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Clothes Cookies

My aunt was invited to a CAbi party. I had never heard of it, but I got the feeling it was like a Tupperware or Pampered Chef party, only with clothes. (The link explains it a little better.)

She offered to bring cookies. My aunt and I have made cookies together for years. Starting with just Christmas, then blossoming to other holidays. Now she was just going to make the cookies herself, but she thought it would be an awesome idea (and very sweet idea!) to do them together and help me get some promotion!

The only “clothing” cookie cutter I had was my beloved onesie, so I had to look online for other things. I found a very cute dress at cheapcookiecutters.com.

She also wanted a pair of jeans… the only cute pair I could find online was copper, so we broke down and ordered it.

This is where I had to get creative. All of the shirts were cut from my onesie. I cut and shaped some capris from the jeans cutter. From the dress cutter I made some skirts. I also did a couple bathing suits and panties from the onesie cutter.

This was so much fun! It totally reminded me of paper dolls. In the end we had a few sets of pants and tops that matched!

My aunt had to take them home with her when we we done, so I didn’t get to photograph every piece of clothing we did. (Oh and it was about 11pm so that’s why the picture lighting is awful.) Here are some pics of the whole trays…

Here they are at the party, “merchandised by category.”  Haha..

There are some of my signature cookies in the pic above.. and I made extras of the pink daisy cookies so that we could have those with the clothing cookies…

Thank you to my aunt for the great PR! These were so fun to make!

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Pink Daisy Cookies

Star of the week at school again – this time for the older sister of the butterfly cookies. Pink was a must, and daisies were the shape of choice.

I love my daisy cutter! (Found at an antique fair.)

I planned on doing centers like the purple daisies I did awhile back, but after just one cookie my hand was killing me and it didn’t look as cute. The swirl lets you see all the sprinkles anyway! (Kids love sprinkles!)

All bagged up and ready to go!

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Skeleton Cookies, No Icing

So the last time I made cookies without icing was because a friend of mine can’t have dairy right now (she’s breastfeeding and it upsets the baby). Well, I never got the chance to get them to her before my husband ate them! In his defense, he didn’t realize they were being saved. So I had to try again to make some cookies for her.

I bought a set of 3 wilton halloween cookie cutters because I really just wanted one of them – a skull and crossbones. I see a future with this cutter that I can’t express too well without icing. Maybe sometime soon I will make more skulls and try everything I imagined.

For now, these are pretty fun:

 

I don’t really like the way the lips turned out.. My tip was too big and I was too lazy to change it. I like the heart eyes though!

That’s all for now. Lots more cookies coming this week!

Oh and we are moving at the same time. Our (first!) house should close tomorrow or Friday! 🙂

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Wedding Cookie Favors

Okay bravo if you can follow along with this: the daughter of a coworker of a family friend was getting married, and wanted some cookie wedding favors.

Lots of baking…

Color = Purple. Dark purple is hard to make! It took me like 45 minutes to get it dark enough. It was worth it, it came out great!

I tied little tags onto each bag with the bride and groom’s names and the wedding date. Love that it’s 9/10/11!

I had a couple blank cookies leftover, so I did roses out of the purple buttercream to pair with the extra Monogram cookies. These are extra, so they are just something extra and special for the bride!

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Caillou Cookies

I received a special request for some Caillou cookies for a themed birthday party. I had never heard of Caillou, so I had to do some research!

This is what I learned:

1. Caillou is pronounced [ky-you].

2. The show, which airs on PBS is based on a book series.

3. The author created Caillou without hair or distinguishing features (besides the fact that he’s white) so that all kids can more easily identify with him.

I used my circle cookie cutter, and the top of my onesie cookie cutter. I chopped off the arms so that I basically just had the shoulder section. Stuck it to the circle, and they were ready to bake!

The basic outline is pretty easy. Since I was outlining the whole thing in black, I used a pretty small tip.

This was the first time I made “fleshtone” icing. I had to look up what colors to mix. In the end I kind of played it by ear, and it worked out easier than I thought.

I felt confident going into these cookies, but I got nervous when it came time to put the face on Caillou. So I took it in parts.

It ended up being easier to do than I thought. Every picture of Caillou his facial expressions are slightly different. So if the eyebrow or mouth was a little crooked, it still looked great!

The mom sent me some of these cards to attach, since the cookies are favors. Aren’t they adorable!?

I received an email from the mom last night after the party was over:

OMG I just want to say thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! You are truly amazing, I couldn’t believe it when I saw the cookies. They look just like the picture. My daughter along with all her friends were so excited. All my friends were impressed as well. I’m sure you will be gaining some more customers. I will be ordering cookies from you for every birthday of my son and daughters… Your cookies made this party. You rock and you’ll be hearing from [us] again and again!

I guess she liked them! 🙂

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Beer Pong Cookies

It was a friend’s birthday today and her mom wanted me to make her some special cookies. We were trying to think of the cookie to make for her, and it hit me what would be perfect. Last time we went camping, she stomped all the boys at beer pong! How awesome would beer pong cookies be?!

Well obviously there is no “beer pong cup” cookie cutter. I went through everything I had and nothing would work.. I was planning on making a stencil and cutting them out by hand, until I visited a couple bakery stores in my area and found a flip-flop cookie cutter:

Same basic shape as a cup, I just had to bend the left side out a bit and square up the top and bottom and I was ready to go…

I decided to outline the ball in black so that it would stand out well against the white of the inside of the cup.

I outlined the ridges…

I filled the red sections separately so that they would each “heap” separately and really show off the ridges that make it the “red cup.”

I filled in the balls white. The inside of the cups I added the tiniest amount of black possible, just to make it a slightly different color from the white of the ball.

Cookies were bagged and tied with ribbon…

…after I arranged a red cup beer pong set-up!

So the birthday girl lives in Chicago. Yeah, I’m in California… first attempt at shipping. We used LOTS of bubble wrap, and chose overnight FedEx.

…and….. not a single cookie broke! Every single one made it safely. And the birthday girl loved them!

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Butterfly Cookies

It was “star of the week” at school for a 3 year old girl. Star cookies? Nope, she wanted butterflies!

Pink and purple are the only colors acceptable. Fine with me!

All bagged and ready to go!

Have I ever mentioned how much I love to use pink? But now I have a craving to make stars…

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Over the Hill Cookies

Made these cookies last week for a coworker’s 50th birthday party. Black icing is a little intimidating so I stuck with just black details…

Recently bought some sprinkles (my serious addiction), and my purchase included a sample pack of sprinkles… while I was getting ready to decorate these I realized there might be black sprinkles in that pack.. so I did a few like this. I love these!

I searched for over the hill cookie ideas and came across a lot of tombstone cookies. Well that’s easy enough, and I already had a tombstone cookie cutter.

Didn’t want to do them all the same, so I had to come up with another saying. I knew they would be appropriate for the birthday dude, because his wife was asking for “old man” or something like it. I think this is fun and “funny” to go along with the over the hill theme!

Hope the birthday dude loved them!

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Homemade Funfetti Cupcakes

I tried homemade funfetti again, after a not-so-successful first attempt. These turned out better but they still need some work. A little bit to dry.

 

I decided to go with cupcakes this time. Mainly because I had some leftover frosting and some of it was already colored. I had a tad of pink and green frosting, so I put them in the piping bag at the same time and made this guy:

Then I dyed the rest of the frosting bright blue and added it right on top of the pink and green. This one is my favorite:

A little green kept trailing out on the blue cupcakes…

 

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Hot August Days Cookies

This year’s theme for my annual company picnic is “Hot August Days.” Whilst perusing cookie cutters online, my coworker came across this 57 Chevy Cookie Cutter.

I was “hired” to bake 300 cookie favors for the picnic. The biggest feat for me to date, and it was a huge success!

All cars were to be identical red chevys. I baked the week before, and froze them until it was time to decorate. I knew 300 cookies was a lot, but until they were taking over my freezer I didn’t really realize how crazy this was going to be.

Assembly-line was the way to go. I started with the tires…

Then added windows and the side panel…

Then outlined the cars…

Filled in the tires, then the cars, then the windows and side panels…

Then finished them off with the side-line and “hubcaps.” I had originally planned on leaving the tires black, but my husband INSISTED that it looked dumb without the white on them. I thought it was the white-walled tires, but my husband corrected me, they are the hubcaps. OKAY.

Then each cookie was bagged and tied with ribbon. Here is the finished product!

Did I mention I have a full-time 8-5 job? This was all done after work hours and on my weekend… thank GOODNESS I had the help of my husband, my mom, and my best friend. There is no way this would have been done without them!

Here is my friend Chelsea (who helped so much with the decorating!!) enjoying a cookie. Or as my mom says, the car is “zooming” into her mouth. Haha…

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