I’m sooo excited to be a part of this great event!
A group of Calgary Food Bloggers are descending on Casel Marché
this Saturday and Sunday
February 11 & 12
10:00 am – 5:30 pm
There will be a feast for your eyes (and your mouths)!
So many local food bloggers are participating and bringing scrumptious goodies to sell.
This will be my first time participating and I can’t wait!! I was so excited to be contacted by Vincci of the lovely
Ceci n’est pas un Food Blog
Proceeds this year will go to
Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids
This organization delivery over 1,500 lunches to kids who arrive at school hungry.
Please come down, I’ll be there on Saturday morning from 10 ’til noon.
I’ve baked up a batch of
and another “one-of-a-kind” cookie…
So I should explain how we met..
…years ago I taught a sweet young boy named Peter (Grade One) whose mom always stopped by to chat after school hours. She brought these cookies in for one of our Valentine’s celebrations and I was smitten.
It took a great deal of “buttering up” to coerce her to give me a copy of this recipe. Alas, I was sworn to the utmost secrecy… I can’t believe that I did… but, yes, I made that promise! And, as you know.. a promise is a promise. Even if it was long, long ago…
You have to know, I’m dying to share this recipe with you but my lips are sealed. The only way you’ll know how heavenly they are is to come down to our Bake Sale and buy a few… Or give me a ring and I’ll whip you up a batch ♥ . They’re not like any other cookie I’ve ever made.. and that’s saying a lot! I guess every girl has to keep a little sweet secret to herself now and then…
Now, don’t pout! I won’t send you off empty-handed today. I did discover a little icing trick that I love as much as I love these cookies. Whip up a simple buttercream frosting.. I pretty much make this one without a recipe:
Sweet Briar Rose Petal Cookies
- Make one batch of your favorite shortbread or sugar cookie, then make some…
- Icing
- 1/4 cup butter
- lots and lots of icing sugar (cups)
- flavoring (this is also a secret, but feel free to use any...)
- whole milk
- Pink Wilton gel food coloring
- Orchid Pink Pearl Dust
- Cheap 6 inch (baking) paint brush, 1/4" tip length narrow or flat-tipped
- Whip the butter until fluffy. Slowly add icing sugar until it thickens. Splash a little milk in and mix. Repeat, adding sugar and milk until the volume of icing you require is achieved. It never hurts to make extra for a little sneaky spoonful every now and then.
- Using a toothpick, dip the tip straight down into the gel coloring to pick up a tiny drop (I mean tiny!!). Rub it onto a corner of your icing and mix in. It will take a moment, but soon the color will come out the palest of pinks. If it’s not quite pink enough, add another teensy bit. It’s always easy to add more… add too much and you’re stuck with a garish pink. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! Bright colors are fun too!
- Frost your cookies using a knife or off-set spatula. Try to turn the cookie and make one circular swirl of icing, try to leave one or two “swirl” marks from the spatula in the icing (you’ll see what I mean by the photos), in other words, the icing shouldn’t be completely flat. In essence, you’re trying to mimic a rose petal.
- Lay your cookies flat in a plastic bag and rest on a cookie sheet then freeze completely.
- While frozen, dip your brush into the Pearl Dust ?just a smidgen ? and gently brush along the swirl, beginning on the outside edge. You can add more Pearl Dust as you go. The idea is just to darken areas along and on either side of the swirl so that it creates a rose petal effect.
As always…. cakes.. yum! 😛
As always… thank you:) xoxo Smidge
Awfully pretty in pink, those petals of yours, but I sure wish I could taste the cookie that did smite the Smidge! Have a Wonderful time this weekend! xo!
Ahhh, Spree, if you only lived closer you could tase one… I think this batch were just a wee bit over cooked. I used a cookie scoop and I think a simple teaspoonful would have kept them whiter.. In any event the taste is still lovely. Xo Smidge
Good luck with your cake bake sale this weekend. I am sorry I cannot be there to buy some of your secret-recipe cookies but it’s a long long way from here to there!
They look lovely, and i hope you raise lots and lots of money. What a fun thing to be a part of!
It’s an awesome way to meet other food bloggers and raise money at the same time!
Great presentation! I just love the look and feel of your post each time. Magical is the right word, Barbara!
what a great idea and have a super fun time 🙂
Thanks, it will be great to see how much we raise:)
These look divine! Good luck on the bake sale!
Those are gorgeous looking cookies. They look like something we have here in Australia called Honey Jumbles. Beautifully styled Smidge.
If I could see your honey jumbles recipe we would know.. That would be neat!!
Good Luck dear Barbara, sounds so exciting, and I wished to be there too… You are amazing, how beautiful these cookies… So romantic, I loved so much… Thank you, have a great weekend, with my love, nia
Wish you could be there as well, Nia!
A Blogger Bake Sale! Sounds like a great idea, Smidge, and I bet you’ll have a wonderful time. I, also, think these cookies you’ve prepared will really “wow the masses.” They are quite beautiful and if they taste half as good as they look, you’ll be sold out within minutes. Better bring pretzels or something to appease people who get to you too late. 🙂
It should be fun meeting everyone for the first time! Imagine if there was a WordPress Bake Sale.. So cool to meet everyone face to face?! Ahhh, yes, pretzels aren’t a bad idea. I hope everything sells fast, it would be sad to have my cookies languishing:P
Now, forgive me, but I will pout. And pout, and pout some more…. I live thousands of miles away from you, so it’s not fair, I repeat, NOT FAIR to tease me this way and leave me longing for a recipe I will never ever have (sigh, sigh, profuse tears)
Can you at least take a bunch of photos of the event, maybe a short video and share with us poor mortals?
Well I hadn’t thought of that! Why an excellent idea!!!ill be in that!!
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Great Idea!!! =)
What beautiful cookies. And what fun to do the blogger bake sale! I know your heartland nutri cookies and these beauties will sell out in minutes! Have a great time.
These sure are pretty Smidge! =)
That sounds like an amazing event.. and I’m sue you will wow them with whatever you make :). Now onto these cookies.. I’m in love. Yes, I am drooling.. wanting to make these as fast as I can 🙂
Sounds like a cool event! Great creations – like usual!
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That’s too cool!! What a great event to participate in. I’m sure you’ll bring something absolutely fantastic. Oh wow, and these cookies….YUM! x
I think I’ll be doing a little purchasing as well:)
Looking forward to hearing about how the sale went!
Wishing I lived in Calgary 🙁
Good luck at your bake sale! I would for sure buy some if I lived any closer!
I so wish I could have made it to that bake sale!!!
I hope your food blogger bake sale was a success!
So far so good, we’ll find out how much we raised after today!!
Oh, my, how I would love to have been able to come to Calgary for this one! A tremendous cause, a terrifically fun event, dreamy sounding and exquisitely dainty looking cookies, and a chance to visit with the beautiful Barbara!!! I hope it will have been a huge success and unsurpassed fun for all. And you gave me an idea I think I will have to try on a ‘sister’ cookie recipe (I’ll keep you posted if anything good comes of my teeny brainwave). 🙂
I hope it was a great event! What an honor to be asked to be a part of it. And yes…I am drooling.
Such a tease… but you weren’t teasing were you?
Nice poats all are informative I like that.