I’m a fan of cookie bouquets and putting cookies on sticks. Can you be a fan of that of facebook?
I guess I’d have to be on facebook first.
You can apply the royal frosting/ toothpick method to beautify any sugar cookie.
(Here’s a post with the royal frosting recipe and here’s a post about the toothpick method.)
I rolled out my dough a little thicker than usual and inserted a skewer about 2/3 the way to the top.
Make sure the dough is still nice and cold because then your leaf won’t get deformed when you do this.
Then after you do the edge and fill, while it’s wet draw on it with different colors.
Don’t be careful. Kids can do it.
Then take your toothpick and swirl the colors, make vine-like motions.
Here’s a few before and after examples:
This one is a little busy with lots of swirling.
They’re all different. And frankly, I felt like a frosting abstract artist. Okay, I’m flattering myself.
It’s just something I had fun with that I thought I should share the love.
I gave a pan to my kids to decorate and go to town with, and I set aside my pile to play with.
After they dried, I slipped my cookies into a little plastic bag. (usually used for candy making)
I tied them with raffia
And put some foam in a pot
And put my sticks in the foam,
And as I went, I hot glued some fake leaves to cover the foam.
I think they made a pretty cute visiting teaching gift. This would be cute for a teacher gift too. Or they could be your centerpieces for the kids table at Thanksgiving and they could eat them for dessert!
I hope someone can find this helpful or fun!
very cute! love it!
-Sierra
http://creativekdesigns.blogspot.com
darling love it, SUPER "SWEET"!
Oh wow!! This is awesome. Thank you so much for the "how to". I've got to try this. 🙂
How cute! I just did leaf cookies that are very similar on my blog, too!
Those are so pretty. What a fun project.
Come by for a visit.
Cheri
Those are really cute! 🙂
These are amazing. The swirling is just fabulous!
I love this idea! What a great way to present cookies as a pretty gift:>)
What an awesome blog you have! These cookies are darling – too cute!
I'm late but I'm so glad I'm here! The cookies are beautiful! I am so inspired to give it a try! Thank you so much for adding your cookies to the DIY Holiday Party! 🙂
Have a great rest of the week!
Roeshel
Adorable! I love this idea for a centerpiece. (Time to get on Facebook! And, yes, I bet you can become a fan of cookies on a stick!)
These are great! Such a frugal idea…the ones at that certain cookie place are SO expensive. Wonderful gift idea!