Scarecrow Cookies

I'm so glad it's Friday!

Today is the last day of school for the kids until their Thanksgiving break.

I'm ready for Thanksgiving.  There's going to be fried turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce (that only my hubby eats), green bean bundles.......the list goes on and on. We certainly have a feast.

Wanna know what I'm more interested in? Take a guess?

You got it.....the Dessert. It's the best part of the entire meal. That's why it's last. You always save the best for last.  My favorite dessert is grandma's chocolate pie. You can find the grandma's chocolate pie recipe here.  I'll be making two or three pies. That way I'll be sure there's enough....for me, just in case I want to enjoy more than one pie piece.

We'll also have cookies. Lots and lots of cookies.

Scarecrow cookies are great for Thanksgiving.  Don't you agree?

I used my snowman cookie cutter from Coppergifts. They have fantastic cutters. I just took a circle cutter and trimmed off the top of frosty's hat before baking. I wanted the scarecrow to have more of a rounded hat.

To make these scarecrow cookies just follow the instructions below. I used a #2 tip for all of the outlining with the exception of the detail on the button eyes and the straw coming out of the hat. For those I used a #1 tip.

Are y'all ready for the big Thanksgiving feast? Is your favorite thing to eat dessert too?

Snowman Cookies with a twist.....

 

Hope y'all had a Happy Thanksgiving.

Did y'all miss me?  


I've missed talking with all of y'all.  It's like a part of me has been missing.


Sorry I’ve not been on much, but as you know this week has been a bit hard on me and I’m not back into the swing of things.  I don’t want you guys to think I forgot about y’all. 

I hope everyone had a great day with great family and friends.  My Thanksgiving was great. It was quite interesting. Mom usually handled Thanksgiving, but now it’s up to sis and I. Too goofballs in the kitchen made for a very interesting experience.

There was much chaos that day.  My husband and sister throwing stuff at each other didn’t make matters better.....oh,  No worries, it was fun throwing. My sister and husband are like siblings.  They are always picking on each other, playing pranks, you name it.

Everyone was in Great spirits and the day couldn’t have been better. 

Well let's get to what y'all are here for.....the cookies. I made you some Christmas cookies. When I saw these cookie cutters at Fancy Flours, I knew I had to get them. I mean how cute are ornaments turned into Santa? So I bought them right away. 

 I haven't made the Santa ones just yet. The wheels started turning in my head when I got them though. I decided to make some snowmen first. What do you think? I thought you may like them. I've got a bunch of designs going with this set. Let me know what you think about them. 

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. What was your favorite thing about it this year?

Scarecrows......

How do things work in your family? When you’re driving along in the car, do you have the driver picks the music, the passenger shuts his cake hole mentality? Or is it more like my way of doing things......Driver picks the music, IF the princess is driving....otherwise its the passenger picks the music. Basically it’s just I (the princess) picks the music. Hey, I can’t listen to stupid music.

Growing up it was ALL about the music. Was that way then and it’s that way now.  It’s just one of the many things my father handed down to me I guess.  

What kind of music do you all listen to?  I’m all over the place with what I like.  Everything I listen to has some sort of meaning to me. It’s not just music. 

My music taste have a wide range from ....The Supremes, Styx,  Journey.....to more current bands/groups like My Chemical Romance to SOME, I say SOME Slipknot. 

I’ve tried all my life to pick a “favorite” song, but for the life of me I can’t.....there are just too many. 

Well enough rambling.....let’s get on to the cookies that have nothing at all to do with music. Sorry I ramble, but you know you love me and you want to see my cute cookies.....right? You still here? Ohhhhh there you are. :) Okay right, cookies.....




 To make these Scarecrow cookies I used a cupcake cookie cutter. Lately that's my one cookie I can use in another way other than a cupcake.....hey, baby steps here....baby steps.

First outline your cookie in dark brown royal icing using a #2 tip. Let dry about 30 minutes.

 Fill with flood icing in dark brown and allow to dry a few hours.

When that's dry outline scarecrow's face and neck using tip #2 and a flesh colored icing. I used Ivory here. Let dry 30 minutes. 

(**Note: I scraped off the line to separate face and neck as it left cratering)

Now with Ivory flood icing, fill in face. Let dry several hours.

 When the face is completely dry add facial features, straw, and hat detail.

An Apple a Day....

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.......well what about a basket of them?


When I think of Fall I think of pies and of my favorites is an apple pie. Which then causes me to think of that movie Baby Boom.....you know the one where she inherits a baby and moves to Vermont on an apple farm and makes applesauce all day long. I know it's not pie, but it's what I think of.....can't help it.


When I saw these adorable apple basket cupcakes on Pinterest, I knew I must make a cookie version.  So off to the drawing board I went.


 I didn't have a basket cutter so what to use, what to use.  I tried to think outside the box and decided to use the cupcake cutter.  It can be made into many different cookies.  I cut out the cupcake shapes then cut off the top.  I'm sure you could leave the top on and just have a higher pile of apples, but I chose not to.

cupcake or basket cookie cutter
light brown royal icing
red royal icing
#3 tip

With #2 tip and light brown royal icing outline basket

Add handles. Let dry about 30 minutes.

With 20 second light brown royal icing fill in every other section of basket.

 Let dry several hours.

After first layer is dry, fill the remaining sections of basket with the 20 second light brown icing.

Let dry several hours.

 Next take 20 second red icing and randomly pipe dots for apples, leaving spaces between. 

If some run together like mine did, it's okay. Those will be covered later. 

Allow to dry for several hours. 

Repeat randomly adding red dots with the 20 second icing. Working in layers, drying several hours between each layer and filling in any empty spaces.

Continue to do this until your desired number of apples are piped.

Then for a little more detail take the light brown royal icing (not your flood icing) and pipe a line at top and bottom of basket.

Allow cookie to dry overnight.

Easy Acorn Cookies

It's finally FRIDAY!!!!

I love the weekends. Not because I do anything exciting and fun.  I don't go out clubbing and get alcohol  spilled on my expensive shoes, get hit on by desperate men, or wake up with a mean hangover.

No, that was last month....this month is different......haaaa Just kidding.  You would have thought last month wasn't as lame as this one, but it was.

 I spend most of my weekends baking something, catching up on TVshows on my DVR, and just doing mommy things. It's actually very enjoyable. I'm not bored at all. Quite frankly, I'm never bored.  I keep busier than most people.  I really NEVER stop.  I'm OCD like that.  My friends think I must have superhero powers like wonder woman or something, but I don't.  I'm just super busy and hate to keep still.....although as a kid, I did think I was Wonder Woman....but that's another story (with cookies).

Well my OCD got the best of me with my sprinkle collection.  I say collection because I have 83 different sprinkles. Well for an OCD person the different bottles were getting to me. Especially when they are displayed on a shelf now. In the quest for finding jars to put my sprinkles in...that I love, I became extremely disappointed.....and cheap. Okay, I'm not cheap, but I am extremely impatient. So when I couldn't find jars in this small town, I opted to buy small candles in a jar, with lids. They were the perfect size and just what I wanted.....at least for now.  I can promise you I will decided on something else before the end of the year.  I'm just like that. Things get changed often.

Hubby came home with 22 candles the first time.  He had bought all they had at the store. We melted the wax down and removed it from the jar. Washed the jar out and added sprinkles to each one.

Well do you know the darn power went out at 2 am.  Hubby wakes me up and starts laughing...he tells me how ironic it is,  after buying all those candles, that he can't find one candle to light in all the darkness.....but we have sprinkles! I couldn't help but laugh with him......and tell him I'm so gonna blog about this.  My family is always on guard. You never know what mom's gonna blog about, so look out.

I did manage to find him a few candles that I have for such an event as the power going out. Life around here isn't all sprinkles.....well not for them. 

The rest of the candles have been bought.....all 83 jars, and are in the process of being de-waxed.  It's quite a process to be honest....and not the neatest process either.  I've spilled wax.....A LOT!

Well......on to the cookies.  I made these super duper easy acorn cookies. These are great for a beginner cookie-er.  They can be done with our without the sanding sugar.

First, with a #2 tip, outline the bottom half of the acorn in a medium brown royal icing. Then fill stem.

Next fill the bottom half with thinned medium brown royal icing.

Next outline and fill top half of acorn with  dark brown royal icing.  Let dry about 30 minutes and then fill with thinned dark brown royal icing.  (sorry for lack of picture)

If you want sanding sugar apply to top half when it is still wet. If not just allow to dry.

Sweet Sugarbelle

Well it's November.

Time to pack up all the Halloween decorations and prepare for Thanksgiving.

The kids had lots of fun Trick or Treating. 

How many of you raided the kids' candy buckets?

I have to admit I took a few pieces.....

just a few.

For the month of November I will be listing something I am thankful for every day.

I do this every year. 

It's a way to look at the positive in life.

I'm going to start off with one of the reasons I got into cookie-ing in the first place.

Today I am thankful for Callye from Sweet Sugar Belle.
She is my cookie Idol.

We all have one.
That cookie artist who made you want to push yourself beyond what you ever
 thought you were capable of.

Callye is that person for me.

She is truly an inspiration.
Most of what I have learned has been from reading her blog.

Her tutorials on things are amazingly easy to follow...
 and lets not even start
talking about her crazy talent. We'd be here all day.

Today is her Blogiversary! She's been blogging for a year now.
Be sure to stop by and wish her a Happy Blogiversary.
Read her blog too...you'll learn a lot.

Today I made turkeys....after all it's turkey month.
I did this using a wet on wet technique I learned from Callye.
I apologize for not linking the exact location on her blog....I can't seem to locate it. :(
However it's the same technique her guest poster used for her houndstooth cookies.....basically.

First outline the turkey body in dark brown royal icing using a #3 tip

Next outline and fill the head in beige royal icing.

fill body with thinned brown royal icing.
add lines in beige and drag toothpick while icing is still wet to make feather effect.
 This is the same technique used to make spiderwebs.

Then add red thingie under neck of turkey.

It's called a wattle.

But I call it the red thingie.

add eye and yellow beak.

Thanks for reading....and Thank You Callye for such an amazing blog 

and for inspiring me each and every day. 

What are you thankful for?