Wedding

Going to the chapel and she's gonna get married! 

These were made for a lovely bride to be. Always fun to make cookies for such a wonderful occasion.

I haven't seen the brides wedding ring but I hope it's as big as my cookies, don't you? 

I found a design for these wedding cakes on Etsy here.

The flower bouquets are something I found last year on one of my favorite websites, The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle. You can find a wonderful tutorial here. She makes it so easy to try and recreate some of her fabulous cookie designs. She is always an inspiration to me!

For my tuxedo cookies I used a birthday present cookie cutter! Borrowing the idea I found on Ali Bee's Bake Shop. Isn't that clever? Cookie Crazie gave me the idea to use a heart cutter for the bodice of a wedding dress! Another fun idea that I found here.

 Happy  Baking!

Jen

Wedding Cookies

What a compliment I had a few weeks ago when a high school friend contacted me and wanted some of my cookies. Why so special? She lives in Colorado and her fiance saw my cookies on her facebook page and wanted some for his very own! I finished them this weekend and they are going to be shipped tomorrow. Shannon and Jeff wanted my cookies to eat all by themselves! She requested some wedding cookies in their colors of pink and brown. "JNS" are their initials and she wanted that incorporated as well. Here is what I came up with for the happy couple. I hope they like them. And more importantly -- I hope they arrive all in one piece. I always worry about that as I ship things.










Love is in the Air!!

Happy Baking,
Jen

Airplanes

I have been decorating my little heart out the past few weeks....finally posting a few of my creations fo ryou!

These airplanes were a bit of a special order. They are for a post wedding brunch. The bride had my cookies at a shower someone threw for her and she liked my cookies so well that she contacted me to order some. I thought that was the neatest compliment!! The brides future husband is a pilot and she wanted airplanes to give to her guests the day after the wedding. She requested the personalization on the plane but didn't care what colors I used. Being for a wedding event I thought it would be neat to add some sparkles to the plane with disco dust!!!

Disco dust is very pretty - BUT - very messy and very time consuming. These cookies probably took the most time of any that I've ever done - from baking to individually bagging them - took me 8 hours to make 50 cookies. Of course this is not all at once but broken up over several days. Personalizing on cookies takes a lot of time - a steady hand - and it something I'm still improving on. And then the disco dust takes time to put it on, then you have to shake off the excess and get more off with a paint brush. I even ran out of disco dust and had to get more - and this stuff is not cheap!

Check out how nice and shiny my flooding icing is - go me!!!

The planes say "T.J." and "Katie" on the wings and "Just married". On that tiny space it takes a lot of time and a very steady hand!
With disco dust it's hard to get the rest of the cookie clean so you get a little bit of sparkle on the rest of the cookie too!
Happy Baking.
Jen