In the Kitchen

Cute Cupcake Cookies

October 2, 2011 3 comments
decorated cupcake cookies

  My mom made these pretty cupcake cookies and I insisted that she let me photograph them. I love the colors and her designs. They have a very playful look about them. Cookies or Cupcakes I can’t decide which I like better…cookies in the shape of cupcakes or actual cupcakes! It’s definitely a toss up.

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Pink And Orange Daisy Cakes

August 18, 2011 0 comments
pink and orange daisy cookie

Another cake cookie that my mom made. The cake shape lends itself to so many possibilities. These cookies were based on Bridget’s Anniversary cake cookies from Bake At 350. Her step-by-step tutorials are so helpful. There are tons of informative videos on the site she founded: University of Cookie.

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My Little Cookie Decorator

August 16, 2011 2 comments
little girl holding up decorated cookie

  She’s A Natural Mrs. Sayuri likes to help decorate cookies. She started out by doing a few cookies whenever my mom and I were decorated – it didn’t take long before she was hooked. Now she wants to commandeer all baked cookies and embellish them herself. We have to negotiate how many she will [...]

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Bake @ 350′s Pink Posie Cake Cookies

August 9, 2011 2 comments
bake at 350 pink posie cookie

My mom made Bridget’s (from the blog Bake at 350) pink posie cake cookies following her wonderful step by step tutorial. The posies design on these cookies is such a cute way to do a flower on a cookie. The cookies are vanilla sugar cookies with royal icing.  

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Brush Embroidery Heart Cookies

April 29, 2011 3 comments
chocolate heart cookies with brush embroidery in royal icing

These cookies were also made by my mom. She was practicing the brush embroidery technique with the flowers. I love how they turned out. These are chocolate sugar cookies (recipe from Glorious Treats) with royal icing.

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Pastel Snowflake Cookies

April 1, 2011 4 comments
blue pastel round scalloped snowflake cookies

My mom made these cookies in December but I am just now getting around to posting about them. She was directly inspired by Glorious Treat’s beautiful pastel snowflake and holiday cookies. She has made many other cookies since so there will be more posted here when I can get them up. These are vanilla sugar [...]

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Tropical Bounty – Cas Fruit Uses

December 13, 2010 2 comments
cut cas guava fruit on cutting board

Cas (Costa Rican Guava or Psidium Friedrichsthalianum) is native to Costa Rica and a member of the guava family. It is a good source of Vitamins A and C as well as iron and calcium! The leaves of the guava can also be useful in tea for cases of diarrhea caused by amoebas. Cook a [...]

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