Sheep & Goldfish cookies

I used a baby bib to make these sheep. Their faces didn't turn out quite how I wanted, even though I've been told they are cute I guess it's just an artist criticizing their own work. I will change up their faces though whenever I do them again... It's part of experimentation...

I did a little experimenting with making the sheep & tried to make the sheep look "pouffy" & while the outline was hardening it fell off the cookie wire rack onto the table flattening the outline so each little fluff of the sheep is farther apart than I hoped.

I like these little guys. I used an awareness ribbon cookie cutter and cut off the tails of the ribbon. I would have like to have used orange for their fins and mouths rather than white but after making a bunch of cookies and having almost every color except orange I decided I would be lazy and not make any orange.

Sweet Tooth Cookies

My mom is a dentist & she & some of her colleagues are having a cookout today and she had mentioned a few weeks ago about wanting to take cookies to it. I decided to order a bunch of cookie cutters about 10 days ago and bought the tooth & toothbrush cookie cutters then too! I love them and will definitely be using them again!

The teeth are my favorites out of the batch... they look so cute with their rosy cheeks!

 My mom wanted to have a few tooth cookies that had some cavities... haha... just like my mom!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!

Happy 4th of July!!! I really wanted to make cookies this year for Independence Day but I figured since I had been at work from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. cookies would not be an option to make. So I stuck with cupcakes instead.

used some pinwheels that actually worked! they were pretty cool!

Cookie Cutters

Things have been a bit crazy around here. Ive been working a bunch this past week which has brought upon a bunch of late nights as well as spending time with my sister in the evenings when she comes home after classes in the morning and working in the afternoon so usually the only time I get with her is at night... Anyway, I have not completely neglected cookies for the time being... I just bought 7 cookie cutters from https://www.cookiecuttercompany.com/ . I spent in total around $11 which included tax AND shipping & handling... so it was less than $2 a cookie cutter. 

I bought these two because my mom is a dentist & she wanted some cookies to take to an office meeting she had one day... she was going to take some regular ones that I had previously made but I told her if she waited she would get cookies more appropriate for the occasion.

This is a baby bib or if you use it upside down it can be used to make a sheep front or a sheep behind (which is what I intend to use it more as anyway... as a sheep cutter)

This cookie cutter also has a dual usage. One as a monkey face and the other as a planet.

the olympics are coming up and I thought if I was already going to be buying cookie cutters and making cookies than I might as well as purchase this one at the same time. I will make the olympic cookies very soon.. within the next 2 weeks.

I obviously LOVE cookie cutters that can be used to make different cookies. This can be used as a masquerade mask or a whale tail or if turned upside down it can become a mustache.

I am planning on making Lyme awareness cookies sometime in the future as well as other awareness ribbons but for many of you who now me, you know that Lyme disease is one that both me & my family have suffered through & endured. I went undiagnosed with Bartonella ( a cousin of Lyme... it works in the same way Lyme does & has mail the same symptoms but travels throughout your body differently. More people have heard about Lyme & is easier for me to say Lyme and not have to explain a thousand times than say Bartonella & have to spend a long time talking about it... it cuts to the heart of the issue.) I will probably make these cookies in a few weeks around my 3 year anniversary of coming home from receiving IV antibiotic treatment for a lost a year.

Kaitlyn's Birthday Cookies

So I realize I dropped the ball yesterday, only a day after I said my goal was to post every day...   I do have a good excuse though... haha I was baking cookies. BIG shocker there! I was also at work for the rest of the day (making money to make more cookies). So far today I've been finishing up the cookies I baked yesterday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAITLYN!!!

I wasn't really sure what to do with the butterflies and flowers so I thought polka dots would be cute and would solve the laziness I have to not want to dye anymore icing...

then there are crowns... Since I had the purple & blue left over from the cupcake cookies as well as the pink and green for the polka dots I thought I might as well use the colors to make "jewels" on the crown.

Of course I thought of the pearl sprinkles I have in my baking cabinet AFTER the icing had dried so I had to go back & put more icing on the top so the sprinkles would stick... so they are raised up a lot more than they should be... Oh well, first time making them so mistakes are okay...

As I finished taking the pictures and went to put the cookies away 3 of them slid off the tray, fell on the floor and broke...  :(  Oh well, at least I got pictures of them before they broke...

More Birthday Cookies

As I dropped off the cookies where I work for my friend/co-workers's son's birthday (the monster truck cookies) my boss lets me know she wants 3 dozen cookies for her granddaughter's birthday. She told me her granddaughter was having a "hippie-ish" party... with tie-dye, peace signs and all that "jazz." Anyway, I immediately begin coming up with ideas in my head and know that if I want to pull them off right I will need to experiment first. So, I make the first batch of tie-dye cookies and they turn out much better than I ever expected (since my expectations were of them coming out brown bc the colors mixed together).

I threw the daisy in for "funzies" and made a few extra but they didn't all fit in the picture. Because I practiced making them before I made the actual order I conjured up a few things that would make the tie-dye process a little easier, so I used some squirt bottles for candy making (the ones you put melted chocolate in & things of that nature). And the end result was this:

The colors were a little different from the first time but I think they still looked amazing. I also added a few daisies, smiley faces and peace signs to make it make "hippie-ish"

And there you have it... I am trying to update daily at least while I'm out of school for the summer... We'll see how long that lasts... Thanks for reading!

My friends birthday is this week and one thing I'm doing for her is making her a few cookies. (Kaitlyn if you read this... Happy Birthday! and you now know ahead of time! haha!) Since I'll only be making a few for her that leaves the leftover dough for experimentation! LOVE experimenting with extras... I get to use my creative genuis instead of someone placing an order. I want to do something I have yet accomplished in the cookie realm... I was thinking about trying to make some gender reveal cookies. I saw some pretty cool ones on interest last night but I think I may mix it up a little bit from the way they did theirs. Here is the link since I didn't want to upload her picture without permission.
http://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/blog/2012/03/gender-announcement-cookies-by-montreal-confections-guest-post/

Now that I have completely strayed from talking about birthdays... I thought I would go back to talking about them since that's how my overly ADD & ADHD brain works.

Monster Truck Birthday Cookies:

Some of the coolest cookies I think  have ever been given the amazing opportunity to make have been the Monster truck cookies for a friend/co-worker of mine whose son turned 4. Her son is obsessed with monster trucks and his two favorites are Grave Digger & TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). Since I was a little short on time to make these I tried to keep the majority of the cookies simple. I as his mom and I talked about the cookies she said I didn't really have to do anything fancy and tires and checkered flags were good (since I would not have time to order a monster truck cookie cutter). My brain started cooking up something right away and I came up with the idea of having an "accent" cookie (probably not the official name for it... oh well) which would be his two favorite monster trucks. I had my first cookie tasting at work the same day that she wanted to pick these up so I enlisted an extra pair of hands... my mom. As I worked on the cookies for the tasting as well as the basic cookies for the birthday boy my mom worked on the monster trucks. I think they turned out amazing!

The Grave Digger

TMNT

The two of us got done around 1 a.m. but the end result was fantastic and i don't think we could have done a better job! 

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