turkey cookie platter

When I visited my parents a few weeks before Thanksgiving, my mom dug out one of her recipe magazine's cookie edition. She wanted to show me a turkey platter that was featured in it (funny enough, it was created by my cookie idol over at sweetsugarbelle.com. I guess similar taste runs in the family).

Mom: Isn't this cute? 

Me: Yeah. Do you want me to make you one for Thanksgiving? 

Mom: No. You don't have to do that. But isn't this cute? 

Translation: my mom wanted the cookies.

Mind you, she is well aware of how time consuming they are to make, so she really was trying to be nice and not inconvenience me. However, the only thing I was able to convince her to let me bring to dinner was pie from the bakery at Chris's work (she only let my siblings bring booze, so at least I scored a food item).

But the platter turned out quite adorable, so I'm really glad my mom suggested it to me. I'm also learning to better my royal icing technique, which is always good too. Practice makes perfect. Or in this case, practice makes more tasty cookies for my family to enjoy.

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Royals Cookies

My grandma is adorable. She is such a HUGE Kansas City Royals fan. Always has been and always will be. I think it's because she's actually been around long enough to remember them being good. (In case you were wondering, that hasn't been in my lifetime).

Grandma has been extra excited this season, because the team has gotten her hopes up that they might "make it all the way."

I could care less about the team, but it makes her happy.

So in honor of her birthday this month, I whipped up a batch of cookies celebrating her most favorite pastime.

Unfortunately, I didn't leave myself enough time to let the colors set while I decorated, so the blue and gold bled horribly before I was able to give them to her.

But I got pictures of them before that happened, so at least there was some proof they didn't always look horrible.

Plus, they were delicious. And seriously, that's all that really matters.

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happy barbara blue birthday!

Up until a year or two ago, my good friend Barb had never gone to have her nails done. She got suckered into trying it out when a friend held a fundraiser at a spa in town. I think it's safe to say, she really enjoyed the pampering.

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coooookies

It all started with my Christmas present from Chris last year. He showed up at my house proudly toting a box of 100 assorted cookie cutters for me (smart man). Now if I was a normal person, I'd just use those to make a few fun-shaped sugar cookies, slap some icing on them, and call it good.

But we all know I'm incapable of normal.

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birthday cookies

My girl scouts are probably the biggest fans of my pet hedgehog, Russell. They're dying to meet him. And since I'm not planning on letting him come to robotics practice any time soon, they are hedgehog deprived.

Since my birthday coincides with the robotics season, I usually bring in a special treat to share with the girls. This year I went all out.

So adorable. They took absolutely FOR-EV-ER to make, but I think the end product was totally worth it.

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