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Thank You NICU Nurses

These cookies were made last year as a parting gift for Idrees's favorite NICU nurses. The BWH is for Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the I is for Idrees. Some were made into oversized favors like pictured above for specific people. I also made big trays of mini's to put near the coffee machine as a treat for everyone. I made them in one night, so it was a bit of a rush job. If I had more time I would have made the BWH much nicer or even the hospitals actual logo.

Zack's First Birthday

These cookies were made for a beautiful little boy's 1st birthday party. The little animals are taken from the party's invite.

Thank you so much to my friend Maryam for ordering, I was so happy to make cookies for Zackaria!

Birthday Sweets

I made this cake and cake truffles for Idrees's birthday. The cake is blue velvet with chocolate buttercream and a chocolate buttercream ricotta filling. The decorations are royal icing transfers that I made to match the hanging decorations and paper goods. The truffles are the same blue velvet cake covered in a rich semisweet chocolate ganache. Both were enjoyed and it was a rewarding experience to make my little boy's first birthday cake.

The last two shots are by Feda Eid Photography

Update

It's been a long year and I wanted to give an update on my little guy Idrees. Idrees is doing unbelievably well now. He's still on oxygen at home, but doesn't have any other major issues thank god. I want to put a little of his story here just so that if anyone ever finds themselves or someone close to them in this position they can have some hope and know that it is possible for them to still have a happy healthy child. When I was pregnant with him I had a premature rupture of membranes(PPROM) when I was only 14 weeks along. At first I was expected to have a miscarriage, but it never happened. Then he was not expected to live and I was urged to terminate my pregnancy with him. Although I am pro-choice, personally that is not something I could ever do. So I continued on and kept leaking fluid for the rest of my pregnancy and never reaccumulated any fluid around him. I was never given a shred of hope for his outcome from any doctor. Despite what they said he hung on another whopping 18 weeks after my water broke before being born at almost 32 weeks. He just turned one year old and I have no words that can do justice how I feel about that and him. He is such a joy and blessing in our lives. Here's a picture of him on his first birthday to compare to the one I posted almost a year ago. These are taken by my lovely sister and favorite photgrapher Feda Eid




P.S. I'm taking orders again and I've made some cookies recently so look out for the relaunch of Dream It Up Cookies!

Haven't been baking cookies for a while...

But I've been baking other things, like this little guy:

Born on March 3rd, at almost 32 weeks gestation, 3lbs 9oz. He's been getting some help with breathing but is doing great thank god.

Hopefully I'll be back to baking cookies by June, I've really missed it :-)

Bridal Shower Cookies

Dark red and gold, bridal shower favors.

Thanks so much Yasmin for ordering, I loved making them!

Cameras and Cupcakes

Chocolate sugar cookies for a young lady's 13th birthday.

I <3 bows.

Thank You so much for ordering Annie! Happy birthday Zofia, wishing you many more birthdays to come.

The Last of the Eid Cookies

Ramadan Cookie Platter

All wrapped up and ready to go. For more pictures and ordering info click here.

Chocolate Brown Wedding Monograms

75 Chocolate brown wedding monogrammed cookies. For the first time ever, I let someone help decorate cookies with me. To help me out, my sister Feda hand painted most of the monogram letter's with pearl luster dust. There is also painted gold luster dust dots in the inner corners of each cookie. One of my other sisters (I have 4) Marwa helped me package them all up. Thanks Ladies, Love You! These were shipped to Kentucky. I've never shipped a big order before, but I'm happy to say not a single one broke. So far I've had great luck, and haven't had any cookies break during shipping. I have to say though, I do use entirely too much packaging, but it gets the job done.

Thanks so much to Leigh for ordering, so happy to have been a part of your wedding!

P.S Follow my sister Feda's blog, she is a great photographer. See her July archive and scroll all the way down to see more pictures of me and some of my sister's all painted up like this in "The Tribe Series":

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

Texas!

I've been seeing alot of Texas and western themed cookies around, and I was happy to get a chance to make some myself. These were ordered for a wonderful Texas man's birthday, by his equally wonderful New Englander wife.

Half the fun of decorating cookies for me is coming up with the design and sketching it out. This is my take on the Texas shaped Texas flag cookie.

Thanks so much to Annie for ordering! I loved making them <3>

Happy Birthday Bob!

After my mother and father, Bob was the first person to hold me when I was born. He's been there for me ever since. Love you Bob!

Graduation Party Cookies

For Joe, who just graduated from Thayer Academy and is moving on to Northeastern University. The designs are based on the two schools logo's and mascots.

A special cookie for Joe, Congrats!

Thank you so much Kathy for ordering again! It's been a pleasure being a part of your children's celebrations.

Funky Cupcake Cookies

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 :-)

Theater, Music, and Movies

Birthday cookies for a girl who loves theater, music, and movies.

I'm in love with these pink satin bows, I was smiling the whole time I was tying them.

One special big cookie for the birthday girl


Thanks to Cathy for ordering, it was my pleasure to make these cookies :-)

Graduation cookies

Graduation cookies I made for my brother Safwan's graduation party last sunday. The cake was from Gerardo's Italian Bakery in Westborough, Ma. It was really delicious and not heavy at all.

Girlie Birthday Cookies

These were for my adorable niece Ayah on her 3rd birthday. She picked out her birthday decorations and plates etc. and I made these cookies and cake to match. The colors made me so excited, I love rainbow and neon anything.

Here you can see the plate that I got the designs for the cookies and the cake from.
I'm no cake decorator, but I decided to give it a try and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I made the cake decorations with the same royal icing I use on the cookies. I piped them onto wax paper and the next day right before the party I peeled them off and stuck them on the cake.

It's strawberry cake with a couple extra drops of electric pink gel paste food coloring to make it super pink. I also added in a couple handfuls of rainbow sprinkles to make it a confetti cake. I made chocolate buttercream from scratch for the first time in my life. It tasted great and much better than the store bought frosting.