Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Girl Baby Shower Cookies

I threw a baby shower for my friend Suzanne on Sunday, which meant I got to make sweet little cookies.

The bunnies you'll recognize from the Spring Lamb and Bunny Cookies post; it was made with this jumping bunny rabbit cookie cutter. The teddy bear was made with this mini teddy bear cookie cutter. The baby girl dress cutter I made myself with the Design Your Own Cookie Cutter kit. The baby carriage I drew on cardboard and cut out of the dough—painstaking, but I wasn't good enough bending the tin to turn it into a cutter; after two tries, I gave up. The decorating of the cookies was all my own, except for the idea for the baby carriages—I had seen Ali Bee's gorgeous cookies, which were perfection, so I shamelessly borrowed (read: lovingly stole) the design from her. If you want the design for the baby dress or baby carriage, holler and I'll scan in my little cardboard drawings :)

~A

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Peanuts Easter Cookies



Happy Easter! I made these cookies with Peanuts Christmas cookie cutters, which I got on eBay. They didn't turn out quite as well as I'd hoped--my fault, for making the black piping icing too runny. Next time better! :)

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