Wedding Favors and an All-Nighter

Some friends of mine, Jenny Howard and Daniel Wold, are getting married on the 31st of this month. It was the job of Jenny’s sister Kendra (one of my best friends growing up) , to make the wedding favors. They came up with the idea of making Gingerbread cookies in the shape of the bride and groom’s initials and then decorating them with pink frosting (since the wedding colors are pink and brown). I volunteered to help and so this is what we spent yesterday doing!!

We started by cutting out and baking nine batches of cookies... Then we made the pink frosting and proceeded to frost them...Since my friend has such a tiny kitchen we had to try to come up with a way to stack them so they could dry without sticking together. We had to come up with a plan and at 1:30am, desperate times called for desperate measures. In the end we found some boards, covered them with some wax paper, and used canning jars to stack the boards. We had own very own bakery rack going in no time and we were in business again... And so the night went on...Some 7 hours and 350 cookies later at 4:30am in the morning, we finally had all the cookie baked, frosted, and ready to be packaged for the day of the wedding. Here's what our kitchen looked like when we were done...

Today I'm running on one and a half hours of sleep, but it sure feels good to have a project completed...we'll see if I still feel the same way this afternoon, lol.