Zack's First Birthday

These cookies were made for a beautiful little boy's 1st birthday party. The little animals are taken from the party's invite.

Thank you so much to my friend Maryam for ordering, I was so happy to make cookies for Zackaria!

Birthday Sweets

I made this cake and cake truffles for Idrees's birthday. The cake is blue velvet with chocolate buttercream and a chocolate buttercream ricotta filling. The decorations are royal icing transfers that I made to match the hanging decorations and paper goods. The truffles are the same blue velvet cake covered in a rich semisweet chocolate ganache. Both were enjoyed and it was a rewarding experience to make my little boy's first birthday cake.

The last two shots are by Feda Eid Photography

Update

It's been a long year and I wanted to give an update on my little guy Idrees. Idrees is doing unbelievably well now. He's still on oxygen at home, but doesn't have any other major issues thank god. I want to put a little of his story here just so that if anyone ever finds themselves or someone close to them in this position they can have some hope and know that it is possible for them to still have a happy healthy child. When I was pregnant with him I had a premature rupture of membranes(PPROM) when I was only 14 weeks along. At first I was expected to have a miscarriage, but it never happened. Then he was not expected to live and I was urged to terminate my pregnancy with him. Although I am pro-choice, personally that is not something I could ever do. So I continued on and kept leaking fluid for the rest of my pregnancy and never reaccumulated any fluid around him. I was never given a shred of hope for his outcome from any doctor. Despite what they said he hung on another whopping 18 weeks after my water broke before being born at almost 32 weeks. He just turned one year old and I have no words that can do justice how I feel about that and him. He is such a joy and blessing in our lives. Here's a picture of him on his first birthday to compare to the one I posted almost a year ago. These are taken by my lovely sister and favorite photgrapher Feda Eid




P.S. I'm taking orders again and I've made some cookies recently so look out for the relaunch of Dream It Up Cookies!

Haven't been baking cookies for a while...

But I've been baking other things, like this little guy:

Born on March 3rd, at almost 32 weeks gestation, 3lbs 9oz. He's been getting some help with breathing but is doing great thank god.

Hopefully I'll be back to baking cookies by June, I've really missed it :-)

Bridal Shower Cookies

Dark red and gold, bridal shower favors.

Thanks so much Yasmin for ordering, I loved making them!

Cameras and Cupcakes

Chocolate sugar cookies for a young lady's 13th birthday.

I <3 bows.

Thank You so much for ordering Annie! Happy birthday Zofia, wishing you many more birthdays to come.

The Last of the Eid Cookies

Ramadan Cookie Platter

All wrapped up and ready to go. For more pictures and ordering info click here.

Chocolate Brown Wedding Monograms

75 Chocolate brown wedding monogrammed cookies. For the first time ever, I let someone help decorate cookies with me. To help me out, my sister Feda hand painted most of the monogram letter's with pearl luster dust. There is also painted gold luster dust dots in the inner corners of each cookie. One of my other sisters (I have 4) Marwa helped me package them all up. Thanks Ladies, Love You! These were shipped to Kentucky. I've never shipped a big order before, but I'm happy to say not a single one broke. So far I've had great luck, and haven't had any cookies break during shipping. I have to say though, I do use entirely too much packaging, but it gets the job done.

Thanks so much to Leigh for ordering, so happy to have been a part of your wedding!

P.S Follow my sister Feda's blog, she is a great photographer. See her July archive and scroll all the way down to see more pictures of me and some of my sister's all painted up like this in "The Tribe Series":

Ramadan and Eid Cookies

Happy Ramadan! These are my new favorite cookies! These cookies taste so spectacular too. I used Rose water and Orange Blossom water in the cookies and the icing. When I baked them the whole house smelled like a Lebanese Bakery.

If you'd like to order some please email me at DreamItUpCookies@yahoo.com. I only have a couple spots open for this month so order soon if you're interested. Cookies are made to order so one week notice is required for local orders and two weeks for shipping orders. Also subject to my availability. Eid is on September 10, so get your orders in soon.

Here's a Product and Price list for these cookies.

Cookie Platters (Local orders only):

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RAMADAN Crescent & Star Platter,$38.00
12 crescents
12 stars
1"RAMADAN" word cookie
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EID Moon & Star Platter, $34.00
12 moons
12 stars
"EID" word cookie
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Minaret Platter,$49.00
12 Minaret message cookies,
Your choice of Arabic or English wording
12 mini flowers with crescent and star

Individually wrapped cookies in a cellophane bag, tied with a matching ribbon. 12 minimum per order:
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Minaret Message Cookie, $3.25 each
Your choice of Arabic or English wording.
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Crescent & Star in one bag, $2.75 each
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"EID" word cookie, $3.75 each