sweet on justice

Valentine’s Day is past, but we’re still feeling the love…especially for the folks working to stop the avalanche of horrors flowing from this new Administration. Staff at organizations responding to the crisis work extra hours, and cookies are a sweet way to say thank you!

If you buy them cookies then we will deliver those cookies for FREE.

Please consider the following organizations: the national ACLU and the NY Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU); Planned Parenthood national headquarters or your local affiliate; Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC); and Political Research Associates.

The Glitter Sweets’ “wholehearted resistance” collection— rich vanilla butter cookie hearts in assorted sizes with yoga-inspired resistance mantras— is $25 per dozen. Customized decoration is $30 per dozen.

Two large (3.5 x 3.5”) heart cookies with “thank you” on one and the name of the organization on the other are $8.

Please email glittersweetsbrklyn@gmail.com to order.

Enjoy a sweet sweet beginning to the year!

Order Glitter Sweets cookies for your next gathering or event.

• Just Vanilla: baker’s choice mixed shapes & designs signature glittered fancy decorated vanilla bean butter cookies
• The Coffee Drinker’s Collection: baker’s choice mixed shapes & designs signature glittered fancy decorated vanilla bean butter cookies along with dark chocolate rounds, coriander-orange shortbread, and whole wheat brown butter & rum biscotti

$25 per dozen.

Pick-up in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn; free delivery on orders of 130 cookies or more.

They also mail real good – so ask about a shipment wherever you are!

Contact us by email glittersweetsbrklyn@gmail.com or call 646.269.6253 to discuss your order.

We can customize writing and shapes or design a cookie look just for you!

We also facilitate cookie decorating parties –great for all ages – just ask us about these events.

Dinner Parties by YOU & glitter sweets

Glitter Sweets caters intimate dinners in your home for your family, friends, and colleagues. All food is seasonal, organic, and as local as possible. You build the menu from choices in green salad, fresh bread, main entrée, side, and dessert. Hosts must supply their own beverages; Glitter Sweets can make wine & cocktail pairing recommendations.

You have the option of either:

(a) Dinner Party Family-Style, where you and your guests sit down to a complete meal, finished on site and ready to be served family-style with a written menu and/or presentation by the chef, or

(b) Dinner Party Workshop, where you participate & learn from creating part of your meal together.

Dinner Party Family-Style is $100 per person for the first 4 guests.

$60 for each additional guest up to 8 people.

Dinner Party Workshop is an additional $150.

All fees must be paid in advance, at least half at the time of booking.

For Family-Style, the chef will arrive two hours before service; for a Workshop, the chef will arrive three hours before service and the guests should arrive two hours before service.

Samples of this season’s menu options follow below. Please email us at glittersweetsbrklyn@gmail.com for the full menu options and to schedule a time to talk.

We look forward to discussing your plans and ideas!

Menu Options

Main Entrée select one:

• Pan-fried pork chops
• Oven roasted salmon
• Whole roasted chicken with lemon & rosemary
• Spanakopita vegetarian w/cheese; contains gluten
• Portabella Mushrooms stuffed with quinoa, bell pepper & herbs vegetarian w/cheese or vegan

Dessert select one:

• Pumpkin pie made with fresh (not canned) pumpkin
• Chocolate devil’s food layer cake with blackberry-cream cheese filling and chocolate-blackberry ganache
• Chocolate chip cookies & homemade vanilla ice cream
• Pears poached in vanilla & spices with farm-fresh vanilla yogurt

Glitter Sweets’ Holiday Pies

Glitter Sweets is makin’ pies for the holidays! SCRUMPTIOUS!

These are whole foods pies, baked in Brooklyn with the best available organic ingredients including farm fresh roasted pumpkin, local creamery butter, and lots of love. Choose either classic pumpkin pie or apple-rosemary galette (see below).

To put in your order, email glittersweetsbrklyn@gmail.com. We do our best to reply within 24 hours.

Pies are $30 each or 3 for $80, and must be pre-paid. Gluten free for an additional $10.

You have three opportunities for your Great Pie Pick-Up in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn:

1. Thursday 17 November between 4 and 7 pm.
2. Wednesday 23 November between 4 and 7 pm.
3. Thursday 24 November between 8 and 11 am.

Details for pick-up shared when you order. We look forward to seeing you!

Classic Pumpkin Pie.

A light hand with spices and fresh squash, not canned, means all the real pumpkin goodness shines through. Excellent with a plop of bourbon spiked whipped cream.

~or~

Apple-Rosemary Galette.

New York apples folded into a flaky envelope of buttery crust, scented with Rosemary for remembrance. Subtle and sophisticated while still homey and delicious.

 

Halloween Cookie Decorating for All Ages

Thursday 24 October   from 3 – 5pm

Kettle & Thread, Brooklyn

Come decorate tasty sugar cookies cut out in pumpkins, cats, bats, skulls, and other Halloween shapes. Practice basic piping and flooding techniques, and enjoy our fabulous cache of sprinkles and cookie bling!

Bring your own reusable container or $2 to buy a box.

$15 in advance; $20 at the door.

Vegan option available if requested in advance.

feast 4: Conviviality Spell

wil’s mom came for an overnight here on the mountain, and when the queen’s mother comes to visit, all are keen to impress. She wore a scrunchy lavender top and dark purple scrunchy in her side ponytail and shiny pink lipstick for the dinner, and this is what I made:

• 3 chickens, small organic birds, with sage-rosemary butter under their skins and olive oil, salt and cracked pepper all over them and half a dozen peeled garlic cloves in each one, roasted on a rack over
• Potatoes from the garden, onions & garlic that roasted in the schmaltz
• Their livers, hearts and necks marinated in soy sauce & spices, thrown in a hot & heavy pan at the last minute
• Butternut squash oven roasted with lemon and coriander seeds
• Strips of carrots, summer squash and leeks roasted on a bed of orange slices
• Roasted beets, sliced thin and served on their own greens, pan sautéed with apples and onions
• Avocado and cilantro stuffed eggs
• Salad greens with nasturtiums along with avocado dressing and house-made ranch
• Sourdough bread & Irish butter
• Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Perfect All-American Chocolate Butter Cake layered with blackberry jam and frosted with bittersweet chocolate frosting served with
• Vanilla ice cream

Wine flowed. People unfurled.

To create and receive conviviality.

It was an idyllic sort of night, and I wish us all so many more such meals.

COOKIES – Spring Equinox Edition

we would have made International Women’s Day cookies for sure, but we were busy making buttermilk cinnamon rolls for the bad-ass women of Chicago. Now, back in Brooklyn, back to putting glittery sweets within reach of your sticky fingers.

AVAILABLE TO ORDER: Glitter Sweets’ limited edition cookies for Spring Equinox 2015.

Unassuming, nearly wholesome, completely addictive butter cookies cut into flowers and hand decorated with lemon, rosewater and vanilla icings. Glittering with edible glitter.

Mixed batch of a baker’s dozen singular blossom cookies is $10. Batch of five larger “eat me/bite me” spring garden cookies is $15.

Vegan option is delicious and gratis. Personalized writing – like the name of your office wife- is $5 additional.

Pick-up your order in Brooklyn Friday 20 or in Manhattan on Thursday 19 February. Details with your order.

Free delivery on orders of 5 batches or more.

Pre-order soonest! Write glittersweets13@gmail.com

Those cookies were GRAND!

Shout out in gratitude to those who ate up the limited edition Glitter Sweets V-day Cookies!

We turned out sweet pink, red and white hearts as well as punky anti-valentine cookies, which were quite popular. Experiments in vegan cookies proved delicious and will be part of the on-going cookie repertoire.

Stay tuned for the Glitter Sweets Spring Collection.

Available just in time for the Equinox.

COOKIES – V-Day Edition

Seeking sugar & glittering things for Valentine’s Day?

Glitter Sweets’ limited edition cookies for V-day 2015.

Unassuming, nearly wholesome, completely addictive butter cookies cut into hearts and hand decorated with lemon, pink grapefruit and blood orange icings. Glittering with edible glitter.

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Mixed batch of a baker’s dozen is $10.

Personalized with writing is $5 additional; consider sweethearts’ names or old school conversation heart slogans. We like “eat me” and “bite me.” Perfect for grouchy or kinky friends..

Pick-up your order in Brooklyn Friday 13 or on Saturday 14 February.

Pick-up in Manhattan on Thursday 12 February.

Free delivery on orders of 5 dozen or more; delivery otherwise is $5.

Pre-order soonest! Write glittersweets13@gmail.com

cake 24 cannoli cake

The last cake made in 2014 and the first cake made in the year was cannoli cake.

My mom proposed cannoli cake as dessert for our xmas feast. As per our custom, we were brainstorming greedily; this year, getting at our roots: chicken cacciatore, risotto, lots of Italian red wine. Cannoli cake sounded like the perfect end to that meal to me too, and straightaway thought aloud, constructing a cake of a deconstructed pastry. Mid-recipe blur, I returned my attention to my mother— “Did you have something specific in mind when you said cannoli cake?” “No,” she replied, smiling a bit triumphantly, “It just sounded like a good idea and I wanted to see what you would make.”

What I made was two layers of European style genoise, brushed with rum simple-syrup, sandwiching a cannoliesque filling (see recipe below) and frosted in Italian meringue buttercream. Also made cannoli shell pastry, rolled it out and cut it with cookie-cutters. Fried them golden crisp and stuck them in the frosting, birds and stars and evergreens.

For New Year’s Eve, I stripped down the cake even further, using only one layer of cake topped generously with mascarpone-ricotta fluff, mini-chocolate chips and pale green chopped pistachios.

RECIPE IN BRIEF: CANNOLI CAKE FILLING

1 cup ricotta
1 cup mascarpone
1/3 cup confectioners sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
bit of lemon zest
pinch of salt

¾ cup mini-chocolate chips
¼ cup finely chopped pistachio

In the bowl of a standing mixer or by hand with a good wooden spoon, beat together the ricotta and mascarpone cheeses. Sift in the powdered sugar. Beat together with the vanilla, lemon zest and salt. Mix in the chocolate chips and chopped pistachios if you use them. They work extremely well for filling between layers of cake. Leaving the sweetened cheeses white works better for frosting or topping a layer cake.