Showing posts with label themed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label themed. Show all posts

23 May, 2010

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

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11 May, 2010

[insert clever pirate cookie joke here]

Thursday, 14 January
the early years, pt 3
seeing as we flipped to a recipe that called for rum (specifically, "rum spice cookies"), we therefore decided that 1.14.10 would be our first themed parrrrty. that being, naturally, a pirate party!
complete with a bottle o' rum!
 
laura and i decked out in our pirate-y finest
 of course rum shots were had all around
oh, and guess what? we were still on the 2-recipe system. so not only were there delectable rum spice cookies (which are still one of my favorites we've made thus far), but some goooooey chocolatey fudge cookies. just...amazing.
as cousin amy wrote in the cookie book: "why bake them?"
just look at that dough...
they weren't half-bad all baked up, either.
our abundant spread...
i seem to remember it being a particularly fine evening outside.

 arrrrg. success, matey!

 attentees: 9
us, amy, andrew, cassandra, chelsea, evan, melissa, pip

love, colleen