cookie stardust

Thursday  March 25, 2010

our second radically themed cookie night was centered around a guy named ziggy, and some martian arachnids. hey, the cookies were star-shaped! (official name: Cinnamon Stars) 

what other choice could we possibly have?

basically it was an excuse to get all snazzy. and paint blue stars and lightning bolts and stuff on our faces.

 

cassandra, as always, went for awesome and wore some psychedelic false lashes...

cookie dough hands. scary.

 

les dragées!!

 

little silver candies...or triple tongue piercings?

  

so, uh, the cookies didn't really turn out how we thought...

 

observe:

  

IN SHORT:

the creator of the cookbook placed a picture of a sugar cookie next to a recipe that called for no flour, but rather ground almonds. and, you know, our tempermental oven didn't help either. 

meghan can't contain her amusement at out baking misfortune.

  

in spite of their unattractive appearance...they were actually not that bad!

 

  

 meghan referred to then as "apple cinnamon cookies"

shelvy wrote in the book: "David Bowie save us!! There's no flour, nothing to make them rise, no cookie in these cookies!"

we agreed they'd probably make a good apple pie crust.

pip, have a cookie, and meet shannon!

  

the evening ended the only way it could...with a viewing of Labyrinth, naturally!

  

attendees: 8

us, cassandra, meghan, mom, pip, shannon, shelvey

love, colleen

jump to laura's e-mail...

snowball-z

Thursday March 18, 2010

the delightful cookie of this mid-march thursday evening was  "boules de neige"

 basically, super light and airy...coconut and meringue blended and baked to optimum fluffiness

here i am making it fluffy...

whirrrrrrrrrr

we had the pleasure of acacia and aimee coming back through from slo before flying back home the next morning. 

here is acacia "hovering"...

this is pretty much the last picture of anything coookie-ish. i forgot to take more of the darn things once they were BAKED. sheesh. i don't even really remember what they looked like. were these the ones we put preserves on?

anyone...?

OH YEAH and this was the week cassandra brought the drageés!! we were so excited!

well--i was excited, anyway... 

edible ball bearings!! sacre bleu!!

quick back story: these are ILLEGAL in the state of california...you can't even get them shipped in. so we had cassandra's mom buy them where she lives out of state and send them to her. ha! tricky girls we be. (why am i talking like a pirate)

aaand all the lovely people that came and hung out with us that evening. lots of rare visitors like jeffrey bear, my cousin clayton, and of course acacia and aimee!

and at the end of the night, after everyone had left...this was inexplicably the desktop background on my laptop:

wonder how that happened.

attendees: 14

us, acacia, aimee, amaris, amy, bettina, cassandra, clayton, evan, ian, jeffbishop, laura b, pip

love, colleen

go to the jump to read laura's e-mail for the night!