tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39653537869036004642024-03-05T19:59:46.117-06:00 Chick 'n BiscuitsBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-7030518276026302432016-02-19T22:31:00.003-06:002016-02-19T22:31:46.620-06:00Minnie Mouse Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Di</span></b><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>d these last night.</b> Used a plain Mickey Mouse cutter and topped it with a second cookie for the bows. To make the bows, I used the bottom section of a Wilton butterfly cutter and cut both the top and the bottom of the bow with the same part of the cutter. Worked fantastically. Was very pleased with how these came out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></span>Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-21282522126108922962016-02-06T13:40:00.000-06:002016-02-06T13:40:04.231-06:00Lures or Lace Gender Reveal Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">I did these for a friend's coming grandchild, who it turns out, will be a girl! Congratulations, Cindy!</span></span><br /><br />
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Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-79759805595211105322016-02-01T21:45:00.002-06:002016-02-01T21:45:47.947-06:00Peanuts Cookies for a Birthday Party - Good Grief!!<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>My friend Amy asked me</b> if I could do Peanuts themed cookies for her grandson's first birthday and I, of course, said yes. I knew I had the Snoopy cutters that Michael's sold a couple of years ago, but couldn't recall if I'd grabbed the Charlie Brown and Lucy ones then, too. Turned out I had not. So, I found some images that I had planned to use as my guide. I literally cut out the images and was prepared to trace the forms onto each cookie. THEN, I ran across<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqjI3ZET2l0" target="_blank"> this Haniela's tutorial video</a> and knew exactly how I would do these. What a time saver and wow at how they came out! Sorry for my crappy photos!</span></span><br />
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Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-60072787959580819622016-01-31T22:23:00.000-06:002016-01-31T22:23:57.480-06:00Winter Wonderland ("One"derland) First Birthday Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>Did another round of Winter </b>"One"derland first birthday cookies for my cousin's daughter's daughter's (guess it would have been easier to say my cousin's granddaughter) first birthday. I ran across a double plastic set of snowflakes on clearance after Christmas - paid all of .26 for the two cutters, so I was able to add an additional type of snowflake to the mix. I actually think I like the shape of the new snowflake cutter better than the nesting set of Wilton ones I have.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></span>Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-85243369585082947362016-01-08T23:45:00.000-06:002016-01-08T23:46:37.361-06:00Fabulous Birthday Cookies<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>No, I am not calling my work fabulous,</b> but you'll get it when you see them. My friend Beverly's birthday was January 1st, but the poor thing was at the beach to ring in the new year and celebrate her birthday, so I gave her these on Monday, January 4th. I told her that part of her gift was that I seemed to have had a case of number dyslexia on the number cookies! But seriously, I was shocked to learn she was turning the number that's the reverse of 26! So here are Beverly's cookies in all of their fabulousness.</span></span><br />
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Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-84821044761041520142015-12-26T23:56:00.000-06:002015-12-26T23:56:01.759-06:00White Christmas Cookies<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>Wow! It has been quite </b>a while since I posted anything here. 2015 has been a whirlwind year for me and my cookie decorating has taken a backseat. Decorating cookies proved to be a very productive form of grief therapy for me and helped me be able to live life again this year. My father died back in 2012 and I quickly spiraled down into a deep pit of grief and depression. It was in January 2013 that I made my first attempt at decorating cookies and became hooked after that. I am glad I had an art form on which to focus during that time, although I will admit that I did use it as a crutch to fool myself into believing I was being productive and therefore nothing was really wrong. It did give me the opportunity to make a little money for a couple of years, and for that I am grateful. However, this year, I have had a glorious emergence from my personal pit of despair and find myself out living life, rather than hiding behind my computer screen or occupying my time with a piping bag in my hand. This year I have eliminated dairy, sugar and gluten from my diet and am feeling like a new person. My anxiety and depression are gone!! I am able to soundly sleep because I am no longer snoring and therefore awake well rested and ready to go each day. And as a wonderful added benefit, I am wearing clothes this backside hasn't dreamed of being in within the last 10 years. I am feeling good inside and out! My grandmother died in October at age 89 and while I was upset, I was able to deal (still dealing) with it much better than the death of my father and have not completely shut down and isolated myself. At least I learned some things during that first go around! Things leading up to her death took up a lot of my time (thankful that I had the extra time in my schedule to be with her) that I might have otherwise worked on cookies and I have/had also been training for my first 5K, which I excitedly completed on December 5th! Have another scheduled for January 23, 2016, so I am still training, just not as heavily as for the first because of all of the holiday activities going on. Anyhow, enough about me, let's get to my latest cookies!! </span></span></span></span><br />
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could have a White Christmas was to make one! Actually, I was just lazy
and didn't feel like mixing icing colors but the result was stunning! I have essentially put myself on a "no more buying cookie cutters" restriction, but when I ran across the set containing this reindeer marked down at Marshall's, I HAD to have it. I am so glad I got him because he's just so cute! That's my standard favorite Wilton triangle Christmas tree and the large snowflake from their muli-pack of snowflakes.</span></span></span></span><br />
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my local Starbucks!</b> (In the new Sprouts shopping center area) The
people who work there are awesome, Jamie, especially. He was so great to
me week before last week as I was traveling so much, so as a thank you to him and
his co-workers, I did a baker's dozen of these with the dough left over
from another project. I did them hurriedly, but they still turned out
pretty cute. I used the same cutter and basic concept of the mermaid
cookies. They were a huge hit with them and<span class="text_exposed_show">
every time I've come through the drive through since I dropped them off last Saturday, someone else has told me thank you and that they loved
them. I think this is why I like cookies so much - I get all the
enjoyment of them without having to consume a single calorie! I totally
forgot to get a pic, so I asked Tuesday when I went through the drive through if anyone had
taken one and I just got this one via text taken by Jamie. He put it on top of a SB bag, which makes for a nice photo effect, although I did not do the exact logo on the apron, both for copyright reasons and because I am just not that talented to do so in such a tiny space! ha!</span></span></span><br />
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Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-49162162805470937062015-08-30T09:41:00.000-05:002015-08-30T09:41:10.871-05:00Under the Sea and Mermaid Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">I'd been in a bit of a cookie lull and even, GASP, considered selling my enormous cutter collection. Then I had a friend contact me a couple of days before the birthday party of a child who is a huge part of her life, who said that she'd been trying all week to make some cookies and they were a miserable failure in all regards. I tried to help her with tips and suggestions, but could feel her frustration, so even though I was in the middle of a major hospitalization of my grandmother and making daily travel of 3 hours to sit with her, I volunteered to help her out. They were the PERFECT stress relief project for me and set me back on my cookie love trail. I totally used <a href="http://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/2015/06/how-to-make-mermaid-cookies-with-a-snowman-cutter/" target="_blank">this tutorial </a>from Sweet Sugarbelle because I didn't have the time to be creative on my own! I am in love with these and they could be some of my favorites ever.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></span>Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-7804584856849521432015-08-30T09:33:00.001-05:002015-08-30T09:33:26.790-05:00Conservative Lingerie Cookies<span style="color: #e06666;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A friend had asked me about doing </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">some racy cookies for a lingerie shower, but I flat out told her no, that wasn't anything I wanted in my portfolio of work. I'm kind of a prude, I guess. So she then gave me creative freedom to come up with what I wanted to do. I so was not feeling these at all. I thought and thought and thought over them and just never felt good about them. So the night before they were due, I begrudgingly began them. I am just not a fan of the whole over the top T&A look of so many of the similar ones done using the heart cutters, so I think maybe the way I cut these lessened that effect. I used the lower section of a large onesie cutter for the underwear, which are more sort of granny panties. I still hated them and kept thinking, "Who wants to eat underwear?!?! Gross!" But they were happy with them and from what I understand, these ended up being the most conservative thing at the party.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">(Side note: I have never attended a lingerie shower because when I was just out of high school, my best friend told me a horror story of one she'd attended for girl who attended high school with us. After she opened everything, she then MODELED every single item for the party goers. That idea has always stuck with me and I promptly decline all invitations to lingerie showers for that precise reason, although I am sure that isn't common practice, just knowing that it happened at least once has completely scared me away from ever attending one!! So, I am sure that may be partly where my distaste for doing these cookies came from as well.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></span>Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-39609333520731996782015-08-30T09:01:00.002-05:002015-08-30T09:01:45.461-05:00Veitch4DA cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>I am part of the small team </b>working to elect Bill Veitch as our local DA in 2016. We did our campaign kickoff in early August and I decided these would be a cool addition to the food for the evening. HUGE mistake! haha! Now they've been requested for all upcoming events! #Veitch4DA</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-24238029944980781462015-08-30T08:56:00.003-05:002015-08-30T08:56:56.511-05:00Fender Bass Guitar Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>Did these for my cousin's</b> husband at the end of July for his birthday. He was a bass player in his younger days and did the whole hair band thing, so these were perfect for him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></span>Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-60148002670122070742015-08-30T08:52:00.000-05:002015-08-30T09:21:48.895-05:00Lightning Bug Cookies and Watermelon Cookies<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Did these back around</b> July 4th for a friend's grandchildren for their lake outing for the 4th.</span></span><br />
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Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-71800279385398925182015-06-24T08:10:00.000-05:002015-06-24T08:12:28.519-05:00Pirate Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>My adorable little nephew</b> wanted a Jake and the Neverland Pirates party for his 4th birthday, so I volunteered to do some pirate themed cookies. I didn't want to try to do character cookies because without a KopyKake, I find recreating specific characters very difficult, so I thought coordinating cookies would be perfect. I knew I wanted a treasure chest as the centerpiece, so I went to Michael's and found this little unfinished one for $9.99 and used my 50% off coupon. I heavily diluted some brown craft paint and did a color wash on it. One application was plenty. Then I printed the skull image on my black and white laser printer and attached it with a homemade version of modge podge, which was watered down Elmer's glue. Worked perfectly and gave the set that little extra something I had in mind.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-2051146358479700052015-06-24T07:50:00.000-05:002015-06-24T08:16:29.597-05:00Tool Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>Did these for a tool and gadget</b> shower for one of my husband's cousins that was this past Saturday. Of course, this is the photo op version, because there were almost 90 of these bad boys overall! I also did the letter W on the little wooden toolbox. I'd debated whether to make the toolbox out of cookies as well, but decided against it because of all of the icing and drying time it would require. Found this little unfinished toolbox at Michael's for less than $5.00, so I grabbed it up, along with some white craft paint. After that dried, I did a very watered down coat of brown craft paint over it and immediately wiped it off.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">I really like the details on this version of the tool cookies I did, as opposed to the first set I did a few months ago. I think it makes all of the difference in the world. Differences? Pliers are muli-leveled and have a screw on them. I love that little screw and the notch on it. The hammer, wrench and screwdriver also have multiple layers, which makes them much more realistic. And I added silver metallic luster dust (mixed with a few drops of vodka) for a metal finish on everything that required it, except the saws. I really need to invest in some better brushes for that purpose.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-7492503694701332832015-06-24T07:22:00.001-05:002015-06-24T07:22:37.703-05:00Kentucky Basketball Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>Some months ago a friend</b> from my hometown was raising money for genetic testing for her granddaughters for a condition known as Dravet Syndrome and I offered up two dozen cookies for auction as my donation. She posted the auction in two places, so I ended up agreeing to honor both auction winners, because there was no way for those in each place to see the other bids. My friend, Amy, who I have done a <a href="http://achicknbiscuits.blogspot.com/2014/06/tie-dye-teddy-bears-birthdays-and.html" target="_blank">number of cookies </a>for <a href="http://achicknbiscuits.blogspot.com/search/label/Car%20cookies" target="_blank">in the past</a>, ended up winning her auction and asked if she could wait to redeem her winning bid for her husband's birthday in June, although she immediately made her donation. (BTW: Between both auctions, we raised $110.00 for the cause!) I told her that was fine. She had no idea what she wanted to do, but then it hit me that her husband was a University of Kentucky fan, or at least I thought so. I sent her daughter a message to confirm because I wanted Amy to be as surprised as Mark would be. Her daughter said he would LOVE them. When I delivered them on Sunday, Amy's face and reaction of pure excitement and surprise said it all! :) (Also of note, genetic testing came back and they do NOT have the syndrome!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">I ordered this UK cutter from <a href="https://www.jbcookiecutters.com/?s=kentucky" target="_blank">JB Cookie Cutters</a>, who do 3D printing to make cookie cutters. When it arrived, I was a little disappointed with the size as it seemed awfully small, but it ended up working just fine. They also sent the component parts of the cutter, I guess in case I was doing fondant. Because they were a bit on the small side, they were a bit tedious to do. I ended up doing the white outline first and then filling in, which makes the blue a little lumpy looking, but I was too scared to try it otherwise. Now that I have a point of reference for them with these finished cookies, I think next time (she posted them on FB last night and I already have a request for some for a birthday in September) that I'll do a completely blue flood and fill first and then come back when that is dry and do the white outlines.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-66993147359990559832015-06-24T07:03:00.001-05:002015-06-24T07:03:29.970-05:00Trains and Teddy Bear Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>Did these trains and teddy bears </b>for the child/grandchild of some long time friends. I decided to try my first go at a 3D/stand-up cookie with one of the trains. Just made a couple of long rectangles to bridge them together and attached them inside with really stiff royal icing. I LOVE that they ended up using it on the cake! I recently bought the Betty Crocker 101 set of cutters because there were a couple in there that I wanted, so of course, I just got all 101! ha! Anyway, I used the train cutter from that set instead of the only other one I had which was from the Wilton 101 set, because I liked the design of this one better.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-58808570791931864262015-06-07T14:21:00.001-05:002015-06-07T14:21:19.458-05:00Swirl Rose Cookies using Royal Icing.<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Sometimes things work out just as they</b> were in my head. I am in love with these rose cookies. And my, oh my, they were so super simple. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was asked by a friend's mom to do angels and roses for a luncheon she was giving for a wives group at a VFW gathering during D-Day weekend. The luncheon was to honor the outgoing president of their group, who had used the symbols of angels and roses during her term. Her daughter did lovely stemmed beverage glasses with a rose embossed on the base of each. I had done some roses before, but didn't really like them, so I wanted a different idea. I noticed when I did a google image search that a few people had done simple swirl roses using a 1M tip. I'd always assumed they were buttercream cookies and couldn't be done with royal icing, because I've done tons of buttercream swirl roses on cupcakes and swirl rose cakes. Upon further investigation, I discovered that I could do them with very stiff royal icing. My decision was made - that was what I would be doing for the roses! I used a round cutter and added a couple of small leaves to it. These things were so easy and so quick AND they look amazing. When I say quick, I mean super, super quick! I did about 2dz. each of the angels and roses. The angels took me just a little over an hour to complete. The roses were done within 10 minutes. The biggest delay was refilling my icing bag, because they do use quite a bit of icing, but they are so totally worth it.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-11182339971150138252015-06-07T14:06:00.002-05:002015-06-07T14:06:56.159-05:00Spa Party Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>Did these for a friend's daughter's </b>birthday party. These have become a favorite, as it is the third time I have done ones like these. Loved the addition of mascara and eyelashes to the mix.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-5009107109122063162015-06-07T14:02:00.002-05:002015-06-07T14:02:50.900-05:00Tree Stump Cookies<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Did these for the retirement party</b> of a co-worker of my husband who has a side business doing stump grinding. I could not find an actual tree stump cutter anywhere, so I got a huge circle on from Sur la Table, broke it open and my husband and I shaped it into the stump. Since I had no idea what I was doing, I just jumped in and tried. Notice the few along the back that have the larger "cut area" showing, those were my first ones and I totally wasn't feeling them. I adjusted doing the same portion in a smaller surface area and ended up liking them much better.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-68245314187760529792015-06-07T13:57:00.001-05:002015-06-07T13:57:31.165-05:00Watermelon Cookies<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Did these for our local bar </b>association's annual picnic. I don't like the shade of bright green I used - I ended up mixing electric yellow and avocado, which looks like a neon yellow/green shade. Next time I'll either do plain old electric green or a mix of lemon yellow with avocado to get a less glow in the dark shade. ha! I also just did random black RI transfers for the seeds. Can't locate black candy covered sunflower seeds without ordering online, which I hate doing, so next time I am going to try using Wilton spray color in black on a bunch of colored candy covered sunflower seeds I already have for a more uniform look.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-25846479493110206102015-05-22T08:45:00.000-05:002015-05-22T08:45:31.895-05:00Baby Rattle Cookies for a Baby Tea<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>I did these for my</b> husband's little cousin's baby tea. I'd told her that I would be glad to do some and really had a platter of 3-4 dozen in mind when I made the offer, but didn't specify that. So when they let me know what they wanted to do, the cookies were going to be used as favors for 80ish guests. Of course doing cookie favors is different than simply doing a mixed platter with quick and easy coordinating fill-ins, so I had to figure out what I was going to do. For favors they need to be either all uniform or at least similar in size, so I initially settled for doing a mix of bottles, rattles and onesies, but I had a lot of other cookies going on for the same delivery day and didn't get started even baking them until after 9:00pm the night before I was to deliver them at 8:00 am. Since the number was over double what I'd initially planned for, all needed to be detailed and because I was running super short on time, I opted to do all rattles because they had the smallest surface area of decorating and for drying time. The colors were yellow and blue so I did a mix of all of the colors and did about 6 variations on the overall look of them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Also, note my fantastic piping on the words, "Oh boy!" Yep, that is the result of the most magical tip ever that I received as a birthday gift from my long time friend Kim, remember, she's the one who gave me the mixer for my birthday a couple of years ago. Ya know, every year for my birthday, she does things that I can never top or even come close to matching in return for her. She's awesome! Anyhow, I digress. That piping is the result of my new <a href="http://www.karenscookies.net/PME-Supatube-No-15_p_1225.html" target="_blank">PME Supatube 1.5 writing tip</a>. I'd read so many people talk about how awesome it was, but was still like, "Seriously, how can it possibly be THAT much better?" But it so is!! It is like there's this magical little elf inside the elongated portion of the tip making everything you pipe come out beautifully. Looks like super-cheapo me, will be investing in some more of these awesome tips!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">I didn't get a pic of these cookies before I delivered them, but my aunt snapp</span><span style="color: #e06666;">ed a cell phone pic of a few that remained near the end of the tea. This is that pic.</span></span><br />
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<br />Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-19239419134975059582015-05-22T08:23:00.001-05:002015-05-22T08:23:35.068-05:00Girly Cookies for a Bachelorette Party - High Heel Shoes, Diamond Rings, etc.<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>These are pretty much</b>
exactly what the title of this post says, not much more on which I can
elaborate. I will say this was my first time using Americolor Deep Pink
instead of Soft Pink and I think I really like it a lot better. I had
planned to use both, but just ended up using the same batch of colored
icing and just diluted the color with additional uncolored icing to
achieve the lighter shade of pink.</span></span><br />
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</span></span>Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-66845190855113657652015-05-22T08:16:00.000-05:002015-05-22T08:16:18.442-05:00Birthday Cookies<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>These are a couple of sets</b> of birthday cookies I did for a friend and for a friend's daughter. For the candle, I used a cutter like <a href="http://heinis.com/3-candle-3361.html" target="_blank">this one</a> and just cut off the bottom section. Works well, but I really want to get a chubby candle cutter a long <a href="http://www.cheapcookiecutters.com/products/pink-candle-cookie-cutter" target="_blank">these lines</a> or <a href="http://www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/celebration-cookie-cutters/birthday-candle-cookie-cutter.html" target="_blank">like this</a>, but until then, this works fine. I also did some birthday cupcakes for Kelly, which were just plain yellow cake with vanilla buttercream icing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The writing on both of these is horrible! Even though I'd received my AWESOME PME Supatube 1.5 writing tip by then, I'd been too lazy to mix a separate batch of piping consistency icing and didn't thicken these enough to keep the letters from running together. Other than that, I was good with them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The turquoise color for Hallie's cookies was made using a suggestion from <a href="http://www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/celebration-cookie-cutters/birthday-candle-cookie-cutter.html" target="_blank">Jill of Funky Cookie Studio</a>. Everything I'd tried kept coming out too green and then one day I saw something she posted and inquired how she achieved the shade. She used electric blue and a smidge of avocado green. I was thinking I followed her suggestion to get my color, but when I looked it up just now, I am certain that I do not own electric blue, so I may have used royal blue and avocado green, which is why mine isn't quite as bright as hers were - makes sense now. Pay attention, Beth! haha!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I did Kelly's a few weeks before doing these for Hallie's and decided to do the candles differently and love the results.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03075438806783319193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965353786903600464.post-75831335644050642602015-04-15T07:37:00.000-05:002015-04-15T07:37:06.741-05:00Tool and Gadget Shower Cookies<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>Did these last weekend </b>for a friend who was giving a tool and gadget shower for a young couple.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Tool Cookies</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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