Ramadan Cookie Platter

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Ramadan and Eid Cookies

Happy Ramadan! These are my new favorite cookies! These cookies taste so spectacular too. I used Rose water and Orange Blossom water in the cookies and the icing. When I baked them the whole house smelled like a Lebanese Bakery.

If you'd like to order some please email me at DreamItUpCookies@yahoo.com. I only have a couple spots open for this month so order soon if you're interested. Cookies are made to order so one week notice is required for local orders and two weeks for shipping orders. Also subject to my availability. Eid is on September 10, so get your orders in soon.

Here's a Product and Price list for these cookies.

Cookie Platters (Local orders only):

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RAMADAN Crescent & Star Platter,$38.00
12 crescents
12 stars
1"RAMADAN" word cookie
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EID Moon & Star Platter, $34.00
12 moons
12 stars
"EID" word cookie
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Minaret Platter,$49.00
12 Minaret message cookies,
Your choice of Arabic or English wording
12 mini flowers with crescent and star

Individually wrapped cookies in a cellophane bag, tied with a matching ribbon. 12 minimum per order:
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Minaret Message Cookie, $3.25 each
Your choice of Arabic or English wording.
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Crescent & Star in one bag, $2.75 each
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"EID" word cookie, $3.75 each

A Really Big Cookie

I made this a while back. It's a big sugar cookie that is roughly about 12x7 inches. It was used at a Master's dissertation presentation. The Dissertation was about Antar and Abla. The Footsteps say Antar and Abla in arabic, and the camel is because there is a part of their story where Antar has to go get a special kind of camel from another area to be able to marry his love Abla. I was a little reluctant to freehand such a big element (the camel). I drew it on paper first because my theory is that if I can draw it on paper than I can do it with a piping bag too. I was relieved that it came out ok, and that turned out to be only a minor issue.

The major issue being that, IT CRACKED, like a thousand times! I just stuck it back together with royal icing and moved on because there was no more time to make another one. I barely charged anything for this because of those cracks. My friends who ordered it really didn't mind the cracks that much, so it all worked out in the end. One good thing is that I have learned from my mistakes now. After alot of critical thinking I've figured out a fool proof plan of how to make one of these without the breakage.

Many thanks to my friends the Alzaim's for your support and your business :-)

Arabic Coffee

I made these to give to friends to sample. I saw Tea Party cookies on Sweetopia that I love, and then I thought to make these Arabic coffee themed cookies. Arabic coffee is very similar to espresso, but made differently, and often includes cardamom. There is also another kind that is less commonly made in some parts of the middle east, that uses lightly roasted coffee beans and lots of cardamom, that coffee is actually yellow instead of brown after it's brewed. Like espresso, Arabic coffee is served in demitasse cups.

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The bigger cookies are antique brass Arabic coffee pots, I dusted them with copper pearl dust to make them a little shiny. The cups replicate the most commonly used demitasse coffee cups in Lebanon, and other parts of the middle east (I'm American/Lebanese btw). I really love these cookies and it was really satisfying to make something from my culture into cookies.

All tied up, with a card.