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.

Skull Cookies for an old friend

Any of you Military families? If you are, you can relate to leaving behind great friends.  Not easy for an adult, much less a kid.

This week I had the pleasure of making cookies for one of my daughters BFF's.  When we were stationed in Germany for three years, my daughter and Ceci were the bestest of friends.  They were inseparable. Wherever you saw one, you saw the other.

Being in the military you have the pleasure of meeting so many new friends, which is great......but, you also eventually have to move and leave them behind. My daughter and her BFF no longer live a street over from each other.....but live 928 miles apart. They stay in touch though facebook and emails, but it just isn't the same.

She would have loved to be at her friend's birthday, but it wasn't possible. Making her cookies for her birthday was as close as we could get.

Her mother asked for me to make skull cookies with a little pink bow......It was last minute so no tutorial here today :(, but I wanted to just share the cookies I made.

I'm working on lots of great Christmas designs right now and will be posting them soon...I know, I know it's early for Christmas.  I just couldn't help myself.

Happy Birthday Ceci.....we miss you.