So by now everybody knows about the Avon Walk, 2 days, 39 miles, yada yada yada. And that I have to raise a boatload of money. So I'll skip ahead to about 3 weeks ago when I had the brilliant idea that I could make money by selling something at the Village Community Tag Sale and Art Show. It was a nice happy thought...bake some cookies, sell them, get money *fiendish laugh*. Oh so easy.
Somehow I became fixated on the idea that the cookies needed to be shaped like ribbons and that I HAD seen a ribbon cookie cutter once. Somewhere. Probably at a store. Maybe in the Tri-State area. I swear I saw one. This cookie cutter became my obsession. And I REALLY wanted to find it in a store to prove that I had seen one in a store. People (friends and store employees alike) gave me strange looks when I described what I wanted in a cookie cutter. I would walk into (insert craft supply/home goods store name here) and head for the decorative kitchen crap aisle. Every goddamn store stocked the same cookie cutters (circles, hearts, various animals) but none had a ribbon. Invariably a store employee would see me staring intensely at row of cutters and ask if I needed help. Of course! They would know exactly where one would find a ribbon cookie cutter!! I explained what I wanted and there was always that very same look of confusion on his/her face. "Umm...these are all of the cookie cutters that we have". Gee, thanks.
So I turned to the good old internet. Of course I could find it on here. I was still a little pissy that I couldn't find it in any single store in Dutchess County but whatever. Did I mention that when I began my online search it was approximately 3am and I hadn't been to bed yet? So I was getting a bit groggy and slightly punchy. Oooohh they have more than one kind on ebay!!Should I get the metal one, pink one, small, big (I thought), one with a fake hole in the middle or one that actually punches the hole out leaving you with a "realistic" ribbon? Which one? Life is full of possibilites! I fell in love with the LARGE pink one with the punchy hole. I could envision sugar cookies with a glaze, lined with white hard icing and filled in with pink sprinkles. People would fall over themselves trying to buy these beautiful cookies from me. Or so my 3, er 4am self thought. I apparently ordered 2 from 2 different vendors on 2 different websites. And chocolate molds, lollipop molds and sticks. Give me a credit card in the middle of the night and this is what happens.
While eagerly awaiting the arrival of my much coveted cookie cutters, I decided to go and buy all of the other decorating crap. I went to Michael's and found that it was a pink ribbon cookie makers dream...white icing in Elmer's glue type bottles, edible pink glitter gels, etc. Did you know that sprinkles come in a multitude of shapes and sizes? I did not. And there are different variations of pink too, though I gravitated towards the pinkest pink- HOT PINK! I got bags, icings, gels, ribbon, safety pins, a circle and heart cookie cutter...I can't even bring myself to tell you how much it cost. But I will say that the girl at the counter hooked me up with a coupon that saved me something like $13. Fundraising is pricey. And I hadn't even gotten the ingredients for the dough yet.
I was thrilled when I finally got to open the medium sized box that magically ended up on my porch, I knew Kandi's Kitchen (or whomever) would send me my perfect ribbon cookiecutter. I tore open the box like a kid at Christmas...I was unfolding and unfolding and unfolding something wrapped in newspaper. And there it was a mini pink ribbon cookie cutter. What the hell was I going to do with this? I'd have to sell the cookies for a friggin' quarter! But all hope was not lost because in a few days another package would arrive with my REAL biggie size ribbon cookie cutter. But, alas, I was duped again. It was the same exact cutter as the first!! I surrendered.
In the meantime I asked my friend and ex-cubicle mate Ashley if I could borrow her kitchen to be able to make the cookies as she has a full size oven and I would have to bake them by 2's in mine. She readily agreed and had no idea that she would become engulfed with my obsessive ribbon themed cookie madness. We agreed to bake on the Wednesday before the tag sale and possibly Thursday if needed. I was to bring the dough, she had the cookie sheets. At first I contemplated buying sugar cookie dough at BJ's, but decided that this would probably be more expensive and was sort of cheating. Never again. I spent most of Tuesday making batch after batch of cookie dough. I even baked a few to make sure that they were edible. They looked be-you-ti-ful! I took pics and texted them to Ashley and my sister.
Cookie making was actually a lot of fun and my sister, Ashley and I were a well oiled machine. And sugar cookies bake fast, thank god. But it was still hours of baking what felt like thousands of cookies. We cooled them and packed them up for me to transport home for decorating the next day. We ate the rejects. Things to know: Ribbon cookie cutters suck and the big ones with the cushioning rock. And my sister used all of the dough except a piece the size of an M&M. It was truly impressive.
Decorating was interesting. I can say for sure that none of us are artistic. In fact we are pretty much the opposite...oh if it was only videotaped for your pleasure (or YouTube viral fame). There were sprinkles everywhere, dripping white icing (I had visions of the gingerbread man lining on the ribbons), goopy pink gel and my sister's attempt at "art"- the smiley face. Buuuuut...they actually looked pretty cute all wrapped up in cellophane bags with pink ribbons.
The cookie selling aspect was actually uneventful compared to the weeks preceeding. We sold all the cookies! Yay!! We made money. We donated it to charity and all was well...
Somehow I became fixated on the idea that the cookies needed to be shaped like ribbons and that I HAD seen a ribbon cookie cutter once. Somewhere. Probably at a store. Maybe in the Tri-State area. I swear I saw one. This cookie cutter became my obsession. And I REALLY wanted to find it in a store to prove that I had seen one in a store. People (friends and store employees alike) gave me strange looks when I described what I wanted in a cookie cutter. I would walk into (insert craft supply/home goods store name here) and head for the decorative kitchen crap aisle. Every goddamn store stocked the same cookie cutters (circles, hearts, various animals) but none had a ribbon. Invariably a store employee would see me staring intensely at row of cutters and ask if I needed help. Of course! They would know exactly where one would find a ribbon cookie cutter!! I explained what I wanted and there was always that very same look of confusion on his/her face. "Umm...these are all of the cookie cutters that we have". Gee, thanks.
So I turned to the good old internet. Of course I could find it on here. I was still a little pissy that I couldn't find it in any single store in Dutchess County but whatever. Did I mention that when I began my online search it was approximately 3am and I hadn't been to bed yet? So I was getting a bit groggy and slightly punchy. Oooohh they have more than one kind on ebay!!Should I get the metal one, pink one, small, big (I thought), one with a fake hole in the middle or one that actually punches the hole out leaving you with a "realistic" ribbon? Which one? Life is full of possibilites! I fell in love with the LARGE pink one with the punchy hole. I could envision sugar cookies with a glaze, lined with white hard icing and filled in with pink sprinkles. People would fall over themselves trying to buy these beautiful cookies from me. Or so my 3, er 4am self thought. I apparently ordered 2 from 2 different vendors on 2 different websites. And chocolate molds, lollipop molds and sticks. Give me a credit card in the middle of the night and this is what happens.
While eagerly awaiting the arrival of my much coveted cookie cutters, I decided to go and buy all of the other decorating crap. I went to Michael's and found that it was a pink ribbon cookie makers dream...white icing in Elmer's glue type bottles, edible pink glitter gels, etc. Did you know that sprinkles come in a multitude of shapes and sizes? I did not. And there are different variations of pink too, though I gravitated towards the pinkest pink- HOT PINK! I got bags, icings, gels, ribbon, safety pins, a circle and heart cookie cutter...I can't even bring myself to tell you how much it cost. But I will say that the girl at the counter hooked me up with a coupon that saved me something like $13. Fundraising is pricey. And I hadn't even gotten the ingredients for the dough yet.
I was thrilled when I finally got to open the medium sized box that magically ended up on my porch, I knew Kandi's Kitchen (or whomever) would send me my perfect ribbon cookiecutter. I tore open the box like a kid at Christmas...I was unfolding and unfolding and unfolding something wrapped in newspaper. And there it was a mini pink ribbon cookie cutter. What the hell was I going to do with this? I'd have to sell the cookies for a friggin' quarter! But all hope was not lost because in a few days another package would arrive with my REAL biggie size ribbon cookie cutter. But, alas, I was duped again. It was the same exact cutter as the first!! I surrendered.
In the meantime I asked my friend and ex-cubicle mate Ashley if I could borrow her kitchen to be able to make the cookies as she has a full size oven and I would have to bake them by 2's in mine. She readily agreed and had no idea that she would become engulfed with my obsessive ribbon themed cookie madness. We agreed to bake on the Wednesday before the tag sale and possibly Thursday if needed. I was to bring the dough, she had the cookie sheets. At first I contemplated buying sugar cookie dough at BJ's, but decided that this would probably be more expensive and was sort of cheating. Never again. I spent most of Tuesday making batch after batch of cookie dough. I even baked a few to make sure that they were edible. They looked be-you-ti-ful! I took pics and texted them to Ashley and my sister.
Cookie making was actually a lot of fun and my sister, Ashley and I were a well oiled machine. And sugar cookies bake fast, thank god. But it was still hours of baking what felt like thousands of cookies. We cooled them and packed them up for me to transport home for decorating the next day. We ate the rejects. Things to know: Ribbon cookie cutters suck and the big ones with the cushioning rock. And my sister used all of the dough except a piece the size of an M&M. It was truly impressive.
Decorating was interesting. I can say for sure that none of us are artistic. In fact we are pretty much the opposite...oh if it was only videotaped for your pleasure (or YouTube viral fame). There were sprinkles everywhere, dripping white icing (I had visions of the gingerbread man lining on the ribbons), goopy pink gel and my sister's attempt at "art"- the smiley face. Buuuuut...they actually looked pretty cute all wrapped up in cellophane bags with pink ribbons.
The cookie selling aspect was actually uneventful compared to the weeks preceeding. We sold all the cookies! Yay!! We made money. We donated it to charity and all was well...
I am grateful that people (Ashley and my sister specifically) are still speaking to me after this week of cookie hell. I'd also like to thank my coworkers for putting up with obsessive sugar cookie making and decorating talk.
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