Beautifully decorated sugar cookies are not a new idea.  I imagine most people have a childhood memory or two of decorating cookies around the holidays.  Back then we used buttery icing and slathered it on with knives... more concerned with maximizing icing ingestion rather than style.  Then Martha Stewart entered our lives and showed us how delicious treats could be made exquisitely into "good things."  I for one, was enthralled. 

Since then, sugar cookies have become just about as ubiquitous as the cupcake and are, I hope, here to stay.  Even Obama seems to be a fan as evidenced by his choice of Canadian souvenir at Byward Market in Ottawa(see our version above!).

As a teen I worked in a bakery and when faced with a blank birthday cake for the first time and strict instructions from my manager to write "Happy Birthday Billy," I handled a piping bag for the first time and humiliated myself with a barely legible squiggle.  I followed up that experience with endless practice, until piping birthday messages in icing became my favourite task at the bakery.  Piping cake messages soon turned into piping designs on gingerbread houses and just about every other cookie I could get my hands on.

At the Steveston Cookie Company, I hope to combine the memories we have of childhood sugar cookies with the beauty and whimsy of exquisite icing designs.  What started out as an idea during a dry university lecture has blossomed into the little cookie company that the SCC is today :) Stay tuned, and watch us grow!

-Mika Livingston