The Sweet Life

Put on your yarmulke, here comes Hanukkah.
So much funukkah to celebrate Hanukkah.

Hanukkah is the festival of lights.
Instead of one day of cookies, we have eight crazy nights

So drink your gin and tonikkah and smoke your marijuanikkah,
If you really, really wannakkah,
Have a happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah!

In the past 30 days I have made over 700 cupcakes. The intervention will be held tomorrow.

(I’m pretty sure cupcakes will be served.)

These are a few of the ones I made this week. A very special lady turned 80 yesterday, and she is having two parties! So she is going to have two cupcake towers with two mini cakes. I didn’t get them done til very late, so I was kinda rushing to get them packed and delivered. I was only able to get a few quick photos before getting them out the door.

As I have often mentioned, when I’m asked to do a set of cookies, I always research the subject before designing them, even when it’s something I’m familiar with. I sometimes discover little known facts that I can use to make the cookies extra special.

I think that pretty much everyone knows what unicorns are, but when my friend and birthday sister Yvonne requested unicorn cookies, I felt the need to learn a little more about them. Siri helped me find this:

“Unicorns are generally considered mythical animals and are typically represented as a white horse with a single straight and often spiraled horn projecting from its forehead. Legend has it that the creature is tireless when pursued, yet falls meekly to the ground when approached by someone with a pure heart. It is reputed to live for a thousand years and to be the noblest of animals.”

It explains without a doubt why I dropped two cookies. They fell meekly to the ground! 🤣

This cookies will not live 1000 years. Possibly not 1000 minutes!

Happy birthday, my unicorn-loving friend!

When I was asked to do cookies for a math teacher, I experienced the same feelings I always got before math class—intense anxiety, sweaty palms, and that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

As you may have guessed, math was not my favorite subject. Math is hard. Math wasn't fun. I failed math.

But these cookies weren't like math at all. I enjoyed making them. And I didn't fail! I think Sister Ethel Reda would be proud.

The nominees for Best Cookie are:
Double Stuf Oreo, Nabisco—Producer
Thin Mints, Girl Scouts—Producer
Milano, Pepperidge Farms—Producer
Oscar Night Sugar Cookies, The Sweet Life—Producer

And the Oscar goes to...

(I'd like to thank the Alliance for allowing me the opportunity to do this project without interference.)