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| Winter "One"derland Cookies |
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Winter "One"derland Cookies
Did these for a friend's god son's 1st birthday party.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Cookies for Thanksgiving - Gobble, Gobble!
So I did a few trays of these for some friends for Thanksgiving. Wow are they super quick and super easy, but also super cute. Used the idea from the Bearfoot Baker to make the turkey heads using mini acorn cutters. Then I saw these online and although it isn't the same cutter at all, it certainly reminded me of using my candy corn cutter, so I used the candy corn cutter for the wings/feathers.
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| Turkey Platter Cookies |
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| Turkey Platter Cookies |
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| Turkey Platter Cookies Undecorated |
Just Something a Little Bird Told Me
So I am sitting here the morning before Thanksgiving with tons to do to get ready for the big day, so what would make more sense than sitting here procrastinating by catching up on some posts of cookies I've done since the long ago October 4th post. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. ;)
Anyway, I did these about a month ago for my cousin's daughter's baby shower. She originally wanted 4 dozen and I was up for it. We planned that she would pick them up when she was in Birmingham on Thursday of that week and I'd planned my baking and decorating accordingly. She lives in Atlanta, so just zipping over for cookies isn't really an option if she wasn't going to be in the area. Then she called me about noon on Tuesday and said her appointment had been changed to Wednesday and could I have them for her then. My response? Uhmmm, no! I'd not even started them yet. I explained that to her and she said she guessed she would have to cancel then. I felt bad and was kind of excited about doing these because I'd come up with all alternative uses of cutters for these, so about an hour later I sent her a text and asked if she'd be okay with just two dozen, because I knew I could have that many ready in time for her and that way she'd still have some. She liked that idea, as did I.
Now for the alternate cutter usage: For the larger birds, I used a Valentine's Day heart with an arrow through it and trimmed off the pointy part of the heart. For the smaller bird in the middle, I used the snail cutter from an animal set from IKEA. There's also one tucked in there that is just kind of silly looking, but I used a football cutter for it. For the bird cage, I used my large tombstone cutter and trimmed a good portion of the length off of it. And for the birdhouse, I used the little church cutter that I have and trimmed off the steeple. Obviously, I didn't trim the scalloped squares, but was thrilled with how my semi-freehanded little birds came out. I actually found an image online that I liked, printed it and halfway traced it on to the cookie with a food color marker. I think these turned out really cute and I love that I didn't do what I always do, which is run out and buy yet another cookie cutter to make them.
Anyway, I did these about a month ago for my cousin's daughter's baby shower. She originally wanted 4 dozen and I was up for it. We planned that she would pick them up when she was in Birmingham on Thursday of that week and I'd planned my baking and decorating accordingly. She lives in Atlanta, so just zipping over for cookies isn't really an option if she wasn't going to be in the area. Then she called me about noon on Tuesday and said her appointment had been changed to Wednesday and could I have them for her then. My response? Uhmmm, no! I'd not even started them yet. I explained that to her and she said she guessed she would have to cancel then. I felt bad and was kind of excited about doing these because I'd come up with all alternative uses of cutters for these, so about an hour later I sent her a text and asked if she'd be okay with just two dozen, because I knew I could have that many ready in time for her and that way she'd still have some. She liked that idea, as did I.
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| Bird cookies |
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Gender Reveal Cookies
These were so cute, but it was cloudy and rainy the when I was trying to get pics, so all of the pics were horrible! So I did this visually deceptive collage to make up for it. The theme was "Beau or Bow?" using mustaches and bows. I totally stink at drawing mustaches, btw. And I am still scared of piping lettering on small cookies, thus the writing you see on these is done with a food color marker.
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| Gender Reveal Cookies, Beau or Bow Cookies |
Pumpkin Patch Cookies, Tractor Cookies and Frozen Cookies
Had two separate birthday parties going on this weekend, so I did 4 dozen cookies for the two parties. One was a pumpkin patch party and the other was Frozen themed.
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| Tractor Cookies, Pumpkin Cookies, Frozen Cookies, Snowflake Cookies |
I was a bit scared of the Olaf cookies because I had no frame of reference for them. I looked at various pictures and immediately thought of my carrot cookie cutter. I printed one of the images of him, cut it out and laid it on the carrot and it was perfect! I did trim the leafy portion of the carrot. Then I just did the "wing it" thing and did his face freehand while looking at a pic of him online. Could they have been better? Absolutely, but I am still okay with them.
Taco Cookies
Did these for a friend's son's birthday.
Used a carrot cutter for those peppers and was too lazy to thin the red icing for them, so you'll notice their icky texture. Not nuts about the margaritas.
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| Taco Cookies |
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| Taco Cookies |
Pink Ribbon Cookies
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friend's workplace had a pink ribbon bake sale. The company
manufactures sewing machines, so I did stitching around the edges of the
pink ribbons, and did some buttons and sewing machines as well.
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| Pink Ribbon Cookies, Sewing Machine Cookies |
Roll Tide and DZ Cookies
Haven't posted in a while, so I am going to do several back-to-back posts to catch up. Here are some Roll Tide Cookies and Big Al Cookies I did for the opening game this year. I also did some of the Big Al ones for my niece's birthday and some for a friend's mom. I did another set for a friend's niece who just pledged Delta Zeta in her first year at UA.
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| Big Al Cookies |
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| Alabama Cookies |
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| Big Al Cookies |
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| Delta Zeta Cookies, University of Alabama Cookies |
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Back to School and Shark Week
So my niece, Elisabeth, started her first teaching job this week and is teaching in the system from which I graduated, along with tons of people with whom I went to elementary, middle and high school. She's teaching 6th Grade Language Arts. Since so many of my friends work with her in the school, I decided to make a ton of back to school cookies for her to take with her on one of the teacher work days before school started, to share with her new co-workers. I forgot to get a pic before wrapping them in plastic, but she was kind enough to snap a couple of pics for me before they were all eaten.
I love how the crayons came out. I own a gazillion cookie cutters, as do most cookie freaks like me, however it always seems that I don't have the one that I need when I have something I want to do. I have finally become much better at trying to use what I have to make things instead of buying yet another cutter. For the crayons, I used a lipstick cutter that I had and trimmed it a bit on the tip and sides. Worked like a charm. For the large pencils, I used a little triangle Christmas tree cutter that Wilton had in the Christmas bins at Wal-Mart in 2013, the Wilton tombstone cutter and the end of a large Christmas bulb cutter for the erasers. For the small ones, I think I used the lipstick cutter again. I did the chalkboards using a small plaque cutter that was in a set I picked up at Target earlier this year. I don't like hand cutting at all, so for the simple rectangles for notebook paper, I once again employed the tombstone and then trimmed the header and footer off of it. And for the rulers I used a large number one cutter and trimmed the flag off the top of the number. The stars, ABCs and 123s were last minute fillers, which I knocked out super fast one morning before leaving for work.
One of her new co-workers who teaches the same grade and subject matter with her is one of my cookie fans, who gets me to do some for her from time to time (perhaps you recall these golf ones?). Elisabeth mentioned to her that I was doing the back to school cookies, so she sent me a message, noting that she knew it was last minute, asking if I could do some for her son because he loves those cookies so much. She left it completely up to me as to what I would do with them - she said she was even fine with basic shapes with random icing colors on them. Then it hit me that it was shark week and I knew that was the perfect theme to go with. I used the Sugarbelle shark tutorials and this idea for the surfboards, since I didn't have a surfboard cutter. And this idea for the shark bites out of them using the Ikea porcupine cutter. I made the swim trunks using the large teddy bear cutter in the 101 Wilton set and trimmed it to what I needed.
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| Back to school cookies, Crayon Cookies, Notebook Paper Cookies, Ruler Cookies, Chalkboard Cookies |
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| Back to school cookies, Pencil cookies, Apple cookies |
I love how the crayons came out. I own a gazillion cookie cutters, as do most cookie freaks like me, however it always seems that I don't have the one that I need when I have something I want to do. I have finally become much better at trying to use what I have to make things instead of buying yet another cutter. For the crayons, I used a lipstick cutter that I had and trimmed it a bit on the tip and sides. Worked like a charm. For the large pencils, I used a little triangle Christmas tree cutter that Wilton had in the Christmas bins at Wal-Mart in 2013, the Wilton tombstone cutter and the end of a large Christmas bulb cutter for the erasers. For the small ones, I think I used the lipstick cutter again. I did the chalkboards using a small plaque cutter that was in a set I picked up at Target earlier this year. I don't like hand cutting at all, so for the simple rectangles for notebook paper, I once again employed the tombstone and then trimmed the header and footer off of it. And for the rulers I used a large number one cutter and trimmed the flag off the top of the number. The stars, ABCs and 123s were last minute fillers, which I knocked out super fast one morning before leaving for work.
One of her new co-workers who teaches the same grade and subject matter with her is one of my cookie fans, who gets me to do some for her from time to time (perhaps you recall these golf ones?). Elisabeth mentioned to her that I was doing the back to school cookies, so she sent me a message, noting that she knew it was last minute, asking if I could do some for her son because he loves those cookies so much. She left it completely up to me as to what I would do with them - she said she was even fine with basic shapes with random icing colors on them. Then it hit me that it was shark week and I knew that was the perfect theme to go with. I used the Sugarbelle shark tutorials and this idea for the surfboards, since I didn't have a surfboard cutter. And this idea for the shark bites out of them using the Ikea porcupine cutter. I made the swim trunks using the large teddy bear cutter in the 101 Wilton set and trimmed it to what I needed.
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| Shark Week Cookies |
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Cheerful Heart Cookies, Airplanes and Nautical Cookies
So my July has been pretty light in terms of cookies. I've just done a handful of sets. I did this first set that I call Cheerful Hearts for a friend just after a mastectomy but before her chemo started. She's been keeping a blog and often references Proverbs 17:22, which in one of the translations reads in part, "A cheerful heart is good medicine..." The second time I came upon that reference in reading her blog, I knew it had to be cookied! Granted these are very simple and I put did them pretty hurriedly to be able to get them in the mail, but I think they definitely fit the bill as being cheerful hearts. I do hope they were good medicine!
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| Cheerful Heart Cookies |
I also did some colored softballs for a little girl's birthday party, but didn't get a pic of those.
Then I moved on to some nautical cookies for a baby shower. The colors were navy, khaki and white. I did anchors, lighthouses, life preservers and sailboats. Another friend's little boy was having his 7th birthday party that same weekend, so I did some airplanes for him in the same colors with the remaining icing.
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| Airplane Cookies, Nautical Cookies, Anchor Cookies |
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