Super Cute Zebra Cookies!!!

TaaDaah... Another Fabulous Zebra Creation!!

Watching Cookies Dry :0)

Hi Everyone!!



While my cookies dry for the night, I guess I'll drop a few lines and let everyone know what is to come in the next months. First of all, I want to thank everyone for being such loyal customers and followers. Today has been a good day for Cookie Crush. We expanded to YouTube last week and Twitter today... and so far so good. I'm having great success with everything. I'm super thrilled.

So New Business Cards are in the process... I'm excited, I'm also getting sticker labels for a few of my products, Ive added new flavors and menu Items ((Which is always good)), and I plan on doing a few prize drawings in the next up coming months. ((Hint: Easter))

Facebook will be the first to know, followed by Blogger, and Twitter. I'm hoping to draw some new customers in for the upcoming holidays.

I'm so blessed to have such success with my company, I want to thank everyone for ordering from me, especially my repeat customers. All of you are AWESOME :0)

Well, I have Zebra stripes to paint, which are due @ 8am..... So I better get to painting. Pics coming soon Of Course :0) Have a good Night!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday!!!

"I love you, You love me... were a happy family"

Yes you guessed it... Its BARNEY!

These were so much fun to create... I hope all the little kiddo's enjoy their barney birthday cookies!!!



Homemade Fudge Brownies

When ever I have a craving for chocolate, I always go on a pantry raid. Today I just so happened to have enough eggs to make Homemade Fudge Brownies. I did, only have enough eggs to make two more batches of cookie dough until the morning when I could get to the store to re supply my fridge. But I figured I could worry about that tomorrow. I WANT CHOCOLATE!! I have never made homemade brownies, I always pick them up from the grocery store while my mind wanders in the isles. So I figured I would give it a shot..... So,  now I'm listening to the oven timer waiting patiently and they smell wonderful. While my little one is licking the bowl, Ill leave you all with the recipe.

Ingredients

• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup walnut halves

Directions

1. Melt the butter or margarine and mix all ingredients in the order given.
2. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 30 minutes in a 9 x 13 inch greased pan.

I melted the butter first, and in a separate bowl mixed all the dry ingredients.
While the butter cooled (you don't want scrambled eggs) I mixed all the wet and A few minutes later I added the butter to the mixer, gave the batter a quick whip... and prepared my baking pans :0)

I chose to put my brownies in muffin tins and my little one added sprinkles. Using a regular size ice cream scoop, I filled each tin with one scoop... and sprinkles. Popped them into the oven at 350 and baked them for only 20 min. They came out chewy and fudgy. YumO.

Hope you all enjoy :0)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Even though St. Patrick's Day was on Yesterday I decided to show you all the ONLY St. Patrick's cookie I did. Yesterday was also my good friend SugarLOVE's 26th bday. So Instead of making dozens of clovers and leprechauns, I thought she would like a few St. Patties themed treats. I used the fudgy chocolate cookie recipe. The same one featured on a blog I enjoy following. Well with out further ado.....

Happy 26th Bday SugarLOVE and Happy St. Patties Day Everyone!!!



 

Using Two Cutters... To Create One!!!

This weekend I got the cutest order for a new moms babyshower. The theme was Buttons, Bears, and Bows.....

So I went on the search for cutters, after rumbling through buckets of the things I came to the conclusion that I did not have a Bow cookie cutter.

Usually I run to the local Hobby Lobby and search there, and If I can not find it I begin to search the internet.

((I have a few favorite sites, that Ill post later!!))

But with the order being so soon there was no way I could get the cutter in time. So as I sat digging through the buckets of cutters, I thought... what does a Bow look like..... Well duhh..... It looks like a butterfly.

Bingo...

Heres what I did!!!

First I found a butterfly cutter that would make a good size bow....

and a cutter with pointy right angles... I was also making #2 cookies so this is the one I had on hand.... You could use any cutter with right angles.....

I then rolled out my dough and started to cut out Butterflies.....

I used the angled cutter to take off the end of the butterfly.... creating a bow shape.

From here I baked , cut, and baked some more.... A grand total of 7Dozen!
Needless to say its been a very long night... Here are the finished cookies. Cant wait for the new mommie to see them!!! Enjoy the shower girls, and Thanks for your order :0)

Happy Mardi Gras 2011

Just wanted to tell everyone to have a safe and happy Mardi Gras. Each year New Orleans carnival season brings millions of tourists and locals to the streets for Mardi Gras.... carnival season means lots of partying.... New Orleans famous king cakes.... beads.... and dozens of Parades. O what fun. This year instead of standing out waiting for Zulu and Rex to roll, MY family and I spent the day with OUR family. We threw down like usual.... BBQ, boiled crawfish, and lots and lots of laughs. The best Mardi Gras yet.. Now, its home and Bed... My cookie MONTH starts tomorrow. night yaull :0)

Aaaaah, You can only Imagine My Frustration :(

So I've had this blog open for some time now... and I'm wondering WHY no one can see the darn thing.... well reason is that, I do not have it published.

LOL for some but not to me.

I'm actually sort of sad. No j/k. I do hope to get a few followers now that I've opened the blog to the public. Tonight Ill be updating as much as possible and I PROMISE to keep updating.

Having a blog with out any activity is really sort of LAME. So here's to updating. Have a good nite everyone!