Packaging for Cookie Shipments

Sending these cookies off to my birthday girls this week! Happy Birthday, Kayla and Rachel!

Only the Best for the Bestie!

I made these beauties for my best friend’s 24th birthday this past Saturday. As always I flood the cookies with a royal icing – I used a #2 tip for the smaller cookies and a #4 tip for the large Tiffany Blue cookies. After the flooding icing dried, I used a cookie stencil and Wilton Color Mist in gold for the filigree design. Then I added all of the script work with a #4 piping tip with piping consistency icing using AmeriColor Super Black food coloring. I used gold luster dust to add the details to the 24 cookies. These were so fun to make just because I knew that I would want these for my birthday too! They are very feminine, simple, and sophisticated – wait am I describing the cookie, myself, or my best friend? Happy Birthday, Kayla!

Easter Cookies

Easter cookies – Peeps!

I have been obsessively following my fellow cookie fanatics on Pinterest and Instagram, and I fell in love with the Peeps, Easter cookies. They were pretty easy to make, but the colored sugar got EVERYWHERE. I used a flooding constistency royal icing, and then I added the colored sugar while the icing was still wet. The colored sugar made the cookies look like actual Peeps – so fun! Once the cookies dried, I piped eyes and a nose with piping consistency royal icing with a #2 piping tip.

Wet-on-Wet Royal Icing Techniques

This was my first attempt with the wet-on-wet icing technique. Obviously my filigree needs some work, but the other two were extremely easy. This was also my first time using my Notta Cookies. They are incredible for practicing any icing techniques without having to bake a bunch of cookies.

Creative Christmas Cookie Cutters!

As you can imagine, Pinterest has led me to some creative ideas when it comes to cookie decor. Yes, I had a snow flake cookie cutter. Who doesn’t? I also had a gingerbread man cookie cutter. Again, most bakers have one of those as well. I was trying to come up with inventive ways to use the cookie cutters I already had for my Christmas Cookies this year, and lo and behold, Pinterest gave me an answered prayer! One fellow Pinterest user used an upside down gingerbread man cookie and decorated it like a reindeer! I was excited to try this idea, and it was so cute and easy! I used a flood consistency meringue powder royal icing as the base, and then I used a piping consistency icing for the detail work on the rest of the cookies. The eyes for the reindeer were created with a Wilton food coloring marker. The antlers and the base of the snowflakes were brushed with gold luster dust and a almond extract mixture. I was so happy with the end result, and I cannot wait to do the reindeer cookies again next year!

Happy 24th Birthday, Alina!

My best friend turned 24 on February 5 this year, so of course I had to bake some cookies for the occasion. I started by using a geometric cookie cutter so that my cookies would have a classic yet interesting design. I used a meringue powder royal icing at a flood consistency for the base layer, and I used the icing at a piping consistency for the outline. The shimmery effect was created with silver luster dust, a few drops of almond extract, and a small brush. My plan is to buy an airbrush system so that my cookies will not look blotchy in future photos. After I added the luster dust to the cookie, I piped the “A” monogram onto the center of the cookie. Not all of the cookies had the “A”, some had “24” piped onto the center, but for some reason I forgot to take pictures of the “24” cookies.