Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail.....

Hippity Hoppity Easter's on it's way! That's a song I learned probably in the 2nd grade or so (circa 1986).

This week I don't have any cookie orders to fufill. I'm guessing there are no showers, parties, etc this weekend since Easter's on Sunday.

In stead of catching up around the house, doing some wedding planning, or any type of yard work, I decided to bake some cookies and try out some new cutters.

I had a rabbit body and rabbit face and decided I wanted to try some 3 dimensional cookies with the rabbit face. Instead of just a level fondant overlay, I made some fat cheeks with additional fondant. Here are some sneak peeks:



I couldn't decide between freckles and whiskers...I think I'm leaning more towards the freckles...





While I slaved in the kitchen, one of our cats, Annabelle, took advantage of the nice weather and curled up in a good spot in the living room.



I have about 50 other cookies cooling out that will decorated later this week....

Cookie Cutter Sale!

Most of my earnings have gone towards the Holly and Bill wedding fund. After almost 9long years of dating, we're tying the knot in October. Bill didn't take me up on my offer to fly to Hawaii and have a really really nice vacation and get married while we were out there as well. So, now we're having this way too big wedding in RI. So, I've been baking my bee-hind off trying to generate some extra money so we don't go in the red throwing this little party!

However...today I found a sale that I just couldn't pass up!!! I've been buying most of my cutters from Foose Cookie Cutters (www.foosecookiecutters.com). Take one peek and you'll see why i shop there...their selection is HUGE!!!

Here are a couple I can't wait to try out!

Ok..I may be a little early for Halloween!


I love the bikini...makes me think that summer's coming one of these days!



I loved this monkey...not sure what I'll use it for, but everyone needs a monkey cookie cutter!


Another reminder of spring!



Check them out...the code for today and tomorrow's 40% off sale is SPRING! What a deal..with all this week's orders I managed to buy around 40+ cookie cutters (shh don't tell Bill) AND give the limo company a deposit :)

The Most Popular Cutter of the Season....

is the dress cookie cutter! People are going nuts over this cookie cutter and its hands down my most requested order! Here are some pictures for one large order of bridal shower cookies. The bride's colors are ivory and gold. I did one sample with a tiny hint of ivory coloring, but it had a strange look to it, so we went with white. Gold is always and interesting project. There's no type of dye or coloring to tint frosting gold. Instead, I use a product called Luster Dust, mix it with a tiny bit of alcohol and paint it over dried royal icing...quite the project but I think it's worth the result!



This is what 77 cookies look like! I normally put my cookie orders in cake boxes with a thin layer of bubble wrap. The largest cake box couldn't support 70+ dresses...so a xerox paper box it was!


That's alot of cookies!

I'm a Baking Machine

I had three cookie orders for this weekend. I finally wrapped them up and they're out the door and delivered. This was the most cookies I had to make in such a short period of time with roughly over 200 cookies baked, covered in fondant, accented with royal icing, and bagged, tied and ready to go. Here are some shots of my busy kitchen...there were literally cookies cooling on every square inch of table and counter that we own!



Good thing Bill was in Texas on business...our dining room table wasn't usable this week!




Some close ups of engagement cookies...


and some shower cookies..the tiny little hearts had the couples' first initials and accompanied the large heart in the bag