Teal and red Christmas

My dear friend, Tammy has mentioned that she was planning a teal and red Christmas this year. She also told me she has purchased the ornament cutter set I designed for Cookie Cutter Kingdom, because they reminded her of her childhood Christmas.

I decided to surprise her with a cookie set and, of course, I made the ornament shapes she loved in teal and red. I left the accents white as I did not know if she wanted gold or silver accents or not. Luckily, she is a cookie artist herself, and she is also the owner of 2T's stencils. They carry the most amazing DinkyDoodle airbrush colors, so she can add some shine to the set later if she wants.

I also made her an advent wreath centerpiece to complement this set.

Are you almost ready for Christmas too?

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Szaloncukor (Hungarian Christmas candy) 2015

And it's time again for our traditional Christmas candies. I told you about how to make them last year. Today I made the same marzipan filled candies as those are my kids' favorites. However I changed the recipe a little. This marzipan is made of 200 g blanched and finely ground almonds, 200 g confectioner's sugar, 1 tsp of almond extract and a few spoonful of corn syrup. (I used to add 1 egg white, but many of my friends don't like to use raw egg whites, so I used corn syrup instead. I did not measure it, just kept adding it until I was able to incorporate everything.)

I rolled and cut the marzipan to candy sized pieces then chilled them in the fridge.

They got a nice dark chocolate coat.

And they went to back to the fridge to chill.

My girls prepared the food safe tissue paper packaging for me (cut the ends of the rectangle to make it pretty), so wrapping was easy.

This year I added an other flavor: hazelnut. Everybody loves Nutella, right? My family surely does. So I prepared some dark chocolate shells in a candy mold.

Kneaded a bag of Nutella for a few minutes to warm it up a little.

Then filled the chocolate shells with Nutella. I let them chill a few minutes.

Then I closed the candies with the dark chocolate.

They got a different color of packaging, so we recognize the flavors.

Now, we are ready to decorate our Chrismas tree the 24th. (Yes, this is when we decorate our tree).

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3D Christmas tree

 While my little girls are decorating some gingerbread cookies in the Kitchen, let me show you real quick one way to make 3D Christmas tree cookies.

First bake 5-6 half Christmas tree cookies (I used 5). You can use the special cutter from Cookie Cutter Kingdom, or cut a Christmas tree shape in half before you bake it.

Use egg yolk glaze to color them green. (mix 1 egg yolk, 1 tbsp milk, green gel food coloring).

Decorate all the pieces both side.

Cover a cake board with royal icing if you need a base for your tree.

Glue the pieces together with thick royal icing.

Finish decorating with royal icing, connecting the pieces. Your icing needs to be on the thicker side, so the hanging line doesn't break.

This tree is a nice complement to the Santa Sleigh cookie from my earlier post.

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Blue bell gingerbread cookies with snowy landscape

This set is still from the blue airbrushed series. I used my favorite 6 inch bell shape from Foose. Flooded all of them with ice blue icing, then added some royal blue to parts of the cookie with airbrush.

Then created a little scenery in the middle of each bell. (The center shape is different for each, I used cookie cutters to trace the middle window.

To add a little frame to the scenery, I outlined them with one more line and added some dots to this line. This is a very simple border, but still attractive.

As the last step, I filled the rest of the bell with some curly curves and dots.

And here is all four of them again:

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Christmas cookies with Hungarian folk art design

I love to make Hungarian folk art flower cookie designs. However, I never thought about doing it for Christmas. This year, I got a request for them so I created a Christmas set with these gorgeous flowers. They are not your traditional Christmas decorations for sure. But these ornaments are cheerful and colorful.

To complement the set, I made these bell shaped candle holders and an advent wreath centerpiece.

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Blue Christmas ornaments and candle holder

Sunday, in my post about the Christmas sweater I promised to bring you more of these airbrushed blue cookies. Today, I show you some Christmas decoration gift sets. One candle holder with 6 ornaments make a beautiful gift set and fits perfectly in my gift boxes.

These candle holders are made of two snowflake cookies. The top part has a hole for a tea light or a votive candle.

I decorated some star cookie-ornaments. Of course they are all different. Each set will have two stars.

I will add two bell to each set. By now, I have numerous bell cookie cutters, but this one, from the basic 101 set of Wilton is still my favorite.

The two Christmas trees will also have the simple clean shape of the basic set.

This is one of the gift sets.

And here is an other one. And I also promise you more blue Christmas cookies in the near future.

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Mini Christmas ornaments

You probably remember these ornament shapes from the ornaments with lace or the blue Christmas ornaments. This set was made with the mini version of the same cutters, available at Cookie Cutter Kingdom.

I started with white flood icing for all of them.

Then painted half of the with TruColor Super Red Shine Color an  the rest with Deep Blue Shine.

Then piped some filigree pattern to all of them.

Painted the filigree of the red cookies with TruColor Gold Shine.

 Here is the red and gold mini set:

And the blue and white mini ornaments:

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Christmas sweater

I got this cool sweater cutter from Cookie Cutter Kingdom and I also have a highly neglected airbrush. So I decided to put them to work. I flooded the cookie with Sugarflair ice blue icing and airbrushed with royal blue. I love this color combination (so you will see more of it in the near future). Then decorated with white royal icing.

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Simple elegance for Christmas

Do you remember the 5 inch square chocolate cookies I used for the no-icing fall cookies? I had some more of them and I also had a bag of white icing, which looks wonderful on chocolate cookies.
I decided to draw a Christmas tree shape using curls and teardrops. Then I added a few tiny, shiny edible beads as accents. Different color for each cookie. I finished the cookies with a simple, double line border.

Here you can have a closer look at the cookie with the pink beads, and the one with the gold accents.

I also have a few more of these square cookies, waiting for inspiration. See you soon!

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