Giving Thanks

A week out from the holiday really gives you time to reflect on what it means to be thankful. I am thankful for sugar, butter, cookie cutters, vanilla bean paste, dark chocolate chips, and perfectly piped royal icing. Also, and more importantly, I am thankful to have my family and my Sweet Eddie by my side. I would truly be lost without love. :)

I enjoy Thanksgiving. We laugh, we hug, we prepare tons of food, we eat, and we say thank you for the things in our life that make us complete.

Also, it really is the only day of the year that I eat stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce and tofurkey. Yes, tofurkey! Tofurkey is a vegetarian version of turkey (pretty much a delicious tofu ball filled with stuffing.) I dig it and my sisters do too, but Sweet Eddie and my parents stuck to the real deal this year. I also like to celebrate the day with dessert. As we were a smaller group this year, I resisted the urge to go wild with my sweets, so I only made three pies and my cookies.

To honor the food, I designed some food cookies of a standard Thanksgiving spread and some items that we have at our feast.

 Green bean casserole, creamed corn, homemade cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes

Mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, rolls

And of course the almighty tofurkey on a bed of carrots and roasted garlic

Altogether on the plate, bellisimo!

(Fun fact: some members of my family saw the above photo first and thought they were each separate cookies on a plate, only to find out in person it was one cookie with tiny food details!)

And the celebration wouldn't be complete without more mini pie cookies

And some festive decor

And some real non-cookie pies:

Upside-down Cranberry Chocolate, Swedish Apple, Pumpkin

And of course, Turkeys

What a bunch of turkeys!

As the holiday season rolls on, I hope it is filled with sweet joy and peace.