Today I’m going to show you how to make easy flower cookies in two different designs, tulips and sunflowers. Those of you that are familiar with how my cookie addition started, may know a little about my sister, the baking queen. I refer to her this way because she makes beautiful cakes, yummy cupcakes, and all kinds of sweet treats…. Continue
These were one of my first batches of sugar cookies that I decorated with royal icing and I decided to go big and make them double-decker cookies. Every once in a while it’s fun to go back through the archives and look at photos of cookies you have long since forgotten. You of course look at them hoping that your cookie… Continue
For my birthday, my sister sent me some garden-themed cookie cutters. The set included flowers, a butterfly, a watering can, and a frog, which immediately was my favorite. My first time using the cutter I made some super cute frog pancakes… And now I’m excited to finally use the frog cookie cutters for some frog sugar cookies! To make these… Continue
Animal print + glitter = fabulous sugar cookie! My mother-in-law loves all things sporting a leopard pattern so I made these high heel shoe leopard print cookies especially for her for Mother’s Day. I was inspired by leopard print cookies by Callye at The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle. To make these beauties you will need: Sugar cookies made from your favorite sugar… Continue
Now that you know How To Make Cookie Press Cookies, it’s time to move on to the fun part… decorating them! Keeping things simple, I used just one icing in one color and consistency to create three different cookie press flowers. (To see how to make the cookies from different colored doughs, see my previous post, How To Make Cookie… Continue
My brother always sends the most fun birthday gifts. Last year the theme was bacon… bacon socks, “got bacon?” t-shirt, bacon band aids. This year he sent me a cookie press. Those of you that are cookie nerds and gadget lovers need a cookie press! A cookie press is basically a dough gun. You fill the barrel with dough, pull… Continue
Hippity hoppity, Easter cookies are on their way… Although jelly beans are usually my favorite Spring treat, these chocolate Easter cookies with almond butter filling are now a close second! The idea came about with inspiration from Project Denneler’s clever pinata cookies and all of the ads I have been seeing for chocolate peanut butter eggs. I decided to add a little bit of a twist with almond butter instead…. Continue
I’ve always had a thing for colorful socks. Can’t explain it, I just love ’em. So when I saw a cute quote on Pinterest that “life is too short for plain white socks”, I knew I had to make some sock cookies. I used my Christmas stocking cookie cutter and this technique for combining cookie cutter shapes that I learned at University of… Continue
