Billa Cakes: Weddings

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Portfolio: Black & White Polka Dot Letter Cookies

I had an order for some sugar cookies for a wedding recently. The bride wanted something sweet to place in welcome boxes for all of her out of town guests and my friend Kristen asked me to make some for her. After going back and forth a bit, we decided to do packages that contained L's and W's for the bride and groom's names.

The L's were done in white with black polka dots and the W's were done in black with white polka dots. It took me a little bit of experimenting before finally figuring out the best method. I decided to flood each cookie and then use a toothpick to drip the coordinating color into the flood. Yes, it was a lot of work, but the results were worth it.

I finished them off by wrapping them in clear cello bags and tying them with black and white polka dotted ribbon. They were so cute and the bride was thrilled. Congratulations to the happy couple...may you have many years of bliss!

Happy Baking,
Kelly

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Portfolio: Monogram Cookies

I admit it, I love cookies more than cake! Cake is nice, but I love that cookies are perfectly portioned for your hand. You can sometimes have more than one without feeling guilty. With cake, you eat more than one piece and people give you funny looks. Unless it's my cakes of course, in which case, they're so good you can't help but have seconds! Ha! I kid, I kid. They are mighty tasty though.

Cookies are also wonderful because they are perfect to give as gifts and especially as favors at weddings. I made these simple but elegant sugar cookies as favors for a wedding this weekend. I used a fluted round cutter which adds some texture to the sides of the cookie and made them a bit more fancy, I thought. They are all identical, with a white background and the new couple's monogram in apple green. Packaging those little babies reminded me of my dog biscuit baking days, when I would package hundreds upon hundreds of gourmet dog biscuits in cello bags and sheer ribbons. I was a little rusty, but in the end, all 284 of them were baked, decorated, and packaged well ahead of time to be delivered for the wedding.