butterfly cookies

My little Cinderella girl is a girly girl and loves butterflies and flowers.  When she saw that her brother and sister were getting cakes and cookies for their birthdays she immediately said that she wanted some cookies too.  I figured why not, one more opportunity for me to practice cookie decorating.  I figured I was already doing 3 different cookies that day, why not add a 4th. 

Here's what you'll need

Piping icing (I used white)
Flooding icing (I used pink)

 

Put dots down the middle for the body of the butterfly

 

Outline the butterfly and separate the wings.

 

 

Fill in the butterfly with the flooding icing

 

I decorated the butterfly in 2 different ways.

 

 

The first with dots

 

 

The second with lines.

 

Enjoy!

 

Shayna 

Hockey puck cookies

 

My husband and son are HUGE hockey fans.  My husband and son recently went to an outdoor hockey game.  When they returned my son decided to re-enact the entire game for me.  Right down to the hockey players taking off their skate guards as they were getting ready to go onto the ice.  Of course, we had to have some hockey cookies to help celebrate Wildman's birthday! 

 

My husband took the camera to work with him on the day I was decorating the cookies so I wasn't able to get pictures of the decorating process.   

 

Here's what you'll need: 

 

Black 10 second royal icing

Piping icing (the colors depend on your favorite team)

 

Luckily, my son was happy with the simplified version of his favorite hockey teams logo.  The current logo fun to do for one cookie, but not several.

 

Enjoy!

 

Shayna



Heart Cookies 2

Lately, I have been subscribing to the youtube school of cookie and cake decorating.  Learning this way allows me to learn the different techniques and I can learn when it's convenient for me.  Free time is not something well known at my house so I work videos in whenever I can.  In one of the youtube videos I watched I saw someone creating patterns on cookies using a food coloring marker and then covering it with royal icing.  I wanted to try this technique out ASAP, but I knew that I'd have to wait for an opportunity to present itself.  I found my opportunity with the heart cookies!

In a previous post I showed you how to make heart cookies.  I made them in 4 different colors:  pink, purple, blue and green.  Once I was done making the original heart cookies I had some left over 10 second royal icing.  I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. 

Using a black Americolor food coloring marker I drew a heart and split it into 4 different sections.

 

I started out with the purple royal icing

 

Pink next

 



 

Green and Blue last

 

 

When I was done I realized I had created a cookie with most of my wedding colors.  Pretty appropriate since we'll have been married 6 years soon.  The only wrong color is the blue.  I had yellow instead of blue.  My husband and I wanted to use the flowers and colors from each of parents weddings and then have our own color and flower also.  My in-laws had pink roses, my parents had yellow daisies and we had purple tulips.  We also had green to tie everything all together.  Blue is my son's and my favorite color so of course I had to add it!

 

Since these were pretty close to the colors from my wedding and it was a heart I had to add a saying, of course! 

 

 

Enjoy!

 

Shayna