Leilani called me to help her surprise her husband on his 40th birthday. They were celebrating Allen’s birthday at a Hawaiian Restaurant so the party theme would be Hawaiian. We went back and forth on a few ideas….surfboards, pineapples, hawaiian shirts, plumerias, turtles…but how do we incorporate the number 40? Leilani saw the pictures from Leelana & Gabriel’s wedding favors and loved the square cookie. My dilemma was to make the cookies “masculine”…Just finishing lots of baby shower cookies and kids birthday cookies, it’s very challenging to step back and think “grown up cookies”. Leilani gave the colors that she wanted brown, yellow, green & blue…and this is what I came up with…
Fun right? I do love this set a lot! The details were fun to make! My favorite has to be the hawaiian shirt.
I tried to replicate my husband’s hawaiian shirt. Next favorite are the turtles!
Plumeria’s are my all time favorite cookie shape to make! and the addition of the two yellow flowers with the #40 is so neat…but it needed more so last minute, I added the bamboo stick on the side.
Happy birthday to Allen!
Tags: 40, amastercreation, hawaiian shirt, plumeria, sugar cookie, turtle
October 28, 2009 at 6:43 am |
Aileen – Out of all the cookie orders you’ve done for me lately, these are definitely my favorite!! I took so many of my own pictures and wouldn’t have eaten them except I know how delicious they are! Interesting story about the bamboo you added. Initially my parents thought they were Roman numerals (for 40) and I thought they actually looked more like Hawaiian Kapa patterns. It wasn’t until I saw the pictures I took that I realized they were bamboo! Everyone LOVED them…thanks again for your time and attention to detail!
November 9, 2009 at 11:54 pm |
Thanks so much for letting me be part of your parties, Leilani!