Baby Face

Joan and I spent most of the afternoon decorating these for two different baby showers.

We absolutely loooooooove the baby faces. I must give credit where credit is due though, they were inspired by Sugarbelle (a cookie decorator whose site I stalk often). If you would like to stalk her too, you can find her at: http://sweetsugarbelle.blogspot.com/

The pink and white are for a shower Mindy will be attending next weekend. Thanks for your donation and repeat business!

The purple and pink are for our friend and neighbor, Monica. We'll be attending her shower in two weeks and these beauties will be given as favors. Had we known the faces would have turned out so cute, we probably would have just made those for her shower. I hope the guests don't fight over which one they get to take home. I know we want faces!

By the way, the faces aren't drawn on with a Sharpie marker (as I think I may have lead Dave to believe). It's edible marker, our new decorating friend--love them!

Spring Has Sprung!

Oh how I wish it were true.

When Mindy asked for spring flowers we had 50 inches of snow on the ground, so I was more than willing to bring some spring into our lives. I hope her team enjoys this nice "change of scenery".

One Shoe Can Change Your Life

Terri ordered these for a suprise (shhhhhh!) bridal shower. The wedding will be held at Disney in April, so it was only fitting that the shower have a Cinderella theme.

These glass slippers sparkle like glass; the photos don't show it well. Although the order was for just glass slippers, I thought 40 of them together would look too plain, so I added a touch of color (the shower and wedding colors are black and white). I hope Terri likes this addition.

Tye Dye Mania

I delivered these today. I think they look cute in a bouquet!

Peace, man.

I see Audrey was baking today as well--great Cookie Monsters! I made these for a get well bouquet for a 14 year old and a birthday for a 9 year old. I have been wanting to try tye-dye T-shirt cookies for a while now. While mixing the icing colors (6 in all!) took some time, the decorating was a blast! These pictures truly don't do the cookies justice. These are my new favorites.

C is for Cookie

S is for Snow Day!!!

When Steve asked yesterday if I could make cookie monster cookies for Saturday, I told him only if there was no school today, otherwise I wouldn't have time. We both lucked out...I got the day off, he got his cookies.

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A Winner!

The Colts will be a winner next Sunday...but I'm talking about another winner.

A few years back when Joan was researching icing for cookies for her niece's wedding, she decided the perfect icing was color flow. It is, we like it, have never used anything else. We have to buy our color flow from Michael's, it's not cheap, and we can't decorate without it. There have been many times I have gone to decorate cookies and realize I'm out which means an unplanned trip to the store.

I follow a blog, Cookie Crazie, check her out at www.cookiecrazie.blogspot.com. She does the most absolutely gorgeous cookie decorating I've seen. She uses an icing that contains Karo syrup. I tried it on these. I'm very happy with the results. The color turned out perfect (I couldn't have achieved this dark color with color flow). This icing dries with a nice sheen. The texture is slightly different than color flow, so next time I'll thin it a little so it looks smoother.

It still has to pass one final test--does it freeze well? Time will tell, but I'm guessing a winner!

The Queen of Hearts...

A double batch of Valentine cookies sit ready for purchase and consumption in my freezer. These ones are decorated with the flooding technique. They were fun to make.

Let It Snow...

While taking orders for Valentine's Day, I received an order for a Birthday bouquet and a cheer bouquet. I've been wanting to make snowflakes. I usually take the cookies that need writing on them to Audrey because she is much neater. This time I thought that I will never get better unless I practice, practice, practice! It was stressful, but I think it turned out OK. Stay tuned for the cheer bouquet and for flooded hearts for Valentine's Day.

First Things First

The Colts are going to the Superbowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be using this cutter real soon.

Secondly, more Valentine cookies. I used edible glitter on some (the photo doesn't do them justice), they turned out very pretty.

Cheesecake Cookies

I was searching for a new and exciting cookie recipe and ran across this.

It's from The Pioneer Woman. If you haven't visited her, you must. Not only is her life interesting, she has wonderful recipes and a new cookbook, which of course I have and you are welcome to borrow. You can find her at www.thepioneerwoman.com. (Sorry, I'm having trouble inserting a link, you'll have to cut and paste or type it in). This particular recipe is from her Tasty Kitchen and you can find the link through her site.

The verdict: I love cheesecake, but I like mine plain, no fruit or flavoring, so I thought these were just OK. My husband thought they were delicious. My kids won't touch them with a ten foot pole. I had my youngest son critique them based on the picture from Tasty Kitchen compared to how mine looked. He said "Yours are messy, I hope you're not selling these!"

I'm giving lots of these away, so if you are a recipient, please feel free to post your opinion here. And don't worry, I'm not out of the sugar cookie business, I'll bake some of those this evening after the Colts win!!!!

82 Hearts

And that's just the beginning.

I baked and decorated 82 of these beauties this weekend for the upcoming "holiday". I especialy like the smaller ones with the scalloped edge. By the way, the heart plate is from Walmart ($1.50), and I bought a few smaller ones there for a buck.

Need cookies? Place your order early (like Rodecia did), as these are some of our most popular. They will disappear quickly.