THE eye should learn to listen before it looks.
– Robert frank
One of the first photography subjects I began to enjoy beyond nature was food, especially cookies and other desserts. I was so interested in food photography because I truly loved baking and it gave me an opportunity to combine two of my passions. It also appealed to me because food photography, like all still lives, requires a lot more preparation and planning. It even sometimes becomes a challenge to figure out the best way to style and light the set. I still consider food and beverage photography to be one of my primary interests, although it has been a long time since I have officially done a shoot of any kind of food. I hope that changes soon, and I will definitely begin with a classic category for me: cookies!!
For the past year we have had a new cookie shop in town, Crumbl Cookies, and it has become my favorite place to get a sweet treat. If you are unaware, they have 2 classic cookies every week, chilled sugar and warm chocolate chip. They also have 4 other flavors that change from one week to the next. They are large, thick, fluffy cookies. Everyone that I think I will like, I have loved!! I have discovered, though, that I enjoy them more when they are plain or slightly decorated (I guess I’m a cookie purist) instead of covered in frosting. Even when the frosting tastes fantastic, I still always find it is too much and takes away from the cookie instead of enhancing it.
Lately, I have gotten the urge to try out several recipes trying to create cookies that are as thick and tall as theirs while also still being moist. I just have to find more time when I have nothing else that needs attention because that will be an undertaking. Stay tuned for when I do have my first post of desserts and cookies that I bake myself and do a proper photo shoot of (not the simple pictures of holiday baking I have done so far). In the meantime, enjoy these pictures of the latest cookie I have tried from Crumbl Cookies. It was a peanut butter snicker cookie, and unfortunately the frosting was too much for me (but I left it on for the pictures of course).
