Fashion Queen This bouquet was definitely made for a woman. Lipstick, mascara, nail polish, perfume, red dress, purse, hat, shoe, and of course a make-up mirror with eye shadow. The mirror is 3-D and totally edible.
Enclosed is a picture of a Valentine's Day bouquet. Some of the cookies have Cake Mate cake decorations, while others have Conversation Heart candy and white chocolate designs using a candy mold from Wilton. Two I have made smaller sugar cookies and attached them in the center of the white hearts [...]
Tropical theme cookie bouquet. The pink flamingoes are straws that have been used as filler. A Hawaiian shirt vase has been used for the base. The sun is 3-D. I made the cookie on the stick, then rolled a ball of cookie dough and baked it separate. Once it was iced, [...]
Gingerbread Train and Station This is my first attempt at gingerbread construction. The train station roof has mini M&M's and the porch roof has sliced almonds as shingles. Gumdrops surround the station and the cobblestones are Sugar Babies. The trees are ice cream cones turned upside down and iced. The windows were [...]
St. Patrick's Day The pot of gold is achieved by layering small cut-outs of cookie dough on top of each other and baking at the same time. In the bouquet, I hot-glued foil-covered chocolate coins to lollipop sticks and used them as filler and around the end of the rainbow. The container is a flower [...]
Real Estate The windows of the houses have been cut out and crushed lifesavers have been substituted before baking. It looks like glass windows when finished. The picket fences are made as separate slats and assembled after icing. The hearts on the doors and mailboxes are candies.
Meringue Cookies These are meringue cookies tinted pink for Valentine's Day. You start with an ice cream cone and dip it in melted milk chocolate. Then you add a meringue cookie, top it with chocolate, and add another cookie. Before it is sealed, you add conversation heart candies, heart-shaped red hots, and [...]
These are Mardi Gras cookies. I start with sugar cookie dough and paint them in the yellow, purple, and green colors with Royal icing. When they are dry, I go back and paint them with a meringue powder and water mix, immediately sprinkling them with edible glitter for that extra "Bling". [...]