28.12.05
Look what we left out for Santa Cthulhu!
“One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with cookies.”
–H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth,
Revised Home Economics Edition, The Sisters of Pi Beta Omega, Miskatonic University, 1939.
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Cookie recipe:
Alton Brown’s Sugar Cookies from the Good Eats episode, “The Cookie Clause,” substituting 1/ 1/2 cups cake flour for AP flour, for extra lightness.
Frosting:
Powdered sugar and vanilla flavored rice milk.
Cookie cutters:
Good old-fashioned DIY poster board templates and an Exacto knife.
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December 28th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
You are scaring Bean Sprout.
Good photos, majorly accomplished cookie-making. (Ew, part of my name was in that sentence.)
Cthulhu for President! (Ah, the Internets…)
December 28th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
Minions of the black toothed demon eating the bacon-mobile?
December 28th, 2005 at 11:17 pm
Those are really cool. How long did it take you to decorate them?
December 29th, 2005 at 11:02 am
Cookiecrumb: What? Bean Sprout doesn’t want to be sacrificed to the Elder Gods? You should move further away from the sea coast, you know…
Kitchenmage: Yes, indeed. Because the black toothed demon of the bacon-mobile is, in truth, a Hound of Tindalos!
B’gina: A long time. A very long time. I should have been doing other things… (More specifically, I spent a couple hours one evening frosting the cookies, then let the frosting set overnight, then spent another hour the next day painting the detail work with a fine brush & more food coloring. We had visiting relatives at the time. I think they think I’m insane.)
December 29th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
You are insane. But in the best possible way. These are awesome!
December 29th, 2005 at 7:07 pm
Cranky wanted me to add that when he was a kid, he lived one street over from H.P. Lovecraft’s house in Providence. Freak.
December 29th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
Ha! Wow.
In my family we have a tradition of making the last Christmas cookie a “monster” (it sort of looks like Munch’s “The Scream”) and frosting it with all the colors of frosting mixed together. It usually ends up kind of mauve-brown.
This, however, is truly one step beyond.
December 31st, 2005 at 11:13 am
::blows kisses at elise for appreciating insanity::
Cookie… that is … so… cool… Tell Cranky I’m horribly envious. The best I can do is… (thinks for a moment)… ah… I’ve got nothing. I’ve never even owned a pet squid.
Jamie, we used to do that too, only we’d be so crazy with the frosting colors to begin with that we’d end up with about eight or so freaky, Munchian mauve-brown (or just multi-colored swirly) cookies at the end! (It was that or eat the frosting with a spoon — ick!)
January 2nd, 2006 at 9:29 am
Awesome. And sanity is overrated.
January 2nd, 2006 at 5:46 pm
I keep telling my therapist that.
Oh, wait. I don’t have a therapist. Uhoh.
January 9th, 2006 at 10:00 am
a cthulic christmas…I’m so totally in awe that I may have to got uttery insane and go scrawl in my journal.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:07 am
My evil plan is working…
1. drive other food bloggers insane.
2. ritual sacrifice.
3. rule the food blog world.
January 11th, 2006 at 8:27 am
ph’nglui mglw’nafh cthulhu r’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
ph’nglui mglw’nafh cthulhu r’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
Oh no, I’ve started chanting again.
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:20 am
God, we’d love to sell those at Shocklines.com. We’d sell a ton of them. Email me if you ever want to sell and drop-ship them.
Matt Schwartz
January 7th, 2007 at 6:28 am
I was so inspired by these cookies, that this year i made some crazy christmas cookies. i may have found something even scarier than cthuhlu: sugarbushsquirrel.com…
January 7th, 2007 at 6:28 am
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=345048835&size=l
there’s the link
July 25th, 2007 at 11:44 am
We have a tradition of painting one of the holly shaped Xmas cookies black. When I was a teenager my dad asked why there was a green bat cookie…
Tentacles!
http://www.cthulhulives.org/Shoggoth/index.html
July 26th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Alan, I love it. And I so want to see that musical some day. (In fact, I’m rather bummed I didn’t come up with the idea first!)