This weekend I was invited to a cookie exchange event. It was with a group of new co-workers and I wanted to make sure I made a good impression. Plus, who doesn’t love a good chance to make something creative and fun!?
I decided to make Melting Snowman Cookies, inspired by Better Homes and Gardens email on cookie exchanges. How timely.
Their cookies were a little more than I had time for so I improvised with a time-saving version of the same cookies.
Here is what I came up with:
They turned out pretty nice!
Instead of creating dough by hand, I bought sugar cookie mix and instead of searching around for candy coating I used white frosting that I heated up over a double broiler and spread on after the cookies had dried. For eyes I used a dab of black frosting and the noses are orange sprinkles. The hats are mini peanut butter cups that I cut in half.
Of course, I made way too many and had a lot of left over cookies available for decorating. One I kept and haven’t eaten because he is just too cute is this little guy:
Right as I was finishing up, my brother and his girlfriend arrived and decided they wanted to get in on the decorating as well. Between them and my boyfriend, this is what they came up with. Can you tell what they were going for?
COOKIE #1:
COOKIE #2:
COOKIE #3:
COOKIE #4
COOKIE #5
COOKIE #6
Submit your final guesses!
Answers:
COOKIE #1: Abominable Snow Man from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
COOKIE #2: Full-sized Snow Man
COOKIE #3: Blue polka dot dinosaur
COOKIE #4: Purple ninja and a red ninja
COOKIE #5: Jack, from Jack in the Box
COOKIE #6: The Twilight cast. At top, Charlie, Bottom row left to right: Jacob, Bella, and Edward.
Despite the actual appearance of the cookies, they all tasted delicious and we all had a great time making them. I am looking forward to our future cooking and baking adventures. 🙂
Happy Holidays!
Seems that with all the wedding planning I have started to fall in love… with cakes. Unfortunately the bride doesn’t like cake.
However, I have found some of the most amazing pictures of cakes that I want to share with everyone because they make my heart soar.
And not just because some have birds on them…
From this Vera Wang inspiration…
To this beautiful cake…by the cake blog
The cake that inspired this post
This is the cake that started my heart beating. I think I can still fit it into the wedding.
Not my favorite but very cute still.
In my opinion, you can never have enough cake, beauty and love at a wedding… Love it all.
I want a cake like this for every occasion…
Today I viewed screening of “Food, Inc.” at school Student Health Services “Wellness Night.” The woman directing the new “Wellness” program at BU is working very hard to get messages out there about the state of the world and what we should be doing to keep ourselves and our future children healthy. This is all very respectable if we decide to forget that 65% of students live on campus. Granted not all of these students have a dining plan, but only students with apartment style dorms are allowed to opt out of the dining plan. Otherwise, we’re all stuck eating in the dining hall. The food is good, I’m not complaining about the food considering what we have compared to the reviews I’ve heard from friends at other schools. And it’s where we eat. We don’t have a choice while we are living on campus not to eat at the dining hall if we want to have anything that can consistently be considered food. While living in the dorms you are allowed to have a mini fridge and a microwave (microwave only if it is one of the Microfridges that the school rents out to students for a small fortune- and a large profit- each year). These provisions really are not enough to allow students to make their own nutritious meals.
So what do we do? Student health shows a film that unveils us to the horrors and dangers of the food industry and encourages us to eat organically and choose to buy produce over chips and salsa, but we have no idea what is in the food in the dining hall or where it is coming from, for that matter. And it seems that BU being such a huge school, would need some serious student body uproar to even consider changing whatever mass-produced, unhealthy, potentially dangerous, world-ending, food they are serving to us. And with all our classes, who really has time to be involved in that type of revolution except the fanatics.
We’ve all survived so far, what motivation are they trying to stir up that we would really work to research where our food comes from and what we need to do about it?
Clearly, we need to do something. But, despite the fact that I might now frown at the chicken, I am not going to stop eating it. Sadly, it seems that the food industry has won again.
Americans asked for fast food and so the food industry created itself to give America fast food. And since fast food is really what initiated the changes in the food industry, fast food was the spark that led to the explosion of all the unappetizing practices used to make the food we eat today (even if we aren’t eating fast food).
Americans still feel like they have no time to take on the demon they have created and so it lives among us and laughs even as we abstain from the blatantly unhealthiness of fast food and try to eat something it hasn’t sunk its claws into because it knows… there is really nothing left.
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