Summer Fun

Here is what I've been working for a bit!
Some fun cookies for a ladies event. 7 dozen cookies!!!


Remember the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a child? Well, I had this funky cookie cutter that I didn't really know what to do with until my friend Amalia inspired me and used it as a caterpillar. And then I went to Grin and Bake It website and saw these cute little ones.
I thought they were fun and had great colors and would go good with this order!



Pretty Dragon flies.



Inspired a bit by the Painted Cookie. But when I make cookies I always feel like I need more to "doctor" them up so I added a few more embellishments!


Here come the ladybugs!

When making my ladybugs I found this cool design on The Cookie Jar's Website and had to try them. I thought they were fun little ladybugs running around that would be a different design and compliment them nicely. With all the details it took quite a bit more time than I thought!

Here are the 2 ladybug cookies together....
Here are some pretty pink flowers with disco dust centers.

Tried out my potted flowers again this week - made from the upside down Frosty cookie cutter. And this time I think my lady bugs on the side turned out much better. I made them differently than before -thus perfecting them a bit more! This idea came from The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle.

Hope the ladies enjoy the cookies!!!

Bridal Shower Daisy Cookies

For my latest order I had a challenge! Create cookies for a bridal shower to match the colors and style of the invitation. The cookies are going to be handed out as favors for each guest. Below is the invitation with all 6 different colors. You cant' tell from the paper but the Gerber daisy centers have a little sheen/sparkle to them. So, the challenge was on!



Mixing colors to match is not an easy task I must tell you. I'm hoping they match the invitation that was scanned to me!!! And I decided regular daisies looked better than my attempt a few weeks ago at the actual Gerber daisy.

Here is my finished product.

You might be able to see a little of disco dust I used in the middle of the flower. The invitation had a sheen/sparkle to it and I was asked if I could do something similar. When you use "disco dust" you end up getting it all over you, the cookie and the kitchen! But it sure does look pretty.

I didn't like the daisy cookie cutter I had so I ordered a new one. And with it came some mini daisy cutters. I couldn't resist but make some of those too. These are all miniature flowers to go with the bigger ones.

The entire assortment of regular and mini daisies. When I laid them all out it was quite a bit of flowers! I had my own flower garden on my butcher block.
And since these were favors for a party, the cookies were individually wrapped in bags with matching bows. The mini cookies were just an extra fun thing I added because I thought they might look cute. Ahh...that order is done....that one took awhile. Surprising how what seemed like a simple flower order was more work than I thought. But I think they turned out good.

Happy Baking!

Teacher Appreciation Week

So Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Trevor has a wonderful teacher and I wanted to make her a little something. I wanted to make something for her but also wanted to practice making something for an order I have coming up....so double duty. And I'm glad I practiced!!! I wasn't going to post these because they aren't pretty...but hey, I'm not perfect and never pretend to be! So these are what NOT to do...LOL. The order is for Gerber Daisy's...I'm going to have to do just a plain old daisy. What we have here are flowers that have webs on them in my opinion! Oh MY! Not my finest hour, I'm sure you will agree.


The regular daisies are much better. I will stick with these!!!!

Don't forget to tell all the teachers you know thank you this week. They work so hard and are so very important in the lives of all the children they touch. They have one of the most important jobs of all.

Spring Cookies

Nothing like having to post again....there was something wrong with Blogger...so this post I did the other day wasn't saved...so nothing new, just wanted to put it out there again on my blog.

Here's another Spring cookie order that just went out the door!! The event was today and I think they liked the cookies. Just an assortment but thought I would share what I've been up to. Some of the cookies are the same but I try something a bit different with each cookie...even though you might not be able to tell!

BZZZZ


There is a story to tell behind the finished product of the dragonfly. I was working on this order early, early AM last week. I was taking forever to decide which colors to use to go with the rest of them and had finally made my decision. Working nicely and about done with my flooding. When what should happen?? My WORST NIGHTMARE. My sleeve must have hit the cookie sheet that my cookies were on and they all went tumbling to the floor...and broke into little pieces. Only one dragonfly was salvaged. WOW. I wanted to cry. I think I did for a few seconds. Then just pulled out the mix master and made another batch of cookie dough, rolled out more dragonflies and started all over. You can imagine how devastated I was!!

Here is how they finally turned out. A lot of time and tears on my part!
Some butterflies....

Tulips with stems

More tulips.

Daisies

And the whole assortment together

Happy Baking!