Holiday Cookie Gifts Galore

We are baking like crazy at the Bakery today. There are bascially 12 days left for us to bake the cookies, package them up in holiday gift boxes and ship them around the US. Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, Toffee Chocolate Chip, Super Chocolate Chunk, (Notice a pattern here with the chocolate?) Ok we also have Snickerdoodle, Old-Fashioned Vanilla, Cranberry white chocolate and gingerbread boys. I'm tired, but the really busy week is ahead. More coffee.

Black & Gold Pittsburgh Gingerbread

Ok, so our Pittsburgh Steelers need some fan support today. Anyone who lives in Pittsburgh will understand.

Christmas Cookie Baking

Gingerbread Cookies with Personality!

Each of our decorators here at the bakery has her own flair with decorating. During the holiday season, it's fun to get a little creative. Gingerbread boys seem to look great no matter the outfit! And they all taste wonderful. We'll be adding them to our assorted gift boxes this year as the featured cookie of the month in December is Gingerbread.

Fresh Baked gingerbread boys

Danielle hand decorating a tray of freshly baked gingerbread cookies. We're baking thousands this Holiday Season and we've improved the recipe this year. We've added some nutmeg and a little bit more ginger to the recipe for some more flavor. I think they taste wonderful!

Pre-Holiday Baking

Baking for the Holdiays AND supporting the Pittsburgh Penquins Hockey Team

Packing Shortbread for the Holidays

We've added a new flavor of shortbread this year. Yummy Toffee Shortbread Cookies.

Peace, Love & Joy

Peace, Love & Joy Gingerbread Cookies for Christmas! We're trying to have fun prior to the Christmas rush on cookies this year. Aren't they cute?

Gingerbread Cookies for Christmas!

Gingerbread boys decorated for Holiday shipping!

More gingerbread boy Cookies

Gingerbread boys waiting for their royal icing.

Prepping for the Holidays!

Gingerbread Cookies freshly baked with brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, ginger , ground cloves, nutmeg and pure vanilla. Yummy, it smells so good here. We'll hand decorate thousands of the boys this year to ship nationwide in our cookie boxes.

Mom's Christmas Sugar Cookies

These wonderful melt-in-your mouth sugar cookies are "Mom's Sugar Cookies". We bake the cookies from scratch using unbleached flour, butter, pure vanilla, eggs and sugar. After hand-rolling and cutting with scalloped cookie cutters, we bake and then frost with our own homemade buttercream frosting and finish with festive sprinkles. They are old-fashioned and wonderful. Simple, yes, but they'll remind you of cookies baked at home.

GINGERBREAD COOKIES

We are starting to plan our Christmas Holiday baking. This year we've decided to continue Gingerbread boys, they were so popular last year! This year we've added Christmas trees and Holiday gift packages in colors of red, green and white. I'm sure we'll be adding a couple others, maybe a stocking? Love this time of year prior to all the craziness which starts after Thanksgiving. Right now, it's mostly planning and stocking up, making boxes, ordering gorgeous ribbons.

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Sandy giving out cookie samples at the Women's Expo Show

Basket Affair and Country Cupboard Cookies shared a booth at the Women's Expo this past weekend in Monroeville PA. Cookies and Gourmet gift Baskets go together well! Visit http://www.basket-affair.com/ and our site http://www.countrycupboardcookies.com/ to get your holiday shopping started early this year!

Basket Affair getting ready for The Holiday Season

Danielle at the Women's Food Expo this past weekend

Decorating Cookies at the food show this weekend was a hit, Gingerbread Boys for Christmas and baby shower cookies , the pink onesies are adorable.

Visit our website http://www.countrycupboardcookies.com/ and Basket Affair at http://www.basket-affair.com/ . Kim from Basket Affair decorated our booth into a beautiful display of festive gourmet gift baskets, Christmas lights and gorgeous Holiday wreaths.

Baby Shower Cookies in shades of Pink

Cookie Decorating Demo at Womens' Expo this past weekend

Decorating Baby Shower Cookies: Onesies

Pint Chiropractic in Plum Boro PA

Julia from Pint Chiropractic in Plum Boro, PA at the Women's Expo in Monroeville PA this past weekend. Danielle from Country Cupboard Cookies received a cervical adjustment from them after 2 hours of hand decorating cookies at the show and today, she said her neck feels great! After all this blogging this morning at the computer, I may need to visit them myself. We were glad to have them as neighbors at the show!

Pint Chiropractic in Plum Boro. PA

Family Wellness Center

Our neighbors at the Women's & Food Expo in Monroeville, PA this past weekend were wonderful! We enjoyed their company and they seemed to enjoy our cookies! Dr. Scott Pint, ( sorry Scott, you didn't make the photo) and Julia from Pint Chiropractic in Plum Boro are located on Saltsburg Rd. Take a look at their website, lots of information there. http://www.pintchiropractic.com/

Delallo: Authentic Italian foods

Beautiful Website of Delallo's Italian foods

Delallo's Italian Foods are well known in the Pittsburgh area. One look at their website and you will see why. I buy their Olive Oil and tomato sauce all the time and love their products. After visiting http://www.delallo.com/ website while posting their photo from the Women's Food Expo in Monroeville, PA yesterday, I'm truly impressed with the amount of information there, including recipes and gorgeous photos of great food. A website business owner myself, I appreciate a beautiful and informative site and this one is worth the click.

Wildtree Tasting Parties

Amy's Wildtree Site

Wildtree

Wildtree : Natural , easy to prepare products without preservatives or additives

Party with chocolate! Dove chocolate Discoveries

I tried their Spiced Chai Tea dip, so yummy!

Visit the Website of Dove-Chocolate-Discoveries

Dove Chocolate Discoveries

What a novel party idea for chocolate lovers!

Dean Supply Pittsburgh

Dean Supply Pittsburgh

Dean Supply Pittsburgh, There's lots to buy!

I met Donald and Dennis from Dean Supply Pittsburgh yesterday at the Womens Food Expo in Monroeville, PA. Looks like a great place in the strip to buy everything from kitchen supplies to bar supplies to Equipment for anyone with a restaurant or a food business. Also, they are open to the Public, so anyone interested in party supplies or table top supplies could take a trip to the Strip and check them out on Penn Ave.

Pittsburgh Fudge, We love their handmade fudge!

Visit Pittsburgh Fudge for great holiday gift ideas!

Pittsburgh Fudge

Our friends Pittsburgh Fudge , fantastic fudge!

Basket Affair of Pittsburgh at the Womens Food Expo this weekend

Basket Affair of Pittsburgh website

Kim from Basket Affair of Pittsburgh set up this gorgeous Holiday display with gourmet gift baskets, Holiday gift items and her beautiful wreaths. The Holiday season is coming fast, yesterday's weather in Pittsburgh and today makes us feel that winter is already here! If you want to see some of Kims gift basket ideas for the upcoming Holiday season, check out her website. Basket Affair of Pittsburgh also has great ideas for Pittsburgh baskets, great for sending to your friends and relatives that have moved away and miss Pittsburgh!

Lois from Basket Affair of Pittsburgh

Talking to Potential customers

Sandy setting up for the food Show

Food Show October 2009

Visit Country Cupboard Cookies website for Holiday gift ideas

We displayed and sampled our cookies at the Women's & Food Expo held this weekend in Monroeville Pa. For two days, we shared a booth with Basket Affair from Pittsburgh with their gorgeous gourmet gift baskets . We're tired from all the prepartions but we had a good time meeting new customers and other vendors at the show. I had time to walk around and talk to some of the local vendors, so many interesting stories to tell about small businesses out there. Everyone is trying to build and grow their own business, but also most seem enthusiastic about supporting others in their endeavors. Thanks to everyone who attended the show and stopped by to see us, we hope you found some new ideas for gift giving this Holiday season!

Chocolate & Spice

Ginger Chocolate Chunk

A wonderful soft molasses & dark chocolate cookie

When I tell people this is my new favorite cookie, Ginger Chocolate Chunk, some are not so sure. Ginger and Chocolate? But it really does work, the chocolate is premium quality and dark. The ginger and cinnamon add just the right spice and the molasses and butter and brown sugar combine for just the right sweetness. And to make the cookie a favorite, it's crunchy on the edges and soft in the middle. I can easily enjoy one of these instead of lunch . It's our featured cookie of the month in September, will go away in October and November, but we will be returning it for the Holidays in December.

Come Visit us!

October 17th and 18th, Saturday and Sunday, we'll be at the new Convention Center in Monroeville, PA with lots of free cookie samples, holiday preview gift items and decorating cookie demonstrations. Anyone local in the Pittsburgh area? We'd love to meet you and have you taste some of our delicious cookies! (Booth 803) Kim from Basket Affair in Pittsburgh will also be there with us with her gorgeous gourmet gift baskets!
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Fall Decorated Acorns and Leaves

It's still supposed to hit 80 degrees today here in Western Pennsylvania, but last night was in the 50's so we know that Fall is coming soon. I've been waiting to bring out the fall colors of ribbons, I really love the natural cremes, chocolate brownies, deep reds, wine colors and warm yellow and oranges. We've decorated some new fall leaves and acorns. They should be available later this week online to order for cookie favors and in our assorted cookie gifts.

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Cookie Favors Monograms

Monogram Cookies in a Rainbow of colors

These simple but elegant monogram cookies were done for a bridal shower in an array of rainbow colors. I like the simplicity of these cookies, with cello favor bag and a pretty bow, they are perfect for a bridal shower or wedding. Our sugar cookies are baked with all natural ingredients and hand-rolled, then hand decorated. Every batch is custom made to order.

The latest Colors for Cookies

Lime green and chocolate Brown frostings look great on our hand-rolled sugar birthday cookies. We also came up with a teal green/blue color that looks just right for a summer birthday.

Chocolate Chip Cookies fresh from the oven

Chocolate Chip Cookies are the hardest cookie to bake, I think. Maybe the weather is to blame, one too large egg, not quite enough flour, overbeating the batter, the butter not at the right temperature, etc. But today I got it right! Slightly crispy on the outside, chocolate melting everywhere, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth texture, soft in the middle, well, enough said. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm bragging, but cookie bakers will understand. The cookie was worth the calories today!

Fresh Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies

I just baked a batch of Super Chocolate Chunk cookies for a custom order today and couldn't resist taking a photo. I gave up my lunch today for one of these.

Red, White & Blue Cookies

I just finished baking a batch of our new cookie which we will feature the month of July, our RED, WHITE & BLUE Cookie. We start with our chocolate chip recipe batter, instead of chocolate chips, we add dried blueberries, cranberries and Callebaut White Chocolate Chunks. The sweetness of the white chocolate and the slightly tart flavor of the cranberries and blueberries create an absolutely wonderful cookie! I had to pack up the remaining cookies quickly to avoid eating more than one.

Yay Pens!

Stanley Lord Stanley! Pittsburgh is crazy for the Penquins! I know that this hockey team picked up many new fans this year, it was such a fun season, we can't wait until next season!

Brown Box Specials

New this summer are our Brown Box Specials. Our signature gift box is a 2 pc Chocolate Brown and Creamy Vanilla box that looks so nice with almost any color ribbon or raffia. It's also a sturdy box so the cookies and brownies inside ship well whether shippng locally in Pennsylvania or across the country.

We are discounting some of our signature gifts this summer as high as 30% as a promotion for our cookie gifts. The actual items on speical will change weekly, so check back often. A great way to send a birthday, thank you or a Happy Father's Day gift!
Brown Box Specials this week

Welcome Home Pens!

Here's hoping the Pens play well tonight against the Red Wings!

It's a Hockey night in Pittsburgh

 

It's A great day for Hockey! ( especially in Pittsburgh!)