My tween niece's celebrity cookie
On your holiday list, who is the hardest person to buy for? I’m going to guess it’s one of these: A) father B) brother-in-law C) tween or D) work colleague. Anyone else I’m missing? I found the perfect gift for both A, B, C and D on my list. The personalized cookie.
It was my niece’s 9 year birthday this summer. She loves everything cool, celebrity, glam and oh, yeah cool. Last year I had a cake from Cake Man Raven flown in for her birthday. She swooned. This year I had a cookie made of HER. She shrieked. She told me she was never going to eat it, and then promptly told me that she WAS going to eat it, and then…no, she wasn’t. She couldn’t decide whether to covet it as a taste of celebritydom or to actually taste it. It was delightful!
I ordered the “people” cookie from Tasty Morsels Bakery in Brooklyn after I saw their “Robert Verdi” cookie. It captured the essence of the style guru so perfectly. I wondered what the founder and artist of Tasty Morsels, Crystal Horton, would do with someone who didn’t have such identifying characteristics. How would a a normal Jane Doe be transformed into a personalized cookie?
Robert Verdi in his finest...as a cookie
I emailed Crystal an image of my niece and she created the lovely miniature. I think she did very well with my pretty strawberry-headed Jane Doe. And the cookie is all-natural, just like my niece. A true testament to how much my niece loved her prize: she brought it to a birthday party to show all her friends. For $12, it’s a bargain to give A, B, C AND D on your gift list a taste of being a celebrity- literally.
She's beaming! They do look alike don't they?
P.S. Tasty Morsels Bakery does regular sugar cookies for all occasions. Here are some of my favorites from their gallery. They do ship nationally and deliver in the NYC area.
