I love making cookies and I have found a lot of inspiration in some of my cookie books. To name some good cookie books there is:
The Flour Pot Cookie Book, Creative Cookies and Pretty Party Cakes
When making cookies I have found it better to use icing sugar insted of caster sugar. It gives me a more smoothe cookie dough that dont crumble. When decorate the cookie I use royal icing. I buy my cookie cutters from here: CopperGifts.com, Kitchen Collectables and Cakes, Cookies & Crafts Shop
Here are some of the cookies I have made recently.
Happy Caking
Louise
April 30th, 2007 at 2:51 am
These are such LOVELY cookies! I showed them to my kids - I think they want to trade mommies now!
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:34 pm
You do a great job! I love cookies too, and was browsing for inspiration. Your cakes are great too!
May 7th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Thank you both for your kind words.
May 8th, 2007 at 4:36 am
These cookes are so adorable, did you come up with these designs yourself?
May 8th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Thank you Krislynn.
I use the Internet alot for insperation and then I use cute baby clothes as well and then mix up new designs.
I like to draw a template of the cookies first and then add color, designs and so on, to see what it will look like in icing.
June 15th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
I love your babycookie with the litlle ducks !
You have a nice blog !
June 16th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Thank you so much for you nice comments Karen.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Hi Irish,
The baby onesie cookies is sugar cookies with royal icing. I got the onesie cutter from Kitchen Gifts.com If you want to know more please send me an email:)
Louise
August 12th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Hi Louise:
I like to congratulated you for your wonderful site and your beautiful creations?
I would like to ask you about the icing on your biscuits.specially the ones in the baby onesie looks so smooth how do you achieve that.
when I try to do mine I have to spread it with a brush but it was not even.
I want to make this for a friends baby shower.
thanks again
Vilma
sydney-Australia
August 12th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Vilma: I use royal icing thinned with water. You can find the recipe here:http://www.cakejournal.com/archives/how-to-make-royal-icing/
It is important that when you stir in the thinned icing that it will flow together on the count to 6.
First I outline the cookies and let them dry. Then I fill a squeze bottle with a small round tip/nozzle with the thin icing then I start from on side of the cookie piping up and down in slow movements. Make sure you dont fill out with to much icing. You want it to just have “raised” 1mm over the out line.
Good luck
Louise