Flip Flop Cookies

These are very popular for little girl parties in the summer.  Flip flops are made baking the soles first.  Some of the straps are shaped pieces of dough that have been baked separately and attached after they have been iced.  For the red straps, I cut holes in the cookie dough using the end of a straw before I baked them.  Then I used pull-apart Twizlers and glued the ends into the holes using Royal icing.  The flowers are tiny balls of cookie dough that have been stuck together and baked separately.  This design also works well for Christmas and Halloween flip flops, using the Cake Mate cake decorations instead of a flower.