Hawaiian Shirt Cookies (and Flip Flops!)

These Hawaiian Shirt and flip-flop cookies were just for practice.  I try to make a few extras each time I make a batch of cookies so I can try new cutters, new techniques, or just to have a little relaxed decorating. The designs are actually pretty simple.  I used the wet on wet technique and made little 'donuts' with the accent color.  Then, take a tooth pick and pull the icing towards the middle of the circle in 4 points.  You can always take some towards the outside of the circle, or swirl all around the cookie (like I did on the pink shirt).

Mickey Mouse Inspired 1st Birthday

I love the basic colors and style of this mickey mouse set.  I added some white stars with red dots and a few sparkly star minis.  Using the Americolor gel coloring really helps to eliminate the flavor that can come with red and black colors.

The style of these were inspired by Firefly Confections who has some of the most amazing cookies I've seen (check out the Hunger Games birthday cookies!)

Happy Birthday Basics

My favorite sister-in-law turned 25 last week and requested a plate of birthday cookies.  I'm always happy to oblige those requests, especially when I can just do whatever I like.  I went pretty basic on these cookies, but I think it's always a good idea to have a basic birthday/wedding/etc platter idea in your back pocket for last minute events.  My normal cookies take me about 4 hours to decorate 2 dozen (I'm a little slow, and a lot OCD about cookies), but I whipped up these 18 cookies start to finish in an hour, using leftover royal icing.  Add in a few hours drying time and you can make cookies in the morning for an evening party.  These are vanilla almond cookies with almond butter royal icing in purple, yellow, and black.

Fireman First Birthday

I had lots of fun making this fireman platter for a first birthday.  Believe it or not, all of these cookies are made using the wilton 101 cookie cutter set.  So there's no need for a huge investment into cutters to make fun cookies.  This platter was a mix of chocolate and vanilla cookies with almond butter royal icing.  

Teal Ocean Wedding

These cookies were actually practice and taste testers for a wedding I'm doing in June.  I'm so happy with the colors and design. I got the idea for the simple sand dollars from Sweet Sugar Belle and just made them my own.  The actual wedding cookies will have starfish, clam shells and a few other things included.  

Turquoise Wedding Platter

This is a bridal shower platter whose colors were based on David's Bridals Malibu color.  The additional theme of the shower was Gerber daisies, so I added some of those in as well.  I love doing cookie platters where I mix several different shapes and styles all in the same color scheme.  

Chocolate cookies with almond/vanilla royal icing.  

Purple Elephants on Parade

This is a birthday platter for a fan of elephants and purple.  Couldn't get much more fun. :)  I made mostly elephants (2 in cutter), with a few cupcakes mixed in and the platter is topped off with Happy Birthday cookies.  I hope they enjoy them!

The cookies were vanilla, they were frosted with vanilla butter royal icing.  

Pittsburgh Cookies

These are definitely my most favorite cookies so far!  They are chocolate cookie with vanilla royal icing.  Cookies to represent the Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Pirates.  Also, a silhouette of the skyline, and the incline.  My husband came up with the idea for heart incline cookies, so simple and genius!

Spring Time Cookies

Spring Time Cookie Mix for a fundraiser bake sale.  Butterflies, tulips, & hope cookies done in a lemon sugar cookie with lemon glaze icing.  

Anchors Away Wedding Cookies

This was a platter of cookies for a bridal shower.  The wedding theme is centered around anchors and naval/nautical themes.  These are almond sugar cookies with almond royal icing.

These platters follow my normal pricing schedule.

Tangled Cookies

I love doing kids birthday cookies because they always have such fun themes.  These are cookies inspired by the movie Tangled.  They are made with a custom cutter and in a vanilla/almond and chocolate mix.  They are iced with royal icing and the accents are marshmallow fondant.  

The towers are a little more than 5 inches tall and $2.50 each, the rest of the platter follows my normal pricing schedule.