Fathers Day

I know this is a lot late, but, for Fathers Day we made each of our husbands a cookie bouquet. Dad got tools, Justin got a BBQ set, Josh got a variety of items, Ryan got sports balls, and since we didn't want to leave Chris out even though he isn't a dad or almost a dad we made him some tires.

Cookie Bouquets

I have always wanted to try the cookie bouquet and have been messing around with cookie decorating a little so I made these for a family that moved into the ward area as well as two families that just had babies. They were a lot of fun and I think they turned out really cute. The cookies are sugar cookies covered in Royal icing.

Happy Halloween

Well I have kind of been a slacker lately both with making things and taking pictures of the things I do make. These cookies are a basic sugar cookie with royal icing on top. I actually got these cookie cutters for $1 at Target and was very excited about the Frankenstein head and I will have to say that it did not disappoint, I think he turned out very cute. Because I don't have enough bags and tips I frosted the basic background color just using a small spatula instead of flooding so there are lines (don't look to close).
I also made little pumpkin cakes as thank yous for the people who made dinner for us after the baby was born but I forgot to take pictures. I used to small bunt cakes put together to create the pumpkin. Frosted it in Orange buttercream and stuck a mini twix bar in the top as the stem. They were not only cute but very tasty.

Happy 4th of July

Since I had some left over cookie dough after making the fathers day cookies I decided that I would cut them into rectangles and freeze them for the 4th of July. I also had some left over frosting so I froze that also, it worked out pretty well I just had to stir it up real good before using. I was going to make little flags but I had to wait until Ellie went down for bed before I could start and since it was later in the evening and I was tired I decided to just do some blue with white stars and some red with white stripes.

Fathers Day Cookies

I have wanted to venture into cookie decorating a bit more but can never really think of a reason to make that many cookies when it is just Justin and I that would eat them. So, since we teach a class of young kids in church I thought I would make them some cookies for their dads for Fathers Day, little did I know everyone would make cookies for the dads but oh well. They are just a basic sugar cookie hand cut into a tie pattern (I really need to get some cookie cutters or learn how to make my own) and decorated with royal icing. One thing I learned is no matter how fast I think things will go I am wrong, it will take a LOT longer. I stayed up till about 2am decorating these little things but I think they turned out really well and the cookies are super soft which is always a big plus. I did decide that the stripe pattern looked better than the supposed to be flowers turned dots so that is why there are more of those in the group pic. Sorry the bottom pic is sideways but you get the idea.