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Birthday Girl

March 13, 2010 by Alison

Jennifer, a long time CWFC Yahoo member, won a copy of the book Cookie Swap with this story and photos of her adorable cookie.

We all love an excuse for a girls’ night out and what better reason than to celebrate a friend’s birthday? So one blustery cold evening, a small group of friends met at a local restaurant for a night of good food and calm conversation without kids. I volunteered to bring a cake to mark the occasion and as I thought about how I wanted to decorate it, I remembered the Birthday Mom had brought “goody bags” to our playgroup earlier that week. For the past year, I’ve been baking cookie favors for kids’ birthday parties and I thought why shouldn’t a Mom get to have cookie favors at her party too? So I made doll cookies to represent the ladies at the dinner and decorated the cake with them as well as cookie flowers and an imprinted “Happy Birthday” cookie plaque. The Birthday Girl was on top of the cake with her party dress and pearls. One doll had on a tie-dye sundress, one a 1940s swimsuit, another was dolled up in a kimono (she had been a geisha for Halloween one year), one a princess – although that was the last to be claimed :), and the last was all clad in a winter coat.

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It all began when I was a child cooking with my dad, the kitchen a magnet for cooking and camaraderie, a refuge from adolescence. I spent countless hours chopping, sautéing and simmering my way through childhood. And now, with three kids of my own, I’m still chopping, but this time through their childhood and often with friends.

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