Funky Cupcake Cookies

Steam Punk Festival

I had the pleasure of making cookies for this awesome event. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Waltham-MA/Steampunk-Festival/234046964955. It was my first time vending and although I wasn't sure what to expect, I had such a blast and met so many wonderful people.

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This is a good description of what Steam Punk is:

"Steampunk" is the science-fiction of the Steam Age; the Industrial Revolution re-imagined with the advantage of modern hindsight. Drawing upon the wealth of historical technology and the scientific fantasies of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, steampunk seeks to reinvent modern wonders (such as the computer) as the people of that era might have envisioned them. Following in the footsteps of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, steampunk authors blend history, science and imagination into a world of wonder that might have been. -G.D. Falksen

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If you still don't get it (I didn't), google Steam Punk images and check it out.

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It took some research and thinking to figure out what part of this culture would be best translated onto cookies. This is what I came up with. I made regular vanilla sugar cookies and chocolate chip chocolate sugar cookies. I tinted the icing as close to bronze as I could, and after they had dried, I painted over everything with bronze pearl dust.

The favorite, this design sold out first.

In the end after icing almost 100 cookies (and having a Root Canal), I wanted to do something a little easier so I simple flooded these and drew on them with edible writer markers.

Brown and gold small circle stacks

A gift bag I put together for the raffle at the festival. It had some hand embroidered tea towels, The Tea Deck by Sara Peterson, and two Steam Punk cookies.

My table! I love the way it all came together :)

Here's me! and my too tired to try that hard sign, that I finished at 4am.I sold almost all the cookies and whatever was left I just gave away to the other wonderful vendors on my way out.

Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies

I gave these a try to feed my not so secret chocolate addiction. I wasn't disappointed and I don't think anyone else in my family was either since they disappeared pretty quickly. They had a rich kind of dark chocolate flavor, and I used mini semi-sweet chocolate chips to make them extra chocolatey. I really love the way the bright colors look against the brown too.

Egg-free Nut-free
Little chocolate chip star bites. These were for my nephew who is allergic to a couple different things. I used Ener-g egg replacer and left out the almond extract, also made sure to wash all the measuring cups/spoons well with soap and warm water before I used them to make sure there's no nut or egg oils hanging around on them. I didn't use a piping bag for these, but if I was going to I would use a new one and make sure the coupler and tip were washed well before using them. I left some of them plain to show off the chocolate chips and plus they look so cute plain.