![]() It’s all thanks to research funded from people and companies who care. I am thrilled for my friend that her Lily is happy and healthy, and I don’t think that would have been possible even just ten or twenty years ago. Make sure you stamp or write FRAGILE on every side of your box.Pack shipping peanuts or paper tightly around the tin and finish off with another layer or two of big bubble wrap.Place the tin in your bubble wrap-lined box.If your cookies are very intricately decorated, you may want to place each one in an individual bubble wrap pouch before packing in the tin. Either way, you want to minimize the chance for the cookies to shift in shipping. Pack the cookies in the tin as tightly as you can. Line the tin with tiny bubble wrap along the bottom and around the sides.Line the bottom of the box with 2 layers of large bubble wrap.Get a box big enough to hold a cookie tin with at least 2″ larger in all dimensions than the tin you’ll be packaging the cookies in.How To Pack Decorated Cookies for ShippingĪfter all the icing dried, I packed up my decorated shortbread cookies really well and shipped them off to Lily, where they were Very Well Received indeed! I decorated each cookie along Lily’s favorite princess theme, and because no two cancers are exactly alike because no two people are exactly alike, I made sure that no two of my cookies were exactly alike either. The decorating itself took me hours and hours. I would highly recommend either recipe, although I suggest keeping the shortbread for yourself or for local giving, saving the sugar cookies for shipping since they are a bit sturdier from the addition of an egg. Hooray for decorated Halloween shortbread! I made the shortbread again to decorate for Halloween. The cut-out cookie recipe from The Kitchn barely spread at all, so the edges of the shapes were very crisp.The shortbread Gail shared is rich, buttery and has that nothing-else-like-it crisp/crumbly bite of shortbread.I then used the great recipe for royal icing from Family Spice, flavoring it with a touch of almond extract and a couple of drops of orange oil.īoth cookie recipes are pretty spectacular. I made dough from each recipe, rolled them out between sheets of parchment and cut them out with my awesome new OXO cookie cutters: circles, hearts and stars. I also found another sugar cookie from The Kitchn, Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookies. She also encouraged me in my decorating when I thought I wouldn’t be able to do them justice. I asked my friend Gail, the incredibly talented and generous cookie maven formerly of One Tough Cookie, to share a great recipe for rolled cookies, which she most kindly did (printed below). Since I generally tend to shy away from cookies in general since they are pretty time-intensive, I decided to choose the most time and labor-intensive kind of cookie: rolled and decorated cookies.īecause if you’re going to make cookies for someone who has survived cancer, the least you can do is step out of your comfort zone just a bit. I had three choices for the kind of kit: spritz, drop or rolled. Since I am partnering with OXO for their Cancer Awareness Month initiative, they were kind enough to send me a kit of Cookie Items. Lily’s future is looking very bright indeed. Patients are considered cured after 10 years in remission. About 90 percent of those children can be cured.About 98 percent of children with ALL go into remission within weeks after starting treatment.That she is here to do and be and love is a tribute, not only to the strength and care of her family, nurses and doctors, but also to the researchers who have worked tirelessly to make these types of statistics possible: She’s a Girl Scout, and she is loving the third grade. She is taking piano lessons and gymnastics. She loves her grandmother and her cats and princesses. Today I can share with you, with permission**, the story of one of my best friend’s children, a little girl named Lily who, after being diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the age of five underwent treatment for 2 1/2 years and is now fast approaching one year, post treatment. Knowing that a diagnosis of cancer is now about fighting for your life rather than waiting for your death. Stories of types of cancers that are becoming more and more treatable. Stories of people who have beaten the odds. ![]() Decorated shortbread cookies as individual as we are.įortunately, the search is bolstered by success stories. ![]()
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