Photographer Cassidy Nunn and mum Dagmar put together the cover shot –
It doesn’t seem like I’ve inherited my mum’s incredible German baking skills and since it’s been years since I assisted her with the holiday baking, I was grateful that she and my dad were coming for a visit around the time of this cover shoot!
Mum and I donned our aprons and I assisted her with creating the sugar cookie dough. Dad was on hand for any potential cookie taste testing that might be required as well as assuming the role of official “behind the scenes” photographer. We used a beautiful embossed rolling pin to create the pattern in the dough, but when we pulled the cookies out of the oven, they had risen and absorbed some of the pattern – whoops! Good thing we were planning on icing them anyway.
Pro tip: use a cookie dough such as shortbread that’s stiffer and the pattern will remain!
