Monday is Family Day in Ontario. It’s more than just a long weekend, it’s chance for parents to store away the demands of their jobs and for kids to stash the demands of their classes. It’s an opportunity for families, big and small, single parent or parents with partners to spend some quality time together as a family unit.
My local food bank, The Table Community Food Center in Perth, Ontario hosts a Family Day dinner and prior to our leaving for Florida, they asked me if I could make some decorated cookies for this event.
I went back and forth on design ideas. Mainly wanting to choose between stick figure families or another design. When I saw this on an Ajax, Ontario McDonald’s site for Family Day 2011, I made my decision and went with the Circle of Life. As someone once said, “Friends come and go but family is forever.”
An image of the design was printed to be used with my KopyKake projector. I used my large rectangular framed cutter and cut off one of the curved sides before baking.
Once the cookies had cooled, they were piped with bright yellow piping icing using a #2 tip. The flat side of the cookie is the bottom of the cookie for this design.
The cookies were then flooded with bright yellow icing and left to dry overnight.
With the printed image in my KopyKake, I piped the design with deep blue icing using a #2 tip.
When the blue piping had dried, the image was flooded with the deep blue flood icing.
The province of Ontario has had Family Day as a provincial holiday on the third Monday of February only since 2008 and surprisingly, we are only one of the four provinces that celebrate the family in this manner. In fact, according to Wikipedia, only two U.S. states celebrate it along with Australia, South Africa, Vietnam and Vanuatu (an island nation in the South Pacific). Personally, I think every state and nation should have a special holiday to celebrate the family.
Being in Florida these past few weeks, I’m really missing my family and I’m so grateful for email, Face Time, the telephone and all other social media that enables us to keep in close touch while we are many miles apart.
Love and Miss You All ∞
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Paula, such a simple adjustment to the plaque cutter but perfect for the occasion! Awesome, as always!
We had our first family day in BC last week. For some reason, our provincial govt decided to do it a week ahead of everyone else! Lovely cookies for a lovely day, Paula!
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This is wonderful. What a wonderful meaningful post.
Family day? What a great day to celebrate! As always, you cookies are perfect for the occasion.
Happy Family Day to you and the family, Paula! Such a beautiful post and cookie and for a great cause. We had a full family weekend, so I plan to spend family day relaxing.
Family Day is Fantastic – I agree, everyone should celebrate Family Day! I love the cookies you made to celebrate the day!
Such a beautiful cookie…and what a wonderful holiday!
So clever the way you cut the plaque cutter! What a beautiful cookie representing a wonderful holiday!
I love that Canada celebrates something called “Family Day”. I’ve never heard of it over here in the states, but I wish we would adopt such a holiday tradition. It’s shows that your country has it’s heart in the right place. Your cookies a great! Nicely done.
Lovely cookies! Happy Family Day to you, too!
I love the idea of Family Day. Your cookie design is beautiful.
I love Family Day idea my friend, and the cookies are gorgeous with it
Cheers
CCU
I love these cookies! I think it is so neat that you have day set aside for family time in the crazy world we live in. Dann and I have been trying more and more lately to set aside time for us just to be a family and have discussions. Thank you so much for sharing about your family…
Happy Family Day! hope that you get to be with your family soon, I am missing mine too! The cookies look just beautiful
Happy Family Day!
those look so great, and family day is a nice thing, we saw a moving and just spent time together, I miss doing things with my family, seems we work way too much.
Celebrating the family is a very good idea. It is an opportunity to underline the importance of families, and teach our children to cherish family. I like your inspiration and your cookies. Hugs!
Your cookies are gorgeous! I wish that the US would celebrate family day and not just 2 states. It seems that our world is in turmoil and so much craziness is going on. Perhaps if we got back to remembering what’s important in life it would create a shift. I think people have just lost their way. Great post!
Beautiful cookies, and the sentiment behind them! We celebrate Family Day here in Saskatchewan (thank goodness) and it was lovely just being cozy with the family. Hope you are enjoying your holiday!
You sure know how to use the KopyKake machine! They’re perfect! Family Day is a great idea!
We could all use a few more “family days”. How lucky you are to live in a place where people understand the importance of family!
What a beautiful design. I wish we had Family Day here. That particular day was President’s Day. My son was off from school but most people had to work. Not very family-oriented. Oh well!
wow, this is a beautiful cookie in many ways. . . .
What a beautiful family you have! Those cookies are amazing – it never ceases to amaze me how perfect your piping is with royal icing. If I’m ever in your neighbourhood I will have to have some lessons!
xx
Absolutely gorgeous cookie with so much meaning behind it!
Gorgeous cookies and design. I totally understand you missing your family, I have been away from them for years and I miss them every day. I wish we had Family day here.
Paula,
These are simple and graceful. They remind me of a Henri Matisse drawing! Hope you are enjoying the sun
Family Day? I love that! And beautiful cookies, as always, Paula. I hope you had a fabulous time in FL!
Family Day is such a sweet occasion. They need to have one here in the States…love the concept. Your cookies are perfect and your family is beautiful.:)xx
These look so cool! I wish I could make cookies like this. That’s true talent!