Here are a few pictures from a busy week preparing for the sale and a few previews of what will be for sale tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon in Kempton Hall at the church (147 NW 19th Ave, Portland Oregon). I hope to see you there!
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| I dedicated Thursday and Friday to cookie baking and decorating. These brushed embroidery cookies were the first design I tackled. |
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| I also had to include a heart design. I used a heart cookie cutter to make an impression in the cookies before baking. The first step in decorating these was to paint the heart with pink royal icing. |
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| These cookies demonstrate the three steps to decorating the heart cookies. |
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| Finished cookies that just need to dry before packaging. |
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| Of course I also had to make some French Macarons. I thought cherry would be a good choice for Valentine's Day. |
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| I filled the macarons with a Morello cherry buttercream. |
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| I also made some salted caramel macarons because they are always well received and I thought they would look nice packaged alongside the cherry macarons. |
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| The final touch in packaging the macarons was a homemade tag and some butcher's twine. |
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| Saturday morning it was truffle packaging time. Here I am filling truffle boxes with Dave who with his wife Cheryl made all of the truffles. Our friends Cindy and Terri also came by to help with the packaging. |
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| Each five-piece box contains three dark and two milk chocolate truffles. |
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| The final touch to the truffle boxes was adding a pretty bow and a paper heart. Terri and Cindy tied all of the ribbons and did a wonderful job. I love the way the boxes turned out and I have my friends to thank. If the bow tying was all up to me, I'd still be struggling — it's definitely not my talent. But like Terri said today, "many hands make light work." It was a team effort and I'm grateful. |
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