleep won last night. I hope they all sell out along with all the other wonderful donations that are going to be there... If you haven't already, check them out AustinBakes.com or Facebook @atxbakes.

I'm ready for fall

The weather here has been a tad on the warm side lately and it makes me long for fall. I wanted to add something personal to the FSU cookies I was sending my sister-in-law and one of her favorite things are sunflowers. These started as simple flowers and as I was using a small chocolate cookies as a guide for my center circle, I decided to just drop it down and see what happend. These ended up being double layered using chocolate royal icing as glue and just a few little dots to set off the center. I could see making a whole tray of these in a few months... I may even try doing this in the cookie dough stage by cutting a hole in the bottom cookie and putting the chocolate cookie dough in the hole before it bakes so they are flush. In my head it sounds cool, we'll see what happens :)

Here you can see both cookies stacked using the icing as glue. I had to stack them first and then decorate so I didn't ice over my flower petals.