Chic Designer Print Cookies

I've been experimenting with combining edible prints with cookies lately. Here's a sneak peak at some of my successful attempts. Warning: These cookies are a bit racy, and may give a new meaning to Wednesday (today) being "hump day." *wink*


For these bustier cookies, I used blue polka dot, leopard print, and pink polka dot edible prints from my PhotoFrost printing system. The rest of the decorations were done with royal icing.


Stay tuned for more edible print cookies coming soon!

The Big Cookie Reveal!

Last week, I posted this picture:


And I told you the cookies were a surprise for someone very important in my life. Did you guess who that person was???

My mom!

Coincidentally, one of my Mom's former students (she's a 5th grade teacher in TX) was in Florida on vacation with her family. Her Mom saw my temporary Ph.D.-serts & Cakes website and called me. They wanted to bring some surprise cookies back to my Mom! How sweet is that?!

So I decided to do a "Summer Teacher" cookie mix.


She received chalk boards, pencils, watermelon, beach balls, sunglasses, cupcakes, and ice cream cones. When I think of "teacher on vacation," that's what comes to mind!

The best part was that Mom had NO CLUE! *insert evil laugh here* I love being sneaky like that.

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 5 - Christmas Lights

For Day 5, here are some Christmas lights sugar cookies. These are much more simple in design than yesterday's ornaments, but I love them all the same.


I've been getting quite a few emails asking for my recipe so I'll share that with you in an upcoming post! Happy Friday, everyone!

Day 4 - Ornament Cookies

These are some of my favorite cookies that I've included in the 12 Days of Cookies. They're simple Christmas ornaments, but each one is different...and so easy to do!


For the blue one on the left: Flood the ornament with blue royal icing. Let that dry overnight, and then go back with white and 2 shades of blue royal icing and add the dots, curves, and lines.

For the Peace ornament: Flood a rectangle in the center with green royal icing. Then flood the top and bottom sections with white royal icing. To make the red polka dots, just add them to the white flooded icing while it's still wet! Once the green dries, go back and write "peace." Easy!

For the Joy ornament: Use the same technique as the Peace ornament, but drag a toothpick through the flooded icing to get that cool pattern. Then write "joy" after the red icing has dried.


For the blue ornament on the left: Again, flood the ornament with blue royal icing. After it dries overnight, go back with white royal icing and add all the details.

For the ornament on the far right: Flood the center portion red. Then, go back and flood sections white and green. Once all the flooded area has dried, just go back and add the details.

Need a more detailed tutorial, check out this one on Bake at 350.

Day 2 - Florida Snowmen

With Day 2 of my 12 Days of Cookies, I thought I'd include some snowman cookies since it's been so darn cold outside lately! Last night, we hit lows in the teens...in FLORIDA! Yikes!

So I was thinking...what does a "Florida Snowman" look like? This was what came to mind:


But let's face it, THIS is what a real Florida Snowman looks like:

*This adorable cookie was created by Meaghan at The Decorated Cookie. She calls him Mr. Melty. Don't you love that?! She's awesome, and has a book out!

12 Days of Cookies - Day 1

From now until Christmas, I'll be posting a different decorated sugar cookie for your viewing pleasure. I'll sprinkle a few cakes in too - because I can't resist. We've done some pretty cool cakes in the last few weeks, and I can't wait to show you!


Day 1 - Christmas Trees 3 Ways.

How do you decorate your tree? With lights, ornaments, garland? Do you use ornaments that have memories and special meaning to your family or do you color coordinate everything?

Is your tree up already or are you one of those who waits until Christmas Eve?

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!

Fall Cookie Bouquet

Last Sunday, I taught a Fall Cookie Bouquet class at Ms Debbie's Sugar Art. There were only 5 students, and I think that was perfect! There was plenty of room to move around, lots of individual instruction, and enough time to socialize. Best of all, the students completed a cookie bouquet just in time for Thanksgiving! Yummy!

This is the finished bouquet:


There were 3 fall leaves, 1 pumpkin (with orange sparkles!), 1 turkey, and 1 acorn.

Notice that little blemish on the left side of the turkey? Well, as the instructor, I had to sacrifice the perfection of my piece to demonstrate what would happen if you touch the flooded icing as it dries. Yea, that's the ticket...


I think the turkey and the acorn are my favorites. So cute!


Check out more photos on Ms Debbie's Sugar Art Facebook Fan Page. And, if you're interested, we'll be doing a winter cookie bouquet as well as a gingerbread house class in December! Check Debbie's website for more info on those classes.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wicked (the musical) and Halloween Cookies

Today, just for fun, I decorated a few cookies with royal icing. I started with some Halloween cookies using one of Wilton's cookie cutter sets.




And then I decided to decorate some in the Wicked colors. I am a huge fan of all things Wizard of Oz so, of course, I love the musical Wicked!


Happy Halloween, everyone!