Florida-based Chic Sweets creates unbelievably beautiful dessert tables for weddings, corporate parties, and other events.   Owner Natalie Clamp sent me some photos from a recent wedding dessert table that included some of our custom cookies  as part of the milk & cookies portion of the table.

Per Natalie’s direction, we created two inch versions of one of our couture designs and changed the color and text.  Check the shots below from the event – they are gorgeous!  I especially love the mini glasses of milk that go with the cookies.  

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Sorry for the delay in posting, but we’ve been furiously working on shipping out our custom cookies for Valentine’s Day!   Thanks to gift giving expert Robyn Spyzman we were featured on a Today Show segment on Monday about creative gift giving ideas. 

Robyn featured our Valentine’s Day Van Gogh Gumdrops, which are cookies with outlines of Valentine’s Day images sold with edible-ink markers!  The packs come with favor bags and ribbon so kids can give away their Valentine creations to friends and family.   We were so thrilled when Kathie Lee said “we think that’s the cutest idea in the world.”  Yay!  Well, we think so too Kathie .

Click here to check out the segment!

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One of the best aspects owning my own custom cookie company, is meeting and brainstorming with other small business owners.  Through my local Ladies who Launch group here in NYC, I met Allison J. who is the owner of the wonderful Goji Gourmet so I thought I would take a moment to mention a few things about her awesome cookies!

Even though I make custom cookies for a living, I love healthy food and learning about new ingredients.  Allison’s cookies are everything you crave in a cookie, but are supercharged with the powerful antioxidants and nutrients of the Goji Berry!  While there is a ton of information online about the nutritional benefits of Goji Berries, my favorite tidbit is that they have shown to have more than ten times the value of antioxidants than blueberries! 

Goji Gourmet flavors include Goji Almond Oat, Goji Cherry Cacao, Goji Chocolate Chip, Goji Ginger Walnut, & Goji Orange MintChip.  Specific cookie flavors are also packed with superfoods such as ginger, walnut, almond, oat, cacao, oranges, whole wheat, and turmeric.    Now go get your Goji on with Goji Gourmet!  YUM!

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One of my favorite customers, Amy C. from NYC, recently ordered custom cookie favors for her SIL’s baby shower since she couldn’t be there in person.  The baby is a girl and the shower was taking place in LA so she requested the baby shower cookies be bright, girly and LA chic.  We used one of our birthday images and customized it as a baby shower favor including the mother’s name and the baby’s name.  

I love the photos that Amy sent me from the shower - the hosts did a super job of displaying the cookies around the centerpiece.   I couldn’t write this post without noting what a beautiful name they chose for their pending little bundle of joy – Baby Lyra.  Too sweet!

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Last Valentine’s Day our decorated cookies were featured on the Today Show  as a Valentine’s gift option under $50 and we received an unbelievable response as a result of the segment.   Many of the orders were custom cookies that featured the smiling photos of happy couples, kids and families.  

In response to those orders, we’ve jazzed up our Valentine’s custom photo cookie section with a few different options.  Thanks to my handsome hubby for posing as well as our friends Jen, Jeff & Kieran.

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For those of you who plan in advance, we’d thought it would be perfect timing to highlight our Valentine’s Day decorated cookies,   To create some of our original Valentine’s Day designs, I enlisted Nurbanu Assena, a Parsons student here in NYC, to add to our current collection of unique decorated cookies.  While I love all the custom cookies Nurbanu created for me, I especially love the graphic on the upper left hand corner with mini bras and boxer shorts.  So sweet!  While we’ve chosen text to go with some of the graphic designs, keep in mind that the text can be customized.  Check out our Web site to view all of our Valentine’s Day options.   More to come this week…

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While a traditional ten year anniversary gift is typically tin or aluminum, I’m glad this couple chose custom cookies and decided to go with sugar instead!  For a 10th wedding anniversary celebration at the Ritz Carlton, I worked with an event planner and paired three different cookie designs together along with a individual gift tag on each bunch of three.  The custom cookie favors were used as part of the welcome gift basket.  As you’ll see in the photo below, the graphics were customized to match the bride and groom and for the third cookie we used a graphic from the couple’s invitation. 

We offer a series of customized brides and grooms on our web site.  We often put two cookies in each bag for these designs - bride on one side and groom on the other.

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Let’s face it – custom cookies with photos are fun (and everyone gets a kick of taking a bite out out of their wedding photo), but sometimes they need a little cookie couture help – and we have the answer.  Our new framed photo cookies are the prefect solution to turn any photo into beautiful piece of  edible art.

We have a bunch of different style and color options, but if you don’t see the color you want for your custom cookies, just email us the jpeg, colors and text (if applicable) and we’ll send you back a free proof over info@gumdropcookieshop.com.

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We’ve worked with Kaboodle a few times on custom cookie orders.  This holiday season they paired our “Keep Calm and Eat a Cookie” design with the company’s logo.  We put half and half in each gift wrapped box and tied it with a matching raffia ribbon.  This was a fun way to jazz up a corporate logo.   We can tailor custom cookies  for any occasion either using our own design, the customer’s design, or in this case, a combination of both.  Cookies can be wrapped as custom favors or as cookie gift boxes.

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I LOVE LOVE LOVE this image I received recently for an order of custom cookies.   I was super excited because I knew the graphic would look fantastic on a cookie.  While I only show the cookies here, I mixed up the colors of the raffia so each favor cookie brought out the yellow, purple and aqua colors. 

Local Brooklyn artist Fumiha designed and ordered these cookies so I was able to tell her in person how much I loved the design (and see her reaction when she opened them!).   This is another nighttime shot, so the quality is not the best, but I couldn’t send them out the door without grabbing a quick shot.

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