Cookies

 Chocolate Capuccino Cookies.. so yummy, they taste like a chocolate bar, but they are cookies.

I made it!  150 cookies, 5 different flavors.  The cookies were for my daughter's mother in-law's 60th birthday.  They were "thank you" favors for her guests. I didn't think I could do it because I work full time during the day, but with a love for baking, my creative mind pumping, and a little assitance from my husband, I did it in 4 nights and 1 full day.  The yellow flower cookies are lemon, the lavender ones are Ube (Filipino purple yam), the neon pink hearts are strawberry, the green and yellow cookies are banana creme and the chocolate cookies are chocolate-capuccino (made with 72% cacao).  The cookie recipe is very simple.  Of course, I used organic sugar and unsalted butter.  Next time I will use organic flour and butter too.
I colored the cookie dough before chilling and rolling them out and used Wilton colored gel.  The Ube extract is already colored, but it came out grey, so I added some lavender coloring.

 This is a cookie bouquet made out of vanilla cookies.  The vase is a sour-cream pound cake with chocolate-caramel ganache.. yummy.  I think my blood sugar spiked, baking these cookies and icing them.  The cookie art drawing was done by my husband.  He is the artist in the family and has helped me with a lot of my baking decorations.

 These are the "Finally Sixty" Cookies done for Nette.  The yellow flower cookies are lemon, the lavander ones are Ube (Pilipino's purple yam), the neon pink heart are strawberry (strawberry essence from Charlie's Chocolate Factory in Port Coquitlam, BC), the green and yellow are banana creme and the chocolate are chocolate-capuccino(the chocolate is made with 72% cacao, those dark chocolate bars from Trader Joe's and the capuccino essence is from Charlie's).

Ube flavored... yummy.. soft.