Decorated Cookies: Sweet Treats for Halloween

Decorated Halloween Cookies make the perfect gift for for friends and family on October 31st!  Our "Just Jack-o-Lanterns" gift box is new this year and a top seller!  Kids and adults can't resist this delicious and adorable collection of Jack-o-Lantern cookies.   Halloween Cookie Party Favors are another popular item that make great treats at neighborhood and school Halloween parties.  Check out lots of different designs here!  Want some tips for a bake-at-home project?  Martha Stewart's website offers terrific ideas and tips for  Halloween Cookie Decorating.  Have fun and Happy Halloween!

Decorated Cookies: Corporate Logo Cookies

Decorated cookies are a terrific way for companies to give conference attendants a sweet treat, while also reinforcing their own brand.  This week we made 1200 corporate logo cookies for a conference held at a Boston, MA area hotel.  The company wanted to serve a unique dessert to the conference attendees during their meeting, while also highlighting their corporate image.   Our logo cookies are made with our delicious shortbread cookie recipe, so they taste rich and buttery while perfectly showcasing corporate logos.  Logo cookies are perfect for business meetings, conferences, company parties and employee gifts.  Just email us an image, and we'll do the rest!  

Gourmet Cookie Gifts

Gourmet Cookie Gifts make wonderful gifts any time of year, and during the fall, our fresh-baked chewy cookies taste particularly great!  And when the cool weather sets in, I find myself dreaming about more cookie varieties, and all of the great fall flavors bakers can incorporate into delicious treats.  Farm-fresh ingredients, hand-picked at New England farms are a terrific inspiration for yummy baked sweets.  From apple crisp to pumpkin muffins, there are thousands of great recipes to try.  Here is one recipe that I think everyone will love:  Pumpkin Butterscotch Cookies  (Recipe and Photograph from http://www.joythebaker.com/blog/)

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup canola or corn oil
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup butterscotch chips

Position a rack in the middle of the oven . Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.  Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and butter the paper.

Stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon together in a medium bowl and set aside.  In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the eggs and sugar until smooth and lightened in color, about 1 minute.  Stop the mixer and scrape the sides of the bowl as needed during mixing.  On low speed, mix the oil, pumpkin, and vanilla until blended.  Mix in the flour mixture to incorporate it.  Mix in the chips.

Using an ice cream scoop with a 1/4-cup capacity, scoop mounds of the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing the cookies at least 2 1/2-inches apart. Bake the  cookies one sheet at a time until the tops feel firm and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out dry, about 16 minutes.  Cool them on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then use a wide metal spatula to transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.  Dust the cooled cookies lightly with powdered sugar.  The cookies can be stored in a tightly covered container at room temperature for up to 4 days.

Decorated Cookies: Halloween Party Favors

Decorated Cookies make terrific Halloween Party Favors!  Jack-o-lantern cookies, witch cookies, bat cookies and more!  Each year we make thousands of cookies for Halloween and this year we're busier we're than ever.  Because each cookie is individually packaged, the decorated cookies are the perfect treat to hand out to each guest.  For example, dress up your dinner table with a smiling Frankenstein cookie adorning each party-goer's plate;  or, fill a Halloween Trick-or-Treat pail by the door with the Black Cat cookies and let everyone grab one cookie on their way out the door.  There are so many cute ways to use decorated cookies - feel free to leave a comment here with your creative ideas!

Need some other great Halloween Food ideas?  Visit the Food Network's  Eat, Drink and Be Scary series.  They have pictures and recipes for tons of festive, delicious Halloween Treats.

Gourmet Cookie Gifts: Molasses Spice Gourmet Cookies

Rich, buttery, chewy, fragrantly spicy molasses spice cookies are packed full of deep brown molasses flavor and baked until the dough is just barely set.  Yum!

Baking in the Fall always brings me back to the early days of Fancypants Bakery.  It was during the month of October that I first dreamed of opening a cookie company, and the cool weather made it an ideal time to experiment with recipes.  We used to bake at night and then share samples with friends and family during the weekend.  I remember doling out cookies at field hockey games, tailgating parties and other fun gatherings, and eagerly taking notes on what everyone liked the most.   A clear favorite was our Molasses Spice Gourmet Cookies.  The cookies are chewy, spicy and still a personal favorite!

The cookies taste great on their own, but I also know that customers also enjoy them with other treats.  One customer told me she loved to put a dollop of ice cream  between two   cookies and make a sandwich!  Sounds delicious!