Onesie Cookies

Just some random onesie cookies...

Onesie cookies w/ contrast neck trim

Thank You Onesies w/ collar

Acorn & Leaf  Onesies

Lalaloopsy Cookies

Lalaloopsy Dyna Might Cookies

I wish I would have done a better job on the bows but I just got too tired...

TMNT / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Cookies

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...Heros in a half shell...Turtle Power!

Bachelorette Night Out

My "little" sister is getting married in two weeks so this weekend, a few girls got together for a "Bachelorette Night Out" in the City. I originally had plans for a Sex and the City themed party but a few of my ideas fell through so I had to simplify the theme to what my three-year-old son calls a "panty party" (he helped me shop for panties for our panty game - hence the name "panty party").

With three pregnant ladies in the bunch (myself included), we kept it pretty simple. We started off with drinks at the hotel - sparkling cider, champagne, cosmopolitan jelly shots and berry/lemon jelly shots - followed by dinner at a French restaurant and dancing. It was my first time making jelly shots so they weren't nearly as perfect looking as all the ones I saw online. I put them in glass casserole dishes which I greased with a little grapeseed oil but they were still tough to get out. Next time I'll be sure to put them in non-stick pans - I'm guessing they'll slide right out that way. For favors, I made some white corset cookies then printed out paper toppers which I finished off with strips of lace and voilà! Or should I say, ooh la la!

Goodnight Moon Baby Shower

If you have a small child, chances are you have at least one copy of Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. The cookies below were made for a Goodnight Moon themed baby shower for a couple expecting a baby boy.

SugarVeil Lace Wedding Dress Cookies

I really love the look of SugarVeil lace and want to take every opportunity I can to use my $75 mats but  I have really had a hard time working with SugarVeil. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong - my lace never seems to come out nicely and crumbles 75% of the time but I will continue to work with it because it adds such a nice touch to cookies, cakes, etc. I suppose it just takes lots of practice, practice, practice...

Since I typically work with cookies, it's usually not a big deal that I have small crumbled pieces of lace because I need to cut them into smaller pieces anyway. If I had to use the lace on a cake, it would be a different story. You can see my crumbled SugarVeil lace from a previous order here.

So even with all the trouble I have, I think my cookies still turn out fairly well. Here is a wedding dress cookie favor accented with SugarVeil lace below:

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...