My new way to spread joy...

My favorite time of year is almost here, full of Jesus, family, friends, fireside, memories, and giving.

Speaking of giving, scroll down for your Christmas present from me. I think you will like it! This is only for you. It is not offered to the public. Thank you for all of your support. I wouldn't have WeCookiers if it were not for you.

No matter how hectic the season can unfortunately be, I become so excited to give gifts. Keeping reading to get yours!

While thinking of something special and different for you this month, I was thinking how nice it would be to send you a real Christmas card. So I slid into the notion of making Christmas card cookies to inspire your customers to give them as gifts.

Not your typical cookies, but extra large ones, maybe even 2 in a festive gift box.

Below is a couple I did as examples for my presales to customers on WeCookier's Facebook business page. I had a jolly good time being creative and it began putting me in the Christmas spirit, especially since today was our first snowfall of the year!

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Thank you for your continued support. You’re the best!

With that aside…

Your 2022 Christmas Gift

Today's Highlights

Newest Pages at WeCookiers.com

Last time, my page on the royal icing transfers themselves went live on WeCookiers.com. It told all there was to know about transfers.

This page shows a wonderful hack I came up with to save those fragile transfers from breaking so easily. I also did a video for you. There's other great information too!

Click this link: Royal Icing Transfer Sheets

This was the page before, if you missed it:

Royal Icing Transfers

Your Questions, My Answer

A: I find the best ones are some of the least expensive commercial ones.

The ones I favorite were rated some of the best baking sheets for 2022 on these attributes:

Durability 5/5; Heating Ability 5/5; Ease of Cleaning 5/5; Quality of Finish 5/5

If you would like a comparison of some name brands to these babies, visit my page here... Best Baking Sheets

Cookie Cutter Flips

valentine arrow- North Pole sign

eucalyptus leaf- mistletoe

monkey head- snowman

Click the image to be taken to the Cookie Cutter Flips page.

(Sorry, if you have an email with just HTML, you will not be able to see the photos).

Christmas Card Sugar Cookies, Inspo

Business Sense: marketing yourself

If you are lucky enough to have snow on the ground, get your family busy and build a ginormous snowwoman in your front yard...or better yet, in the park! Dress her/him in the attire of a baker with it holding a sign of your business name/logo. Maybe even get a bunch of kids together to do this.

2. I've always wanted to do this, yet never took the time. I know, shame on me.

A person sits in a box or some kind of partition. It is painted on the front to push a button for a free Christmas present. You hand a wrapped gift through a hole when the button is pushed. Of course, you would want your business name and info that everyone could see, including on the gift.

3. How about giving to the elderly or handicapped this year? How?

Gather a team of volunteers from your community. Instead of singing carols, go decorate the outside of their homes for Christmas. As you go, you will have collected signatures on a card from all who volunteer, gifting it (maybe even with a gift card inside) to them.

If you decide to do this, make sure to go back after the holidays and take the decorations down for them. You can even reuse the decorations for the next year.

Quick Business Tips

I've heard about them for some time now but took the plunge. Thermal printers save time because they print soooo fast. They save money because there is no ink to buy.

How do they print? There's a chemical reaction that takes place as the printer head slightly warms it. It's that simple. All you need are thermal labels and stickers.

I can't believe I waited so long to get one. I ended up with the iDPRT SP410 Thermal Shipping Label Printer

No, you don't have to use only the 4 x 6 shipping labels. Any size and shape works, fanfold or on a roll!

I use mine for shipping labels, yes, but I use it so much now for ingredient labels and label prompts to my customers to leave a review on Facebook, etc. I even use them to print off barcodes and QR codes. Priceless!

2. This tip is on the same topic. Where do you get your thermal labels? UPS gives 6,000 (a 60-pound box) of free blank, 4 x 6 sticky labels for...FREE, and FREE shipping! There are also other free products they'll send.

Please note, that they are free, but you do have to use the labels for mailing with them.

3. I do use tissue paper in my cookie boxes, but...during any holiday I snazzy it up a bit by placing holiday napkins, unfolded, under the cookies. You can get an array of prints. Walmart has them for any holiday for just 97 cents.
Short poem by Pepper Blair:

Blessed Chimney Smoke

This is some blessed chimney smoke
Now rising to the sky,
To where the heavens are aglow
With stars and lunar light...

To where the heavens are ashine
In silver and in gold.
A winter's eve has more than style;
It has a heart and soul.

Warm and beautiful wishes to you and your family this Christmas.