I am pleased to present Sour Cream Cookies to you today! With one bite, this cookie had me hooked and I couldn’t stop talking about it at the book signing. When I found out it fell on my bake day I was skipping with joy! Then anxiety quickly set in. A great deal of anxiety! The picture in the cookbook shows painted Sour Cream Cookies. I am serious, cookies painted with a fine paint brush in great beautiful detail and colors. After two weeks of totally freaking out, I decided to tackle this cookie with a fun attitude and if I failed at least I would be able to eat the best cut out cookies I’ve ever tasted! I got a head start and made it a TWO DAY cookie. Glad I did cause I’m just wrapping up in the nick of time.
I borrowed the Evendough Bands to put on the rolling pin ends to achieve the consistent thickness of dough. A cookie genius invented these! I also borrowed the extra long wooden rolling pin that I fell in love with! So long to my heavy, marble, monstrosity of a rolling pin. The sour cream made the dough super soft (and incredibility delicious). After chilling , a well floured surface allows for this cookie to be easily workable without sticking. I lost some sleep rolling, cutting, and baking my cookies last night. Today, I spent time figuring out icing colors, designs, flubbed a few cookies and then just got down to business icing and painting designs. I really enjoyed turning my ideas into cookies even if they don’t turn out exactly like the beautiful, unachievable, pictures in my head. I am a rookie cake decorator but what kills me is that I never knew cookies could be painted with food coloring. This opens up a world of possibilities for my children’s party treats! I think my sister in law will put these on her bake list. I can’t wait to see what designs she comes up with!
I could have saved a lot of time sticking to just one cookie design but I really wanted to showcase these cookies as much as possible. They are not hard and just take time and patience. The four of us have 10 boys between us so I wanted to make some cookies that they would have fun eating, thus the basketball and football cookies were a given. I also wanted to showcase our blog title and with all these boys I never get to make girly cookies, so that was fun! However, those who know me know how much I LOVE Bon Jovi. I am so excited that they will be entertaining, Detroiters like me, i
n two days for a live St. Patrick’s Day concert! So I had to make a cookie in their honor. Hope you like it Jon!
This cookie satisfied my creative need. I feel I have conquered my toughest cookie challenge in the book! For those followers who want to bake this cookie, to taste the deliciousness I am speaking of, you can omit the painting stage and just frost them. I’m off to bed to dream of JBJ! Danielle “Phoebe”
Thanks to everyone who called or stopped by today to check in on me. I am feeling the love!
ReplyDeleteOMG! They are to die for! You rock. You should be wearing the crown for that amazing icing job. I can't wait to try them. A
ReplyDeletePhoebe, Are you kidding me!! These are awesome. You rock(lol). I knew that you would take the time and make this cookie shine and you did. They actually look too good to eat. They will be eaten though because at the launch I also ate this cookie non-stop. Looking forward to a treat when I get home from work tonight.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Danielle G.
Phoebe, What an imagination you have. You have taken this cookie to whole new levels for parents, kids, and parties. I'm glad you love the rolling pin and bands I find them invaluable and they actually make rolled cookies fun. I love your cutouts and the princess crown is perfect. Rock on. L. Sharon
ReplyDeletePhoebe, You really rocked these cookies! How long did you spend start to finish?
ReplyDeleteI am in total awe of you, Phoebe!!! Those cookies are FANTASTIC! Your 2 weeks of anxiety are over, you tackled the job with a fun attitude, and look at the great results! You should be very proud of yourself. The beautiful picture of our talented Sharon is intimidating to try and duplicate. Your imagination kicked in to make it your own to fit you, your family and friends, and it's fabulous. At this point in the baking cycle, you must feel like you could tackle anything! Congratulations. Theresa G. (Bon Jovi would be proud)
ReplyDeleteI hope Jon pulled you on stage and sang "Wildflower" to you in your dream last night. As for the cookies, they are creative, beautiful, and everything that I would expect from you. I don't know what else to say except that I expect hundreds more just like them for staff appreciation week at the school in May!
ReplyDeleteBTW, one of my favorite people just became one of our followers...you may remember Marsha from the Science Olympiad competition last year. She is "theboats".
ReplyDeleteHi Marsha,
ReplyDeleteSo happy you're following us! To answer your question, it probably took me about three hours to prepare, roll, cut & bake the dough. Baking one cookie sheet at a time is the most time intensive. I waited for the kids to go to bed before starting these.
On day two, I was cookie focused from 3pm-10pm; however, that is not an accurate represenation of actual time spent as I was politely interrupted about a million times -LOL!
Shelly,
ReplyDeleteLove your sense of humor!!!