Archives for Şubat 2010

HENNA NIGHT COOKIES

In Turkey, we love to celebrate…about everything. Before we marry, after we marry, before we give birth, after, etc etc. A henna night is similar to a bachelorette party… however, funny enough we do both. This is a custom amongst Turkish people, but some people consider it traditional and some celebrate in a modern way.

Basically, the girlfriends and female relatives of the bride are invited for a henna party (night) to the bride’s house or outside to a rented place if crowded. The night is arranged for dancing and partying, so guests are welcome with food and drink.
What is typical about this night is the henna and the red dress bride-to-be wears. The cookie shows the traditional dress and the red veil. There is always glitter hand decorated stuff on the dress, therefore I made the embossing and painted.
Then while the guests sing special songs to make the bride cry (they usually succeed with the atmosphere), everyone is given a bit of henna to put into their plam and keep for a while. The henna paints the palm in orange color.

In summary, I made these cookies for a henna night party… depicting the bride-to-be preparing for henna night 🙂

WELCOME KIVANÇ BABY COOKIES

As I am new mom (well I still consider myself new while my baby is approaching the age of 2), I love to bake cookies for welcoming the newborn. Most probably because I was too tired of seeing pale pink and pale blue everywhere, I prefer these types of brighter colors.
Kıvanç is not yet born, but his mom’s friend has asked me to prepare the cookies as a gift to family. Not all are photographed, but the photo above gives pretty much the picture of the arrangement.
We are expecting Kıvanç Baby!

LADYBIRD COOKIES

I am more than willing to keep working on this blog to give more details on how I make these cookies. For those who are interested, pls feel free to post any questions on comments section.

I have hundreds of projects at hand, and it is taking me a lot of time to catch up…will get there 🙂

VODAFONE LOGO COOKIES

I love to decorate cookies for companies. Their wishes are simple, “we want something that will reflect our business image… just stick our logo!” That is it, very quickly done.

Vodafone is doing many events in Turkey these days, so cookies to hand out to customers during these events/organizations.