My Little Cookie Decorator
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 [...read the rest]
Bake @ 350′s Pink Posie Cake Cookies
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. Related PostsCute Cupcake Cookies (Oct 2, [...read the rest]
Brush Embroidery Heart Cookies
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.
Pastel 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 [...read the rest]
Tropical Bounty – Cas Fruit Uses
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 [...read the rest]
Amazing Gumpaste Princess Crown
My mom made this beautiful gumpaste crown for Mrs. Sayuri’s fourth birthday cake. Needless to say, Mrs. Sayuri adored it. She would not hear of throwing it away until almost two weeks of it being in the fridge! I had a hard time convincing her that although it was “technically” edible, it would not be [...read the rest]
Homemade Natural Chocolate for Yom Teruah
Mrs. Sayuri and I whipped up a batch of natural chocolate the other day. It was quick and easy. We spooned ours into a Biblical Holidays chocolate mold in anticipation and preparation for the coming fall feasts, specifically Yom Teruah, The Day of Trumpets, expected to fall on the eleventh of September (This coming Sabbath, [...read the rest]
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