Christmas Cookies

Merry Christmas!

I have been keeping very very busy with Christmas cookies this year!  They are my favorite cookies to make as I remember making them at home with my mother and siblings when I was young.  It was an important family tradition at Christmas in our family kitchen and we always used my Grandmother's recipe. This year I tried a few new cookie cutters to add to my Christmas collection.  Cardinals, (they were one of my Grandmother's favorites) ornaments,  (I wish that I had taken pictures of those!) and mittens -my new favorite! 

Merry Christmas!

Autumn Cookies

It's Fall!!!!

Autumn is one of my favorite times of the year. I especially love all the beautiful leaves changing colors and going to the pumpkin patch with my children.  These cookies are inspired by that awesome season! Enjoy!

Baby Cookies

We recently found out that we are expecting and are absolutely thrilled!  Since I am usually looking for cookie ideas and am now thinking about babies all the time, it only seemed fitting to make some baby cookies!  The hearts in the middle of the "baby  boy" and "baby girl" cookies are cut outs and I thought that these sailboats were a good addition to the boy cookies.  The baby girl cookies could be cute with flowers and for a baby shower you could do a gender neutral "baby" cookie if you want.  So fun!  I'm sure that there will be many more baby cookies coming out of this kitchen in the coming months!

Apples! Apples! Apples!

 We recently took our little boys apple picking and it inspired me to make some apple cookies!  I have a few different sizes and shapes of apple cutters so I tried them out.  My 4 year old says that the sparkly ones are the best!  When we start Kindergarten I think that these will make a great teacher gift!

Bob the Builder

I recently made a birthday party bouquet for a little boy who was turning 2.  Bob the Builder is his absolute favorite so I made this bouquet with 2 dozen regular sized cookies in it.  Turns out, they don't make any Bob the Builder cookie cutters but I improvised and I really liked the way that it turned out!  Saws, hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers, hard hats, characters (Bob of course) and a personalized birthday cake cookie too!  Happy Birthday George!

Pretty in Pink

I made these bouquets a few weeks ago for a baby shower.  They were used as the centerpieces for the dining tables and each cookie was a favor for each guest.  With 6 large cookies in each back to back they were appealing from both sides and I really liked the way that they turned out!  Can you tell that they are having a girl? Pink! Pink! Pink!  I love it!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful Mother-in-Law! (tomorrow)  She doesn't look a day over 40!  In celebration of her birthday, the boys and I took a cookie bouquet and cookies to her school to share with all of the other teachers.  We also got to spend a little time in the Kindergarten classroom.  So much fun!

Today is also the birthday of my new business 'CARA BELLA COOKIES'!  I am so excited to finally share one of my favorite hobbies with other people.  I hope that you enjoy the pictures of the cookies that we took to school!  And contact me anytime if you want some cookies!

GO BIG RED!

Husker football season is finally here!  I searched far and wide for an "N" cookie cutter that resembled the Nebraska Huskers logo and I finally found one!  It was so much fun listening to my husband's "Game Day" CD while I baked up these Cornhusker Cookies that I realized that for the first time ever I am genuinely excited for football season too!  Yeah! We took them to our first tailgate of the year and they disappeared very quickly.  My son says that the ears of corn are his very favorite!  (Too bad he won't eat a real ear of corn :) Oh well.)  

Go Huskers!!!

Blooms in Blue

I saw this color combination of blue flowers that I thought would  be perfect for my sister Robyn on a cookie blog several months ago and tucked it away in my favorites for safekeeping until the perfect time.  I finally got to making them just the other day and delivered every last one to her! ( Otherwise my sons and I would have ate them all :) )  I really like the way that they turned out and I hope that I have the occasion to make them again soon. Here are a few pictures of the finished product. Enjoy!