It’s not without a lot of excitement and a little bit of nervousness that I made these cookies this past weekend.
Secretly, I’ve always been inspired by this adorable vintage truck here (I know, inspired by a truck, but it is adorable), and was happy to actually have a reason to make a cookie version. It’s the Redpath Acts of Sweetness truck, and I made them in honor of an exciting upcoming event, Canada’s Baking & Sweets Show, presented by Redpath Sugar.
I know many of you won’t be able to make it… Silly geography… but you never know, a trip to Toronto for some sweet fun could be just what the doctor ordered, or something to plan for the future. For now, hope you enjoy the cookies and the shortbread recipe below.
You might be wondering why I’d be nervous making these cookies. In this case, it’s not the edible ink image decorating technique, but what I was thinking about while making them. Thinking about presenting at the Baking & Sweets show. I’ll be at Redpath Sugar’s booth, showing how to decorate cookies, and am so excited to meet you there and I suppose just a little, wee, teeny tiny bit nervous about demonstrating in a new setting. So please come and say hi. I promise to give you lots of cookies. No, really, can’t do that. But I will be demonstrating decorating techniques twice a day, and making cookie dough once per day.
The Show goes from Sept. 28th – 30th, and there are so many amazing things happening! I mean, besides Ace of Cakes, the DC Cupcake Girls and other cake celebrities being there, there’s a chance to win a $30,000 kitchen, classes taught by these amazing cake artists, tons of interesting exhibitors and truly, so, so much more. If you’d like to get a ticket, here’s all the information you’ll need.
You should know that although Redpath has sponsored me to demo cookie decorating at the show and the giveaway below is sponsored by them, the cookies and post itself aren’t sponsored – I’ve truly always loved their 1 kg bag of icing sugar and experienced success using their sugar for baking.
Notes about decorating these cookies:
- The image for the truck didn’t turn out as I would have liked – I just used a photo from the internet and should have asked for a (good quality) photo.
- Used this royal icing for decorating
- Here’s a tutorial on edible ink images
- You can also find the same shortbread recipe here.
And now on to the giveaway!
Baking & Sweets Show VIP and Regular Ticket Giveaway!
Giveaway Prizes:
Prize #1 – 4 VIP tickets to the show! VIP’s get front row seating to all the demos they wish to attend! i.e. Ace of Cakes, The DC Cupcake Girls, Anna Olsen, SugarStars among others.
Prize #2 – 2 regular attendance tickets to the show!
Prize #3 – 2 regular attendance tickets to the show!
The tickets are good for a day of your choice; Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
Winners!
Congrats to the Nadine, Carol and Liz for winning tickets! Hope to meet you at the show! 🙂
How to Enter: Giveaway Closed!
It’s easy!
There are 3 possible ways of entering:
The winners will be chosen randomly at random.org. The contest closes at 7pm EST on Sunday, September 23rd, 2012. I will email winners and ticket choices are on a first-come first-served basis. (The winner who returns my email first has first choice).
Good luck!
Happy baking and hope to see you soon!
xo,
Marian
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Liz says
I tweeted it!
https://twitter.com/asweetbaker/status/248602220646510593
Ilan (IronWhisk Blog) says
I’d love to win because I’d love to see live cookie decorating techniques!
Lois says
What a “sweet” prize & the cookies are adorable. I would love to meet you in person & put a “face” to all these amazing treats.
Ilan (IronWhisk Blog) says
https://twitter.com/IronWhisk/status/248602785262755840
is my tweet 🙂
Liz says
I posted it on Facebook as well!
(https://www.facebook.com/asweetbaker1)
Jenn says
What an awesome prize, would love to win!!
Michelle G. says
This would be a DREAM! I would love to win tickets to the show. Thanks for the chance 🙂
Edwina Williams says
Would LOVE to win!!!
Anita says
I would LOVE to win!!!
aiesha says
i would loovee to win tickets, i think i would be the most excited to meet you <3
Brittany Farabee says
I would love to win these tickets!!
Stef says
I would love to win!
JoAnna Hoang says
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win!
niner bakes says
Ohhhhhhhhhhmygosh!!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/nineeer
I facebook’ed it, Marian!
This is CRAZY… I can soo relate that you are nervous and all but YOU ARE SO perfect in what you do, people will love it to watch you decorating cookies!!
I WOULD SO LOVE TO BE THERE!!! that would be the best.
XOXO and much love,
niner
🙂
btw these cookies are amazing!!!!
Esther Dares says
Hi Marion, I wish I could be at the show, but I have guests. That is exactly my idea of a fun weekend.
Heather Nash says
I would love to win mostly because I’d love to beet you in person.. And front row seats to see Anna Olson would be amazing!
Heather Nash says
Oh boy…. Touch screen phones….
That should say “meet” you
Melissa Stitzer says
I’d love to win this prize….what a great opportunity! Love the cookies by the way 🙂
shari says
So in love with the truck!
Michelle says
I’d love to win! I’ve been seeing advertisements on TV and was wondering if I could make it (I’m about 2 hrs away and doing my graduate degree, so busy busy!)
Michelle says
I just tweeted!
Michelle says
And now I just facebooked too… I really want to win! I’d love to meet you and see you work, you were one of the first bloggers to inspire me to start decorating cookies, and I still use your one cookie recipe!
Yvonne Gettins says
I would love to go to this show. I didn’t even know it was on until your post, so thank you so much for bringing it to my attention!
Yvonne Gettins says
Tweeted!
Yvonne Gettins says
Shared and liked on Facebook!
Stacey Rademacher says
I would love to win!
Stacey Rademacher says
Facebooked!
Stacey Rademacher says
Tweeted!
Robin T. says
I will definitely be at the show and am quite excited to meet you! I’ve been following your beautiful blog for a while now and have been very inspired by your cookie artistry!!
Stephanie Hamley says
I’d LOVE to win!! 🙂
Amy G. says
I would love to win! All that sugar in one place – heaven!
Diana S. says
I would really love to win….I am so excited that show is in Toronto!!!
Maria Theresia says
wow… how amazing would that be to win this price….
I love your blog!
ML
Gina says
This is a one a million type thing, but why the heck not! Marian, I would love to participate in your contest!
Good luck to everyone who entered!
Taysha Riggs says
I’d like to win
Tesei says
I don’t know how you do it but seriously MArian, your work is amazing!!!!
Erica says
Wow, those cookies are spectacular! I’d love to win tix to the show, bc I might go anyway!
The Sweetest Tiers says
I would love love love to win! I only use Redpath sugar and have even blogged about it! Seriously!
I’ve also shared this link on my Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/thesweetesttiers
PS, I absolutely love your RI recipe and am constantly getting compliments on the finish of my cookies. Big thanks for that too!
-Anna
Khandra Henderson says
I would love to win
Dawn says
i would like to attend this event
Lakenya Joy Jacobs says
i wuld love to win this 🙂 i have been inspired to be a professional cookie decorator by yours and many other cookie blogs since i was 16. I wuld love to learn new tricks 🙂
Pamela says
Would LOVE to go to the show!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Liza says
I would love to win! I have learned so much from your site 🙂 Best wishes to you always!
Elaine H. says
I was planning on going to the show with my mom but I’d LOVE to win tickets =) Thanks for offering them!
P.S. I love your site and style! Can’t wait to see you decorate in person!
Martha says
I would love to win ! Great job on decorating .
Shainah A. says
I would love to win, how fun!!!
Peggy says
If only I lived closer, this would be so much fun! And your cookies turned out absolutely amazing!
carol scott says
I would love love love to win!
Michelle says
I would LOVE to win!Love your cookie decorating!
Jennifer says
I would absolutely love to win this prize.