I Love the 80s

When I got a request for 80's cookies right before I closed for maternity leave, how could I say no?!

I'm a child of the 80's and definitely loved rocking the mix tapes on my boombox :)  I was never allowed to watch MTV when I was little, which of course meant that I watched as much as possible every time I was at a friend's house ;)

I also REALLY loved my Nintendo.  The old school one, no Super Nintendo over here.  Mario and Tetris were two of my faves, along with Mega Man.  Remember him?!  No cookies of him this time, but there were some Donkey Kong and Zelda in this 30th birthday package :)

Kids' character cookies

I have been such a terrible blogger lately!  There are so many cookies that I have to share with you from the past year.  I'm trying to get better though, I promise.

The benefit of neglecting my blog saving up pictures for a long time is that I have a lot of cookies to share for each post.  Yesterday's theme was football; today it's character cookies!

These cute little football-shaped Dora faces were thanks to Sweet Sugarbelle's awesome Dora tutorial.  Character cookies can be very daunting, so thank goodness for Callye.  She is the best!

I made these Thomas the Tank cookies last year for my son, Oliver's 2nd birthday:

I kept them simple by just doing the side view without any faces.  He loved them!

These adorable personalized Curious George cookies were for one of Oliver's bestest friend's birthday party :)

These might not technically be characters, but close enough ;)  I loved how graphic these Monster High party favors were!

Superheroes are definitely one of the most popular cookie requests that I get.  Hulk was a new one for me in this set:

And of course there's Olaf.

Because who doesn't love this happy little snowman?

And just in case you need a few snowflakes for your Frozen party:

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Disney Princess Tea Party!

For her princess tea party, the birthday girl requested tea pots and cups, princess dresses, and Frozen snowflakes.  She specifically wanted:  purple for Sophia, blue for Elsa, green/blue for Ariel, yellow for Belle, pink for Aurora, and Snow White.  So, here they are!

 I couldn't make Disney princess cookies without including Cinderella, so I threw one of those in too :)  

Love that shine on Elsa's dress!  

Happy 6th birthday, Quynh-Chi!  I hope you had a great day!

Video Game Cookies

These cookies were favors for a video game-themed bar mitzvah.  They were all of my fave characters:  Pac-Man, Mario and Angry Birds along with Wii and Xbox controllers.

Here's some close-ups. Sorry for the crummy pictures, I took these at night.  :(

I had fun with some edible markers on these Mario cookies:

Big thanks to Sweet Sugarbelle for her Angry Birds tutorials.  It definitely made these cookies easier!

And Pac-man and the orange ghost:

Sesame Street Cookies Part 2

Yay!  I got to make more Sesame Street Cookies!

This time it was Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Grover, Zoe, Abby, and Elmo for a 2 year old birthday party.  To see the other Sesame street cookies check out this post.

The newer characters like Zoe and Abby (oh Abby) are so much more complicated than the older ones.  I'm blaming computers for that one.

I attempted to capture Abby's crazy hair by swirling pink and purple icing, letting it dry, and then piping purple on top for texture.  Top that off with some yellow flower barrettes and she was finished.  I think she turned out OK.  I'll still do 100 Cookie Monsters over Abby Cadabby though!

I was way more happy with my Sesame Street sign this time.

I used slightly thicker icing along with my dehydrator, so no annoying icing cave ins.  It ALWAYS makes my day when I come down in the morning and find out my icing didn't crater :)

Little Girls' Birthday Party Favors

Here's a quick round up of a few birthday party favors that I've done recently:

Frozen cookies for a combined first and eighth birthday party.

Princess tiara favors for a fourth birthday.



Party favors for a fifth birthday party.  The customer requested white ponies, hot pink, and zebra print.

Happy birthday to Janelle, Gabrielle, Emory, and Aniya!

Sesame Street Cookies

When a friend asked me to make Sesame Street cookies for her daughter, Walker's, first birthday party, I was thrilled!

Character cookies can be a little bit scary, but once I got started I knew these guys were going to be a lot of fun.  I love how they turned out!

And of course, the birthday girl needed a cookie of her own - "Walker Street"!

I love when I actually get to attend the party with my cookies, and I'm happy to report that the kiddos went nuts over these cookies!  It was so much fun to see them enjoy their special treats.

Thanks for letting me be a part of Walker's big day, Allison!

Birthday Superheroes!

When we asked my little cousin, Ben, who his favorite superhero was, his answer was "I like all superheroes."  So that's exactly what he got for his 5th birthday this year!

Spiderman, Batman, and Superman were all packaged into a small gift box along with a couple of Marvel comics "POW"-style personalized cookies.

What little boy wouldn't want these cookies for his birthday!?

Happy birthday Ben!!!

The King

I had a great time rocking out to "The King" while I created this gift package!  I decided on 2 silhouettes of Elvis, a recreation of his guitar and a few gold stars to complete this set.

All of the cookies were arranged in a 7x10" gift box and sent out to PA for Frances' birthday!

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Birthday

This is a collection of favors that were made for a sweet girl's 2nd birthday party.  

She loves Minnie Mouse, so all the girls at the party got to take home a personalized Minnie cookie.

The boys' party favors were personalized Goofy hat cookies.

I also made this platter of minis for the kids to snack on during the party.  Can you name all of the characters?

Minnie and Daisy get bows, Donald and Goofy have hats, Pluto has a paw print, and of course, Mickey's iconic ears!

Toy Story Aliens {Tutorial}

Ooooohhh the claw....

I love the aliens from Toy Story.  These guys were fairly easy to make and you don't need a lot of special supplies, so I figured I'd share with you how I made them.

D'Oh!

D'oh!  That's what I was thinking at 3 am when I was trying to finish these cookies!  Now I know why cookie decorators dread doing character cookies.  They take FOREVER!

Even though these cookies were extremely labor intensive, I still had fun in the process.  I mean really, who doesn't love the Simpsons?!

The cookies were for a 30th birthday party, so I added some "30"s to Homer's belly.  I love all the expressions of Homer.

I thought the Duff beer cans would be my quick and easy cookies to make up for the characters, but not so much. They still involved a lot of steps, but I really liked how they broke up the rest of the cookies on the platter.

These cookies were really fun and I love how they turned out, even if they did take a little longer than I anticipated!

Super Mario Brothers!

I was a big fan of Super Mario Brothers growing up.  I still remember when I got my old NES system for Christmas.  I don't think I was quite as excited as this kid, but I was pretty freakin' excited.  By far, the coolest game was Mario Brothers.  At least numbers 1 and 3, what the heck happened to #2?  That one was weird...
Anyway, I digress.

The point is, I love old Nintendo games.  They totally bring me back to my youth.  So, that being said, I wanted to keep these cookies in the old school 8-bit style.

Ironically, these were ordered by one of my very best friends from grade school.  I'm pretty sure whenever we were too lazy to walk to the local market for candy and pickles (weird I know, but true), or didn't feel like setting up the board for Mall Madness, we were playing NES (OK, or watching MTV, but don't tell my Mom that).

To make these cookies, I knew I was going to need my KopyKake projector, so I set about looking for the perfect images to use.  Luckily, my husband is very knowledgeable about video games (wow, I never thought I would use the word "luckily" in that sentence), so he helped me find a Super Mario Bros 3 sprite sheet online that literally has an image of every character in every possible pose.  The hardest part was choosing which images to use!

After I finally choose 12 images, I blew up them up in Photoshop to give them the signature grainy 8-bit quality.  Then I used my KopyKake projector to trace the outlines onto the cookies using black royal icing and a PME #1.5 tip.  I chose a blue background to mimic the background color of the game.

So, here are all of the final cookies: