Lots of Leprechauns

Cookie cutters come and in many shapes and sizes...but sometimes it's fun to think outside the box. I have to give all my credit here to The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle. Another fabulous idea. See these cute little leprechauns? Well, they are not made out of leprechaun cookie cutters...they are made out of a wreath, snowman, circle, ice cream cone, skull, Frankenstein. Isn't that so clever???? They were lots of fun to make and pretty easy!

So here are the secrets....this leprechaun is made out of Frankenstein's head (upside down)

A Christmas wreath. (upside down)

Upside down ice cream cone.

Upside down skull.

This one is pretty simple....a circle.

A big snowman with the top cut off.

I never would have thought to use any of these cookie cutters!! Luckily there are creative people out there for me to borrow all my ideas from. As you can see this is a theme of mine. Someday I do need to come up with a few of my own clever ones! But for now "borrowed ones" will have to do.

That's it for my St. Pat's day cookies this year. On to different things. I'm going to be working on some fun pirate themed cookies this week for my neat cousin. I have some great ideas to use and can't wait to see how they turn out!

A Bit of Gold along with some Spring-pillars

I look at some many cool cookie blogs each week - get their updates automatcallly just like you might get mine. I never read many blogs before I started baking cookies and it's so fun to see what the real "experts" are up to and try to copy/borrow ideas from them!

I was once again inspired by some favorite blogs of mine to branch out and try new things! I wish I had such great ideas like so many people come up with!

I also tried a new chocolate cookie recipe so we'll see what the testers think how they turned out this week. I wanted more of a chocolate taste unlike last time. I like strong flavors and not just a hint.

I need to thank Cookie Crazie for this idea below. She calls them her Spring-pillars. When I saw them I thought they were so cute and just had to try them. They were really fun to make. I just cut out several circles and "smooshed" them together. For the head with antennas I actually used a bunny head and reshaped the ears. I thought they turned out pretty good!


Here was another out of the box idea I saw this week and I jumped on trying it because it looked so fun! This cookie was made with 3 different cookie cutters put together. A big circle, a small circle and a small flower. Cut them all out and "smooshed" them together to get the rainbow and pot of gold below. Pretty cool, huh?




Here's the finished product! This was inspired by The Sweet Adventures of SugarBelle. Everyone can use a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, right?



I really liked the gold sprinkles I found that look like gold. Think I found the right touch for these!

Just a few more to finish up for St. Pat's Day! I'm hoping to find my pot of gold some day!