I have made lingerie cookies a couple times before. Once for Valentine’s Day last year, and again for a bridal shower last summer.
Since then I acquired a new corset cutter, so I had a new design to work with this time. It will take some practice playing with it, but I am pretty happy with the couple that I did.
I also used this opportunity to go for the Colorless Challenge proposed by Georganne of Lilaloa.
It was hard… you have no idea how bad I wanted to throw in some hot pink or bright blue!
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Mustaches are “in.”
Don’t know how something like that became a trend, but they’re everywhere!
AD loves mustaches. So for her birthday we put together some fun mustache pops!
I only have 1 mustache cutter, which I used for my Lorax Cookies early last year. I used this cutter, along with a couple others to come up with a few different creative mustache shapes.
My new favorite way to ice cookies is to pour the icing over them over bowl like this:
I make sure all the sides are covered, then just tap the excess off. Once it starts to set a bit, I move them to a wax paper lined baking sheet.
I used this method to ice the small cookies I made here and here.
Then I just added some details with black and brown buttercream. (This was the fun part!)
Here is the birthday girl with her mustache!
… and this is Mallory, who you met last year when she made us fun red velvet donuts!
…and the rest of the gang!
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The cutter I used to make these Santa’s was a hand-me-down from my mom. It was one that we didn’t always use because the small parts always seemed to break off.
Now that I am rolling my cookies a tad thicker, I knew it would hold up well.
This is what I came up with…
(Click on the picture above to see a larger image.)
I did the first one with an edible food marker on the blank cookie to get my design right. After that they were just free handed.
I love how each one has a little bit different personality!
I actually meant these guys to have a black belt across the belly, but I was too quick to clean (for once) and had thrown out all my black buttercream. Oh well, I like em anyway!
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I have been too busy to write up all the things I wanted to do, so here are just a couple pictures to tide you over until I have more to share. Merry Christmas!
Hope your kitchen has been as cheery and busy as mine!
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The only ornament cutters I own are very small. I wanted a big, round, ornament cookie to decorate this year. I used my balloon cutter, and just trimmed off the pointy ends.
Inspired by these gorgeous cookies by Sweetopia, I chose to do pastel colors instead of the traditional red and green.
The tops of the ornaments just had to be silver.
I first piped them in grey, then I mixed together alcohol and silver lustre dust and painted it over the grey with a food safe paint brush. (Lemon juice can also be used in place of alcohol if there is a concern, but it all evaporates anyway.)
Though I only made a few of these, I enjoyed making each one unique!
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I kept these snowmen super simple. I love the black and white simplicity of them.
I outlined the hat in black buttercream, and each round section in white buttercream. (Here is my Easy Buttercream recipe.) Then I just filled each section in separately, and added some black buttercream buttons to the tummy.
Easy peezy!
These cookies are the first I have done with my new rolling technique. They’re a tad thicker than I normally do, but still thin enough that the icing is a good proportion to the cookie. All the yum without the breakage!
Next batch I bake I will take photos and share my new technique with you!
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These chocolate peanut butter cookies are decorated with all white vanilla buttercream. I just love the way the designs pop against the dark cookie!
I decorated each snowflake with a unique design.
I thought I would run out of ideas, but I just kept making them up as I went along.. my husband helped design a couple. (The bottom left snowflake in the pic above was partly his design.)
These are my personal favorites:
They even look cute all together…
Here is my buttercream recipe. It’s very easy and adaptable and perfect to top any cookie!
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The men always get left out for the baby showers… so this grandma-to-be decided to throw her son-in-laws (both of her daughters are pregnant) their own party!
An anti-shower if you will.
(Please note that I didn’t say anti-baby. Everyone seems to think that when I say anti-shower.)
Of course there had to be beer…
And a little reminder of what these soon-to-be dads are going to be dealing with…
One daughter knew the sex and the other didn’t, so we did a combination of blue and pink… and I added one mystery baby for luck.
Enjoy the beer while you can guys!
Hope you enjoyed your party!
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I made some logo cookies this week…
The logo is actually 3 separate little squares. Instead of doing larger cookies and each person only getting 1 of the 3 squares, I made them mini cookies…
And then I packaged them up cute so that each person got all 3 squares of the logo…
And they’re off to the meeting!
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Sooo this isn’t exactly a recipe, just an awesome idea I had that I wanted to share.
I made these cupcakes for my Halloween party over the weekend. Plain white mini cupcakes are the perfect vehicle for fun flavored frostings… and much easier than making multiple flavors of cake AND frosting.
The TRICK here for these special Halloween cupcakes is that the flavors I used do not match the bright Halloween colors!
Tasters didn’t know what to expect from an innocent little looking cupcake… and then BAM! Surprise flavor explosion!
The orange ones are strawberry, and the green ones are cinnamon!
The only problem that we ended up with is that the strawberry ones had to be eaten first, otherwise the cinnamon totally overpowered your taste buds and you couldn’t taste the next one.
These were so much fun and I know I will be doing this again… it’s fun to be able to TRICK somebody with a TREAT!
In addition to regular food, I also made Fun & Easy No-Icing Sugar Cookies, Homemade Kettle Corn, and something else that I am still perfecting, so no recipe yet…
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