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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Sounds simple enough! Right...?


Mmmm... Cake, cookies, muffins, cupcakes, pie... Mix up some batter, spread it in some form of bakeware and out of the oven it comes, all hot & yummy!  Easy peasy, right?  Well... Anyone who bakes knows that they do it because they love it .  Not for the ease of it.  For the end result.  It takes more than butter, sugar, flour and 350° to bring it all home.  There's the love - lots and lots of love!  And a messy kitchen.  And a long line of taste testers waiting to sample anything they can get their paws hands on!  (Now, if they would only line up at the sink to clean up the mess...!)  Most of all, baked goods always seem to put a smile on anyone's face, and that is what it's all about.  I love all baking, but my passion is pretty, uniquely decorated sugar cookies - they are very, very time consuming: 
  • Shop for ingredients,
  • measure ingredients for the dough,
  • mix the dough,
  • chill the dough,
  • roll the dough,
  • choose your cutters, 
  • cut the dough,
  • bake & cool the cookies,
  • measure icing ingredients,
  • mix the icing,
  • plan your designs, 
  • mix the colors,
  • fill the bags,
  • ice the cookies,
  • detail the cookies,
  • wait...wait...wait for the cookies to dry, 
  • package the cookies,
  • clean, clean, clean up the mess,
  • and finally, enjoy!!!  
And that's in a perfect world - it doesn't include the many things that could go wrong anywhere along the line.  And at least one does, every time!  In the end, though,  it's all worth it - to put a smile on someone's face, and some yummy in their tummy. 

Start to finish ...from oven...to lovin'! 

Happy Baking!



(Please excuse some of my photography - I am still learning the art of photographing food!  Don't forget to add that to the list!)

26 comments:

  1. Love it Michelle! Great job...I think some people have NO IDEA what goes into making cookies! I will be following you and waiting to watch your blog grow!

    Kim
    The Cookie Puzzle

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    1. Thanks Kim! I will be following you as well - I just love what you have been doing with your cookie puzzles! So creative!

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  2. So excited for you and your new blog!! YAY for you - it looks great!

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  3. Great! If they only knew the bazillion steps to a fabulous cookie! Those steps could be on the sidebar as a frequent reminder!

    Jackie Lee

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    1. Lol, I think sometimes I need the list so I don't forget! And I'm sure I missed a few hehehe... It was great to meet you at SF and thanks for all the effort you put into it. (Oh, and AWESOME Ball jar!!!)

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  4. It's looking great! I just started mine this week as well and it really is frustrating trying to get everything looking like you want. Yours looks much better than mine :)

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    1. I know, it took waaay longer than I expected. I also accidentally deleted my entire post & had to rewrite it from memory! BTW I love your South Park cookies, and I think your blog looks great!! I need to get me some tabs going... very nice!

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  5. Congrats on your new blog, Michelle! I recently started one too. I hope you have as much fun as I have been... I'm finding that there's LOTS to learn.

    One of the things I was really surprised about when I started decorating was how time consuming it is. I spent a number of weekends doing marathon cookie making before I learned to spread it out over a few days!

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    1. Thanks! I have had fun, and I feel like I know next to nothing about blogging at this point! I found have to spread my cookie making over at least 3 days - any less and I think I would go insane lol!

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  6. So glad you took the plunge... What you wrote is so true! Nice meeting you at Spring Fling and keep up the posts... Kris from www.socutecookies.com

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    1. Thanks Kris! It was great to meet you too! BTW loved your mani! (those were your cupcake nails, right...?)

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  7. Oh, great job Michelle! It looks terrific!
    Happy to be able to keep up with you and your work!
    Great post too!

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    1. Thanks Cindy! It was so great to cookie with you last weekend - hope we get to do it again! Pink Power!!!

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  8. Yay! So glad you started a blog Michelle. Love your first post, I'd like to give this to every client who thinks cookies should be $12 a dozen! Good luck with it!

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    1. Thanks Jaclyn! It was great to meet you at SF! You need to get that simulator test going - I have cookies to ship & I'm getting nervous lol! And $12/dz - couldn't even do it for a naked cookie!

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    2. Thanks for reminding me about the shipping!!! I'll see what I can do :)

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    3. LOL! (I was JK but if you can really do it, you would be a cookie hero!)

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  9. Beautiful Beginning Michelle! Thanks for the List too! I'm printing it and putting it on my Kitchen book holder...to go along with so many other things of your's I've printed! You ROCK!

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  10. welcome to the world of blogging! spring fling really made our online world of cookiers smaller, and I am happy to have you in my circle!

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    1. Hi Susie! Yes, it did! Glad to have met you, and to have you in my circle too!

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  11. Girl, I LOVE IT!!! This is so funny, but the pink stripes is the same background I used when I first started...great minds, RIGHT? And amen to the work. Its a chore before you even get to the fun part!!!

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  12. Thanks Callye! LOL yes, great minds, and my favorite color is pink! Who knows what it will look like in a week... (wish I was at the good part getting my cookie-think on right now!)

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  13. Great post, Michelle! You nailed the process...and as you said, that's not even taking into consideration the things that can go wrong...drop a cookie upside down onto 2-3 other finished cookies??lol Looking forward to more posts.

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    1. Thanks! (Dropping, flinging, dropping your camera into them... done it all LOL!)

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