Roman Cross Cookies

I like to decorate cross cookies. You have seen some with traditional piping in February, one with purple flowers and others with stained glass design around Easter. This time I used TruColor natural food colors and traditional white piping to decorate these roman cross shapes.

First I outlined the cookies.

 Then flooded with white icing.

When it dried I simply painted them with the gorgeous TruColor airbrush colors.

The decoration is simple white icing.

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Ballerina cookies

A new chapter in my life began: my little girls started kindergarten this year. They also started dancing, so it's time for some ballerina cookies.

All these cute cutters are from Cookie Cutter Kingdom. The black silhouettes are royal icing transfers (no, I can't free hand designs like this).

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Traditional back to school cookies

Yes, school has already started in Kentucky. And here is my traditional back to school set.

I am still in love with these nice fat letters. The letter A is my blackboard, I wrote with Americolor white on black flood icing. The letter B became a ruled paper, using extra fine tip edible markers. Letter C is a paint palette. I did not mix all these colors, just painted with airbrush colors. I added a cute plaque shape to this set (we needed some math too, right?) again using the edible marker. To make these cookies look like one set I added a red border to all of them.

I wish you all a happy school start!

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Elegant back to school cookies

Until now, I had only a basic ABC cutter set, that I did not use very often, as the design is thin and the cookies break easily. Also there is hardly any room to decorate them. But I think adding a few letters to my sets can be fun, so I designed a nice fat set and asked Cookie Cutter Kingdom to print them for me.

I bought a nice script stamp at Hobby Lobby a few months ago thinking what a beautiful background it would make for an elegant cookie. So I decided to try it for this set. I also used the little swirl roses made with TruColor natural food colors earlier this year, with darker green leaves than for my spring designs. To finish the borders and the letters I used CK super gold luster dust diluted in alcohol.

Here is a closer look at the letter A. The alphabet cutters are available at Cookie Cutter Kingdom's website. You can also get 10% off your purchase using coupon code "friendsoftunde".

The plaque cutter is available here. Besides the lettering it has exactly the same design.

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Nautical cookie puzzle

My friend asked me to create sea-themed puzzle cookies made of squares and rectangles. He probably saw some work of Yankee Girl Yummies, she is the queen of this kind of puzzle cookies, visit her page to see some amazing creations.

I knew I will need to ship these puzzle cookies, so the first step of designing was to find the right box. A 9x6 inch box seemed to be a good choice for this project. Then I planned a design made of big squares, small squares and rectangles. This is only three shape to bake, but gives a great variation when it comes to layout.

So I planned the layout first, then the design. I decided to make the design all blue: two shades of navy blue, two shades of royal blue and two shades of turquoise:

First I planned to hand cut the cookies (just squares and rectangles, how hard can it get?). It would have been a great option if I had to make only one set. But with 20 sets, I decided to ask my friends at Cookie Cutter Kingdom to create these cutters for me. You can order them from their site as well and save with coupon code "friendsoftunde". The cutters made it so much easier for me to fit these puzzles into their boxes.

Then I started to bake and decorate all the pieces:

Here you can see all the 13 puzzle pieces:

I still had a big challenge: how to ship these cookies so they stay as a puzzle and prevent breakage.
First I cut some cake boards to the size of the boxes.

Then I assembled the cookie puzzles:

I put each puzzle with the cake board base in a cello bag and padded the box with bubble wrap so they can not move during shipping.

This was a fun project!

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Violin cookie set

I clearly remember the opening event in my son's new school. We could visit the rooms and meet the teachers. And there was a table in the hallway with a nice lady who stopped us (and all other kids) to tell us about the wonderful opportunity to take string lessons at school. And my son told me "let's go mom, I don't want to do this". You can imagine my surprise, when - in a few days - my son came home and told me "mom, I want to do string and I've chosen violin."

And he did. Probably the first thing in his life that he did not give up on in a few weeks. So I was so happy I wanted to create something special for this wonderful teacher.

The violin seemed to be the most tricky piece of the set, but I really like how they turned out and it was not too hard either:

Below is the video of the whole set.

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Keepsake gingerbread heart teacher gift 2

This is the same concept as my previous post, I even used the same little royal icing transfer roses, but using yellow instead of green made it completely different.

This is a 8 inch keepsake heart, that I complement with four smaller heart cookies:

And here is the video of this set, enjoy!

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