I love well used cook books too. Even more so when they belonged to your mother or grandmother. Your biscuits looks great as do your amazing decorated cakes.

The color of your lemon curd is incredible! I agree with Marie that the brown cookies have a better flavor. Love your post! :)

P.S. If I were an animal, I'd want to be something gorgeous and enviable. (I wanted that as a teenager, now that I think about it...) Snow leopard? Painted bunting? Sable antelope? Alas, I one of the more common varieties!!! Oh well.

P.S. If I were an animal, I'd want to be something gorgeous and enviable. (I wanted that as a teenager, now that I think about it...) Snow leopard? Painted bunting? Sable antelope? Alas, I one of the more common varieties!!! Oh well.

Kimberlie, can I be an elephant as well? Your cookies are display-worthy, and your curd is vibrant and so elegant. Enjoyed reading about your love for the cake bible and wanting to be buried with it!

As Albatross you crave the long feathered wings which lift with grace your fragile frame above the vast expanse of ocean, straddling ephemeral currents of warm moist air above lonely volcanic reefs; as matriarchal elephant you set your great gray African ears like wind filled sails detecting infra sound, deep down the scale, rendering to you secrets which no one else can hear; and as the Minke Whale, you arc across the threshold of dueling blues of sky and ocean, to crest upon the surface like a sudden wave breaking for no reason except to revel in the crash of wake, or diving deep to bathyscaphic depths to find the exotic morsels there; but in the end you choose the common lemon, a word most abused, yet in nature a citric fruit, so complex and beautiful, with it rumpled skin and pucker appeal, combining taste and texture with a yellow hue that even canaries envy. Who could refuse your offering?

I'm so impressed with the way you think things through before starting a recipe. And it pays off, too. (I agree that the cookies with no color look the prettiest, but I thought the browned ones had a nicer flavor).

Your cookies look wonderful and slim! I like it! :) Seems like many is opting for lemon curd.. i like lemon buttercream better. Wow, you made wedding cakes before! I like how they look!

Kim, You should have been with us baking through HC! Here's what my poor book looks like but I'll never get rid of it, either. http://baking-with-granny.blogspot.com/2011/12/tropical-wedding-cake.html On to your gorgeous cookies! Perfection. You are the best cookie baker ever.