Dessert Platters Part 1... Butterfly Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Covered Oreos, and Brownie Bites

Tomorrow I deliver dessert platters to our clubhouse. The confections are for the Daytrippers, a club that plans day trips to sites of interest in the Atlanta area. And Pap is the vice president.

When I was asked to do desserts for 80 people, I said yes before I thought it through. What was I thinking? So for the last 3 days I've been working from morning to night. Whew.... I'm so glad that everything is done.

On the above platter, White Chocolate covered Oreos, and Butterfly Sugar Cookies. The cookies have butterfly wafer paper creating a 3-D effect. I bought the wafer paper from Fancy Flowers.

The above platter is a nice closeup of the pretty cookies. I sure hope everyone appreciates all my hard work.

Here's another platter with more cookies and brownie bites with swirls of chocolate frosting.

No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients:
 6 cups all-purpose flour
 3 teaspoons baking powder
 1 teaspoon salt
 2 cups unsalted butter
 2 cups granulated sugar
 2 large eggs
 2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
1. Cream sugar and butter until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl and add to butter mixture. Mix well.

2. Put a handful of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll to desired thickness. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Put the rolled dough, including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes or longer. Your dough will be chilled and ready to cut and bake with no wait and no added flour! Repeat with scraps after cutting cookies.

3. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 -10 minutes. Let cool.

I used Royal Icing on the cookies.