January 2013 ~ Cookielicious

Friday, January 4, 2013

What stove will I go with

I am getting a new stove!! So I did my research and I have decided to go with the GE Cafe Electric Convection Oven with Radiant heat and baking drawer. Along with the above counter microwave convection oven. I read all the reviews that I could find and there was no complaints on

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and I went to look a new stoves because if I am going to try and make a living by baking cookies then I will need a good reliable stove and she wanted to purchase that for me!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

A new adventure!

Hello and thank you for stopping by!

My name is Robyn and I have created this blog to log my process of teaching myself the art of cookie, cake and pop cakes. One day, I hope to sell my custom creations under the MI Cottage Food Law at my local farmer and flea markets and other similar venues. I have always been creative and crafty. I have dabbled in many crafts from chocolate candy making in the 80's to give out to family and friends at Christmas time along with many types of homemade baked Christmas cookies, onto Crocheting in the 90's, to sewing, then Manual & Digital Scrap booking, Web & Blog Designing in the 20th century.

But, I have to admit that I had not been feeling very creative over the last year until this past Christmas when I got the fever to decorate some sugar cookies which was sparked by a beautiful sugar cookie post(see below) I had seen one day on Pinterest posted by the talented Marian of Sweetopia.

By the way, TOTALLY LOVE PINTEREST!! So of course after seeing that and reading her article and the deep desire to not have my sugar cookies look like they did when I decorated them at age 7, lol. So began the madness to find out all I could about professionally decorating sugar cookies. So I read all of Sweetopia post and her one blog lead to reading more blogs, which lead to reading tutorial after tutorial as well as watching video after video. After all the research and few small purchases, it was time to bake some Christmas sugar cookies and as luck would have it, my mom needed something to bring to bring to her two bowling Christmas parties. Well, you can decide for yourself by viewing my cookies images below, but for me, I must say for this being my first attempt at professionally decorated cookies, I am very proud of my cookies. I received many compliments from my family/friends and lots of them telling me I could do this for a living, hmm. Well that thought never left my mind for the next week so then I began to research MI home based cookie bakery laws. Once I did that, I agreed with my family/friends and realized that I can like many other stay-at-home wives, make a living at doing something that brings me such JOY!

A few were done by my wonderful hubby, Aaron. Such as his brown Mr. Hankey snowman, LOL :-) He is from the show South Park which my hubby loves, silly boy lol.