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.

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!

Valentines Cookies for K

I made a bunch of Valentines cookies for my sister to take to school for her party. This whole sugar cookie decorating is becoming such fun! I even got a compliment from my father to do with how impressed he was on how they turned out.

Valentines Cookies

Last night I went over to help my neighbour decorate cookies for he son's JK class valentine's party. She made the cookies, and I am not sure what recipe she followed. Here are some of the fruits of our labour...

They were large cookies so they took quite a bit of work. I find working with a smaller tip (#2 or #3) work nicely, it takes more time but I find it works out fairly neatly. and I used a #1 for the writing. She was working with #3 & #4 tips and I think she found her flooding tended to run down the side. When making the edging for the flooding, I think that more space needs to be left along the edge to hold the icing in rather than right along the edge (as then gravity works against you) I really enjoyed the squiggle design of the blue heart (in the middle)

sugar cookies

Yesterday my neighbour came over and while our 2 year olds played together, we tried our hand at flooding sugar cookies (I need to work at adding less colour to the icing as the pink and green turned out much brighter than needed). We also experimented with a couple of different icing recipes. One we LOVED. The second we DIDN'T! the second one had meringue powder in it.