Somehow, somewhere, I picked up the fine art of obsessive cookie making. Don't know how this has come to be, but it has, and it has consumed my life!
When Emily was a little baby I tried making press out sugar cookies, because I thought that that what mommies were supposed to do. It was a disaster. I was so frustrated that I swore off cookie baking for years after.
When I moved to Columbus, my mother in law gave me her large stash of cookie cutters. I thought they were so neat because they represented pieces of my husband's childhood. From time I would come across them and think about trying to bake again, but life just always got in the way.
Over the past few years I have begun to get back into baking. Slowly I have been tweaking my recipes and methods and I have become quite fond of it! Through the encouragement of a dear friend I have slowly begun to "advertise' my cookies. To my utter shock and surprise I have gotten a phenomenal response that has kept me very busy. It really is something that i am actually profiting from something that I was so dismally bad at a few years ago!!
I do not hope or expect to be a world-famous gourmet cookie maker. I do not believe my new hobby in any way will allow me to quit my day job. I am excited to be able to share this new talent with my friends and people I care about. I want to know that these cookies make people smile!
