Mr men and lil Miss and the disaster that followed!

I received an order early in the year from a forum friend of mine. I was so looking forward to being able to make these biscuits for her daughters 2nd birthday.
Mr Men and Lil Miss cookies!
I had planned out how I was going to do them, gave myself plenty of time to do them.

When I had finished them I was very pleased with the end result, but then as the last bits started drying, I started getting a little worried...

See here on Mr Bump, the edges of the outline are starting to bleed in to the white back ground...

I Iced the white back grounds 24 hrs beforehand, I used white icing colour in my icing mix too.
I piped freehand all the characters then let them dry overnight, the next day I out lined them in black edible food colour pen. (This is where I went wrong) I had thought about using black icing, but decided the pen would be easier, quicker....BIG MISTAKE!!

I received a message from the lady the day she received them (She lives in another state from me) the black had completely run and disfigured most of the cookies :(

As you can see, complete disaster...
I refunded her most of her money, they were useless for her to have as party favours, I think it was only fair.
Big lesson learnt for me.

Mothers Day Orders

So soon after the Mad Easter rush, it was Mothers Day.

Once again I have been very remiss with taking photos of my creations :(

Here are a few of the orders I did manage to snap pics of..

Mini boxes...so many mini boxes! 

Lemon Cheesecake flavoured red glitter tulips with large heart message cookie
Thank you Julie!

Custom Mothers day Bouquet for Kylie's Mum

This one was actually ordered and never paid for...I ended up giving it to my mother in Law :)

Biscuit Tin collection for Fiona's Mum, 3 x message squares and 3 x flowers
Thanks Fiona!

Custom MUM with heart and message with bright tulips

Orange tulips ~gingerbread bouquet for Stacey's mum

Mothers Day Give away Winner is...

I'm sure you are all waiting in toe tingling anticipation of this! :)

The winner is Emerald365!
Please contact me via email at rebecca@mynatalnet.com.au  so I can get your delivery details!
Congratulations!

(ps, pic of random.org draw is coming, my phone is dead and the batteries in my camera are dead, I have printed the screen and will update later :)

Mothers Day Give away

Mothers day, the day that we celebrate that wonderful woman in our lives who brought us into the world and helped shape us to be the person we are today. (for some anyway!)

My mum still recounts the first attempt I had at making her breakfast in bed, I would have been all of 3? toast and tea in bed with a side of mayonnaise garnished with capsicum seeds (what was my father thinking? letting me serve that up!) the capsicum seeds were for added "flavour" riiiight....

My first Mothers day as a Mum myself, was a bit of a disaster. Lunch was being had at my Mums place, so Jman, Jboy and myself got in the car and went for the looong drive down to the parentals. I guessed Jman was holding out on me and would pull out some fantastic surprise some time during the day, sadly that wasn't to be...Jman stopped the car next to one of those "last minute" flower stalls that seem to pop up overnight on Mothers day.
He returned to the car with 3 bunches of chrysanthymums. I DETEST chrysanthymums, they stink, I dont even think they look very nice, he handed me one and said "happy mothers day baby" nice.
The other two bunches were for my Mum and grand mother. (who were pleased as punch to get "purple" Mums) My Aunty K was there too so I gleefully graciously handed her my bunch of mums with a kiss on the cheek.
Jman has since made up for the lack of Mums day creativity, last year I even got a card! with Jboys scribble in it! and a badge that I was made to wear all day (not that I was complaining!) emblazoned with the words "no 1 MUM!" Also Lindt balls are always appreciated :)

So to celebrate Mums Day in a biscuity way, I have a Mothers day gift pack to give away! $30 worth of hand made, hand decorated Biscuits, flowers, hearts and a message cookie.
To enter, be a follower of this blog, comment on this post with your ideal Mothers day experience, what would make Mothers day a fantastic day for you?
For another entry comment again to let me know you Like "Becca's Biscuits on FaceBook.
For a third and final entry comment once again  If you are a Twitter follower.
(so 3 comments for 3 entries, got it? good :)
Entries close Monday 2nd of May at 8pm (Adelaide time) open to Australian residents only.
Looking forward to reading all your responses! Good luck!

baby shower biscuits

I love baby showers, I love making biscuits for baby showers! One of the girls from my mothers group contacted me about making up some packs to attach to wine bottles for prizes at a baby shower, great idea!
She chose the large heart with a message on it and sets of pink and blue foot prints.
I think they look adorable.

after posting these on FB I received an order for much the same, unfortunately  forgot to take pictures due to the Easter madness that was happening at my place at the time!

Easter is hopping along..

Easter is just around the corner, already, how did that happen? Time flies when you're having fun? maybe.
I started making Easter cookies back in March but was side tracked by orders and life in general.

These were part of an order from over Easter, Eggs, bunnies, chicks etc.

The bunny faces were a hit, had quite a few of these going out around Australia!

These bunnies were probably my favourites out of all of the cookies I made. simple elegant bunnies :)

these too, but I thought they could have used some extra detail.

and lastly, a special request from the same customer, owls.

Hope you all had a safe and happy Easter!

Winner of the Easter Give away is.....

Sorry I wan't around last night, but I am posting now, so its all good, right? :)

Ok, so according to Random.org the comment that wins is number 34

(sorry the pic is so blurry, but you can still see the number!)

Congratulations Claire Ryder! You will be receiving an Easter cookie pack this week! Please email me at rebecca@mynatalnet.com.au with your postal address, I will get your yummies to you A.S.A.P!
Thanks for participating everyone! New Mothers Day Competition coming up soon....!

30 years of love.

My Parents, 30 years together and married, still as much in love as always. (blerghhh, no, its sweet, its just...well, you know, they're my parents..)

They threw a bit of a celebration party, their closest and dearest friends (and all us kids) it was a great night.

I wanted to make them something special for the party, Mum had asked me to make something to give to everyone as a memento of sorts.

I had been hanging out to try the brush stroke embroidery technique on a cookie for quite a while, so this was my perfect opportunity!

I was so disappointed when I asked my partner what he thought, there I was, holding out my biscuit, lovingly decorated and (at least I thought so) looking so fantastic, he asks "what is it?" I stared blankly in disbelief, "it's flowers, can't you see that???"  Jman then was all like " oh yeah, I knew that..." whatever.

ok, so maybe the first few I did, weren't that great...maybe...but they got better, I couldn't decide on contrast colour or embellishment, so I did a few different ones.

as you can see from the photos!

To be honest, I don't think any of them made it home with the guests as mementos, I'm pretty sure they all got eaten before they even left the building, white chocolate biscuits don't seem to last very long!
I do know that mum stashed one on top of the fridge, she ate it the next day, I'm pretty sure Dad missed out!

Happy Anniversary Mum and Dad, 30 years is an achievement!