Well, since we're all revved up
for Seafair, how about a sweetened
things with a dessert table?
That's all about mermaids and sea creatures.
I was so excited to have Jenny Keller
here from Jenny Cookies. She stopped
by with her charming under the
sea themed desserts, and these
are just breathtaking. Jenny,
thank you. Do you remember the
first time we hosted together?
It was your first day,
but you wouldn't know because
we had to do it via zoom.
Ohh, do you remember that and we made
cookies together and I couldn't see you.
I was like you're doing a great job.
You were so sweet to me.
I was so nervous because
it's a lot you know. Yes,
you know, chewing gum rubbing your dummy.
But you know why via zoom Envia zoom.
But my tummy is so hungry for these cookies.
Good though they smell delicious under
the sea is actually the theme of the
shot this time around, right? It
is so we change our menu every single
month at Jenny Cookies Bake Shop.
This month is under the sea.
It's an under the Sea
celebration celebration,
so everything is a little sea creatures.
Even the flavours of like.
Cupcakes and smashed cookies
are under the sea theme.
It's so much fun but I love to show
people how to do this at home too.
Yes, because I have an audience
that's not just here locally.
There's a like worldwide they
follow along on social media and
so you know they're sad they can't
come get treats in Lake Stevens.
So I show them how to do it. I
love that you share that.
I think that's so sweet.
And I do remember when we did
the cookies here. I came home
and I did them with my kids.
Oh good, and I meant to send
you pictures but I never got to it.
But we'll have you back at Christmas time.
Definitely all that again.
But let's talk about, OK?
Tell me about some of the treats we have
here. OK, so obviously we have sugar cookies.
This is what we're most known for.
It's my famous buttercream sugar cookie,
so this month we've got octopus
and crabs and sea shells.
And I mean they're so cute you
can't even choose one either.
They're so cute I don't wanna eat that,
but you have to, but I win.
Yes, put one in my mouth.
You should have one right now, can I?
You can have whatever one you want, turtle?
What's funny is that's the most
popular shape with the shop.
All the kids want the turtle.
I love the turtle cute and
it complements your dress.
Look how good she looks today approach.
It's literally the perfect color.
Alright, so as I ate this buttercream cookie,
what are those yummy little brownies?
OK so these are brownies.
They're new to the shop.
Everybody loved him so much
we named him the OMG brownie.
I mean, we're like brownie connoisseurs.
Now we've made every brownie recipe there is.
But we truly believe in the
OMG brownie and they're huge.
The normal size is gigantic, but this
is one of my tips for dessert tables.
You can always cut things smaller because
everybody wants to try one of everything.
And that way when you have bite size, you
can have one of everything stop eating this.
I know you might have a blue mouth,
but it's OK.
So this is a sugar cookie,
but we made it well.
It's a sugar cookie,
but it counts only as one.
There's two, there's only one,
and it's got buttercream in the
center and I'm going to show you
to make these in a little bit,
which is so quote we have got
a little seashell cake.
So pretty,
it's just a mini cake,
but this is really all you need.
Little
seashells on it. I don't know that I
could ever make those seasons. You could.
You could do this.
I could show you how to do this so these
we have available in the store every day,
but you could pipe this at home.
OK, this is just a two layer 6 inch cake
and then there's just a little number.
Probably 4 tip on this to get
those little seashells on there.
I love it. Yeah, OK.
So let's talk Cookie DIY.
OK, I don't think
there's any opportunity in my life that
I'll ever be able to do this, but give me
kind of. Well, I'm an are we
gonna make them sure you're ready?
Yeah, OK so I'm hiding back here.
First of all I gotta give a little
shout out to cookie class so you
probably own this at home already but
if you aren't a cookie decorator,
my cookbook has all these easy step-by-step.
I'm gonna show you.
There's even a mermaid page.
Ohh really. Yes, I love.
There was a camping page.
There's a camping page.
There's all kinds of fun things.
I look at the pool party page.
Oh, that's cute.
But anyway, this is like the mermaid tail,
so I should have it open to that.
Which is kind of fun,
but it shows you like 123 for the.
For the beginners,
everybody can do this beginner OK, right?
So cookie class available
at a bookstore near you.
But we're gonna move it away.
OK, because this is gonna be our
cake plate so we've got little
clam shaped sugar cookies.
OK, but here's a little hint.
If you don't have this clam cutter,
just use a circle. It's fine.
Nobody's gonna say that isn't
the shape of the plant.
Where's the scalloping?
OK,
so we're going to take that and then we
have our piping bags fitted with a 1M tip,
so there's one for you too.
OK, OK,
and you know to properly hold a piping bag,
you always make sure it's twisted.
Down this is like the zip lock
your thumb and your front finger.
The zip zip lock Yep and then you did it.
You already ready to go.
OK,
we'll move some out so they're
not OK quite everywhere.
But this is our base.
And then we're just gonna hold it
vertically and I'm going to start
at the edge of the shell and we're
just going to go all the way.
You can hold it if you want.
See that see you got it?
Yeah,
doesn't matter how messy the
messier the better.
And then we gotta put a little Pearl
in there. All these are so cute, right?
And kind of put it at the edge.
You can put mine in if you want.
Yeah,
I do one and then you can
totally do this plane.
But I love to glitter and sparkle anything.
Yeah so we're gonna sneak over
here I'm gonna give you a paint
brush OK and then I'm reaching
over you excuse my reach we've
got some disco dust here which is
really fun and we're just going
to use this dry so I'm just taking
my paintbrush and I'm plopping
it right in there.
All this and then we're gonna
paint our cookie so this kind
of look how shimmery this gets.
Ohh my gosh like this was fun,
love to do this and this is a lot cleaner.
Yeah, than you know,
filling tons of piping bags and
having to make every color.
This is so easy.
I'm having a blast and then
it also works for people that
don't like a ton of frosting.
Yeah, those people do exist.
Believe it or not.
I actually am one of those
people that this is a cookie for.
I like, you
know, a medium amount of frosting.
What I was actually gonna compliment
your butter cookies for is that like.
The Buttery Ness and flakiness and
the it's like perfectly proportioned.
Yeah, it's not like I'm getting
mouthful of something I don't need.
We always try to make one cookie at
the bake shop that doesn't have a lot
of frosting for those people and that
one's the little coral over here.
Ohh that one doesn't.
And then there's people that love the
frosting so we're like get the sea,
the sea turtle or the octopus.
OK, so we've got our little thing.
OK, painted, painted, and then we're
just going to set it right on top.
Kind of like using our buttercream as glue.
How cute is it?
I can't believe how easy that is and how fun.
And I've got one more step because
we have to glitter everything
so we're gonna you do mine.
Look at this look at this.
This is so fun.
This is like I call it Pixie dust,
but today it's mermaid glitter and
you just buy this at a cake shop.
Yeah, you can buy it at gosh
Amazon get anything on Amazon.
Your local bakery stores.
But look how camp that is.
I love it. I love it. Cute we did.
Great you did so good and it's so I feel
so proud of myself that I made this.
And and it looks great.
So that is one of the things I do.
Love is that you just make it
so easy and you're shopping.
Lake Stevens.
Yeah,
it's an important
step for the community. Yeah,
and you take that pretty seriously.
Your connection to the community
I do. We've been there since
2016 and I've had, you know,
a blog and cookbooks and classes
and all those things since 2006.
But I really love to be that
bright spot and in the community.
And we've had a really rough couple years.
It's been heavy for everybody,
no matter who you are, how old you are.
And so I try really hard
to look for the good.
And if I can't find it, I I am the good,
you know the good we are.
That's what we should all do.
We have an opportunity every single day.
To do that you know,
and and so it's important to me to
brighten people's day with a cookie.
I always have cookies.
Whether I'm going on an
airplane with a cookie,
did look I'm giving away cookies
on an Alaska Airlines flight.
If you see me around town
I probably have a cookie.
I'm gonna hand to you.
You know if you're going through a
McDonald's to get your Diet Coke,
it makes him so happy to give him a cookie.
You know,
like there's so many people
that you see in your daily life.
Yeah, that they don't get seen,
so it's like here's a cookie
and it's so small,
but it makes them so happy.
You
make so many people happy and
one of the other things I do love
about you is that these cookies are
literally your bread and butter.
They are share your recipe.
I do. I think it's important
I've taught these classes since.
Oh my gosh, the beginning of time
and I've always felt like it.
It really gave mostly women.
We've had some men in classes,
but it gives them confidence that
they can make a really great
dessert to take to their kids,
classroom, party, or a baby shower.
They might be hosting.
Or, you know, just any special occasion.
Like you said, decorating cookies
at Christmas with your kids.
It's wonderful.
Jenny, thank you so much.
Welcome.
She is sharing her recipe
right now on our website,
but she is not going anywhere.
She is definitely sticking around
because later in this show we're going
to share a few of her tips for throwing
the best parties plus details on her
upcoming shell abration at the shop,
and I'll be eating cookies
while she does all this work.