Happy Birthday Zebra Print Style

Hello there! Not many updates lately although I have been busy with orders. Just haven't posted them yet! So here are a few I've been working on.

I got the chance to do my zebra print cookies again! Have to give credit one more time to The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle for me using her ideas and tips on this cookie.

These pretty tiaras are for a five year olds Birthday party. I actually did some cookies for her last year at her party and she remembered and liked them. How's that for a compliment? Children certainly don't say things like that just to be nice :)

I got some fancy new cookie cutter tips -PME tips- more expensive than what I've been using, but I have to say you really do pay for what you get sometimes. I don't think you can tell in the pictures but they really allow you to do more details and are more precise. I'm excited to be able to use these new tips more. I ordered them from a favorite website of mine - CopperGifts.com. Another great website is Karen's Cookies and they have these too.

Back to baking!

Bunny Ear Topper Cupcakes

I was inspired again by The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle and had to try these very cool cupcakes. A lot of work and pre-planning but I couldn't resist especially since it also involved cookies!

The first step - making bunny ear toppers. Not too hard and was able to make these ahead of time. I'm not that fond of making cupcakes since they require the night before prep....I prefer to be able to do things in advance.

To be a topper I put a little icing on the back of the cookie and iced a popsicle stick to them. Next step was baking the Yummy, Yummy chocolate cupcakes. Nice and rich. I used a recipe I got from the back of my Hello, Cupcake book by Karen Tack & Alan Richardson. It's a fabulous book and I would recommend it to anyone! Some good recipes in the back and lots of fun cupcake ideas in them. They have a very cool blog too. This the book that my parents gave me that actually got me into baking! I used the cupcake frosting recipe out of the same book...boy, I remember why I don't make cupcakes too much! Cupcake frosting is so messy and so buttery! Wow. 3 sticks of butter. When cleaning up butter doesn't want to come off - all over my counter, my hands, my supplies. For me cupcake frosting is much harder to work with than cookie icing. But I think my Bunny Rabbits turned out pretty cute. After putting the frosting on I put the bunny ear toppers in the cupcakes, added eyes and a nose. I hand cut out the cupcake wraps. Last but not least - added bunny tails to the back! Then I packaged them up for Trevor's school friends so each classmate could take a cupcake home as a special treat.

HIPPITY HOPPITY LOOK AT EASTER COME!


HAPPY EASTER

I've been wanting to try a chocolate chip sugar cookie for awhile....found the perfect occassion and the perfect recipe. From Karen's Cookies, HERE. I tasted this and it was just perfect....not too chocolatey but sweet enough. And I wondered how they would cook up and look once they were iced. As you can see they did good!

Some girlfriends of mine that are wild about my cookies have upcoming Birthdays. When I saw the idea for zebra print on my favorite blog I knew I had the perfect opportunity to try something new. The zebra print was pretty cool with Sugarbelle did it HERE. I watched her video tutorial and studied her pictures, thinking to myself this looks easier than it is going to be! I was right and this will take more practice on my part. But it was fun and I don't think it turned out too bad for my first attempt. Can you sort of see the zebra print going on here?
I got a few new cookies cutters and tried several of them out here. They were fun to use! My new Birthday cake cookie cutter.
Tiara's for my Princess friends!
There are so many possibilities I have with this purse cookie cutter!

Party hats!
I thought the dresses were cute and girly!
How old will they be? Hmmm...not sure but I know they are younger than me! Sigh...One friend is having her 3rd anniversary of her 25th Birthday I believe. She is stopping at 25 according to her! A good plan in my opinion.
I've used the shoe cookie cutter before but I think I found some cute details for these.
And here is the whole lot of my Zebra print inspired cookies. Always fun to step outside my box and try a few things!!!


Happy Birthday to my friends! Hope you enjoy the cookies!

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!

And the Oscar goes to.....

IT'S OSCAR TIME!

Inspired by one of my favorite blogs - The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle. She has such great ideas here and I just had to borrow her idea. They looked so fun and easy to make. I am not all that creative and need something to copy. So I have lots of blogs that I look to guidance - people have so many great ideas and this one I just couldn't resist!

The secret to making a tuxedo top? Used a Xmas present cookie cutter!!! The Oscar Statue? A mini Halloween coffin! And the dress? A mini ghost..which I didn't actually have so I used a mini witch hat that I had!

Before putting the final touches on.....


And the Oscar goes to.....here is the finished product! The Oscar is made with a dust that you pain on over. There is no such color as gold really. I thought these were fun - and I like the "mini" cookies. Just a bite! Easy to make - I made them all before lunchtime!
Just wish I was having an Oscar party though!