Gender neutral cookies

Here you go -- no disputing the flavor and no arguing about which gender!

Spring is Here and Cookies!

Sweetish Hill had these beauties on offer to celebrate spring. It's one of our favorite bakeries.

Gluten-free goodies

This lovely young lady who is the "Big Bird" at Blackbird Bakery has found a way to make gluten-free pastries actually taste good.  Her cookbook was reviewed in the NY Times and now she is offering her wares here in town. Linda and I tried one of her goat cheese bite-size pastries and it was amazingly delicious.

Heart in Texas

These "Heart in the Deep of Texas" cookies were on sale for Valentine's Day at Sweetish Hill Bakery. Cute. Happy St. Valentine's to those who observe it. We'll be seeing Ballet Austin's The Glass Project tonight.

Natural Cake

This is a cake display at Mr. Natural on E. Cesar Chavez. They also serve food and sell health foods and drink.

Theme Day: Bakeries

Today is theme day at City Daily Photo. The theme is bakeries. Rather than show you croissants or even pictures of cakes, I offer this bench in front of Sugar Mama's on South First. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

Halloween Treats

Ready for Halloween at Sweetish Hill...Frankenstein (or Bride of) Cookies.

Edible Symbols

In April they had the traffic-stopping (literally) Art City Austin event downtown. A lower key part of it was a display of art in unoccupied retail space. For some reason one artist wanted to have a bake sale in Republic Park as a kind of performance art. They also had a dedication of the renovations around the Treaty Oaks in that park, I think, but I just got there when it was just a bake sale. These guitars were on offer. This is the kind of low-key thing I prefer to snarling traffic for three days and bringing in a bunch of artists from other places and making you pay $8 to walk places you usually walk (or worse, just have to go around at night).

Baked Goods at the Farmers' Market

I asked the girl in the blue shirt (with the purple hair) if I could take her picture with her baked goods. She signaled for the gal in green to get up from a chair and be in the picture. Maybe the bakery (Living Arts Bakery) is really hers. They are usually set up in the Farmers' Market on the northeast corner of booths. We didn't have their baked goods yesterday but we have and they are great.

I didn't get their names because the cell phone conversation seemed to be consuming their energy although they seemed happy to be snapped.