If you haven't seen these online already, I just wanted to show you these fabulous Helvetica cookie cutters from Beverly Hsu.
Oh, the possibilities. Combine these with a couple of the decorating techniques in this book and one could have a very nice-ooking, edible alphabet.
Speaking of cookies, last night J and I sat at the kitchen table with mugs of steaming tea, dreaming of cookies. 7:30 pm is "lights off" at our one local store. Afterwards any culinary cravings need to be put on hold until the following morning. Or else (shudder) made from scratch.
Oh, the possibilities. Combine these with a couple of the decorating techniques in this book and one could have a very nice-ooking, edible alphabet.
Speaking of cookies, last night J and I sat at the kitchen table with mugs of steaming tea, dreaming of cookies. 7:30 pm is "lights off" at our one local store. Afterwards any culinary cravings need to be put on hold until the following morning. Or else (shudder) made from scratch.J: I wish we had some cookies.
M: (Glancing at the clock) We don't have cookies, or even any good ingredients for cookies.
J: There are sunflower seeds!
M: Sunflower seeds aren't chocolate.
J: There are raisins!
M: Raisins aren't chocolate either.
J: (Sounding hopeful) There's baker's chocolate!
M: What would we do, sweeten it, melt it, and form it into chips?
I have a very limited concept of what cookies are, and it definitely involves chocolate chips. After a few fruitless moments of opening cabinet doors expecting chocolate chip cookies to materialize on our shelves full of dulse flakes and canned beans, we abandoned hope and headed for the non-fat comfort of the electric blanket and Netflix instant movies.
A more domestic person than I probably could have concocted something delicious from the ingredients in our chip-less pantry. I have friends with enviable, practical abilities like that. Personally, I depend on cookbooks as sacred kitchen scripture, and even with instructions you'll find me pouring wet ingredients into sad, unready crusts; furiously gobbing up the mixer until it emits a smokey smell; assailing a ball of sticky dough until it's wound so tightly against the rolling pin that J has to be called in to rescue it with hands full of flour.
Maybe I'll make it to the store in time to get cookies tonight. I hope so.
7 comments:
i'm completely obsessed with letters these days... craving a word tattoo, always on the lookout for vintage letters, press, etc.
i hope you get cookies too. :)
I like those cutters..too bad I gave up baking years........ago
But with my new grandson...maybe...
that sounds like quite an abode you have....They do have frozen dough now....you could ...I mean someone could do...
movies and heat...good alternative
on a winter evening
hope you had fun
I know a friend who used to crave chocolate or sweets of any kind sometimes and she was known to take chocolate (powdered would do), add sweetener and butter and pretend it was frosting. Maybe she added powdered sugar?? I get cravings for sweets ALL the time and now put Greek vanilla yogurt, chopped almonds, and chopped apricots all in a bowl, mix and eat. It is sweet, crunchy and oh so satisfying. But...beware of the fat content in that yogurt. I have an addiction to it now and am SURE it is the cause of my most recent weight gain. That or all this @#%* rain!!!
Oh those cookie cutters are ace. You could make fun things out of clay with them too.
Fun stuff.
Love your dialoge with J.
Hope you both get your cookie fix.
I've been looking for cookie cutters in the shape of musical notes and music notation. Still haven't found them. I've got some in the shape of sharks.
I should go hunting for my old (when I used to bake days) brownie recipe. It used bakers bitter chocolate and made rich rich wonderfully textured chocolate brownies. Walnuts were a must.
I am sure there was tons of sugar to counter act teh bitter in the chocolate. Oh I am salavating remembering the taste and feel of them in my mouth. NUMMMMMMMMMMMMY.
I love those cookie cutters. I have an appreciation for various fonts myself.
I want to be one of those people who can cook or bake something without a cookbook, but I'm not there now.
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