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!!

Continuing Education

Sounds like something we had to do in our former careers, but not now! Now it's for pleasure, and sure, a little education, too. Here's the results from a cookie decorating class Wendy took recently at Spun Sugar.

Best tip of the day? It's only a cookie, for crying out loud! Don't sweat the small stuff, people are going to EAT them!

Wedding Gift Surprise

Some good friends of Dina's were celebrating their union with a wonderful dinner in Mill Valley. It was a small, intimate event, so it seemed like a perfect opportunity to give a personalized gift (we thought it'd be nice to make some personalized wedding favors). Fine china and crockpots are great, but sometimes, it's nice to get something so obviously made just for you!

M +

A =

Yay!

Congrats M&A on a lifetime of happiness!

Quacky Birthday!

Happy Birthday A, our little friend in Los Angeles. We hope you like our kookies (maybe your Mom could prominently feature them in her next movie? Nah! We're just happy she's featuring them at your party!).

Yes, We Do Make Kookies, Too!!!

We've had a lot of non-Kookie digressions as of late, so let's get back on track!

As a thank you to Dina's son's preschool for a wonderful summer session, a batch of these were specially-made. The preschool is in an adorable red schoolhouse with white trimmed windows, just what you'd imagine a preschool should look like!