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. 

Cookies are available for order through my website.

Mini Daisy Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing - Mini Daisy Favors

These mini daisy cookies were bagged up to be handed out as favors for a bridal shower.

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Daisy Logo Cookies

 Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing - Daisy Logo

These daisies are the logo for a woman's boutique.  They were to be handed out to customers.

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Cookie Decorating Party, July 18, 2015

 Cookie Decorating Party in Middletown, MD

EDIT:  Due to a scheduling conflict, this party will be re-scheduled.  The new date is to be announced.

Do you know Housewives of Frederick County?  If not, you should!

Twin sisters Pam and Terri are the ladies behind the popular blog and facebook page.  I met Pam years ago and loved her to pieces immediately.  I had the pleasure of meeting Terri once and enjoyed seeing the sisters together.  They're just adorable!

Their posts are a must-read if you live in or around Frederick.   They keep us up to date on all of the local happenings and they're entertaining!  Please check them out and follow along.

Join us for a cookie decorating party on July 18, 2015 hosted by Pam and Terri.  I know you'll enjoy them as much as I do!

Friends of the "Housewives" will receive $5 off.  For more information and to register, please visit my website.

Flower and Butterfly Sugar Cookies

 Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing - Flowers and Butterflies

These daisy and butterfly cookies were made for a Tinkerbell themed baby shower.

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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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Tulip and Daisy Cookies

Tulip and Daisy Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing

These flower cookies were made for a bridal shower.  Simple, yet beautiful.

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Hungry Caterpillar Cookies

Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Sugar Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing

This is the second time I've made this design.  The first time was a royal icing transfer disaster.  I had to make the transfers twice because all of them snapped.  Lessons were learned last time.  Not a single broken transfer with these.  Yay!

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.

Bridal Shower Cookies

Crabs, gowns, hearts, daisies.....all sugar cookies decorated with royal icing for a bridal shower.

A bridal shower from quite some time ago.

I love the colors!

My cousin Meghann, from Blank Canvas Creative, creates custom tags for my customers.  She designs them, I print them out and attach them to favor bags.  She's good, huh?  The tags are always amazing!

Wedding Sugar Cookies

My sister got married last weekend and of course I made cookies for the reception. She chose the shapes and the colors and asked for about 110 cookies. Pretty much free reign. Love that.

My Dad and niece helped. My Dad flooded every single heart and quite a few of the large flowers. My niece did some flooding and piped all of the small flowers. They were a HUGE help!

Here's my Dad flooding away. He did an amazing job! I knew he would.

And here are the cookies.....

My niece also made 200 cupcakes! And they were amazing! Lots of different cake flavors, fillings and icing flavors. Very impressive. I wish I had a photo of them.

Flowers and Insects Platter - Sugar Cookies and Royal Icing

My neighbor needed a "thank you" platter.  (Hi ML!)  She gave me complete freedom to do what I wanted.  Love that!

Her request . . . girly, flowers, insects, summery, lots of minis.  Mission accomplished?  I think so.  I do love how it came out and it was so fun to decorate.  This has to be my favorite platter yet.

The flowers were plentiful.

Caterpillars, snails and butterflies were there to represent the insects.

Birds were there to, um, look cute.  The strawberries too.  (Isn't artistic license grand?)

I was super pleased with the plaque.  I inserted a mini flower up on the top.  Dressed it up a bit I think.

I've got to remember to do that with other minis!

I was so glad that she wanted a lot of minis.  They're always my favorite.

What?  Crabs aren't insects?  But we live in Maryland, and they're adorable, and I couldn't resist.  It's the whole artistic license thing again.

What again?  Crabs have legs?  Haven't you ever seen a crab missing a claw or leg?  Well this guy apparently lost 6 legs.  Artistic license?


Ok, I forgot to pipe his legs.  Dang it.  You would think that if I hadn't noticed while decorating, I would have noticed while he was front and center in all of the photos I took of the minis.  Sheesh.

Girly, flowers, insects, summery, lots of minis?  Check.

Birds, strawberries, and legless crabs?  Check.

Strawberries and Cherries Sugar Cookies

It's beginning to feel like Spring! Strawberries, Cherries, and Daisy sugar cookies decorated with royal icing.

I just love them. Beautiful to look at, fun to make, and delicious to eat!


(And if you've been following my "dough spreading" issues . . . I'm so happy to report that the last two batches of cookies that I've baked since that post have had NO SPREAD. Woo hoo!)