Cute cookies

Baby shower cookies

*Mini donuts, cookies, eclairs and cinnamon rolls*

Thank You Cookies

Valentine's Day Cookies

Halloween Bake Sale at Danil's School

It was Danil's very FIRST Halloween!

He was very excited, and he was the cutest GANGSTER I've ever seen.

He was very busy gathering treats in our neighborhood for about 4 hours, but when he came back home his pillow case (yes, it was his "bag") was almost overflowing.

He doesn't care too much about all those junk food and sweets -

he's lucky - he prefers the meat all other kinds of food including sweets,

but his father was very happy.

Unlike Danil, he loooooves them!

All those sweets were gone in 4 days...

 

 I found this very old picture recently.
It was my first Halloween, taken in Tokyo, Japan.
At that time, I was a teacher at an international school in Vladivostok, Russia.
We took a field trip to Tokyo , so that's how I was introduced to Halloween.

It was great time - we had a lot of fun! 

 Ok, finally the bake sale! This is my version of the American donut,
except much smaller, and much healthier!
 They are bite-size and come in vanilla, cinnamon, and custard flavors.
They end up being like a kind of cake with colored glaze.
I think it s very nice treat for any children's event!

 Again, my favorite decorated cookies - featuring lace and daisies! Daisies are very cute...
for some reason they remind me of breakfast and fried eggs.

 And of course, what would Halloween be without owls?
These owls are not perfect ones,
but Danil helped me decorate them, so that's how they became priceless.
These are "the best ones"!

 Healthy, flourless bars - oatmeal, nuts, homemade caramel, raisins, chocolate chips
 and a few teaspoons of butter - that's it!

Very tasty!

 My version of Oreo cookies,
but mine are vanilla butter cookies with peanut caramel cream in between and
white chocolate drizzles on the top!

Homemade waffles from scratch

 This lunch box in "Japanese style" I made for my son on Friday ) Tried to cheer him up  with this small rice panda and rolls with omelette ,veggies and bacon )

and these waffles I made today for whole my family ))) what a great beginning of weekend))

Marble cookies

These cookies were made  for my son in his first day in new school !

Its marble decorations  and in some way that reminds me about Christmas..I dont know why) 

Oatmeal cookies with raisins

 Here it s , the SIMPLEST cookie recipe you ever can find !

Its oatmeal cookies with raisins , the greatest thing about them is that you can add EVERYTHING YOU LIKE!!! raisins, chocolate chips, all kinds of nuts  or dried fruits ! And still the taste will be amazing! 

This recipe is very simple, easy to make ( even if you never baked before)  and very budget ) 

Blueberry-vanilla custard cream butter tarts

It s the same recipe of butter tarts which I used for tarts with raspberry , but instead of fulfill them with  chilled cheese cream  ,I decided to use a custard cream and blueberry  and bake all of this together )
Its a very light and nice flavor, very smooth  and delicious .. not too sweet  because of blueberry )

Butter tarts with chilled lemon cream cheese and fresh raspberries

 Its still a nice summer ) So here it is - fresh berries on the table) 

Its

Princess Alisa Butter Cookies

Couverture chocolate crown and rose designs

This is one of my favorite butter cookie recipes -very simple and budget-friendly. I believe a lot of housewives all over the world just love this classic recipe!

They are named after my niece, who is my biggest fan!

For decoration, I made a small, cute crown about 1.5" in length and 1" in height and another, 3D one is with a rose and tiny leaves (made of couverture white chocolate)

It works as a nice treat at a baby shower for a girl, or just any kind of girly party. I would also

say it's really a nice gift. I'd love it if somebody gave me this as a present!

One Sunday morning - embroidery cookies for my Mammy

Embroidery mint cookies 

These cookies were made recently one Sunday for my Mammy, who is visiting me here in the US!

It has one of my favorite decorations - the only small problem with it is you need to have enough time to get them ready (I'm talking about almost 24 hours!)

... But as you see the result is completely worth it!

These ones were made with the same technique, but with different colors!

I think it's a very nice contrast - the mix of white plus bright blue or red.