I have hundreds and hundreds of cookie cutters and I still use my favorite dozen most of the times. I wanted to create a set of cookies using only one cookie cutter shape to show everyone that we don't need a lot of shapes to create great variety.
These are 3 inch, six petal flowers and I created 12 different designs for it. I tested the set during one of my cookie classes and everyone had a lot of fun making these.
When you want to say thanks to a friend you can send her a card, but there is a much sweeter way: make her cookies.
This is a fast and easy cookie set, yet it looks really festive. I mixed piping and flood consistencies of TruColor purple and leaf green. To add more dimension I used TruColor pastel green and pastel purple fine sanding sugars.
The set has two bigger cookies and and a lot of small, simple filler cookies.
The "thank you" cookie is a large plaque. The design is really easy to make. The sparkle of the sugar makes it stand out. See how easy it is:
Of course, I had to make a heart, because I am the gingerbread girl and this is my favorite shape. So I grabbed a 4 inch heart and had some fun with it.
It's still easy to make:
And to make it a full plate, I added a handful of these simple little flowers. They are about 2 inches and super fast to make. Throw in some leaves and they make a cute platter.
Mixing icing colors is not my favorite part of cookie decorating. But I love colors! So I figured, I will just pipe in white and add the colors later. TruColor airbrush colors are very good at making everything look gorgeous and I also feel good about giving the cookies to my kids.
I made a cheerful yellow daisy, ...
... a purple anemone, ...
... a red tulip, ...
... and some forget me not. They make a nice colorful set. It was really fun to make it!
The little girl of my friend had an accident and broke her arm. This is her first serious injury so I decided to send her some cookies to cheer her up. I used a cute little flower cutter and a plaque cutter from Cookie Cutter Kingdom. I wanted to keep it simple, so just flooded all cookies and added some yellow flood icing to the middle of the flower. Then I doodled a different pattern on each cookie. Here is the video:
