Summer Stamp Cookies

Memorial Day and Labor Day bookend summer, don't they? Even though here in Texas summer weather will continue for at least a month, schools have started, and thoughts have turned away from the beach and towards the autumn. To celebrate this, the last weekend of summer, so to speak, here are some Summer Stamp Cookies.

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The wafer papers are available at my shop.

** graphics used under paid license **

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Country Christmas Deer Cookies

Yes, I know, I'm a crazy person for making a set of Xmas cookies in August :D

In my defense, though, I had a set of cookies all ready-iced, left over from my last cookie-baking, and I needed to make one set of 2" x 3" rectangular cookies. I had meant to make these last year, but never got around to it, so I figured I'd make them now. They were made with strawberry-kiwi icing, so nobody cared they were Xmassy—they got eaten just as quickly as non-Xmas cookies :D

The usual procedure: SugarBelle's cookie recipe, the middle cutter (2"x3") from the Ateco 3-Piece Rectangular Cookie Cutter Set. The borders I piped with a #16 star tip, half in ivory, half in a country red (closer to brick red than a "red red". Par for the course, I'm not sure which one I preferred... maybe the ivory.

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The wafer papers are available at my shop.

** graphics used under paid license **

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Fire Engine Cookies

Firetruck cookies! According to my 2.5yo son, not only the awesomest cookies I've made so far, but the awesomest cookies made in the history of awesome cookies. He lost it, when he saw them, when he woke up from his nap. SUPERMOM!

I made them with purchased fire engine clipart; I love it with both backgrounds. When I asked my son which one he wanted to eat, he said, "The red dot firetruck!" They are actually not polka dots, being tiny stars, but that's semantics.

I made the cookies using Sugarbelle's Sugar Cookie Dough and the 2.5" cutter from the Ateco 5-Piece Fluted Square Cookie Cutter Set. I experimented with different border colors, all piped with a #16 star tip.

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The wafer papers are available for purchase in my store.
A step-by-step how-to for decorating cookies with wafer papers can be found here.

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Nautical / Marine Cookies

My friend Marianne asked me to make some cookies for her mother, for their impending vacation to Maine. I decided to make something nautical, very clean-cut and all-American. These marine postage stamp cookies, in red, blue, and gray, have the kind of "Tommy Hilfiger aesthetic" I wanted. I used purchased clipart to make the wafer papers—the lighthouse cookie is my favorite.

I made the cookies using Sugarbelle's Sugar Cookie Dough and the 2" x 2.5" rectangular cutter from the R & M Fluted Rectangular Cookie Cutter Set. They required no border, so were fairly quick to make.

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The wafer papers are available for purchase in my store.
A step-by-step how-to for decorating cookies with wafer papers can be found here.

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Back-to-School Cookies!

I've had houseguests after houseguests lately, so I haven't gotten to make many cookies—and those I've made, I haven't had time to post. Apologies!

My tyke is too little for school, but I wanted to send some Back-to-School cookies to my cousin's kids, who are very excited about school starting again. Here they are!



I made the cookies using Sugarbelle's Sugar Cookie Dough and the 2nd largest cutter from the Ateco 5-Piece Fluted Square Cookie Cutter Set. I used a strawberry-kiwi extract for the icing, and I think it might be my new favorite, trumping even the cotton candy flavor! I piped and flooded the cookies carefully, because I knew I was going to make them borderless. The images are licensed clipart—there are four different designs, all filled with the fun elements of school.

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The wafer papers are available for purchase in my store.
A step-by-step how-to for decorating cookies with wafer papers can be found here.

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