Spiderman

I made these for Wells' Spiderman birthday party a few weeks ago.

Happy birthday Wells!!

Strawberry Shortcake cookies

My friend Jaimi asked me to make some cookies for her daughter's birthday party.  She did a Strawberry Shortcake theme. 

I just did some simple squares and then some little strawberries.

Happy birthday Jordan!!!

Cars

My friend Mary Avery asked me to do some Cars cookies for her son's birthday party on Saturday.  She had found these cookie cutters and I was so excited to make them!

 

It was so fun to do these!  

Sadly, we didn't get to go to the party.  My son woke up sick yesterday so we had to miss it.  I was so sad!

Happy birthday John Michael!!

Yay Hey, No Way!

Yo ho mateys away!  There'll be treasure and adventure today! 

Yes, I could type out the whole song to "Jake and the Neverland Pirates."  And if you have a Pre-schooler I'm sure you could too!  My son loves "Pirates" as he calls it.  I think it's kinda cute too, I like when Izzy says, "Yay hey, no way!" (Hence the title of the post).

On to the cookies... 

My friend Vonda asked me to make some pirate cookies for her son Brandon's birthday party.  I was so excited when she asked me because I had just found this tutorial on easy pirate cookies!  I love how simple they are but so cute!  If you haven't looked through Sweet Sugar Belle's blog, you need to!  She is amazing and gives great tutorials.  She has really good ones for beginners.  And I love how creative she is with cookie cutters, using them for different cookie designs.

And I saw her pirate ship cookies here.  For the black marks on the wood, I used an edible marker and I love the detail that adds.

Happy birthday Brandon!

You are My Sunshine

My friend Hillary asked me to do some cookies for her daughter's first birthday.  She did a really cute theme, You are My Sunshine.  She sent me the invitation and I LOVE the sunshine with a bow!!  So cute!

She did a yellow and white chevron design and also turquoise so I tried to match those colors.

I'm pleased with how my chevron design came out.  It was my first time to try it but I think next time I'll do it a little differently.  Oh well, I think you can still tell it's chevron :)

Farm Animals

Farm animal cookies are always so fun to make!  I did these for my friend Amy's daughter's birthday party.

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Happy Birthday Laurie!

Yesterday my friend Kelly had us over for a surprise party for Laurie!  We had so much fun and Laurie had no idea :)  I wanted to make some cookies for the party (of course!!)

 I have found so many new ideas lately, thanks to Pinterest!  I could just spend hours on there.  There are SO many amazing cookie decorators and I've enjoyed getting some new ideas.

I found this tutorial (and saw her amazing cookies) and knew I had to try this "tuft" technique.  I am in love with it!  You can't see it very well in the picture because it's black (and because I haven't mastered this technique!) but I really like how they turned out.  I'm excited to try them in different colors for baby cookies, wedding cookies, lots of ideas!

I saw these amazing cookies and thought I could do some with the colors I was using.  Mine don't have as much detail but these were so fun to do!

Lastly, what's a party without a cupcake cookie?  Usually I just do sprinkles on the white part but I found these cookies and loved the writing on the cupcake along with the swirls.  Since we were doing black and white, I thought I'd add a little color to them with a flower.  In the top picture, you'll notice the pink flower didn't hold it's shape.  The icing was a lot thinner than I thought and it kinda flattened out.  But then I thought it was still cute so I didn't redo them. 

Oh and just a little note about black icing (or any darker color), most of the time it will get blotchy like the you can see in the cupcake...unless you live somewhere with low humidity (I live in Arkansas where we hardly have a day with low humidity.)  Or you could use a dehumidifier while your cookies are drying but I don't have one so I just live with the spots.  Actually, they will usually just turn the darker color after a day or so.  This picture was taken the day before and the spots were gone by the party!  So just make them a day earlier than you want to serve them and they should be fine.

Happy birthday Laurie!!!!

M-I-C-K-E-Y

Last weekend we had my son's family birthday party. He is VERY into Mickey Mouse right now, which is good because we just booked our trip to Disney World this summer! He is going to love it!

I thought I would try something different with the cookies this time. My family eats my cookies all the time so I thought I'd change it up for them :) I also wanted to try a chocolate sugar cookie recipe. I used a recipe from Joy of Baking

Chocolate Sugar Cookies:
2 3/4 cups (355 grams) all purpose
3/4 cup (75 grams) unsweetened Dutch processed cocoa
powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon (4 grams)baking powder
1 cup (227 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 3/4 cups (350 grams) granulated white sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanill extract

For Chocolate Sugar Cookies: In a large bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder.

In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy (about 3 to 4 minutes). Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla extract and beat until combined. Add the flour mixture and beat until you have a smooth dough.

Divide the dough in half and wrap each half in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for about one hour or until firm enough to roll.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in the center of the oven. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Remove one half of the chilled dough from the refrigerator and, on a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of 1/4 inch (1 cm). (Keep turning the dough as you roll, making sure the dough does not stick to the counter.) Cut out desired shapes using a lightly floured cookie cutter and transfer cookies to the prepared baking sheet. Place the baking sheets with the unbaked cookies in the refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes to chill the dough which prevents the cookies from spreading and losing their shape while baking.

Note: If you are not going to frost the baked cookies, you may want to sprinkle the unbaked cookies with crystal or sparkling sugar.

Bake cookies for about 10 - 12 minutes (depending on size) or until they are firm around the edges. Remove from oven and let cookies cool on baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling. Frost with royal icing, if desired. Be sure that the frosting on the cookies dries completely before storing. (This may take several hours.) Frosted cookies will keep several days in an airtight container. Store between layers of parchment paper or wax paper.

Makes about 36 - 4 inch (10 cm) cookies.


Read more: http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChocolateSugarCookie.html#ixzz1oGoIuw4B

The cookies were very good! I will definitely make more of these in the future.

Instead of using Royal Icing like I normally use, I thought I'd use fondant. I use the recipe I found at Bake at 350. To cover the cookies with fondant, I found this tutorial that I've used many times and it's so fun and easy.

I also made some cheese crackers in the shape of Mickey :) Here's the recipe. I just used the bigger circle cutter and made some smaller circles and then pressed them into the bigger one on the baking sheet. It didn't take much time at all and I think they turned out cute.

I also made some funfetti cake batter buddies. Oh. My. Goodness these are so good!!!

Caleb loves chocolate chip cookies so I thought he would like a cookie cake. I tried to make my own but it did not turn out at all. Anyone have a good recipe? So we got this one from the store. It had some icing and sprinkles on it but it didn't go with the colors I was using so I scraped it off and used my own.

I made this cookie dough dip at Christmas and thought that would be good to have too. It's so good! And the cookies to go with it are from The Pioneer Woman, also very good!

I also made some pizza bites but forgot to take a picture of them. They were gone very quickly!

And some more fun water bottle labels :)

Ok so I finally took pictures to show how I ice my cookies. I'm working on it now so it will be up very soon!

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Last week I did some cookies for my friend Amy's daughter's birthday. She had a Wizard of Oz theme. Kelly took some really cute pictures from the party. It turned out so cute!!! All of Amy's parties are so adorable. You can see Kelly's post here.

I didn't have a rainbow cookie cutter so here's what I did:
I couldn't find my big, plain circle cutter so I used this scalloped one, which I thought would be cute anyway.

Then I used a small circle cutter and cut a half circle out of the big circle. I did that on both sides straight across from each other. I didn't measure or anything, just eyeballed it. Then I cut a whole circle out of more dough...

And filled the little notches. I did this on wax paper on the counter but it's better to do this on the cookie sheet that you're going to bake them on because they will fall off when you move them. Then I just kinda smoothed them together so they would bake together.

This picture is a little blurry but then I cut off the bottom part of the big circle at the bottom of the little circles. And there you have it, a cookie ready to be made into a rainbow!

Cowgirl Cookies

I made some cookies this week for a sweet little cowgirl turning 6!

Royal Wedding Birthday Party

These were fun to make for a little princess who had a Royal Wedding birthday party on the day of the Royal Wedding, which was also her birthday!

Black Belt birthday

Elmo birthday party!

I know I've been MIA for a while. It's not for the lack of cookies though! I have a lot to post and catch up.

Somebunny is TWO!

I did these for my friend Amy's daughter's birthday! She did a bunny theme and I really love how these turned out. On the invitation, the inside of the bunny's ear is plaid so that's where I got the idea to use plaid in the cookies. I think you'll see more of this in the future because I just really like the plaid technique :)

Yo Gabba Gabba

Olivia the Pig party

Happy Birthday!

These were designed based on an invitation for the party. They were so fun to make!

Zoo Animal party

Rapunzel cookies

My friend Ginger asked me to make some cookies for her daughter's Rapunzel themed party. She had made invitations with a braid of hair coming out of a window so I told her I would try to do that on a cookie!

I couldn't think of a way to do it with Royal Icing so I made some fondant (recipe here) and it was so much fun! I love making fondant, well.....ever since I found out you can make it in a mixer. I tried making some by hand last year for my son's birthday cake and it was so hard and I said I would never make it again! But I found this recipe and technique and I have a whole new love for fondant. And it tastes yummy! The mixer does the work for you and all you do is knead it a little bit and you're done!

Sleepover birthday party!