Big Heart Cookies

I made big chocolate heart cookies for Valentine's Day. This one is my favorite.

I love to create lots of variations and watch the designs evolve.

I usually make simple designs, too, like these sugar cookies.

The heart is one of my favorite shapes!

Little Heart Cookies

Ginger birthday cookies for Cousin Cadence.

Here's the other side.

Little sugar cookie hearts inspired by the colors from the baby shower elephants.

Nina's Cookie Shop received a request for decorated chocolate chip cookies. Luckily Sugarbelle recently posted this great recipe!

I hope you all had a sweet Valentine's Day!

Elephant Baby Shower Cookies

Miss Katie is having a baby! I made elephant cookies for her baby shower.

The cookies were inspired by this very cute invitation by Mara-Mi.

This is the elephant cookie cutter I started with. I've had it for a long time and never loved the shape. So with the help of a pair of pliers and some patience...

I have a new elephant cookie cutter! I used a heart cookie cutter for the ear and pieced the dough before baking.

Here they are, ready to celebrate!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I realize I'm posting this halfway through February....

To say I'm feeling a bit behind is an understatement!

I was looking through photos of cookies and other projects from last fall that never made it onto Nina's Show & Tell. Some of them, especially the autumn themed cookies, can wait until the season rolls around again and show up in a timely post.

But with these cookies, it's now or never!

We still have 87% of the year ahead of us, and my plans for 2013 include learning about and enjoying my new camera:

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS15

My old camera was over 8 years old and the rechargeable batteries weren't recharging. And I stepped on it, breaking the lens cover. After putting it on the ground and saying to myself "Make sure you don't step on it." Oops.

I'm really happy with the new one. I've been using the automatic function and the image quality is great (especially in natural daylight).

Also on the 2013 agenda is improving my cookie photography to achieve consistent lighting and true colors.

I also plan to post here more regularly!

Wish me luck!

Santa Cookies

I wanted to make Santa cookies using the same style of hats I've been using on my snowmen.

I'd been looking at my 8/snowman cutter and cookies, formulating a plan. But he needed feet.

Thanks to a lot of inspiration from posts around the cookie blog world about piecing together parts from more than one cookie cutter, I looked at this fish...

And found feet!

Santa is ready to bake.

HO, HO, HO! Merry Christmas!

Chocolate Stars

Last year I made these Chocolate Trees.

This year I made Chocolate Stars with Sprinkles.

And Mini Chocolate Stars.

Christmas Cookies

Chocolate Christmas Trees

Sugar Candy Canes