Personalized Baseball Birthday Cookies
I'm happy with how these came out, although I was wishing for a Kopykake projector while I was decorating them!
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Birthday Season
Early spring is a busy time in our family! All three of our birthdays are within 10 days of each other, so there is a lot of celebrating to be done. Easter often occurs in the same week and a half, sometimes falling on one of our birthdays.
An outing to celebrate Easter and my birthday.
We love wildflowers!
Yummy ice cream for my birthday dessert.
Gracie's birthday was next. I made these monogram cookies for her to share with her class. She chose the colors and design. To see more cookies, visit me over at Nina's Cookie Shop.
We had a party for her at a local park on a very windy day! I embellished the hat and made yummy pink cupcakes. It was a new recipe for me, Pink Lady Cake made with strawberries. Gracie chose pink icing and helped decorate the cupcakes with sprinkles.
The party had a garden theme, and this balloon flower was supposed to decorate the gazebo at the park. The wind interfered with the decorations, so it adorned our house instead. This tutorial from All Things Simple was very helpful!
The cute napkins are from Target, and I embellished a party store birthday hat with ribbon for the birthday girl. I made the flower cookies for party favors. You can see more flower cookies over at Nina's Cookie Shop.
Next came Art's birthday. Gracie and I made him a card and bundles of 50 things.
Gracie LOVES wrapping presents and picked out the paper and bow. She also loves unwrapping presents!
We wanted a simple dinner that would finish well with apple pie for dessert. A DIY BAT (bacon, avocado & tomato sandwich) was perfect! I made mayonnaise from scratch for the first time. Thanks to this recipe from Alton Brown and these hints from Andrea the Kitchen Witch on using the KitchenAid mixer, it came out well.
Finally it was time for pie! I like to use a combination of apples; for this pie I used Lady Alice (which I just learned is a new variety) and Pink Lady apples. With a crumb topping and vanilla ice cream, it was a delicious finale to our birthday season!
Friday, April 5, 2013
Train Cookies
Train Cookie for a 3rd Birthday Celebration
I was inspired by the colors on these train cookies at Sweet Creations by Debbie. They were for a 3rd birthday, too! I also like her accent cookies.
I used a variation of these wheels on the Wilton cookie cutter packaging.
All packaged up and ready for the party!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Spring Flower Cookies
I've been having fun decorating little cookies, like these mini chocolate flowers. White with colored centers here...
And all the colors in different combinations.
All together they make a pretty and yummy plate of cookies perfect for spring and Easter.
They coordinate with my Easter Eggs & Easter Bunnies!
Easter Bunny Cookies
I love this bunny shape and used it last year on these chocolate Easter cookies. This year I wanted to add a little something more and am very happy with the ribbons. I used the same colors I used on my Easter egg cookies.
I think this is the first time I've used this cookie cutter, even though I've had it for years. I think my favorite part is the ears. The pink one above has an extra back leg detail that I thought was distracting, so I made the rest simpler.
Here is the pink bunny matching her friends. Now at the head of the line!
Hop on over to The Ginger Cookie to see these and more Easter Bunny cookies!
Easter Egg Cookies
I made a few sugar cookie eggs for Easter. I love this color palette!
I also made chocolate egg cookies.
One of my favorite things about decorating cookies is creating variations as I decorate.
The cookie eggs have been decorated, now it's time to decorate the real eggs!
Visit me over at The Ginger Cookie to see my recent Easter cookies together in one post, and some Easter egg cookies from the archives, circa 2008.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
