A Morning of Cookies!

Today was a busy day at Linderhof . .  .

It's the "Sewing Group" this afternoon

(and you bring a treat because we sew the afternoon and a good part of the night away)

and

at 6:30, our Garden Club is hosting

"The Butterfly Lady"

From Linn County

for our Annual Public Forum

When you have a Public Forum,

They expect treats

(at least here on the prairie they do)

And so I spent the morning making cookies

My regular cut out cookies

But I used a new "cutter"

Or rather a stamper

It imprints an image onto the cookie

And then you can color or paint them.

I've not done it before and so limited myself to 12 --

in case it didn't work out!

But work out it did!

Almost like a miniature water color on each cookie!

Now I wish I had done the whole two dozen!

But instead, I took the same dough and cut out circles

Which I frosted with the black and white glaze

(as you can see I didn't use a measure or painter's tape -- although my lines are fairly straight, the "white" certainly took up more space than the "black"!

Cookies all plated and ready to be taken.

Another plate of black and whites are also ready.

They're for the Sewing Group.

And after the cookie baking, and a leftover lunch of

Hazellwood's Smoked Gouda Hash Browns made into a wonderful potato soup,

and cleaning the cookie mess and the luncheon dishes,

I stopped for tea (a bit early)

A fresh bouquet of tulips

Daughter Sarah and I both adore tulips!

And tea . . . and cookies

(the black and whites -- for I have lots of those!)

I've never made them before.

And not sure why -- they are a really "classy" cookie

And they taste good too.

I love the white and the chocolate.

They're an old New York Deli cookie

And how you eat them says it all about you --

Some eat the white and then the chocolate

While others eat the chocolate and then the white

While still others just eat down the middle of the cookie, getting some white and some chocolate with each bite!

I was that "middle of the road" person!

I hope you come to the program tonight --

Besides a really interesting speaker, there's cookies!!!

It's 6:30 at Fort Scott Community College Round Room

See you there!

(And I don't imagine that I'll be bringing any of these cookies home!)