Christian Louboutin Shoe Cookies using SugarVeil Lace

Recently I got a request for Louboutin shoe cookies and I thought it would be a great opportunity to use my new SugarVeil Rose Mantilla mat. SugarVeil is a really cool flexible icing product. They sell a variety of silicon mats which are used to make edible lace. You can check out all their mats at www.sugarveil.com.

I had only used SugarVeil once before and had a tough time spreading it evenly onto the mat the first time but I wanted to give the product another try. This time, it seemed to spread out fairly easily (maybe I was getting better at this). A day later, the lace was still sticky to the touch (meaning not dry) so I decided to pop it in the oven to speed up drying time. (By the way, my oven is probably the worst oven you can buy - never buy an oven for looks). Anyway, even with the door open and at the lowest setting, my oven seemed to have gotten really hot in just a matter of minutes so I pulled out my SugarVeil mat and checked the lace. It seemed to have worked and dried out the icing but when I began to pull off the lace from the mat, it started to crumble at the edges. I really thought I had fried my lace! I took a breath...there wasn't time to spread out new icing. Luckily, I was able to get the lace off the mat and it came out like this. Whew! Crisis averted.



Although a lot of my lace was broken, I only needed a few small pieces of lace so I definitely had plenty to cover a few shoe cookies. First, I made a template with parchment paper. Since parchment paper is fairly sheer, I was able to trace over my cookie.

Even with the template, the first piece of lace that I cut out was a tad bit too small so I started cutting out slightly larger sized pieces and just trimmed it over the cookie. I found it easier to place the lace over the paper template while cutting it because when I held the lace under the paper, I was stretching it out and tearing it.

Here is the finished cookie below.

If you've seen Louboutin cookies before, you've probably seen Sugar Envy's extensive collection of Louboutin shoe cookies. If you haven't seen them yet, you can take a look at them here. I tried not to duplicate what Sugar Envy's already done but I just noticed that she had already done the silver bootie. Whoopsie! Oh well...

Rocco's Third Pirate Party

Last year (a long time ago in toddler time), Rocco was really into Jake and the Neverland Pirates. That's when I decided that our next birthday party theme was going to be a pirate theme. I didn't want the party to be a Jake and the Neverland Pirates party but rather a pirate party with "special guests" Jake and the gang (in cookie form). Was my kid still into pirates six months later? Not really. But he had fun anyway.

I printed out my free pirate invitations from HP.com which you can get here. I had to Photoshop it a bit to enter in the party information but no big deal because they were free! I bought black envelopes from Paper Source and stamped them with their pirate skull stamp which I then heat embossed with a gold glitter embossing powder.

As usual, I had a vision and planned months ahead. I had high hopes and big plans but somehow we still had to cut out a few ideas, still missed a few details, and still had to do a ton of last minute stuff.

One of the things I really wanted to do was make Skully cake pops (Skully is the parrot from Jake and the Neverland Pirates). I had only made cake pops once before and it was pretty much a disaster but I wanted to give it another shot and had the entire process planned out in my head. I even planned to do a tutorial on it which I never do either! But, of course I ran out of time and decided to stick to what I know and just do cookies.

Here are the Skully and Jake cookies below. Can you tell what's missing on Skully? Alright, I'll tell you - the skulls on his bandana!! I was actually fine with Skully being skull-less. I'm not sure if anyone at our party even knew about Jake and the Neverland Pirates so I doubt that anyone even noticed. Some people probably thought the Jake cookie was supposed to be Rocco.

The Captain Hook cookies came out pretty well - I was a little worried about his nose and mouth not looking right but the edible ink marker worked out well for him.

Our pirate ship table was modeled after a table I found on Amy Atlas' site. You can see the original ship table here.

 

I found some cool apothecary style bottles from euroglassware.com and doctored up some labels I found online to say "Scurvy Begone", "Yellow Fever", and "Sea Sickness Pills". They were filled with jelly beans.

We did somewhat of a treasure hunt (the kids were only three after all).
First, the kids were supposed to find the mermaid, who got her makeup done at the Nordstrom MAC counter. And yes, she does have scales on the side of her head.

 Then, the kids had to play pin the flag on the X

Next, the kids were to go to "Turtle Island" to find their treasure maps. I saved up Izzy bottles and filled them with tiny seashells and sand and put another version of the map from the invitation in there. I easily cleaned the goo from the labels off of the bottles by using a steel wool pad. I bought #7 sized corks for beer/soda bottles but they didn't quite fit so I had to hold them in with small, round cork surface protectors.

And that's Gilligan, our tortoise. People ask ALL THE TIME but we don't know how old he is.

 

Then the kids went off to "Pier 3" to take a ride on our pirate ship wagon. You can see that the wagon is missing its sails. Yep, I was not happy about that at all.

We bought black water balloons to throw as "canon balls"

After the pirate ship ride, the kids went off to walk the plank

They dug for some jewels and gold necklaces

And finally, they got their treasure chest favor boxes filled with Pirates Booty, gold coins, a ring pop, and some Jake and the Neverland Pirates tattoos.

My husband continued to work on the pirate ship wagon and this is how it looked a week after the party.

If you would like to purchase this magnificent "work of art" please feel free to make an offer!

Eighty Five Dollar Bill Cookies

We recently celebrated my grandfather's 85th birthday in Canada and of course my contribution was in cookie form. I had planned to do photo cookies but didn't have many options with the selection of photos I got so I thought, why not make money cookies? You don't need a great  photo for money cookies. And who doesn't love money?! I wanted to do Canadian money but couldn't find anything that I could easily Photoshop in 15 minutes or less so eventually I found an $85 dollar bill image which I thought was perfect - thank you Ocho Cinco! Anyway, here's to putting your money where your mouth is...

More Ninjago Cookies

It's Ninjago madness over here with nonstop Ninjago requests! This time I made cookies of just the heads because they ship better than the original Ninjago cookies I've done in the past (which can be seen here) and they are less time consuming.

Kai Head Cookie

 

Lloyd the "Green Ninja" Head Cookie

Now can someone tell me when the next new episode of Ninjago premieres? Did Lloyd get to live out his childhood after all since the mega weapon never existed? Hmm...

Check out our Ninjago Birthday Party here.

Wedding & Anniversary Cookies

I am getting a bit tired of making my wedding cake cookies with rosettes (which you can see here) but everyone seems to love them! At least most people do. So when a customer ordered cake cookies for her 25th anniversary party, I suggested a different flower (a swirl drop flower) to at least change it up from the usual desgin. I had never done drop flowers before but they looked super easy on YouTube! Unfortunatley, it wasn't that easy for me - I worked on the flowers for two hours before I finally got the technique right. Anyway, now I know how to make drop flowers! Thank God.

These were some other wedding cookies from a few months ago for a wedding in Saratoga - more cake cookies with rosettes with monogram G's and fleur de lis cookies.

Here's a shot of the dessert table



60th Birthday Martini Cookies

I was asked to do a last minute order of martini cookies for a 60th birthday party and as I was looking at martini images, I found an image of a logo for a 60th anniversary where they used the olive as the "0". So I thought, perfect! I wanted to add some shine to the glass but didn't have the time to do it with icing (I tried painting the shine on but it just didn't stand out enough). Anyway, I think they came out well - I was happy with the shade of blue I ended up with for the glass and the toothpick wasn't lost in the blue icing which was another concern I had.

Here's an image of the logo.

Logo Cookies

Just a few random logo cookies.

Axiom Logo



Shopping Carts for a Google party

 Triple Aught Design's Paw Patch on Chocolate Sugar Cookie

  

Propel Fuels Logo