The Sweet Mixing Bowl

01/06/2025

✨🎉 Happy New Year from The Sweet Mixing Bowl! 🎉✨

As we dive into 2025, we’re serving up love, joy, and delicious treats like this stunning red rosette cake. Whether you’re celebrating milestones, hosting gatherings, or just indulging in a little self-love, we’ve got you covered with custom cakes and cookies, baked fresh right here in Olympia, WA.

Your support means the world to my small, local cottage kitchen business, and I can’t wait to bring more sweetness to your year. 💕

🎂 DM for custom orders or visit us at upcoming local markets! Dates coming soon.

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas to you all xoxo

12/23/2024

So far today, I have lost my phone, lost my glasses (they were on my head the entire time) dropped cookies 🍪 n the floor, dropped a hole punch on the floor ( the mess is still there) tripped over my own foot walking down the hallway and just realized I haven’t left my house for two entire days! But… the cookies are all boxes and waiting to be picked up, my kitchen is clean, I’m caught up on work from being off last Friday and it’s only 1:30. These cookies are headed to friend’s house on Christmas Eve. I hope everyone is ready for Christmas or whatever holiday you may celebrate and to be safe while on the roads

12/23/2024

I’m done… 18+ hours of cookie baking

12/21/2024

Brown butter + rich dark chocolate + Smokey pistachio + hints of mocha vanilla sea salt = perfect

12/20/2024

Who’s making cookies this weekend? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Here’s some tips:

Oven thermometer! You can get one even at the grocery store. Don’t trust your oven. Mine likes to tell me it’s reached 350 degrees all the time. It lies.. it’s usually only at 210 degrees so I know it’s going to take about 30 more minutes to preheat

Room temp butter doesn’t mean squishy and soft. Depending on your kitchen 30 minutes out on counter is good. Butter too soft can make your cookies spread like pancakes but at the end of the day they might not look right but most likely still taste good

I also cut my butter into cubs before mixing. It whips up faster and incorporates better with the sugars

Which brings me to next tip: if your cookies do spread or aren’t as round as you like, take a bowl or glass or a round cookie cutter, place over the cookie and spin it slowly around to move it back into a round cookie. You can use a spoon or spatula too. That works good if you want the cookie to shape as a heart too.

Don’t scoop your measuring cup into the flour . Too much flour can make the cookies dry. Spoon the flour into the measuring cup then scrape extra off with back of knife (I was making cookies with my niece a few years ago and was teaching her this and she said her mom never does it that way 🙄)

Eggs: why room temp? Because they will incorporate in the batter better. You can rush this by placing the eggs in warm water for a bit. I have used cold eggs before though and have never noticed a difference

Chill dough. If a recipe said to chill the dough do it. Chilling dough helps with gluten. It helps the flavors all marinate together and/or helps with over sticky dough to form better.

Sugar cookie dough. Gingerbread dough. Roll out dough. Place in fridge for 20 minutes, cut into shape, place back into fridge or freezer then bake. They should not spread and should keep their shape

Parchment paper is your friend.

Dont trust AI recipes 😂

So if you decide you want to try baking cookies this weekend and maybe it’s not something you ever do and need help feel free to messages me.

12/19/2024

Cookie tip: making cookies this weekend? Use a small teaspoon for perfect round dents. Fill your jam or jelly or whatever you are using in a ziplock bag. Cut small corner off and fill. This helps achieve the right amount in each cookie and you won’t drop the jam on the outside of cookie or baking sheet. 🙋🏻‍♀️.

12/17/2024

So you make the very popular crinkle cookie; they look so pretty as they come out of the oven and p**f the powder sugar starts turning yellow or melts into the cookie. Try this trick and see if it helps.

12/16/2024

10 days til Christmas. I just realized this, anyone else not prepared? 😵‍💫

12/13/2024

12/07/2024

There is so much going on with this cake but I love how it turned out and 98% is all edible

12/06/2024

I love everything about this cake. It’s delicate and simple with a touch of roughness around the edges

12/06/2024

Cake or beanie?

This is one of my favorite cakes I have made

12/01/2024

Making that list and checking it twice!

11/29/2024

And so it begins…

11/29/2024

Whats your favorite dessert for Thanksgiving?

11/29/2024

Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving