Cookie Cutters

Make a Cake Pittsburgh.

99 Rochester Road.

A supply store for cake and candy making. You should see all the possible colors of sprinkles for sale.

There are hundreds of cookie cutters to choose from.

Been there a couple of times recently for birthday cupcake supplies.

Photographed in May The fleur de Lis cutters I bought for Michaels graduation party.
He’s headed to Saint Louis University

A Winter Meal Finish

3 Amaretti and 2 Mandarins

Italian Amaretti cookies are gluten and dairy free.

And delicious if you like almond flavor. These are store bought Amaretti but I found a recipe to try with just four ingredients- almond flour, sugar, egg whites and almond extract.

A Slightly Wrinkled Black and White Cookie

Being in my backpack, as Mary and I walked around the city on Monday, this cookie looks a little worse for wear. But the taste snd enjoyment were not diminished in the least. Delicious! it’s a soft cookie with half vanilla half chocolate glaze.

I won’t take a poll on whether or not you like them cause I read they are pretty much a Northeast and Florida treat. I’ve seen smaller ones in Ohio.

Black and White Cookie from Rocco’s Pasticceria on Bleecker Street NYC bag a gift from my sister.
Sock knitting inside.

The Barefoot Contessa Black and White Cookies recipe

King Arthur Baking Company Recipe for Black and White Cookies

NYTimes Recipe is named Perfect Black and White Cookies only makes a dozen 😢

St.Rocco in the bakery

Border Collie Cookie

Friends dropped off home baked cookies and this specially decorated dog cookie definitely resembled their Border Collie, Beau.

I’d say they nailed it.

I photographed Beau December 2018.
Cookie is this Christmas.

Lunch by the Ohio River

Hostess Deb created the perfect Pandemic lunch on her deck overlooking the Ohio River. We’d not seen each other since early March. Centerpiece courtesy of Donna, who gave me a kalanchoe in a tiny pumpkin, too. Asian chicken wraps and potato salad with a side of red grapes. A tall glass of apple cider from the farm stand. An oatmeal cookie.

There were two barges that went by with tug boats, several freight trains across the River. Just a few trees starting to turn.

It was so lovely to see longtime friends. Catch up before the winter sets in.

Yes that’s a mask in the middle and an oatmeal cookie in a cellophane sleeve on top of the fish napkin.
Kalanchoe in a pumpkin
I was knitting. Donna was crocheting. Deb captured her luncheon guests on the deck and cast on a pumpkin hat right after lunch.

This is where I photographed the hungry bee devouring his pollen lunch .

Another angle

Mini Man Shovels

With a nod to Christopher Boffoli

Photographer and author of Big Appetites

Once a Turkey

Actually captured this shot on the way into school last week before the holiday but it seemed a good one to post today.  It’s been pouring all day(Tuesday), the mood particularly grim and gray.  Snow is threatened but the temperature will have to drop twenty degrees. Don’t know the recipe of the smashed turkey dessert but it looks like Oreos and candy corn and a Devil’s Food cupcake were involved. I guess the green is frosting?  When I went to examine it after school, it was just a total grease spot on the concrete step. The smashed turkey was gone.

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By afternoon, this turkey had disappeared. Looks like it took the bottom of someone's shoe first!