December 2013 Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing

There was a whole lot of cookie making throughout December!  How about a re-cap of the month?

Personalized stocking and mini holly cookies.  Mini Christmas tree cupcake toppers.  These little guys are on sticks to decorate cupcakes.

Here are the stockings and holly leaves in their favor bags....

This is something I've wanted to revisit since I first started cookieing.  Do you remember those games where you had to roll the balls into the holes or through a maze?  This is it in cookie form.  Back in January of 2012, I made some "game cookies".  Yes, they're awful.  It wasn't until I recently saw this video by Montreal Confections that my biggest dilemma was solved.  I thought that I needed a container to hold in the sugar pearls.  MC piped an icing border to contain everything then put the cookies in favor bags.  Brilliant!  So here's my newest version.....

Onto traditional Christmas shapes....Candy canes, snowflakes, holly leaves, cupcakes, ornaments, light bulbs, and of course Mr and Mrs Claus.  I made a whoooooole lot of these this month!

The Mrs is a new one this year and my favorite!  I pretty much combined two different designs that I saw online....One from Sugarbelle and one from Make Me, Cake Me.  I love them both!

And onto personalized snowmen and some mini snowflakes....

Snowman heads and mini flakes.....

all bagged up for favors too....

It was a busy cookie month!  I hope you enjoyed a lovely Christmas!