Cinco de Mayo Cookies + some BIG news!

This morning I delivered some cookies to Tobias’ school for a Cinco de Mayo themed Teacher Appreciation Luncheon and they were just too cute not to share!

I got the recipe from The Alison Show last valentine’s day, and I recommend buying her veryyyy thorough video/e-book to anyone who wants to get started staying up late at night making perfectly perfect sugar cookies with royal icing.

When I was taking them to the school, the woman who opened the door for me looked at them wide-eyed and said,

“You made these?! You should go into business!”

and when I delivered them to the two PTA moms that were orchestrating the event, I received the same looks of surprise and,

“You made these?! Oh, you’re our new favorite. You could sell these.”

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When I made first or second batch (I’ll wrangle up the photos of all that I’ve made to date for another post), over a year ago,  I talked to Mark about getting better at it and maybe one day, selling them. Of course, there was this  cross-country move that put everything at a standstill, but I’ve decided I AM going to write up a business plan and start scheduling out deadlines for me to start a baking business.

My Granny, whose passing I wrote about when I mentioned that I keep her photo in my kitchen, owned a pie shop for years. My other grandma (whom we so-southernly call Meemaw :)) worked there, too. Both of my grandmothers can be credited for so much of the woman I am today, so every time I think about following in her footsteps of starting my own business, I keep crying!

They’re happy tears, though. Happy, exciting, you-just-wait-and-see tears.