Busy Bee Cookies.....

Oh how I've missed my online friends.  I've been stalking everyones cookie pages and WOW you guys have been so busy.

The only thing I've been busy with is online shopping. I've bought probably eight pairs of heels. I can't wear them right now, but what the heck right. I love heels and they'll be there after I have the baby and I can wear them again.

I think that's the one thing I miss the most being pregnant.....heels. Oh how I love heels. They make everything better.

When I was on bed rest I did have my husband put some heels on my feet, just so I could stare at them for a while. Yep, my husband puts up with a lot.

A WHOLE lot.

Well I got a good bit of baking done.....It's barefoot baking right now. It's amazing how many things I can't reach in the kitchen now. I may have to get a step stool to use for a while.

Well now that I'm back in the kitchen I know I have to get busy.....bee busy. So much to catch up with.  Well I can't work as fast as bees do, but I can make some really cute bee cookies.

Sorry I don't have pictures of the step by step. Somehow they were erased off my memory card.

So it's just a step by step list for you today......not quite the same but you'll forgive me right?

First start out with a square scalloped cookie.

1. Outline and fill with white royal icing. Let dry 5-6 hours.

2. Place a medium sized bead of yellow royal icing. I used about 20 second icing. Let dry.

3. Place a small bead of black 20 second royal icing for the bee's head, right next to the yellow bead of icing. Let dry about 2 hours.

4. With black royal icing (outlining consistency) and a #1 tip pipe lines on the yellow bead for the bee's stripes. Then add wings and antennae.

5. Allow cookies to dry. Then eat and enjoy!

Valentine's Lingerie Cookies

What's Valentine's without a little lingerie.....right?

This Valentine's day I do NOT want lingerie.....nope....a bottle of anti-nausea meds and a pillow will be the best thing my husband can get me. Secretly that is what I'm wishing for. It's the simple pleasures in life right? 

The first cookies I ever made were bra and panties cookies. They were for the deployed soldiers in my husband's unit.

My husband has been deployed twice, so I've made my fair share of lingerie cookies. I'll show you how to make a variety of bra and panties cookies at a later date. For today, we're going to make red with black polka dots. It's a very simple one to do. 

First you will cut out heart shaped cookies and cut the pointed end off. 

Then bake and cool your cookies. 

With red royal icing and a #2 tip,  pipe your outline for the bra. Let dry about 15 minutes.

With red flood icing, fill in bra section. 

Add straps with red royal icing and a #2 tip. I made two lines for straps then piped dots in between. 

Let dry several hours or overnight.

After bra is dried add a center dot. 

For the panties pipe outline with red royal icing and a #2 tip. Let dry 15 min.

fill in panties with red flood icing. Add another outline above first line with red royal icing and #2 tip. 

Add dots with the red royal icing and #2 tip. Let cookie dry several hours.

With black royal icing and #1 tip add dots to bra and panties. Allow to dry.

Valentine Cupcake Cookies

Stores are coming out with holiday stuff earlier and earlier. When I went to Hobby Lobby the other day to grab some Mardi Gras sanding sugars for my giveaway, they were already putting out Easter stuff.

You think they could wait for one holiday to be over before they start putting out stuff for the next. 

Watch, next year they'll be selling Christmas stuff in May.

I'm not sure about you, but I can't get all excited and want to buy stuff when it isn't even close to that time of year. 

I managed to GLANCE at the Easter stuff.......that's right, I glanced. I didn't look long enough to purchase, but didn't look too fast as to not see.

See....I know how to do it. 

Ok well you're here on my blog and we are on the proper season/holiday. So you get Valentine's day stuff.  I promise that I won't start Halloween now or anything crazy like that.....okay? Sound good? 

Good, we're on the same page.

Today I'm going to show you how to make Valentine's cupcakes.

First roll out your sugar cookie dough and cut out cupcakes.

I have a great sugar cookie recipe if you need one.

Bake and cool your cookies. I like to do this the day before.

Using a pink royal icing and a #2 tip outline the cookie, making a cupcake liner.

Let dry about 15 minutes.

Now with pink flood icing, fill that part in. Allow to dry several hours.

Now with red royal icing and a #2 tip outline a heart at the top of cupcake.

Let dry about 15 minutes. 

Fill heart with red flood icing. Allow to dry several hours.

With white royal icing and #2 tip, Outline white part of cupcake.

Let dry about 15 minutes.

Fill section with white flood icing.

While the white icing is still WET, put some red sprinkles on. 

You could use any sprinkles you choose. Heart sprinkles would be cute.

Let cookie dry several hours.

Now outline the heart with red royal icing and add lines to the cupcake liner.

Enjoy your cookies for Valentine's day.......or make them for November, if you like to do things early like the stores.....just kidding.

~ENJOY

Red Lip Cookies

Let's talk about lips.  I love red lips. Maybe my love for red lips started when I first saw The Rocky Horror Picture show, but every since I was a teenager I always wanted to wear red lipstick.

Of course, my mother would NEVER allow red lipstick. No way, no how. Wasn't gonna happen.  Didn't stop me from wanting to decorate my room with red lips or buy every shirt that had a pair of lips on it......hey I grew up in the 80's, we wore weird stuff. 

I fell in love with this red lip sofa when I was in Paris. I had no way of getting it home at the time, or it would have been mine. 

Paris 2008

Should have strapped it to the top of the car!

Well I don't own a lip sofa, but I do have some lip cookies. I didn't have a lip cookie cutter, I know hard to believe. I didn't let that stop me. I just made my own template with stencil paper and cut it out by hand.

These cookies are so easy. The hardest thing is the drying time in between sections.

Start with lip shaped sugar cookies. If you need a good recipe you can try my cookie recipe.

With red royal icing and a #2 tip outline the lips. The center line does NOT have to be perfect. 

This will make them look more realistic.

Work in sections. First fill in the bottom section with red 20 second royal icing. 

Allow to dry for several hours. 

After the first section has dried a while, fill top section in. Allow to dry overnight.

There you have it.......some red lips for Valentine's day!

~Enjoy

Love Bird Cookies

Remember what it was like when you first fell in love? When everything was new and exciting.

Remember acting like little love birds. Always holding hands, kissing, using mushy love talk. Yeah, those were the days.

The days before you had to clean his hair out of the sink from his morning shave......before you had to pick up his dirty clothes off the floor.......and before you knew of all his disgusting habits. You remember the days before that right?

Those were the days......

Well my hubby and I are still like love birds.....and he doesn't have any disgusting habits.....he even picks up all his dirty clothes and puts them in the properly sorted laundry baskets.......

AHHHHH YEAH RIGHT!!!! Totally Fantasy.....but it's a good fantasy.

Well this fantasy got me thinking about cookies. Then again, everything has me thinking about cookies.

I bought this paisley cutter from Ecrandal right before Christmas and never got around to using it. I knew when I saw it, I was going to use it for quite a few things. Mainly I wanted it to make birds. So, when I started thinking of love birds I was so excited to use my new cutter.

First roll out your dough and cut out paisley shapes and a heart shapes.
Bake according to your recipe directions.

**TIP: If you want birds facing each other be sure to flip some of the paisley shapes BEFORE baking. Otherwise you have to decorate the back of the cookie. Which isn't the end of the world, but isn't how I wanted to do mine.

 Using pink royal icing and a #2 tip, outline cookie. 

With pink flood icing, fill entire cookie. Let dry overnight.

Outline heart cookie with red royal icing. I just used the bottle of flood icing. About 20 second consistency. I didn't feel like putting it in a bag :)

Then Fill with the red 20 second icing. Let dry overnight.

Add eyes. You could use black candy beads if you're not comfortable piping. 

Then add a dab of royal icing and lay heart on top for wing. Be sure your hearts are completely dry to prevent sticking your finger in them like I did and making a dent.

Allow several hours for icing to dry under the wing.

Crocodile Cookies

I have ONE special little boy in my life and that's it. 

Nevermind that he's eighteen and looks like he could be a linebacker for a the New Orleans Saints. He's still my little boy and he still LOVES Crocodiles. 

When it comes to Valentine's day it's hard to find him "treat" related things. Valentine's day is centered toward women. 

Let's be honest here.....IT'S ALL ABOUT US....not that I'm complaining. 

So when Valentine's day rolls around I always try to find him things with Crocodiles or Alligators. 

Educational fact: Alligators have a round snout and crocodiles have a more pointier snout. 

Just thought I'd toss that bit of education in there, ya know, so we can learn here. 

I think this cookie could go either way, but I'll call him a crocodile. Maybe it's because of the years of watching Crocodile Dundee with my son. Who knows. 

Moving on......

Yesterday I showed you how to make Love Bites cookies. Pair those with a crocodile cookie and you have a perfect treat for your special little boy on Valentine's day.

If your gonna make your little man some cookies, you're gonna need to know how right? Ok let me show you how to make these adorable cookies.

First start with Crocodile shaped cookies baked and cooled.

Next outline cookie with #2 tip and avocado green royal icing. Allow that to dry for about 15 min.

Then we begin making the texture on the crocodile. Still using the #2 tip and green royal icing we will pipe a bead of icing then release pressure while pulling downward.  This may take a bit of practice and you can practice on a piece of wax paper ahead of time. Don't get frustrated if you can't do it at first, it's easier than it seems. Just keep practicing.

Work in rows going across on the crocodile. 

Continue doing this until the entire cookie is filled.

When you do the arms and legs, do the piping in a different direction. Working away from the foot and toward the body. When entire cookie is filled, allow to dry overnight.

Then add face details and claws. Then let dry a few hours.

He's really easy to make and you can have a special Valentine's treat for your little man....or big man.

Love Bites Cookies

Valentine's Day......

Let's face it, it's not for single people.  It's a holiday all about love.

When I was single I hated Valentine's day. It was the most dreaded holiday. Everyone was talking about love, getting candy, flowers, jewelry....you name it.

Leaves a single gal feeling quite ALONE!

When your single LOVE BITES! Big time!

So I thought I would make some cookies for those of you out there that are single and feel that love does bite. Or maybe some of you just don't like Valentine's day. After all it is all about mushy gushy love stuff.

Roll out cookie dough and cut with a heart shaped cookie cutter.

 Next take a scalloped edged heart and cut a "bite" from the side of the heart.

 Remove tiny piece of dough. You will not need this. Bake your cookies at 375˚ for 10-12 min.

 Next outline your cookie with red royal icing and a #2 tip. Allow to dry for about 15-30 minutes.

 Next with red flood icing, start filling in the cookie.

 After the heart is completely filled, be sure to pop any air bubbles with a toothpick or this yellow stick. Let cookie dry overnight. 

When cookie is completely dry, using a #1.5 PME tip and white royal icing, pipe LOVE BITES on the cookie. I use stiffer royal icing for this step so the letters don't run.

You could fit the entire words on the cookie or you could have it so that the "S" looks like 

it was bitten off.  After the words are piped, let dry for a few hours.

 If you wanted a cute idea for a boy's valentine's, You can add a crocodile cookie.

Wanna know how to make the Crocodile? Come back tomorrow and I'll have a tutorial on how to make him. He's really easy to make. 

I Love you cookies

Yippie! My tv programs are off of their holiday break!

In my opinion they really didn't need a break. I didn't get one....and my life is certainly a lot happier when I have my tv programs to watch.

Seriously, this entire time of "their break" I lost out on quality education.

I didn't get to finish up my medical education (Grey's Anatomy)

I didn't learn how to be the perfect housewife (Desperate Housewives) ....by the way, Bree is my idol!

I forgot useful tips on WHAT NOT TO DO if I so choose to murder someone. (CSI Las Vegas & Miami)

And I really wanted to brush up on what to do if I ever encounter an Original (Vampire Diaries)

and I forgot how funny it was when someone JUST GOT LICKED (Lizard Licked)

See....life isn't the same without your television programs. Keep in mind I have to record EVERYTHING on the DVR because EVERY television in the house is being taken over by someone else.

I know these people were taught how to SHARE......because ummmm DUH I'm the mother of them...well all but one....and He's married to me and not seeing me make pouty faces should be enough for him to share the tv, but apparently it's not. Video games win.

I'd even be happy if he was a football watching husband because well, I LOVE to watch the Saints play, but no I can watch him slay dragons, the undead, and many other weird idontevenknowwhattheyare things.  Real educational stuff.

See my programs are educational (see above list) and theirs are not! So why is it that I get less tv time than anyone? Go figure. It is what it is. At least I have you guys to talk to.....and my cookies.

I love them, even if they are all greedy.

So....I made them I love you cookies. In different languages.

Hey, I gotta teach them something. Apparently they didn't get the "sharing" lesson.

Love Letter Cookies

I love writing letters. Traditional letters.....you know the ones with pen and paper.

No Emails or text.

A REAL letter. 

Maybe it's the military wife in me. After two deployments I'm a letter writing PRO!

It was the ONLY good thing during the deployment. I wrote my husband every day.

There was just something about buying all the pretty stationery. And lets not forget to spray it with some perfume. 

Last but not least, it was sealed with a lipstick kiss or some sort of sticker.

So when making Valentine's day cookies I just had to make a little envelope with a heart on it. Too cute right?

Well they were quite easy too.

You'll need:

rectangle cookies

white royal icing

red royal icing

#2 tip

First outline cookie

 Next fill two opposite sections and let dry a few hours.

Then fill top section and allow to dry several hours. Then fill bottom section.

 Let dry a few hours

After cookie is dry pipe details and allow to dry about an hour.

Then outline a heart

Fill heart with red flood icing.

If you want to leave heart as just an outline then do heart before the detail on the envelope. 

Mine was an afterthought so the detail was already piped.