Anniversary Cookie Bouquet

My Aunt Debbie recently shared a photo of a cookie bouquet she ordered for my cousin's birthday and it reminded me that I never showed you this bouquet!


I made this one for my in-laws' 30th wedding anniversary a few weeks ago. The bouquet featured 2 champagne glasses, 3 red roses, 1 "Happy Anniversary" heart, and 1 bottle of champagne displaying the year 1981.

Then, my mother-in-law Leona wanted me to take a good picture of the 2 of them. Before you see the pictures, it's important for you to know that we were eating at Malio's Prime Steakhouse in Tampa. It's a fancy restaurant with spectacular food!

Ok, ignore my lack of camera skills in less than ideal photography conditions...

But I picked up the camera, counted to 3, and this is the shot I get:


Ok...let's try again...


Not a horrible shot, but why must we always pose with our alcoholic beverages? And J-Dawg (that's what I call my father-in-law) looks less than thrilled to be there. Third time's the charm, right?


Hm...maybe not...Ok, let's try ONE more time. We give Leona a little pep talk about calming down and looking "normal." I pick up the camera again, assured that this will be a good photo!


But, now we've lost J-Dawg...

I give up.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cookies

By far, the cake I get the most comments and emails about is the Very Hungry Caterpillar 1st Birthday cake I made shortly after I began working for Ms Debbie's Sugar Art. So, I decided to make some cookies to go along with the cake!


I used an watermelon cutter I found among Debbie's many, many cookie cutters. Here's a similar one from Sugar Daddy's Cake Design.


And my favorite part of the cookies are the little fuzzies all up and down his back!

Well, the 12 Days of Cookies are over, and Christmas is here! It's tradition in our family to watch A Christmas Story all...day...long... My dad's a HUGE fan. So, to make him smile, I decorated these leg lamp cookies:


'It's a major award!"

I got the cutter from A Christmas Story House and highly recommend them for any Ralphie-themed gifts you need to get in the future!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Day 10 - A Star Cookie

I'll keep it super short and sweet today - here's Day 10 of cookies! Have a great day!

Day 8 - Joy!

Can you believe we're only 5 days away from Christmas! Not much time left for your many to-do lists! Am I stressing you out? Sorry! Ironically enough, I JUST ran across this website 100 Days to Christmas. It helps you plan and get ahead for the holidays so you don't feel so frantic. Might be worth checking out for next year...

Day 7 - Let it Snow Cookie!

For today's cookie, I searched in Google Images for "penguin snow." Here's a cute image I found:



To make the cookie, you have to flood the background first (the sky and snow on the ground). When that's dry, go back and pipe on the penguin and falling snow. He's just so cute, don't you think!?

Day 6 - A Gingerbread House & A Peppermint Twist

It's Saturday, and we've all got a million things to do before Christmas so I'll keep this short and sweet!


A gingerbread house!


And peppermint twists!

Fall Cookie Bouquet Class at Ms Debbie's Sugar Art!

The Sunday before Thanksgiving, we had a Fall Cookie Bouquet class at the bakery. I posted about it here already, but now I'll give you pictures I took during the class!


We started out by outlining our cookies. Traci had beautiful nails so she became the class' official hand model!


Here's Jerry concentrating on his cookie and pretending I'm not taking a photo. I don't know how he decorates standing up...I forget that I'm standing and lose my balance. Seriously. The whole class was standing so I decided to stand, but I almost toppled over sideways! Does that happen to anyone else???



Then, I taught them how to thin down their icing to flood the cookies. There were 5 people in the class and 5 colors to thin down...perfect! Each person took care of a color. I love it when things work out like that!


Emily was the only person in class who hadn't taken the Wilton Method classes at Michaels - but you couldn't tell! She was awesome!


We lined all our cookies up and aimed a fain on them so they'd dry super fast!


After a little drying time, we added the final details. Don't you love how Corinne marbelized the flood icing on her acorn?


And Anita's turkey turned out super cute!


This is a close-up of the turkeys in process.


And the finished bouquet!

Rivalry Week in College Football and Snowman Cookies

It's rivalry week for a lot of college football teams across the nation. Adam and I are psyched to watch our teams play...against each other...this afternoon!

I'm predicting a tense afternoon. We have to silently cheer for our teams so we don't upset each other. After all, neither of us wants to sleep on the couch tonight! We can usually get through the day relatively unscathed. It's our parents that do all the trash talking and cause all the trouble! Hush, you guys! *wink*

Lately, I've been on a sugar cookie decorating kick so in honor of the most exciting game of the season (in my opinion, at least), I made two snowmen wearing our school colors.

Notice the University of Florida (orange & blue) snowman's nose is pointed downward while the Florida State (garnet & gold) snowman's nose is point up? That was my subtle way of predicting the outcome of the game. The Noles will win!*


*Adam rarely reads my blog posts so I don't predict that this little comment will cause much trouble in the Judge household. hehe Go Noles!