Mouth Sugar Cookies

It's mid-June which can only mean 1 thing, the end of school and a looong vacation..... I wish.  For kids with autism, school is year round.  I actually had the option to take off, but I decided to stick around for the summer.  Even though I'm not looking forward to a long break from work, it's still the end of another successful school year which feels like a big accomplishment.  A large division of SLPs in the DOE (or Speech Language Pathologists in the Department of Education for those of you who don't know the lingo) got together today to celebrate with something we call "Feeding Therapy."  For our "Feeding Therapy," we had a luncheon in which we all brought our own meal... and volunteers were asked to bring dessert.  How could I say no to another opportunity to bake.  I thought about what to make for 40 hungry and tired speech therapists, and I decided to go full out 'speech dork' and try to make people smile.  I made sugar cookies in the shape of mouths.  What better way to honor SLPs and Communication, and the hard work we've done all year long.
I had some fun experimenting with how to ice the mouths.  Here are some of the outtakes.

And here is how I eventually decided to do them.

 

Wine Glass Sugar Cookies

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!!!!!   For my husband's birthday, 15 of our closest friends traveled with us to Ithaca (his alma mater).  We went on a Wine Tour around Cayuga Lake, enjoyed the annual Ithaca festival, shopped in the Commons, and hiked around the gorges.  First of all thank you so much to everyone who joined us, we have the greatest friends ever and we had an amazing weekend.  Second of all, hope you enjoyed the party favor cookies I baked!

Teddy Bear Sugar Cookies

I had a VERY busy week last week baking two batches of sugar cookies.  I didn't have a choice as I had two very cookie friendly events. 
1- school bake sale
2- a very special husband's birthday

These were two events I couldn't pass up!  I'll post about each separately, but note that my trusty photographer husband was not around when I was baking these, so my pictures are not as clear.  Here's the first:

My school had a bake sale to raise money for Autism Speaks, a charity dedicated to increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders, to funding research into the causes, prevention and treatments for autism.  

The pink ones are chocolate sugar cookies with blackberry jam/chocolate icing and the brown ones are regular sugar cookies with chocolate icing