2013 Halloween Cookie Wrap-Up

In addition to the Poe Cookies and the Zombie cookies, I also made these:

Cute Gray Skulls

Spiderwebs

Fright Bites

Scary Squares
I had so many other ideas, and some sets were even ready to go, but time and energy were lacking. I'm recovering from pneumonia, so I'll just have to be pleased I got any cookies done at all :)

 Happy Halloween Y'all!
Ani

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All of the above designs are available at my etsy shop.

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Zombie Cookies for a Walking Dead Halloween

These cookies actually came about from a customer request; a customer in Canada had her heart set on zombie wafer papers, and I wanted her to have them! I made these with Jesicake's Gluten-Free Version of Lilaloa's Chocolate Cookies, which is superb in both taste and in ease of baking, with black food-color to turn them dark like Oreo cookies. I used the middle cutter (2"x3") from the Ateco 3-Piece Rectangular Cookie Cutter Set. The borders were piped in black with a #16 star tip. Gruesomely awesome, right? I'm sending them to my friend Madeline in NYC, who is a huge fan of "Walking Dead".

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The wafer papers are available at my shop.

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Edgar Allan Poe Cookies for Halloween

In our series of literary cookies, I finally got around to designing an Edgar Allan Poe set, just in time for Halloween. The set has quotes from his works (The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Tell-Tale Heart, The House of Usher, Ligeia, The Casque of Amontillado,The Masque of the Red Death, etc.) and correspondence, as well as his portrait and signature. I designed them in steampunk style, with a dilapidated, grunge background, and added little images, such as a raven pecking at a human heart, a graveyard, stacks of books, and even a clockwork heart. I'm super-proud of these—I sent them to my friend Risa Bear of Renascence Editions.

I made these cookies with this Rectangular Cookie Cutter (2.375" x 3.5"), which the nice folks at CheapCookieCutters.com made for me upon request. I made them with Jesicake's Gluten-Free Version of Lilaloa's Chocolate Cookies, which is superb in both taste and in ease of baking, with black food-color to turn them dark like Oreo cookies. I piped and flooded the cookies with white Royal Icing and, when it was hard, wafer-papered them and piped a border for them with a #16 star tip with black icing.

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The wafer papers are available at my shop.

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