Animal Cookies!

These cookies were for another adorable little boy's 2 year old birthday party! I wish I had a picture of him enjoying the cookies! His mom is a baking friend of mine so we collaborated and made these together! They were all her son's favorite animals. I believe his favorite cookie of them all was the shark! I'm pretty sure my favorite was either the alligator or the giraffe. What's your favorite?

Dress cookies!

Wow! It's been a while hasn't it? I pretty much stink at this consistent blogging thing. Hopefully some pretty pictures of cookies will help you forgive me for leaving my little blog alone for so long.

These were just made for fun. I had some cookie cutters I wanted to try out. Enjoy!

Christmas Cookie Wreath!

Yes, I know it's January. I know I'm posting Christmas cookies. All the good cookie bloggers had their Christmas cookies posted by like Dec. 1. What can I say, I'm a little behind. Somehow, I don't think you mind. Unless of course, you are one of those people that can only handle Christmas stuff for a certain period of time, then it starts to make you go crazy. If you are one of those, you might want to just close this webpage and back away now. I don't want to be responsible for anything bad happening.

Now that I've scared away any Christmas haters, these cookies were a collaboration with a friend. We made them for A Christmas party that she goes to that has a dessert contest every year. Sadly, the cookies did not win, but her husband thinks it's because they looked like they came from the store instead of being homemade. I'm pretty content to hang my hat on that reasoning.

The berries are actually oreo balls-yum!

Go Bo!

Truth time. These cookies are at least partially responsible for the blog (and cookie making) hiatus. I know, I know, I'm blaming cookies, but really-it's their fault. They drove me crazy.

I should tell you first though, that the reason I made them was awesome. A fellow cookie baker, Jill FCS, put out a call for cookies a few months ago in honor of a young man named Bo. Bo was 12 years old and passed away from Leukemia on Sept. 28, 2012. Jill called out to her fellow cookie bakers asking people to donate cookies that would be sold at a fall festival in Bo's town to raise money for cancer research. You can read more about Bo and his life's message here. I recommend heading on over there, because I know anything I write won't say it nearly as well as the facebook page does.

When I saw this call for cookies come across my facebook newsfeed, I knew I wanted to be a part of it, There was no question in my mind...until I started actually making the cookies. First, I had to decide what to make. The parameters were to be fall themed and to use orange. First, I had to figure out what was fall themed-leaves, pumpkins, fall colors...hmm what else? I couldn't really come up with anything else. I tried to get more creative, and I struggled. I mean, really, struggled. I finally just got some leaf cookie cutters and decided to go with leaves and pumpkins-that would be easy, right? Leaves? easy? thats what I thought till I actually tried to make them. Let's be honest, they turned out ok, but we all know I can do better.

Then....I got started and tried to make my icing colors. Oh. My. Goodness. I could NOT get  my colors to look right. I had fall colors in my mind, I had pictures to emulate on my computer. For the life of me though, I couldn't get it to actually work out in the icing. So, I went to work on my cookies and just did the best I could, frowning at them most the time cause they just weren't coming out how I wanted them too.

I spent forever trying to figure out why these were so hard for me. And then, it happened. I commented to my sister-in-law one day that her outfit looked very fallish and cute while also realizing I didn't really have or know what a fallish looking wardrobe consisted of-I just knew she had it figured out.

 

 

Then, she made a comment that I was probably more used to flip flops and summer then fall. LIGHTBULB! THAT was my problem! Despite the fact that I've lived in Colorado for 4 years-I spent my life in FLORIDA-the land of summer. Give me summer colors and a beach theme and I'm golden. This fall thing though? I'm still figuring that out. We didn't get fall in Florida. No wonder I didn't know what to do with fall. I know Spring, I know Summer, I think I've learned winter. Now I'm resolved to figure out fall. So maybe next year If I need to make fall cookies, I'll feel better about it.

Royal Icing Sugar Cookies!

Earlier last week, I stumbled upon a blog called Sweetopia and was in heaven. I spent waaay too much time browsing it only to end up later on another amazing blog called bake at 350 for waaaay too long also. What are these blogs about? cookie decorating! I was so inspired I had to make some of these cookies.
Here's my first try at these- The designs are somewhat sporadic since I wanted to try out a bunch of different ones.