My Favorite Farm

"That house was a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or story telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness." –J.R.R. Tolkien

Penquins Hockey Fans

I can't figure out how to save this video in an easy format to view, but if you're interested, you can copy and paste the link below to view some Pittsburgh Hockey fans in Raleigh sweeping the Canes! Ha, Chris is my nephew, so better yet!

http://www.news14.com//Default.aspx?ArID=609789

Penquins Hockey Cookies

 

It's a great day for Hockey!

Penn State Pennharmonics

I learned to love Penn State when our daughter Lori attended school there from 2002-2006, so I may be partial, but this is so good.

Goodbye Atlanta, Hello Dallas

Never got around to posting this photo taken in January 2009 when we drove to Dallas to help Lori move in to her new apartment. Wow, it's been 4 months already. Sigh, we miss her!

Gerbera Daisy Cookies and Shortbread for Spring

Our bright new colors of spring in fucshia, lavendar and orange are getting me in the mood for warmer weather! Still in the 40's here in Pittsburgh but the temperature is on the rise, we may make it into the 60's this week. I'm thinking that we may begin to offer decorated cut-out sugar cookies at Country Cupboard Cookies, we're going to talk about it this week. Hmmmm, I'm picturing baby shower cookies, wedding monograms, birthday cakes with personalized messages, oh, and daisys!

Coming soon: Cookie Gifts for Spring!

I do love winter, the cold is actually invigorating, I always loved trips out west to ski, I love walks in the winter snow, I even used to ice skate a lot. Winter is beautiful when there is snow, but this "wintery mix" we are having lately in Western Pennsylvania, one day ice, one day snow, one day rain. Well, I'm ready for Spring! We baked up some sugar cookies today and decided, yes it was time to buy some new spring gift boxes and spring ribbons.

Valentines Day Special Video

http://kdka.com/video/?id=53197@kdka.dayport.com

I love the video with our visit with Dave Crawley from KDKA in Pittsburgh, KD Country! It's a Valentine story about Country Cupboard Cookies.

Chocolate Valentines

 

These yummy cookies are available for shipping from our online store at CountryCupboardCookies.com . Double Chocolate Fudge with extra chunks of Callebaut chocolate, wonderful Chocolate Chip with more chocolate chips than flour and our buttery melt-in-your mouth sugar cookies frosted with chocolate buttercream. Happy Valentine's Day!

Conversation Cookie Hearts with a slightly different message!

All in good humor, I know that there are those who really don't like Valentine's Day. Well, I wouldn't either if I was heartbroken. This is a tasty way to laugh it off, we asked everyone to come up with "break up " verses, the list is actually longer that the "romantic" list, and seems to be more fun. I guess we all need to laugh at ourselves sometimes. Hmmm, well, the cookies are all good and they all taste the same!
http://countrycupboardcookies.com

Cookies for Valentine's Day With Romantic messages

Something about the pastel colors that make these cookies more sweet, I guess, but Valentines Day is mostly just a fun day to indulge! These were fun to make, we have a whole list of verses at the bakery, can't wait to start baking them for Valentine's Day!

Pittsburgh Magazine

Homemade for the Holidays!

This is a very nice article written by Chris Fennimore of Wqed for Pittsburgh magazine. It's wonderful to be noticed!

http://wqed.com/mag/features/1208/homemade_holidays.php

Country Christmas Cookies

It's getting busy for the holidays, hopefully the poor economy won't keep people from sending Christmas Cookie Gifts this year! But so far, interest is high and orders are starting to come in. This is one of my favorite gifts this year that we're offering at Country Cupboard Cookies. The White Pine Sampler includes brownies, cookies, gourmet coffee, peanuts, popcorn and buttery shortbread. I really like the packaging, the gift box is a woodsy look with pinecones and greenery tied off with green and natural raffias. Visit our website if you're interested! http://countrycupboardcookies.com

Tis the Season

Oh, we are getting busy at the cookie shop! My daughter Lori designed these creative new cookies that we will offer as "Cookie Art" Favors. The edible images are printed from her original artwork with food dye! We then attach them to our baked from scratch sugar cookies with royal icing. Something new this year to add to the Holiday chaos at a cookie company. But yet we look forward to the season all year!

Foods Discovered

Check out the nice article that Foods Discovered wrote about our Cookie Company, Country Cupboard Cookies!
Read it here!

Fall: The Best Time for Baking!

I love baking in the fall, the cooler weather is one factor, but also the flavors, Cranberry Oatmeal pecan cookies, Dark Chocolate Chunk cookies. Yum! And the holiday season is coming with all the baking I can stand!

Gingerbread Cookies for Christmas

We're working on a line of gingerbread this year at Country Cupboard Cookies. It took awhile to get the recipe right, spicy but not too spicy, soft but not too soft to travel, just the right size, etc. We're going to decorate them individually so they will all have a different look.

Wind Turbines near Indian Lake

Wind turbines...are they an eyesore or do they enhance the landscape like the old farm windmills? I kind of like them especially against a beautiful fall background. But still, not sure.

Dan & his Kayak

Dan trying out his birthday present this year, a new kayak. I now want one too! So much fun once you get in!

Wine tote