Simple Farm Cookies

I got a request last month for

Farm Animal cookie.

I was so excited, one dozen farm animal cookies.

Sounds like fun!

Until, I looked at my cookie calendar,

and realized it was the same week

that I had an order for 13 dozen cookies!

UGGH!

Never Fear, I could make this work.

I found this cute set of stickers at Hobby Lobby,

that I used as inspiration.

Then I put my own special,

"Keep it simple, The Cookie Puzzle Twist" on them.

Using a pale brown, and a darker brown, I popped the

sticker in my KopyKake,and simple outlined

the image.  I just followed the outline, then

add the features.

No need to add every little detail,

the simpler, the better.

While the barn is technically NOT a farm animal,

I could not help adding it to the set.

I LOVE how these turned out.

This set taught me a good lesson.

You don't have to use a million colors, and have tons of

details to make a cute set of cookies.

Remember some times it is just better to

KISS

Keep

IT

SIMPLE

STUPID

Until next time

I am linking up at 

What's Cookin'Wednesday @ Buns In My Oven 

Hugs





Stenciled Cupcake Cookies

Cupcake cookies have to be some of my

favorite cookies to make.

 

They are simple.

 

They can be made is any color combination.

 

They can be used for any occasion.

 

They just make me smile

 

 

 

 

Collin is blessed with two of the best

Paraprofessionals on the earth.

 

Mrs. B and Mrs. D, are simple amazing.

 

They celebrate their birthdays within a day of

each other, and it also falls at the

start of the school year.

 

We wanted to make cookies for them, and Collin (I) decided

that cupcake cookies would be perfect.

 

 

I used This Cutter from Cristin's Cookie Cutters,

I am in LOVE with it, I have a million cupcake cutters,

and this one has become my FAVORITE!

 

 

I wanted to kick them up a notch.

So I busted out my airbrush machine,

some sheen color, and went to town.

 

If you have a new airbrush machine, and are scared of it

like I was, I suggest starting out with

the sheen colors, it will give you

a subtle look, and they are very forgiving.

 

For this set, I used Gold Sheen and Pearl Sheen.

 

 

Other great Airbrushed stenciling posts to check out

Airbrush 101 by The Bearfoot Baker

Simple Delft Blue Easter Egg Cookies by Sugarbelle  

(great tutorial for those who want to stencil, without an airbrush)

Airbrushing with Stencils....What I learned by Simply Sweets by Honeybee

Until next time,

 

 

Hugs

 

 



Donut Cookies

 

 

Happy Belated Labor Day.

 

With the passing of Labor Day, many Kids are heading back to school.

 

Here in the Mid West, we have been in school for a while.

 

In fact, Collin went back to school on

August 19th.

 

In fact, Collin started his

SENIOR YEAR

 

in school on August 19th.

 

Did you read that?

 

OMG!

 

HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

 

While I would like to tell you that

I was OK, that I did not cry like a baby,

that would, in fact, be a lie.

 

I woke Collin up for school that morning and he said to me,

 

"Good Morning, Mom, today is my last first day of school."

 

And I cried, and cried,

and then hide in the bathroom and cried some more.

 

Then I took him to school, and cried.

 

Then I drove to work and cried.

 

It was a rough day for me.

 

 

I made it though the day, and it is getting easier,

but there are still moments when it gets to me.

 

 

Now...onto the donut cookies.

 

 



 

A few weeks before school started, I got an email from a member

of the PTO, they asked if I would like to donate cookies to the

back to school breakfast for the teachers and staff, the

Thursday before school started.

 

Of course I said YES!

 

When I asked what they wanted, I was told,

"Whatever, they just love your cookies"

 

Ok...so..anything I wanted, great.

 

I will do apples...with "Welcome Back " on them,

easy enough.

 

Then, when I told Collin about me making

cookies for the Back to School Breakfast,

I was told I had a change in plans.

 

Collin simply looked at me and said

 

"Apple?  It is a BREAKFAST, they need donut cookies.  You eat

Donuts for breakfast, not apples"

 

DUH!

 

I should have known that, silly me.

 

Then Collin told me that I would make blue and white

Donut cookies, because the school colors were blue and white.

 

Fine, I got it.

 

But, as I explained before, we live in the middle of

NO WHERE, and Collin and I looked all over the place,

and could not find blue jimmies, for the cookies.

 

UGGGHHHH!

 

No problem, Collin said I cold use blue sanding sugar.

 

 

While they looked good while we were decorating them, once they

dried, we both decided that jimmies are better,

so we made chocolate donuts with rainbow jimmies.

 

 

 

Then we decided that they both looked good,

so we packed them up, and send both of them.

 

 

Then, we delivered them to the school the morning of the

breakfast, and I cried some more.

 

Collin just looked at me and said

 

"This is going to be a whole year of you crying, right mom?"

 

Yes Collin...it is.

 

 

Until next time

 

 

Hugs