more of my easter baking...

these are some of the chick ginger cookies I decorated earlier this week (rather than having a nap and catching up on some much needed sleep) I used a new icing that calls for liquid egg whites (pasturized) which I very much enjoyed using. It was easy to pipe and it smoothed out very nicely. I divided the recipe up so I only made 1/5 of it...which worked out perfectly. I tinted it yellow for the bodies, then added orange for the legs and mouths and finally I tinted it black for the small details.

this evening I decorated a batch of coffee sugar cookies with chocolate (I have yet to photograph them) and made a bunch of rabbit pops for C to take tomorrow to playgroup.

easter cookies...

seems I fell asleep while posting last night...that is what happens I guess when you have wireless internet and the laptop in bed :)
these are my easter cookies so far...I am really happy with the ones with the drawings (though I always see where I can improve it in the future) I found some retro easter photos online and since my drawing skills aren't the greatest I used a projector to help guide me. There are ones that I LOVE more than others. I really like the purple polkadot one.
Next week I am going to do some more butterfly ones for my co-worker's daughter. She is having a birthday so I thought I'd give her some as a gift.

is it??

Is it possible to bake and blog without a camera?? Currently I am baking egg shaped cookies so I can practice some easter egg designs. The first batch is in the oven, the kitchen aid is mixing the icing...and my camera sits on my kitchen table doing nothing.... :)
I will for sure take photos of the final project.
I was talking to my MIL today and she loves the butterfly cookies that I decorated. She wants to try some herself so I sent her the link for a tutorial that I was inspired by. It is from Sweetopia

easter...and cookie mode

Easter is coming and I am in easter creation mode...what is that??? well I am in the mode to make Easter treats of course! I found a website (I online shop a fair amount...when you live in the country and drive a pick up truck...postage is cheaper than gasoline)
ANYWAY...I found a site here in Ontario that I consider to be reasonable in price...and have recently made two orders from them (for mostly cookie making supplies which are not very heavy)...they have a good selection of cookie cutters.
I also have purchased a few Easter themed baking things (cookie cutters, chocolate molds,etc.)
Right now I have chocolate peanutbutter easter eggs hardening in the fridge and chocolate rabbit pops too. I have sugar cookie dough in the fridge too as I want to bake easter egg sugar cookies this evening and decorate them...very exciting...atleast for me...probably not really for you. This morning I searched the internet for some retro Easter photos...which I am going to attempt to create onto cookies this evening.
Weather wise things are lovely...Spring may be in the air...

butterflies

I saw some butterfly sugar cookies that were quite impressive so I thought I would try my hand at decorating some. I learned that I need to wipe my toothpick when dealing with black icing (as you can notice on the pink butterfly), but other than that....I was very impressed on how they turned out. I gave them to a co-worker's daughter (who is 6) and she loved them!