Plum Pretty
Not just pretty, these delicate french butter cookies fromPlum Island Cookie Company are also delicious. Handmade by owner/bakerDawn Marie Shay who trained withJulia Child. They are available for mail order. and at select retailers.
I love the whimsey in her designs, notice the worm has eaten some of the apple!
She was drawn to my blog because of the name, also a fan of themovie it came from and even makes aPiewacket cookie, the cute black cat on the right. She offers lots of other holiday & specialty shapes including ladybugs, bunnies and eggs.
How can you not love these little Penelope piggys?
Plum Island has been generous enough to offer up a gift certificate for a box of their famousSand Dollar cookies (above) as Pie's first spring giveaway! Just add a comment and tell me about your favorite cookie experience or recipe. Be sure to enter a valid email with your comment so I can contact the winner. It is kept private, I am the only one that can see it. One winner will be chosen viarandom.org on March 18th... you never know you may get lucky!
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window for entry closes at midnight pacific time March 17th
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Reader Comments (42)
Oh, I love these! My favorite cookies are peanut butter... even nutter butters. I can eat a whole package of those!
I love the attention to the tiny details and glad to know they are delicious as well!
Plum island cookies are delicious My favorite are the Piggys in the sand! There is nothing cutier babies feet!
I have been to Plum Island and it is a Plum Pretty place!
My favorite (recent) cookie experience was when I had first met Susan (my fiancee) a few years ago and for Easter she made me Pizzelle's: photo & recipe here http://www.flickr.com/photos/mylastsigh/452616817/
Well it's hard to beat a warm, ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookie!
Nice post - these treats look so charming :)
Please PM on the Kindleboards if I win... I really dislike posting my email addy....
My tip about cookies... wrap a little miniature Snickers in a ball of your favorite chococlate chip cookie dough and bake..... ooey gooey yummy goodness!
Hey Dana,
I will do that (if I can figure out who you are on there) but just so you know, your email is not published and I am the only one that can see it.
there is nothing better than a sugar cookie with sugar sprinkles ... especially with a cup of coffee while sitting on the couch, after dinner ... perfect!
Ooooh, how pretty and delicate looking. I used to really enjoy baking, including making cut out cookies until my health held me back. One of these days I hope to be able to bake up a storm again around the holidays.
@Dana...my g/f bakes chocolate chip cookies in mini muffin tins and pushes a Hershey Kiss into them once they're baked. OMG...they are so good!
What beautiful cookies! At Christmas I make several cookies that were my GreatGrandmother's recipes. No one else in the family makes them, and I always feel like she is there when I do. Both of my sons are now learning to make them to keep the tradition alive.
these really do look too pretty too eat.....
okay, I'll eat them!
I just discovered you blog! It makes me feel good all over!
I love these! I'm going to go visit their website right away and see all of their offerings
Those cookies look delicious! I love to make Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies because they always turn out so well.
Oh, these look so gorgeous (and delicious)! I love the photos you took of them!
All growing up my family made wreath cookies every Christmas, which are made with Corn Flakes and green dyed marshmallows, with three red cinnamon candies on them for the berries of the "wreath". I love to try to make them every Christmas myself and they bring back such memories! I think my all time favorite cookie is the classic chocolate chip though. I love making (and eating) them!
I have a cat named Pyewacket....I always grin when people "get" why I named her that.
:)
My favorite cookies are Jaffa Cakes which I fell in love with whilst I was living in England. They know a thing or two about marvelous biscuits (cookies) across the pond.
:)
The cookies on this page are beautiful, edible works of art. (The piggie cookies are ADORABLE!)
It's lovely that a box of gorgeous cookies are being offered up as a prize!
Well my favorite cookie experience was last Halloween. I had received a fetus cookie cutter (http://www.stupid.com/fun/FETS.html) for Christmas the year before and I figured that Halloween was the perfect time to break it out. I made sugar cookies and added red and blue dye after the dough was mostly mixed to give sort of a hamburger/veiny coloration pattern. It sounds really gross but it was a great hit at the party we went to.
plum island! i feel like it's right up the street from me -- i love all butter cookies, simple shortbread -- butter, sugar and flour -- that's it -- superb! and creating my own variations is fun too!
I love butter cookies. There's just something so yummy and buttery and delicious about them.
I've never had her cookies, but they look delicious. My sister makes these awesome Ricotta cookies with a wonderful icing. They are very delicious. She flavors them with almond, orange or anise.
These are lovely!
Perhaps the most hilarious cookie story I have involves my roommate freshman year and a cookie she made during some sort of sorority ceremony. She'd brought it back to our dorm, and it was sort of amazing; three layers of cookie, icing, and sprinkles. She managed to eat the entire thing in one go, and about twenty minutes later was so sugar high she ended up hiding in the closet from me because I kept laughing at her hyperactivity. One of many interesting dorm experiences.
I experimented with a simple sugar cookie recipe I found in a cookbook my mother gave me; adding orange flavoring and lots of vanilla made them amazing. I think I'll go bake some now, actually! :)
What incredibly beautiful cookies these are! They look to good to eat! Although, I bet once you taste one, you'd say they are too tasty to look at! =)
Such cute cookies. As for a recent cookie related story! We just got a great dane, and as she is able to reach the counter, the last time I was baking snickerdoodles she ran off with the bowl. Flour, sugar, and cookie dough got everywhere!
What an experience.
Those look amazing. I do love shortbread and sugar type cookies, but rarely make them! I tend to make more of the double chocolate variety, or bar cookies. Then again.... what type of cookies are not good? I want to make a recipe I saw recently of homemade [girl scout] samoa-type cookies. They look amazing!
Um....right now my house is pretty stocked up with Girl Scout cookies, since my daughter is a Brownie. (The PB patties...mmmm.) But my favorite cookies to make and eat our traditional Mexican Wedding cake cookies (or Russian Teacakes). Butter, ground almonds, rolled in powdered sugar. Yum. I would LOVE to try out these Plum cookies, thank you!
What beautiful cookies! I love the sand dollars and the little piggie tails!
My favorite cookies I've made came from a magazine -- they were cherry chocolate chunk cookies and they're *killer*! I've made them twice and they came out even better the second time around!
LOVE your blog. The pictures are always amazing!
My favorite cookie recipe is Chocolate Coma Cookies - taken from a mystery novel about a crime solving caterer. I make these every year as part of my Christmas cookie extravaganza.
Aw, these look great!
My best cookie ever was the big, shaped sugar cookies from Two Smart Cookies in Savannah, Georgia :)
I don't have a favorite cookie experience, but I bet I would with these beautiful Plum Island cookies :)
My favorite cookie experience is really just my earliest memory, which was watching this Sesame Street clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMnFbPBpmR8