Cookies with cakeprint

Cakeprint cookies.

Next year...

-I´ll definately bake lots of these!

I used my basic cookie recipe, rolled a ball, marked the toenails with a teaspoon, added a few wrinkles with a knife, baked - and dusted with cocoa. It took like five minutes to shape 20 toes - i like :)

They flowed out a little in the oven, but i don´t mind - it makes them look like trolls toes! :)

Merry Christmas

No Christmas-stress here this year! 

-The gifts are placed in the oven, the roast and the goose is lying under the tree and the children are all wrapped up - now Christmas can come on with all it´s got!

Have a very merry christmas you all :)

Fast, sweet cookies

I love this recipe for being so suitable for many different purposes, i added cocoa and the taste surprised me pleasantly. With a generous dot of melted chocolate and freeze-dried fruits they also look delicious. Unfortunately these small treats are all now members of the group that didn´t make it through to christmas :-/

Painting course at Sofisticake

I was thrilled to attend a course at Sofisticake with Malene, who is an educated Royal Copenhagen painter. I hope there´ll be a part II, III and more, because it was extremely interesting and she´s a great teacher.

We practiced basic stroking-techniques - really difficult although it looked so simple when she demonstrated.

 Most important - the course gave me lots of inspiration to carry on at home. These are painted with Wiltons white icing colour.

 

Taking a break from stroking...

-And taking it a bit further - just to see if i could. This is an image of Mads Stage (hence the initials on the heart), painted on the cookie with a picture lying beside me. This attempt is good enough for me - Note to self; Never say you can´t.

I tried out roses too...

There´s room for improvement, but i did surprise myself with these ones and

i´m looking forward to refine my efforts. I´ll definately get on with practising!
First step will be shopping for better brushes and lots of coloured dusts.

Hope you like them :)

Cookie give-away? *Ended*

I´m making room for more sugarwork in me ol´ cupboard and was wondering if anyone would be interested in these cute cookies - and these? I would hate to throw them out.

You can leave a comment here, if you are interested. (If several are interested, I will draw lots among followers a week from now).

PS: The cookies are overdue and more thought of as decoration-items.

Easter Cookies

I continued with the purple-speckled pattern on these cookies. I think it´s so pretty and couldn´t come up with anything else i wanted to do. I bent the ears a bit on the small bunnies, it made them look nice and goofy :)

Painted easter cookies

Hand painted cookies. Frosted first with fondant, then painted with diluted food coloring.

Easy Easter cookies

Super easy easter cookies. Patchwork cutters are great for imprints on cookie dough before baking, but almost any cutter is suitable.

Recipe here.

Waiting for easter...

It´s a bit early, but whilst waiting for easter i thought i´d show a couple of my earlier easter-projects - and two sneak peeks:

 

Sugarcraft from 2010:

2009 - A chocolate truffle-cake

Easter Cookies 2009:

I have made a couple of easter-projects already, and will -of course- show... in time ;)
Sneak peek:

Christmas!

Finally Christmas is here :)

 

I´m wishing all of you all the joys of the season,

 

 and you and your family a Very Merry Christmas!

Waiting for christmas..

Whilst waiting for christmas i thought i´d post some christmas-stuff from the archives:

2009

 Pottery-mouse lovin´ candy canes.

2009
A mini-chocolate cake - serves 8-9 people. For indicating the size, the deer is 7 cm tall. Playing around with Rina :-)

2008

For Sofie´s class at School.

2007

A cute bird-house on an ugly cake :-)

2007

Mini cookie-houses

Vanilla Wreths

I bake vanilla wreaths´s every year for Christmas. A good collegue of mine gave me the recipe for....well many years ago. Nobody eats them on christmas eve, but they´re nice to have during december if people comes by for coffee, and a great give-away too:


500g flour - 375g butter - 250g sugar - 125g chopped almonds with or without the skin - 1 large egg - 1½ teaspoon vanillasugar.


Mix softened butter, flour, sugar and chopped almonds well. Add egg and vanillasugar and cool in fridge for 1 hour.
Run through a grinder with a star-plate, form rings and put on a baking-sheet, bake in oven for 200 degree celcius for 10-12 min. Cool off on a cooling rack.

Out of Rocking-horse Cookies....

In the absence of Rocking-horse cookies... I haven´t seen reindeers in this outfit before, but aren´t they cute? I almost like these better than the horses.
I love my reindeer-cutters:)

Carousel-Rocking-horse Cookies

I´ve often wondered how to decorate the cute rockinghorse cookies, besides the obvious way. This is why i never cut out too many of them. I came up with this idea, wich i LOVE! Sure, it takes some time, and when you run out of rockinghorse-cookies and are on a roll, then what to do?? I´ll show you later ;)


PS: All edible!

Christmas Decoration.

The cake-stands etc. i have all over the place, turns out to be great for christmas decorations...