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.