Merry Christmas!!!!!

Merry Christmas to each and every one of you.

I hope your day has been filled with Joy and much happiness.

I know I haven't blogged in a while, but we traveled home to New Orleans for all of two days to visit the family quickly before coming home to wait for Santa. It was a fast, in a blink of an eye kinda trip.

So I didn't get to blog....but I did miss you and I did make you some amazing cookies.

Do you all have Julia Usher's new book,

Ultimate Cookies

? If not you must.....seriously she shows you some amazing tips. I've got three cookies to show you today. The first one I made from Julia Usher's book. GO order it now....it really is good!

Here's the first cookie I made....

SNOW GLOBES!!! I just love snow globes. 3D too....

Julia Usher

shows you how to make these in her

book too

!.....just one of the many techniques she teaches.

Next I made Santa cookies.....

I mean what Christmas would be complete without Santa cookies right? 

Then there were the green and red ornament cookies I made. Topped them off with some gold disco dust and ta daaaa they were done. 

  And last but not least were the Santa hats. They were fun to make and with the edible glitter they looked like the fur was on them for real. Cute huh?

Well I sure hope everyone is enjoying Christmas with the people they love most. I know I am. Today it's all about them.....tomorrow....back to cookies. 

Mr. Claus......

That's right SANTA.

You can't properly do a corset for Mrs. Claus and not do something for Santa.  It's just not right.

So I thought and thought and came up with BLAHHH nothing.  My mind is just in other places right now...sorry it just is.

HOWEVER........I couldn't leave you with nothing for the big man.  So I made Santa's belt on a round cookie. I know, I know,  It's been done before in different forms. BUT, it's what I got okay.  Sometimes we just all have similar ideas.

When you think Santa, you think red and round right? SO....simple, yes a simple round cutter. If you cookie, chances are you have a round cutter.

Take the round cutter and make some round cookies. SIMPLE right?

Outline in red royal icing, then fill with a 15-20 second red icing.

Add a belt with black royal icing and let dry for several hours.

Add buckle with a yellow royal icing.....add gold disco dust and there you have it. SIMPLE Santa cookies.

Now if you wanna get fancy hop on over to

Sweet SugarBelle's

and see what she's whipping up tomorrow. She's going to take you step by step to make some adorable Santa cookies at

Katrina's Kitchen

. But that's tomorrow.

Today you just have me and you are stuck with my simple Santa belts.

Good things are to come though. I've got some really cute cookies coming using my ornament cutters from

Fancy Flours

.