Valentine Sprinkle Sugar Cookies & School Valentines

Little C and I made her Valentines this year, and we added a homemade sugar cookie to each.
I cut 2 sided paper for each cellophane bag, and then we stamped strips of white paper for her to write her message on.   Then we made sugar cookies, which she rolled in the sprinkles.  We wrapped each cookie in plastic wrap and placed it in the back of the Valentine; then we sealed the bag with a sticker.

I baked the rest of the sugar cookies this morning at 5AM, and broke my cookie scoop!  A Valentine tragedy because I need it for the whoopie pies I am about to make.  Hopefully it will still work enough for that task.  Kitchen Lesson - don't try to scoop cookie dough when it is still hard from being in the refrigerator! :)

These are the new sugar cookies that I talked about the other day.  Click here for the recipe from Baking Bites.  The cookies have excellent texture and are pretty easy to make.

I hope your day is filled with lots of pink and red Valentine fun!

Valentine Sprinkle Sugar Cookies

School Valentine Front

School Valentine Back

Summing Up

I didn't quit baking and crafting with the new year, it's just been flying by without a blog!

Here's a little bit of what I have been working on.....

I am slightly obsessed with Carta Bella's Paris Girl paper.  I had bought a few pages, and then the package of the collection.  I made a few cards and was thinking about different ways I could use the papers.  Then.........Little C and I started working on the plans for her 9th Birthday.  She picked Paris themed plates, and my obsession went in to overdrive!  That Saturday I overdosed on all things Eiffel Tower!  I ordered almost all the Eiffel Tower Paper the one site had, Paris themed dies, Eiffel Tower bling stickers and a ton of pink paper.  I have since bought more pink paper as the first 20 sheets were not the right shade, blossom pink bakers twine, and tag dies (which I love).  The final draft of the invite is pretty much done, but I will save the details for the post that shows the Birthday invite in all it's Pink Paris Prettiness!

Paris Birthday Card

Several weeks ago I was about to make brownies for a meeting I was going to.  It was early and also grocery day.  I didn't realize I only had 1 egg until I had already melted the butter for my brownies which use 3 eggs.  Luckily I had not gotten any further than melting the butter, so I decided to make a 1/2 batch of Chocolate Chip Cookies which only needed one egg and the same amount of butter I had just melted.  I had the thought - this is how new things get discovered.  Oh my goodness!  These cookies were amazing!  I think I had tried another recipe last year that had called for almost melted butter, but pairing the melted butter with the best CCC recipe is incredible!  I have done this several other times now, with great results.  The last batch I made was with 1/2 chocolate chips and 1/2 Valentine M&Ms - very good!

Chocolate Chip Cookies Revisited

I tried yet another new sugar cookie recipe and I love it!  I will try to find where I got it and share it soon.  Even though it looks like we made the cookies for the Red Hat Society, Little C and I made them for her big-girl-sitter's birthday.   We are making them as part of her school Valentines, so more on that later.   Speaking of Valentine's, I have made the new whoopie pies again and they were dreamy good, but the pictures weren't.  I am making them for the school party and will get a good picture.

Pretty Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles

I have made a couple calendars I will share soon.  Between Valentines, the party invites, and trying out all my new Paris themed items, paper has been flying at my craft desk!  And, I just got a printers tray at an antique store, that I am going to transform in to something really amazing (I hope).  So exciting!

The test kitchen is going to be hopping the next few days with Cherry Vanilla Cake, Whoopie Pies, Sugar Cookies and maybe some brownies.

Happy Valentine's week!

Cheers!

Happy New Year!
Celebrating the New Year and my 100th Post with Pink Champagne Cookies!!!!

For the Cuisine At Home recipe, click here.  I have a Cuisine At Home Holiday Baking Cookbook that has these cookies in it, but it was also recently one of their e-recipes.  (I am not sure if the link requires a sign-in or not, as I have a subscription.)

Little C and Mr. SBQ like the cookies.   I will have to try them again, now that I am removed from the work of making them.  There are not a lot of ingredients, but they have a little extra work than a normal cookie.  

We had these and mint whoopie pies for our New Year's Eve dinner party dessert.  The whoopie pies are an old recipe that I just tried - I am very pleased with the results and will make them again to blog about.

Enjoy the New Year!!!!

Pink Champagne Cookies

Christmas Goodie Bags

This year for my Book Club's Christmas gifts, I boxed each of the goodies and put them in a bag with a pretty Christmas ribbon.  The bags included the usual treats: peppermint iced brownies, peppermint bark, and cheese wafers.  This year I added the peppermint chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.

Now that Christmas is over, it's time to focus on New Year's Eve..........I am thinking Pink Champagne Cookies.  There is a recipe that I have had for a few years and I think this is the year to make it!

Gift Bags

Boxed Peppermint Iced Brownies

Boxed Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Boxed Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Boxed Cheese Wafers

Boxed Peppermint Bark

Snowman Wreath

A fun snowman wreath for the front door!

There is not a lot to say about the wreath except that if you buy ribbon for a wreath, buy two rolls so you don't have to run back to the store mid-wreath! :)

Snowman Wreath

Snowman Wreath

Snowman Wreath

Close-up of snowmen