Cookie Gifts from Japan

This weekend my dear friend Rosey Sugar from Tokyo visited me in Germany. The „homeless“ cats around our house are always happy to see her, as she is not only „giving“ them food, she is turning it into a little ceremony. But I am happy too, she brought so many cute things and I am totally inspired and want to go to Tokyo right away. She has her very own Rosey Cookie Cutter collection now. And the best, she has been working with Cookieboy earlier this year, so she got me a signed copy of his book. I am so excited. He is my absolute Cookie hero, he is so crazy.

Cookie Gifts from Japan

Season Closing Outside Afternoon Teatime

Last Sunday, we ended the outside teatime season with a bang. I did some seasonal baking and an irresistible autumn decoration. One of our favorite cakes was the choc & caramel cheesecake with chocolate sauce on top! I also offered a warming autumn fruit crumbler with an almond cookie topping, yummieh!, and a delicious ginger cake with fudgy frosting – it really was the perfect september outside retreat!

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Luckily I had a visit from my dear friend Rosey Sugar from Japan. She helped me with everything. If you have don´t know her and have not seen her cookie decorations. Please go to her website right now. She is an artist.

Setting Up the Decoration

This is the season of harvest and gorgeous shades of brown, rust, copper and green. I tried to brighten up the tables with some seasonal finds. You can easily transform an teatime table into „woodland wonderful“ with all those coloured leafs, lampion flowers, rose hips, wooden candle holders, pumpkins and so on.

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

All the vintage plates and cutlery just made tea-time truly glorious and the granny extra proud! Great to look at was the pretty table runner, the cheeky knitted tea cosy and the tiered cake stands. It was a beautiful sunday with lovely people around – a feast for the senses.

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Afternoon Tea Fall Setting

Cookie Decoration with Rosey Sugar

Finally – the cookie decoration movie is finished, and I love it! As usual, it took my hubby quite some time to finish it (getting up every morning very early to work on the movie before regular work…and in the evening: sitting in front of the mac until midnight…)
But: even the cookie queen Rosey is now impressed of the movie, and what more can we wish for? but now: relax and watch three amateurs and one pro doing some cookies….

Decorating Cookies with Rosey Sugar

After a sleepless night, counting the minutes down and totally excited, the day finally came: the cookie queen herself, Rosey Sugar flew all the way from Tokyo to Germany, just to let us join a tutorial with her….until the last minute I was not sure, if she really gonna pop up at our house, but, yes, she really did.

As you can see from our faces – we are just about to start with preparing the icing. EASY! and so excited!…we still do believe, that we can manage to prepare some pretty, cute and nice cookies today, well, just like the cookie queen!! – well, our skills in the baking area are not that bad, aren’t they?, at least we thought so.

Decorating Cookies with Rosey Sugar