DBK Identified

In case you were wondering what Death by Kookie looks like, here it is:

140 for Genentech in the front drying and 535 in the back for GGMG's Halloween Party. Whew.

Calling in Sick to our Blog: We have DBK

We've been sort of absent lately, and that's because we've been struck with a phenomenon that we'll call "Death by Kookie" or DBK (cue ominous music here). DBK is when the orders are huge and all-consuming, but so are our lives. Basically, the equation is something like: family needs + mass kookie orders = AAAACKKKK!!!

The good news is that we're optimists (or at least Wendy is) and we learn from our experiences. So we know now how to manage the kookie production better to make sure that home life still feels good and we return to sleeping at least 12 hours each night and eating bon bons all day. Oh, just kidding, but we're at least shooting for not being so exhausted for preschool drop-offs in the morning!

Keep it Simple, Stupid!

Well, we're not really stupid, although sometimes we certainly feel that way. But the point is that sometimes a cookie cutter is so cute, it doesn't call for much. Here's a 4 pack of animals that we did for a baby shower.

The Little Big Guy

Dina's little man turned 3 last Monday and she made these little party favors for his playground party.

Sanding sugar on these 3's because Dina packaged them before the 3 had time to dry! Lesson learned. Lesson number 2? Sanding sugar is a nice cover up (not like a beach sarong, but for icing mess-ups).

Here are the ones that managed to dry before Dina got her grubby fingers on them.

For the Wee Ones

Have we mentioned that little kids like our kookies?

The big kid in the background didn't mind them, either!

P.S. These were the 75 birthday kookies in the last post!

Happy 75th Mom!

Dina's mom turned 75 this last weekend! Yowza! She's off to L.A. this coming weekend for a birthday celebration in honor of her mother, and made these monograms for the party favors. She's not sure whether her mom would really appreciate actually having the number "75" on the kookie, but hey, it is the truth and mom always told Dina to tell the truth!!!

Happy 21st Birthday Mom!

Baking for Pleasure

You know how when you eat the same cereal every morning, you get so tired of it that you don't want it for, like, 2 years? Or if you work in an ice cream shop, people think that's so cool but really, the last thing you want to do is ingest any cold creamy substance? Well, baking kookies can be like that some times. There must be something about smelling the same smell every day that gets to someone. Kind of like Chinese water torture...slow, but deadly? Ok, we're exaggerating.

But we use Baking for Pleasure as little breaks away from Hello Kookie, to remind us that we really do enjoy and love this process. There's something about baking that is simply so satisfying. You feel good doing it, but you feel even better knowing that you're producing something that people truly enjoy. When you give someone a kookie (or a cookie) or a cupcake or a brownie or whatever it is, you just know that you're taking that person back to fourth grade where all they really want afterwards is either a hug from their mom or a glass of milk (or both).

Here's Dina's latest installment: whole wheat oatmeal chocolate chip cookie bars. Sort of healthy, but really not.

Even raw looks pretty darn yummy.

Baked was pretty good, too. Almost too many chocolate chips, if you can believe it.

P.S. This turned out to be a great Sunday activity since it was raining today in San Francisco. In September! What's up with that?!

Blast Off!

For Liam's 3rd birthday, we took a cue from his birthday invitation and made the little guy some rocket kookies. We hope Liam has a blast eating them, as we had a blast making them!

We tried to think of some cute saying combining Liam and rocket together that we could write on the kookie, but alas, "Liam's 3!" seemed to be the most appropriate of all.

Ok, it's a little patriotic, but primary colors seemed perfect for a preschooler!

60 kookies ready to be delivered to the Noe Valley moms crew. Thanks, Liam!

The Best of Both Worlds

For Molly's birthday, why make her choose? She should get kookies and eat her (cup)cake too! Happy Birthday Molly, and thanks for your order, Stacey!

Off to L.A. we go!

Weee're Baaaack!!

From a long vacation, that is. We're back in the kitchen and are so excited that we received an order from Malinda Lo! Malinda's book Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, is already out in stores. Our order is being sent to her publisher, Little Brown, as promotional items, and we're also making a big custom batch for her official book launch here in San Francisco. We did our best to do right by the gorgeous cover of Ash, and are so happy for Malinda's major accomplishment. Kudos!

The cover of Ash is amazing, so we tried to get the feel of the book with the grey backdrop and deep-hued script

All packaged and ready to go! Look! We have labels!!