Are these not the most beautiful cookies you’ve ever seen?!?
For starters, shortbread is probably my favorite kind of cookie (although oatmeal raisin with walnuts comes close). But then you press colorful edible flowers on top and they’re so magnetic that I almost want to pull out the mixing bowl and preheat the oven.
Almost, but not quite.
I’m not entirely sure, but I think the last cookies I made might have been for my flute teacher at conservatory (I forget why). And that was a really, really long time ago. Yep, I’m definitely not a baker.
But it got me to thinking. As beautiful and magnetic as those cookies are, their appeal isn’t even strong enough to get me to read the recipe.
Contrast that with the uncountable hours I’ve spent on music: practicing, listening, rehearsing, studying, thinking about, talking about, planning, dreaming…
I find it fascinating how for me it’s music, but for somebody else it’s Edible Flower Pressed Shortbread Cookies.
By the way, if there are any bakers out there who want to make these cookies, I’ll gladly buy a few dozen from you. 😄