Scarecrows......

How do things work in your family? When you’re driving along in the car, do you have the driver picks the music, the passenger shuts his cake hole mentality? Or is it more like my way of doing things......Driver picks the music, IF the princess is driving....otherwise its the passenger picks the music. Basically it’s just I (the princess) picks the music. Hey, I can’t listen to stupid music.

Growing up it was ALL about the music. Was that way then and it’s that way now.  It’s just one of the many things my father handed down to me I guess.  

What kind of music do you all listen to?  I’m all over the place with what I like.  Everything I listen to has some sort of meaning to me. It’s not just music. 

My music taste have a wide range from ....The Supremes, Styx,  Journey.....to more current bands/groups like My Chemical Romance to SOME, I say SOME Slipknot. 

I’ve tried all my life to pick a “favorite” song, but for the life of me I can’t.....there are just too many. 

Well enough rambling.....let’s get on to the cookies that have nothing at all to do with music. Sorry I ramble, but you know you love me and you want to see my cute cookies.....right? You still here? Ohhhhh there you are. :) Okay right, cookies.....

 To make these Scarecrow cookies I used a cupcake cookie cutter. Lately that's my one cookie I can use in another way other than a cupcake.....hey, baby steps here....baby steps.

First outline your cookie in dark brown royal icing using a #2 tip. Let dry about 30 minutes.

 Fill with flood icing in dark brown and allow to dry a few hours.

When that's dry outline scarecrow's face and neck using tip #2 and a flesh colored icing. I used Ivory here. Let dry 30 minutes. 

(**Note: I scraped off the line to separate face and neck as it left cratering)

Now with Ivory flood icing, fill in face. Let dry several hours.

 When the face is completely dry add facial features, straw, and hat detail.

An Apple a Day....

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.......well what about a basket of them?

When I think of Fall I think of pies and of my favorites is an apple pie. Which then causes me to think of that movie Baby Boom.....you know the one where she inherits a baby and moves to Vermont on an apple farm and makes applesauce all day long. I know it's not pie, but it's what I think of.....can't help it.

When I saw these adorable

apple basket cupcakes

on Pinterest, I knew I must make a cookie version.  So off to the drawing board I went.

 I didn't have a basket cutter so what to use, what to use.  I tried to think outside the box and decided to use the cupcake cutter.  It can be made into many different cookies.  I cut out the cupcake shapes then cut off the top.  I'm sure you could leave the top on and just have a higher pile of apples, but I chose not to.

cupcake or basket cookie cutter

light brown royal icing

red royal icing

#3 tip

With #2 tip and light brown royal icing outline basket

Add handles. Let dry about 30 minutes.

With 20 second light brown royal icing fill in every other section of basket.

 Let dry several hours.

After first layer is dry, fill the remaining sections of basket with the 20 second light brown icing.

Let dry several hours.

 Next take 20 second red icing and randomly pipe dots for apples, leaving spaces between. 

If some run together like mine did, it's okay. Those will be covered later. 

Allow to dry for several hours. 

Repeat randomly adding red dots with the 20 second icing. Working in layers, drying several hours between each layer and filling in any empty spaces.

Continue to do this until your desired number of apples are piped.

Then for a little more detail take the light brown royal icing (not your flood icing) and pipe a line at top and bottom of basket.

Allow cookie to dry overnight.