sugar for my honey...

for valentine's day this year, i have no sweets for my sweet but i do have sugar for my honey ;) well....to be more precise...vanilla butter and dark chocolate biscuits topped with sugar icing!

i made these biscuits as a trial run for samplers and then came across this pic on wikipedia:

it's a valentine's day postcard crica 1910. doesn't she look like she's carrying a jumbo of my biscuits?   ;)

the year of the tiger & edible cny gr-rrr-eetings...

for me, chinese new year comes with fond memories of ang pow packets, crispy thin love letters in milo tins and the much dreaded lion dance. yes, as a child (and actually, even now!), i would freeze at the first gong indicating the start of a lion dance. i'm not exactly sure what it is that freaks me out so badly...perhaps it's the large blinking eyes and the loud drums, cymbals and gongs or perhaps just the possibility of the "lion" approaching me! odd, i know.

this fear aside, the chinese new year also brings to mind pink cherry blossoms, pretty lanterns, fire crackers and fortune cookies...all of which were the inspiration* behind these crunchy edible greetings which i'm giving out this year in place of an actual greeting card...

* click here for the original cherry blossom image that makes up the background of this biscuit's edible sheet. it's a lovely blog on everyday celebrations!

 

 

and of course, in conjunction with the year of the tiger, i just could not resist this cute lil thing...which really looks more like a cat to me but i'm told it's supposed to be a tiger ;)

* some of the background images of these edible sheets were images taken off the net...