Easter Cookie Fun

We had a day of Easter Cookie making fun!

We just love to play together in the kitchen

and cookie making is the perfect thing to do.

I have been wanting to try Fancy Flours edible

images for decorating cookies, and we finally

got around to doing it.

I ordered these vintage images,

and these innocent bunny ones.  They create

cookies that are works of art.

They really are fun and easy to do and 

Fancy Flours sends them with instructions.

I combined their instructions with some things

I learned at Cookie Con and had great success.

Make your cookies using your favorite recipe.  

After they cool frost them with Royal Icing.

Here is the trick that I learned at Cookie Con - 

rather than waiting for them to dry overnight,

dry them for 20-30 minutes in a food dryer, then

the frosting is hard enough to work with. 

There is no way that I could wait overnight!!

Cut the edible papers out to fit.  Have them slightly smaller

than your frosting surface as the papers don't really bend

down the curved edge of the finished frosting.  (I made

that mistake!)

Brush them with light corn syrup, being sure not to get

any on the front surface of the image as that will smear

the image.

Place on the front side of the cookie, smoothing down and 

then turn over for ten minutes to keep the image smooth as

it dries.  Fancy Flours gave this instruction, and it really

helps the edges not curl.

Decorate the cookies as desired.  I added pastel

Disco Dust to the edges.

I had also watched a video made by

Arty McGoo, whom I met at Cookie Con 

on hand painting cookies with food coloring

 with her swirl method,

 so my daughter Jessica

and I tried our hand at that and loved it.  Even her

three year old daughter Jacquelyn got into the fun.

The cookies will be part of our Easter Dinner.

Let us all rejoice in the joy

of Easter, as we celebrate

the most important event in human

history - the Resurrection of the Savior of Mankind!

What joy and hope that brings!

Cookie Con 2014

Hey Everyone,

Joni (Red Couch Recipes) and I and my

oldest daughter Jessica,

went to Cookie Con (Convention)

this week and although none of us

are experts at Royal Icing Frosted cookies,

we wanted to learn more.

This was the winning set of

cookies in the fairy tale type

category - Once Upon A Time.

There were 450 attendees from 14 countries and 44 states and only 2 of them were men.

These are artists!  

This won a teacher's choice award

and it was one of our token men attendees!

It was one of my choices too.

This was another of my choices.  

How could you choose a favorite?

Anyone who wanted to enter the Sugar Show

could.  We are novices so of course we

didn't enter, but the skill level of

these "cookiers" as they called themselves

was amazing.

The first full day was spent in classes

where we learned and had a lot of

fun.  We decided there isn't a happier

group than cookiers - all filled

with sugar and spice and everything

nice.

By the end of the day we were

craving a cookie - but not a cookie

to be had.

(These and the Where The Wild Things Are

cookies were made by the two great gals at

Sugar Bliss.  Check them out - amazing!  Hope 

they teach a class next year on airbrushing!  Everything they

touched was out of this world!!)

The final day we spent all day

in a hands on lab where we

could try out every fun idea

we had been presented from

air brushing, to hand painting,

to using a Kopy Kake machine

that transfers the design onto

your cookie so you can copy

the exact design and also rice

paper transfers, stencils and fondant.

(One of mine - fondant.)

(One of mine - rice paper and rice paper butterfly.)

The days were filled with fun 

giveaways from a beautiful Purple

Kitchenaid (no I didn't win it!) to 

4 air brush guns (which Jessica

did win), tons of cookie cutters and

other fun things. 

(These were the winners at our table - Jessica on the left

and Libby from Spokane and Kelsey from Helena.)

 I did win a sprinkle

filled bracelet which retails for $50 -

and Joni, Jessica and I all won one

or two things each.  How lucky were we?

We left for lunch on Saturday to meet

one of our blogging friends from Salt Lake

for the first time 

Bonnie

from City Home, Country Home.

Ryan and Brad were there posing for

pictures, so they couldn't make it to

lunch with us.

(Bonnie, Ryan, Joni, Brad and myself - 

left to right!)

We also had the cookie icon

Arty McGoo there as our keynote

speaker.  She and her husband 

were so much fun, wanting to

turn all the networks into cookie

related shows - such talent.

A mystery shape cookie was given

out on Saturday and people could 

create whatever they wanted.

It was a quotation bubble and

we were amazed at what people 

came up with.

The last one was the winner.  We

all got to vote.

These are the cookies I created

on Saturday.  

Quite a step up from

what I have made in the past.  I

tried to use every technique they

taught us.

What a blast we had.  

We sure hope to be able to

attend next year.

Thanks to Sue from

Munchin Munchies who

told us about it although she

ended up not being able to attend.

I know these little ones will be

wanting to make and eat

more cookies!!!

(Done with Waterlogue App on Iphone)

I will be posting this with

Foodie Friday

and 

Pink Saturday