Dallas Cowboys or Cinderella?

I made some star cookies for my friend's daughter's Cinderella birthday party.  I accidentally put too much blue food coloring in, though, so between that and the silver glitter, they looked like Dallas Cowboy stars.  The sugar crystals on top helped, but they were still too dark.  They were really cute anyway and the kids at the party ate them up.

Teapots and cowboy boots

Here are some more cookies I've made recently

I think the boots are my favorite.  It took several tries to figure out what kind of pattern I wanted to put on them, but I really like the way they turned out.

Cookies

Birthday Cookies

Sophie's birthday is tomorrow and we have been busy all week making cookies.


Look Mommy! My hands are messy.

More Cookies

These are some cookies I made today for Blake & Ethan to give to their teams. The soccer balls were the hardest cookies I have made yet. They didn't turn out as good as I had hoped I could do them, but I am still proud of them. I hope the boys enjoy giving them to their team members. Now I have to work up the work ethic and courage to make ballet slippers for Sara's ballet class. I'm still not sure that will happen, but I'd like to at least make a bouquet or something for the teacher. We'll see if I feel like it when it's time for the last class.

Cookies again

OK, here are the finished cookies. I can't wait to give them to Z tomorrow.

Cookies and cuties

Not much going on around here lately, but the girls have been adorable as always. Here are a couple of pictures from this week.


Here's one of the little Pita Pocket making her camera face.

I tried and tried to get Menido to look at the camera and smile while showing off her new ring from Bubbie, but this was the best I could get.

She loved her yogurt this morning :)
Coloring, her favorite pastime


And, just a random cute baby playing in her play kitchen.

Now, on to the cookies. I decided Z didn't need any more toys or junk from us for his birthday, so I thought I'd make him some cookies to take to his classmates. Of course, I couldn't just make some chocolate chip and call it done, I wanted to make Star Wars cookies. After extensively searching the internet for cookie cutters, I realized they don't exist. I resigned myself to needing to make my own cutters and found some helpful tips for doing so. Last night when I went to the store to get the butter, flour, etc. for the dough, I happened upon a strange cookie cutter in the clearance basket at the grocery store. I took a chance on it and bought it. Turns out, it was meant to be my Yoda cookie cutter. I just had to bend it a little and reshape it very slightly and it made a perfect Yoda head. I still have no idea what it was supposed to be, but now it's Yoda. I've got the cookies baked and partially iced now, all I need to do now is pipe and paint on eyes, a mouth, a nose and a few wrinkles/shadows. Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of the work in progress. I'm having a lot of fun and am pleased with how they've turned out so far considering I've never done anything like this.


These were my inspiration, but Pete said this person's green was too dark. He made me give him final approval on the color. http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif