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Sea Creatures Cookies

Last year for my mother-in-law’s church crab feed live auction I made these cookies. This year I wanted to do something a little different, while still sticking to the under the sea theme.

I found this amazing set of cutters on the Wilton website. Included were so many “sea” creatures that I had a hard time narrowing it down to just a few!

I sketched out my ideas on paper first, but once I hit the cookie it was all freehand.

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I outlined in black to give it that cartoon feel. I just love how it makes the colors pop.

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The eyes I used the same technique I used on my Santa cookies. I love how googly-eyed it made them and it turned out perfect for these silly sea creatures.

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The next day I got an email from my mother-in-law telling me that bidding for my cookies was fierce, but that my husband’s grandpa persevered. I told him next time I will make him his own plate so that he doesn’t have to bid on them. Haha..

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Love & Marriage Cookies

Sticking with the elegant theme of black and white, I made these Love and Wedding Cookies as the favors for a bridal shower.

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I bought the Love cutter late last year and have been eager to use it ever since. I had a hard time figuring out the font to work with the shape, but I’m happy with how they turned out. I might tweak it a little next time.

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The next cookies were packaged together. The mom of the bride-to-be asked for a dress cookie, but since I didn’t have a cutter for that, I came up with this idea. She fell in love with it and so did I!

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Simple lines and details, but still elegant enough for a wedding (or shower in this case).

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I am also linking up these cookies to Lilaloa‘s Colorless Challenge!

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Colorless Lingerie

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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Mustache Cookie Pops

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!

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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:

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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.

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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!)

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Here is the birthday girl with her mustache!

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… and this is Mallory, who you met last year when she made us fun red velvet donuts!

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…and the rest of the gang!

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Santa Cookies

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…

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(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.

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I love how each one has a little bit different personality!

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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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Christmas Cookies

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!

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Hope your kitchen has been as cheery and busy as mine!

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Pastel Ornament Cookies

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.

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Inspired by these gorgeous cookies by Sweetopia, I chose to do pastel colors instead of the traditional red and green.

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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.)

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Though I only made a few of these, I enjoyed making each one unique!

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Simple Snowman Cookies

I kept these snowmen super simple. I love the black and white simplicity of them.

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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!

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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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Chocolate Snowflakes

These chocolate peanut butter cookies are decorated with all white vanilla buttercream. I just love the way the designs pop against the dark cookie!

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I decorated each snowflake with a unique design.

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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.)

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These are my personal favorites:

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They even look cute all together…

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Here is my buttercream recipe. It’s very easy and adaptable and perfect to top any cookie!

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Beer and Babies

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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