Happy New Year!

We survived the end of the world.

Welcome to 2013!

Midnight Cookies

I don't know that I'll make it to midnight. I'm more of a morning person than a night owl.

I am really bad with numbers and letters. It also doesn't help that I was too lazy to run downstairs and grab a smaller icing tip.

New Years Toast Cookies

Getting ready for the celebration leading to the New Year. Starting with a toast!

Cheers!

Snow Scene Cookies

I really like how these turned out. Was going for something similar to my New Year's skyline cookies. Loving my cute platter too!

CandyCane Cookies

I like how these turned out, but I dropped a couple while decorating them.

Santa's Boots Cookies

I am a little bored with the cookie cutters I have this year so I'm going to buy some new ones for next year. 

Christma Tree Cookies

Wanted to try out a simple tree design this year.

Starflake Cookies

I shouldn't have photographed these on a silver platter as it really washed out the color, but I'm too lazy to photo them again.

Snowflake Cookies

I've always loved snowflakes. I'm not sure I've actually ever seen a snowflake that looks like a snowflake in real life...

The color in the photo turned out a little wonky I'm afraid, but it was the best picture I could get with the light blue.

Santa's Cookies

Merry Christmas Eve!

Some traditional cookies for santa. We've been pretty good around here, but I don't think this is going to encourage Santa to bring us any gifts. Mo says it can't hurt to try.

Caroling Snowman Cookies

Snowman melt my heart! They are my absolute favorite display of the season.

Ornament Cookies

I didn't like how these turned out, but I had excess colored dough from the pinwheel cookies that I needed to use. Next year I'll try something a bit different.

Belated Halloween Cookies: Part 2

More Halloween cookies!

I like the black with white polka dots and pink ribbon hat which I almost didn't do at all. Trying to think of something else I can do with those colors...

Flower Cookies

My friend wanted to learn to make cookies and she mentioned she'd always wanted to try to make flower cookies like someone she knew. I had a lot of mini flower cutters so I thought I'd give it a shot before I tried to teach her anything.

In the end I made about a billion of these little suckers considering they were mini cookies and I couldn't stand the thought of making any more for a while. Maybe she can try these on her own and give me some pointers!

Mario Cookies

I come from a long line of gamers starting with my grandpa. I remember Frogger and Burger Time on Atari followed by the game that can tie most of us back to the earliest days, Super Mario Brothers on the original NES.

I saw pictures of a Mario cake one time and always thought I'd love to make that. Instead I took on the cookies. Maybe someday I will do the cake.

In shaping the cookies I used a circle and an egg shape for the mushrooms and shaped them by hand. They were actually my first attempt at royal icing decorating and I imagine I could make them look much better if I tried them again, but I was pretty happy with the overall result at the time.