The Cookie Castle News
About The Price Of Eggs And Baffling News Items
IN THE FEB. 1, 2025 ISSUE
Royal Greetings From The Cozy Castle Kitchen
Food For Thought
Laugh of the Week
Product Review
— Chef’s Cupboard Mashed Potato Flakes
Household Hint
Recipe Of The Week
— Homemade Hawaiian Roles
A View From The Castle (News Commentary Blog)
— Inquiring Minds Want To Know About Baffling Items In The News
CookieQueen Entertainment
Cookie Queen Cookies & Cakes
Cookie Queen Cookbooks
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ROYAL GREETINGS FROM THE COZY CASTLE KITCHEN
OMG - Donald Trump has been President of the United States for two whole weeks and the price of eggs still has not dropped. The miserable Main Stream Media and the dopey Democrats just can’t get over this.
If you listen to any news program or talk shows all you hear are these idiots going on and on and on about how the price of eggs is still too high.
But you never once heard these same twerps complain about the price of eggs which jumped 65% during the four year debacle of the Brain Dead Biden administration.
Eggs were 99 cents a dozen when Donald Trump was president in 2020. I have a sales receipt from Aldi’s right here in front of me. Under Biden you’d be lucky to get a dozen eggs of $7. In other states the price skyrocketed to $12 a dozen.
And for the past two weeks — since Trump was inaugurated to his second term (yaaaay!!!!) the going rate at my Aldi’s was $4.79 and you could buy just two dozen.
And while Trump will definitely get inflation under control and the price of many things will decrease — I have bad news for you, me and everyone else who uses eggs: the price of eggs is not going back to 99 cents a dozen. I would not be surprised if the price actually increases.
Why? Well - first of all there was a recent outbreak of Bird flu and billions of chickens had to be killed. Less chickens - less eggs. But that’s not the main reason.
Egg producers (even though their profits increased in the past four years) are seeking a higher profit margin which means that prices — once they go up — won’t be coming down. Their profit margin last year was minus 3.8%…that’s negative 3.8%.
Consider the profit margins for other companies:
Grocery stores 1.5%
Restaurants 3%
Coffee 3.1%
Gas industry 12%.
Electric companies 10.88%
Amazon 7.3%
Apple 26.44%
The profit margin for egg producers has been in the negative realm for many many years and now they are going to try to make up for it. Can you blame them?
But think about what you are getting before being upset with egg producers.
At $7 a dozen one egg costs 58 cents. One tiny piece of Dove Dark Chocolate (my favorite) is 14 cents. Eggs provide lots of protein and eating them will help you be strong and healthy. Chocolate — not so much.
And more bad news - the price of chocolate is going to go up even more than it has in the past year which has nothing to do with inflation or Donald Trump or — as some morons claim — Trump’s tariffs. The price increase has to do with a blight of the cacoa trees from where we get cocoa beans that are made into chocolate. Many trees died. It takes seven years for a new tree to product anything.
Also consider this — most cocoa trees — 60% — are grown in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, followed by Ecuador with just 9%. In addition to the tree disease and a draught Ghana has had to deal with cocoa smuggling which accounted for the loss of 150,000 tons. The cocoa bean growers face $600 million in lost revenue.
Then consider the laws of supply and demand:. When there is great demand but less product — prices go up.
That’s the reason I am paying $5 for a bag of Dove Dark Chocolate instead of $3.69 which it was a couple of months ago.
Unfortunately as a cookie maker I use a lot of eggs and chocolate. I don’t even want titnk about what my profit margin will be unless I raise Cookie Queen Cookie prices. It’s a vicious cycle.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Funny thing about getting older: Your eyesight starts getting weaker but your ability tosee through people's bullshit gets much better
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LAUGH OF THE WEEK
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PRODUCT REVIEW
I needed plain — unseasoned — mashed potato flakes to make the Hawaiian Rolls r(ecipe below). A 13.75 ounce box of the idahoan brand was $3.85. I also got the same size box of the Chef’s Cupboard brand at Aldi’s for $1.85. Guess which one was best. Yep — the cheaper one (also from Idaho potatoes) at Aldi’s is 10 times better than the name brand. And the unseasoned instant mashed potatoes are so much better than the flavored ones that come in the small packets. Also nice about buying the plain in a box is that you can make just as much or as little as you want and if you want to add salt, pepper, cheese, butter or herbs you can.
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HOUSEHOLD HINT
I’ve posted this hint before but — like me — you may have forgotten about it. The other day I had some black ice form right outside the front gate to my porch. I was expecting company and did not want anyone slipping on it. I needed to get rid of it. Chopping it with a shovel wasn’t working. Then I remembered: Dawn, Alcohol, boiling water.
Mix in a large pot of boiling water 1 or 2 Tbsps of Dawn Dishwashing Determent and about 1/4 cup of rubbing alcohol. Pour it on the ice. It works. Melted the ice quickly.
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Other helpful household hints can be found in the second edition of my book "Never Scrub Another Toilet- The Cookie Queen Tells you How to Keep your Castle Clean and Other Ways To Live Like Royalty."
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RECIPE OF THE WEEK
If you enjoy eating the Hawaiian Rolls you can buy in a package at the supermarket - let me tell you something: you haven’t really had a Hawaiian Roll until you make them yourself. I had some friends for breakfast on Monday and served Cuban sliders (ham, cheese, dill pickles) on Hawaiian Rolls. I made the bread myself. It was wonderful. Easy to do. These homemade rolls bake up very high and for me it is too much bread of a sandwich — so before making the Cuban sliders I cut the rolls in thirds horizontally and took the middle slice out, froze them and used them for toast another day. This amount makes 16 rolls. I baked 12 in a 13 x 9 pan and put the other four on a separate baking sheet.
Ingredients
1 package (2 1/4 tsps.) active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup 2% milk
4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
1/4 cup plus 1/4 cup unseasoned mashed potato flakes
13 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1 1/2 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten
1 tsp.vanilla
How to Make Them
* Heat water to 110-115 degrees - about 70 seconds in microwave. Stir in yeast and let stand until bubbles form on surface, 5-6 minutes.
* Melt butter with pineapple juice and milk in microwave about 70 seconds —110°-115°.
* In a large bowl, combine 3 cups flour, potato flakes, sugar, salt and ginger. Add yeast and butter mixtures to dry ingredients; beat just until moistened.
* Combine 3 eggs in a cup and stir with a fork - then measure out half (save the other half for another use) and add to the flour mixture with the vanilla. Beat until smooth.
* Blend in enough of the 1 cup remaining flour to form a soft dough; dough will be sticky.
* Turn mixer to medium and using dough hook knead dough 8-10 minutes until it is smooth and elastic. Add a little more flour — if necessary.
* Place dough in a bowl sprayed with cooking spray turning once to grease the top. Cover with a dish towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-1/4 hours. I put my yeast doughs to raise in my electric oven with the door Recipeajar so that the light stays on to warm the interior.
* Dough is ready to use if you insert one finger unto the second knuckle and the indent stays. Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide in half. Cut each half into 8 pieces. Shape each of the eight pieces into small balls that fit in the palm of your hand.
* Place balls in an 8 X 10 plan lined with parchment paper.
* Cover with a dish towel and let rise until doubled, about 45 minutes.
* Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
* Bake about 20 minutes until golden brown.
If you just want to eat the rolls as is brush hot rolls with melted butter. If you are using the rolls to make sliders you will be adding a seasoned butter topping when you assemble the sandwiches.
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A VIEW FROM THE CASTLE (News Commentary Blog)
Inquiring Minds Want to Know About Baffling Items In The News
If you listen to or read the news you hear things, you see things. Do you learn anything? Probably not unless you do your own research since today’s so-called reporters are more parrots than journalists. They regurgitate information fed to them and refuse to do the work required to fill in the blanks and find out if it’s accurate
Let’s talk about some of them……the ones of interest to me:
* There have been two horrific airplane crashes in the last three days. One in Washington D.C. One in Philadelphia.
Many people died. Everyone wants to know who is to blame for seemingly preventable disasters. Since I was interested I went to the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) website in search of more information. There I discovered a page advertising for people to apply for jobs as Air Traffic Controllers. In line with the Biden Administration DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policy they were hoping to hire more women, more gays, more lesbians, more trans and binary people. Also looking for people with disabilities like those who were deaf or blind or had “severe mental issues,” recovered drug and alcohol addicts and people who suffered from depression. Oh … and dwarfs. Yes, dwarfs … like Snow White and the Seven……
My questions: how would a blind person make a good Air Traffic Controller? Would I get on a plane knowing that someone with a severe mental disorder was guiding my plane? And why even mention dwarfs? What does it matter how tall or short you are? If you can do the job - then you should get the job.
Turns out that the FAA turned down more than 1,000 qualified applicants because they were “male and too white.” One guy scored 100% on his FAA test and was rejected for those reasons. They probably would have hired him if he had a lobotomy and was having an affair with moose and squirrel.
Now there is a current lawsuit filed by those qualified people who were rejected and that page with the DEI info was removed from the FAA website two days ago. We have a severe shortage of Air Traffic Controllers. We need at least 3,000 more to get the job done properly. Is it any wonder only one was on duty instead of the usual two or three when that plane crashed in Washington on Wednesday night? I don’t know who is to blame for that. But is seems like there were issues we should have addressed long ago instead of … today.
* Did you know that there are 759,000 illegal immigrants in New York City alone? How do they know exactly how many are there? What is it costing the city to feed, house, educate and medicate these folks? Police reports show that a staggering 75 percent of all arrests in Midtown Manhattan are immigrants. Now - if I were reporting on this I would want to know are the immigrants really committing most of the crime or are they just not smart enough not to get caught. Do police “target” immigrants and ignore the home-grown criminals? We don’t know the answers to these questions. What I do know is that we should not be importing criminals. We already have enough of the home-grown kind.
* Did you know we taxpayers were going to spend $50 million to send condoms to Gaza until the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stepped in. At first I wanted to know why Hamas terrorists needed condoms to have sex with goats and then I was informed they were using the condoms to make bombs to throw at Israel. Thank you, Elon Musk for putting a stop to this stupidity. The alleged fact-checkers denied this happened. They claim the money was ear-marked for “contraceptives” just like the millions we already sent to Afghanistan. Why do American taxpayers foot the bill for condoms or any kind of contraceptives to foreign countries? What company got the sweetheart deal to provide those condoms and who was the congressman behind the deal and how much did he get?
* Did you know that President Trump has ordered the release to the public of records about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy (61 years ago), and Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. (both 58 years go)? Everybody thinks this release is going to happen “soon.” I actually read the order. What is says is that a “PLAN to release these records” must be submitted within 15 days. After that, then what? Another 60 years before we get to see a stack of paper with blacked out redactions.
And how about while they are at it let’s see something more recent. How about info on the two guys who tried to assassinate Donald Trump last year? One is dead. No court case is involved. What’s the holdup? When are we going to find out something — anything. — about this kid who managed to fool a contingent of Secret Service Agents and state, county and local cops? When? When?? When??? Do we have to wait another 61 years? I’ll be dead.
* Whatever happened to the Seth Rich murder investigation? He was the 27-year-old DNC employee who was murdered in Washington, D.C. in 2016. Cops claimed it was a robbery gone bad - but nothing was taken - not his wallet, not his watch, not his computer. Nothing. Rich allegedly was upset because the DNC rigged the primary election in favor of Hilary Clinton and then gave all of the damaging e mails to Wiki Leaks. Why has no one pursued this murder? If I were a reporter in D.C. my first stop would be the FBI office with a demand to get access to his laptop. My second job would be to follow the money. Let’s find out if someone paid off his parents who threatened Tucker Carlson with a lawsuit if he pursued this case. How have their finances changed in the past eight years? Did somebody pay them off to stymie the investigation?
So many questions. So few answers. Inquiring minds want to know.
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COOKIE QUEEN ENTERTAINMENT
The Original Class Act has been entertaining audiences for the past 33 years. We sing. We dance. We act. We'll make you laugh and some times there will be a tear or two as well as we perform music loved by mostly older folks.
The Original Class Act is available for both daytime and evening performances. We come with our own sound system. All we need from you is an audience, a space to perform and a nearby room to change costumes.
Just like the old movie story - a group of friends got together to “put on a show” for the church fun fair way back in 1992. We presented an entire program of Cole Porter music.
The three-day gig stretched into 33 years as the phone never stops ringing. Everyone wants to book our group for a retirement home, nursing home, church dinner, a women’s club or lodge meeting, family gathering. We perform for political rallies and just like the late Bob Hope, we even do benefits to raise thousands of dollars for worthy causes and we often do benefit shows at the VA in Aspinwall.
The Original Class Act performs throughout the tri-state area for groups from 10 to 3,000.
The group’s extensive repertoire features more than 2,000 songs including Broadway hits, country-music tunes, religious favorites, movie themes, Disney songs, patriotic anthems, inspirational hymns, and holiday favorites for just about every holiday - Christmas, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, Oktoberfest and Thanksgiving.
All shows are choreographed and costumed with members of the group making most of our outfits. This is a very talented bunch - at least that’s what audiences tell us after giving us rousing standing ovations.
You can book us for a date by phoning 724-339-0920 or e mail us at cookiequ@verizon.net.
Here is a list of our current programs. You may request a song list for any program:
* American Salute - Features patriotic songs, music from the Big Band era, Rock ‘n’ Roll hits from the 50s - music Americans love to hear.
* Best of Broadway - Have a favorite show tune? It’s probably in this program which features hits from dozens of Broadway shows.
* Classic Cole Porter - You’ll hum or sing along on every number. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll reminisce.
* Disney on Parade - Features songs near and dear to the young and the young at heart from all your favorite Disney movies.
* Everything’s Coming Up Flowers - In 2018 we developed this program for a show we did at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. All of the songs mention blossoms of some kind - roses, daffodils, lilies, hyacinths, crocuses. Come “Tiptoe through the Tulips” with us as we celebrate the beauty and musicality of flowers.
* In The Good Old Summertime - A joyous celebration of summer with lots of familiar tunes.
* Irish Festival of Song and Dance - featuring traditional Irish favorites and some sing-along numbers too. We have new Irish costumes this year and can't wait to show them off.
* Love Changes Everything - Love songs from movies and musicals. As Cole Porter says, “Let’s Do It.” Time for romance and some song and dance.
* Lullaby of Bird Land - all songs that mention birds ….. blue birds, robins, doves, eagles, turkeys. A great program for springtime.
* Music From the Movies - Pick a movie - pick your favorite song. It’s probably in this show. Everyone’s welcome to sing along too.
* Oktoberfest - Get out your dancing shoes & warm up your pipes for a visit to old Germany. We bring the music, you bring the beer.
* One Woman, 20 Songs - A Tour de Force - Sometimes not all of our members are available for the date you want. Never fear - one of our members will be there. Pat - recently received rave reviews for her one-woman show. She sings, dances and presents a fashion show of costumes while performing her solos from each of the group’s programs. One attendee asked her, “Are you from Broadway?” Another told her, “I’d be willing to pay to see this show in Pittsburgh.”
* O Solo Mio - A Concert of Our Favorite Solos” - Members of The Original Class Act (and sometimes a guest performer too) have chosen their favorite solos to sing for you. There are songs from movies, Broadway, holidays and some inspirational music too. Maybe one of their favorites is one of your favorites.
* Showtime Showcase - This program features two dozen of our favorite numbers from all of the shows that we have done in the past 29 years.
* Let Us Lift You Up - Traditional hymns and inspirational songs from Broadway and movies - including You Raise Me Up, El Shaddai, Scarlet Ribbons, To Where You Are, Roads, Lord of All Hopefulness, God of Our Fathers, The Lord's Prayer, O America, In God We Still Trust, All God's Creatures, Child of Peace, Hallelujah and songs from Sister Act, The Sound of Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell and The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
* December Holiday Festival - The show features traditional holiday music, some sing-alongs and lots of glitz and glamour in the many costumes changes.
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COOKIE QUEEN COOKIES
Current Cookie List As of 1/25
Amaretti $6
Amaretti (filled) $8
Apricot Delight $9
Biscotti $7 (frosted white with red/green drizzle)
vanilla
almond
lemon
anise
Brownies $15
Chocolate Chip $7
Cho Chip/Nuts $8
Chipettes $7
Cho Mac $7
Coconut Mac $7
Cowboy Cookies $8
Fudge Dusters $7
Ginger Snaps $6
Gingerbread Cutouts $7
Gobs, Cho $7
Gobs, Pkin $7
Ladylocks $9 (8 oz)
LemonTarts $9
Molasses Oatmeal $6
Molasses Raisin $9
Nutrolls $9
Oatmeal:
cho chip $6
plain $5
pecan/cc $8
apricot $8
cherry $7
raisin $6
Orange $6
PB OF $5
PB Cups $7
PB Kisses $8 (with my ganache, not Hershey Kisses)
PB Cho.Chip $8. (New this year)
Pecan Tassies $9
Pizzelles - Anise $4
Pizzelles - Vanilla $4
Pizzelles - Filled $7
Pumpkin Cho Chip $9
Pumpkin Gems $7
Snickerdoodles $8
Snowballs $9
Sugar - Ch Chip $6
Sugar - Pecan $7
Sugar- Almond (Van frost with Toasted Almonds) $8
Sugar -Trees $7 (red/green frost)
Jewish stars $7 (blue/white frost)
Thumbprints $9 (chocolate, lemon, apricot)
Triple Cho Chews $7
Weecakes $6
I also do Buckeyes - which are candy, not cookies. $9/12 (Dark or milk cho)
For Thanksgiving:
Pumpkin/Cream Cheese Pie (must return MY pie pans)
Pumpkin Roll
Carrot Cake
Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. It’s one of the necessities when planning a wedding here in Western Pennsylvania. But not so in other parts of the country. I often deal with chefs at restaurants that hail from Southern and Western states and they ask me, “What’s with this cookie table at weddings?”
The custom is old world. European. Italian. Slovak. Cookies are expected. Back in the old country when a bride and groom would greet their guests to “collect” their gifts, they gave in exchange a small plate of cookies to take home. Many of these people who immigrated to the United States and mostly to the Eastern United States brought this custom with them.
You’ve probably wondered why little old ladies will stuff cookies in their purse before leaving a wedding reception. Now you know.
Anyway - it’s a nice custom and most area brides want cookies at their weddings. But how many should there be and what kind?
You know your guests better than I do. Are they cookie eaters or not? Are most of the guests in their 20s - these people usually are watching their weight. Are most of the guests men? Men like chocolate anything and they don’t like those dainty fussy cookies like Peaches. They want a brownie or a gob.
Are some of your guests children? They like smaller cookies - but lots of them.
Does the guest list include elderly women? They want the old-fashioned cookies like nutrolls, kolachi, pizzelles. And they want to take some home.
So - my stock answer is this: If you are having a sit-down meal and cake - then figure on a minimum of four cookies per person. Though - if you are Italian - you know in your heart it’s better to have too many than not enough, then figure on six per person. My cookies can be frozen IF there are any left over. If the cookies will be out before the appetizers are served, guests coming from the church will be hungry and will snarf down every cookie in sight and fill up and then they won’t eat the expensive meal. Try to discourage having the cookies out before dinner is served.
How many different kinds should you have? Not too too many because, when the nutrolls get raves and people start talking them up and then someone goes in search of a nutroll and there are none left - - bummer. It’s better to have fewer varieties and more of each cookie.
Here are some other questions often asked by prospective brides:
1. Do you tray cookies? Yes - but that costs extra for the trays and my time. I have spent six and seven hours traying cookies for big weddings. And you should ask at the reception hall. Some venues want to use their own trays for the cookies ... and they will charge you for this service. I prefer to tray them myself because sometimes folks who don’t know beans about cookies will put things on trays that just don’t go together.
For example, they will put anise pizzelles on a tray with other cookies. Once you put anise anything on the tray - all of the cookies taste like anise. Or they will put soft and crisp cookies together which means soon they all will be soft as the crisp ones absorb moisture from the soft ones. And then they all taste bad. And then there was the time that some dopey country club demanded that I have the cookies there on Friday morning for a Saturday evening wedding. As chance would have it, my singing group had a show at the same country club on Friday evening. Nosey as I am, I walked into the room where the wedding was to be held the following day and there were my wonderful cookies - already on uncovered trays with flies buzzing all over them.
2. Do you do “cookie favors” for the guests? Yes - and they are really nice. It’s a small box of six cookies. On the top of the box there is a pretty note thanking the guests for sharing this special day and then the name of the couple and the date of the wedding. These little boxes are usually a huge hit. One mother of the bride called me to say, “Those cookie boxes are all that people could talk about the next day at the post-wedding barbecue. Our out of town guests took them to their hotel rooms and enjoyed them late at night. Everyone raved about the cookies.” But I don’t do cookie bouquets? To get cookies to stay on a stick like that they have to be pretty darn hard. I don’t make hard tasteless cookies.
3. Do you make Peaches? No. No. Definitely no. I do not make anything that takes longer to make it than it does to eat it. Besides, have you ever seen how many of those half-eaten things get thrown out?
4. Do you make sugar cutout cookies? Yes - but only trees, stars and dog bones. My sugar cookies are so tender. If you want something with an appendage like a turkey neck or legs or arms they will break. Not doing those.
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COOKIE QUEEN CAKES
It is most important that your wedding cake taste good. You want guests leaving your reception to say, “That is the best wedding cake I have ever tasted.” That is why you have chosen THE Cookie Queen to bake the cake for your Special Day. My cakes taste really good. I do not specialize in elaborate decorations.
I specialize in making “one of a kind” cakes. I do not have a portfolio of cake photos because I simply refuse to do any cake design twice. Each cake is unique and is designed for YOU alone. If you have a photo of what you would like your cake to look like, please bring it to our initial consultation or Email it to me (cookiequ@verizon.net) prior to your consultation to save time.
Here is a selection of the most popular Cookie Queen wedding cake ideas:
1. A two-tiered “show” cake with the 10” bottom to be cut at the reception and served at the head table and the 7” top to be frozen for the First Anniversary. Undecorated double-layer sheet cakes are served to the other guests from the kitchen. This way everybody gets icing. There are no center cuts.
2. Filled cupcakes and Weecakes (mini cupcakes) are ideal because your guests can choose their favorite flavor of cake and frosting. The tiered cupcake stands are very expensive and I have found them to be unstable - so I no longer use them. If you choose cupcakes, I recommend still having a small two-tiered “show” cake to cut at the reception.
3. A selection of 9” cakes in many different flavors: You can choose the usual chocolate, vanilla, marble or anything else you might want to have: carrot, spice, chocolate-cherry, chocolate- raspberry, German chocolate, rum cream, lemon cream, pineapple cream, peanutbutter-chocolate or a choice of your own. Cakes are on display where guests can select their favorite and cut their own slice.
4. 8” cakes on each table - so the guests can serve themselves at each table. This provides dessert and eliminates the expense of table centerpieces. But - there sometimes is wasted cake with this method. However - any leftover cake can be frozen for use at a later time.
Prices: based on the batter, filling, frosting and number of servings you will need.
Floral Decoration: I will coordinate with your florist and have them design the flowers or I will work with your colors and design the flower decorations myself.
Frosting: I do butter cream or whipped cream only. If you wish a smooth rolled fondant finish, please select another baker. The fondant may look nice but tastes terrible. Also I do not use “white” chocolate. There is no such thing and “white chocolate” has a strange after-taste. (FYI: White chocolate contains no chocolate liquor. It is a mix of cocoa butter, sugar, lecithin, milk solids and vanilla. Chocolate liquor is the brown paste leftover after the cocoa butter has been extracted from the cocoa nibs.)
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COOKIE QUEEN COOKBOOKS
The Cookie Queen has published three cookbooks: “Royal Recipes From the Castle of the Cookie Queen,” “Hassle Free Holidays” and “Never Scrub Another Toilet.”
To find out more about her books go to her Amazon Author’s Page:
amazon.com/author/thecookiequeen
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COOKIE QUEEN CLASSES
Did you know that the Cookie Queen teaches cooking classes? A gift certificate for a class here at the Castle would make a great holiday gift. I offer a whole host of classes from two to make bread to how to make pie crust to how to make dinner in 15 minutes. You can also design your own class. Tell me what you want to learn and I will teach you. And you can bring a friend or two.
But not more than 5 in a class. Fees depend on what we’ll be learning and how many will be participating. You can purchase a gift certificate by messaging me at cookiequ@verizon.net.
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