FIVE YEARS

Aritri was our graduate student, and also a friend. Someone I was happy to see each morning, someone who was fun to do experiments with. Someone we could count on. It’s been five years since she left us, and no one has occupied her bench ever since. It still has her tape dispenser with a handwritten note: DO NOT TAKE THE TAPE! We had some similarities in the way we dealt with our stuff in the lab… As I’ve mentioned before, I often bake cookies that remind me of her. They are the colorful ones. The happy ones. I share today cookies that to me represent the essence of Aritri.

To make this design, I started by flooding with with and allowing it to set. Then I used a light food safe pen to draw the design, and filled the sections with different colors, all using food pens. A little gold Royal icing in piping consistency to outline each section and the perimeter of the whole drawing. Once that set, I painted it with luster powder gold + vodka. Steps are shown below…