Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing - Sweet Sixteen

Sweet Sixteen Cookies

Shades of purple and white were used for these Sweet Sixteen cookies.

Candles, balloons, cupcakes, mini daisies, monograms, and "16"s.  The cute little pugs on sticks are Flour Box Bakery's design. 

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Kids Birthday Cookies

Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing - Candies and Desserts

This was a really fun set of cookies.  The colors were bright and cheerful!  Um, the background is a bit tooooo cheerful and distracting.  Sorry!

We have ice cream cones, lollipops, wrapped candies, cupcakes, #3 and the birthday girl's name spelled out.

Don't stare at the lollipops for too long.

Here, give your eyes a bit of a rest..... :)

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Birthday Sugar Cookies

Happy Birthday Sugar Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing

Balloons, Cupcakes, the number 70, and a layered birthday cake - complete with candles.

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Christmas Cookies 2014

Christmas Sugar Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing

So here's what I've worked on for this Christmas!

25 gift boxes- each with 6 snowmen and 6 snowman faces.....

Rudolph love!  Big ol' hearts for noses....

More Rudolphs.  The side-view is a new cutter for me this year.  I have a love/hate relationship with this guy.  Love the look.  Hated getting the dough out of cutter.  The antlers fought me.

Christmas cupcakes....

Stockings.  I love wet-on-wet for stockings.  So fun and such pretty results.....

Christmas Trees....sprinkles, decorated, snow covered.  A lovely Christmas forest.......

Personalized Snowmen as a corporate thank you gift.....

Personalized stockings for a family.....

Snowman Love!  More hearts.  The heart sprinkles are new so I had to use them!  I thought they'd be cute on snowmen......

But I got a little carried away.  Hearts as cute rosy cheeks?  Nope.....

Santa...I love that big ol' Santa.  He's a new cutter this year.....

Hedgehogs and Stockings.  No, those are not porcupines.  At least they're not supposed to be.  :)

They were to go along with a gift of The Mitten to some pre-schoolers. This photo was sent to me......

When thinking about the design for the hedgehogs, I thought that chocolate jimmies would work perfectly.  Not.  Looks like a hot mess......

I made lots of cookie pops this year.  Christmas tree pops.....

Santa's Mustache pops....

Stocking pops.....

Here are just some of the Christmas cookies.......

Shew!  What a great cookie month!

Happy Birthday Cookies

Sugar Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing - Mom's Birthday

These cookies were for MY mom!  You know the story about the cobbler's children having no shoes?  Well this cookier's family rarely gets cookies.  If I'm not making cookies for an order, I rarely get up the energy to make them for my own family events.

Not this time!  My mom is my biggest fan.  She thinks I'm the greatest cookie decorator on earth.  Luckily surfing the net is not among her finest talents.  We'll just let her keep believing that.

She had a milestone birthday last month and a big ol' party.  I HAD to make cookies just for her.

Her favorite color is blue so......

Lots of flowers......

Candles, balloons, cupcakes, presents, and a special message just for her.....

I know my mom all too well.  Before anyone could take a cookie, I asked her which ones she'd like.  I KNEW that she would want to freeze some.  To keep.  To look at.  To bring out and show people.  That's what she does.  

And that's just what she did.  :)

Happy Birthday to my sweet mama.

Sugar Decorating Class - February 2014

How to Decorate Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing Class in Frederick, MD

February, 2014

The class was held just before Valentine's Day.

These were the sample cookies that I made......

Notice how most of the shapes were decorated in two different ways?  That was the point of this class.  It was super fun and a great group!

That's me chatting about cookie decorating to the table full of students......

The students mixing up royal icing......

Getting that consistency juuuuuust right.......

My star pupil (who has attended every single one of my classes!) demonstrating how to make icing bullets......

The whole class after coloring the icing.....

Doesn't the table look so pretty  - all set up for the decorating?......

Here they are getting to work.  They did a great job.....

My next cookie decorating class isn't schedule yet, but I'm thinking it will be April, 214.

Cookie Decorating Class, February 2014

Beginner's Cookie Decorating with Royal Icing Class in Frederick, Maryland

My next cookie class is scheduled for February 6th, 2014 from 6:30 - 9:30 pm.

We'll be decorating Valentine cookies.

I'll demonstrate different ways to decorate a single shape.  If you look at the photo above, you'll see that the two flowers are decorated differently, the two cupcakes, the two lips.....

There's no one right way to decorate a cookie!

You'll learn the difference between wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry decorating.

It's going to be fun!

Come learn with me.  There are only two spots left!  You can sign up here.

Here are a few photos from my last class in December......

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!