Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my mom's birthday. Even though she lives far away (all the way in California!) I made her birthday cookies. When I think of my mom I think of flowers, so I made pink and purple flowers. I don't have very many flower shaped cutters, so I made butterflies to match.

Since I'd just sent vanilla-almond cookies for my brother's birthday I decided to change things up and send lemon-poppyseed sugar cookies with lemon flavored icing for Mom. The cookies have lemon oil, lemon zest, and poppy seeds in the dough. I added strained lemon juice and extract to the icing.

Dear Mother, all flowers remind me of you

The cookies bake up just as sturdy, soft, and delicious as the vanilla-almond cookies. I'm excited to try different flavor combinations for different occasions!