Congratulations Graduates!

This spring, I had the privilege to bake cookies for a couple of different graduation celebrations...

The first was a gift basket for a young lady who is heading to K-State this fall.

The second were party cookies for a young lady who will be headed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill and will be playing for their tennis team!

Until recently, my graduation philosophy is simple - AVOID the BLACK mortarboard at all costs!  In fact, when I made these cookies for my best friend to celebrate her time in college, I told her to just toss the all black mortarboard because the food coloring needed to saturate the royal icing makes it taste so terrible and colors your mouth for hours.

HOWEVER, since I have discovered the beauty of glaze... I now know that there is a yummy alternative.  For some reason, it only takes a drop of food coloring to blacken glaze, and as a result, it doesn't have any impact on the flavor of the icing!  ;^) So, now, the mortarboard is back into the cookie rotation!  And it looks so rich and shinny too! 

Congratulations ladies!

Cheers and Best Wishes!

Sarah

Happy Birthday, Tennis Girl!

 I am super excited to help Tennis Girl celebrate her 9th birthday!  Happy Birthday, Juliet!

These tennis ball cookies are for her class party at school!  Her mom wanted to make it extra special, so I designed a fun tag to add to the party favor bags and tied them with coordinating curl-ribbon.

Thank you, Jennifer, for this fun opportunity!

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"Oh my goodness...the Tennis Ball Cookies look SPECTACULAR!!!
You "ACED" it, girlfriend!!  BRAVO!!  

And, Juliet is going to absolutely LOVE her surprise!!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!"

~ Jennifer

Happy Homemaker Bakes Some Love

I had a "ball" making these sports cookies!

I am so excited to share my love of cookies with you.  I like to say that "I bake the special homemade treats for when you don't have time to..."  I specialize in frosted sugar cookies, but can also bake cakes, make cupcakes, and other yummy goodies.

Sarah's Sweet Shoppe is a home-based bakery.  I do all of my baking in my family kitchen.  My cookies are delicious sugar cookies with a fluffy frosting.  Until this webpage is up and running, you can see examples of some of my work on my facebook page under "photos." 

I think the cookies are most special when they reflect the personality of the person being celebrated... so I am happy to brainstorm ideas with you or take your idea and run with it! 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 913-709-1992 or e-mail me at sarahlrose@everestkc.net.