Easter Cookies

I know very well that Easter is in the past but due to my procrastination and busy weeks I hadn't posted the pictures of the cookies I made. This year I set out and did cookies for several reasons...

1. I'm totally on the cookie band-wagon

2. I can do several designs

3. Last year we had way to many cakes, so I opted for something different.

Weeks before I began baking I had to decide which of the many cutters I have would make it for these cookies. Having bought this particular cutter for the sole purpose of Easter I had to do bunnies, next easter eggs (duh, like i was gonna let that one go), since it's spring lets do flowers...perfect daisies and tulips, and finally how about a chick. Now to bake and decorate.

I have to say that the bunny cutter has got to be one of my favorite cutters I've recently purchased. These guys were super cute. I frosted them with white royal icing, added pink for the nose and ear detail, the eyes and whiskers were drawn on with a black food marker, and lastly I added cotton tails to them with more royal icing and while wet sprinked sanding sugar on top.

How cute are they?!

Next I did the eggs and chicks. I cut out a bunch of eggs, like a dozen or so...but WAIT where is my chick cutter...OMG I FORGOT TO ORDER THAT ONE :(

I looked everywhere for a cute chick cutter but all i could find were ducks...really ducks for Easter? So I took to cake central for inspiration. After searching a few pages I found the cutest idea for little chickies using some of the egg cookies I had already made.

Take a look....

A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E....RIGHT?! I couldn't stop looking at them if only i had cut out more egg shapes to make more. Everyone at the BBQ loved these, to bad i only had 4.

Here's a close-up of the little cutie


The tulips came out really nice as well. After I had iced them and allowed them to dry completly I went in and added detailing to them with petal and luster dusts. I think it gave them a more realistic look.

I did the same thing for the daisies but it didn't come out as noticible so I added yellow sanding sugar to the centers.






Here are the Easter eggs i did. Some were done in the more traditional egg designs and others I went with either a mod motiff or floral and scroll work.
My personal favorites are the pink with paisly design and the orange one w/ the daisies.



My first fave!

I also like this orange one!

After all the decorating was done I packaged and sealed them all with my handy dandy impulse sealer and finally placed them all in a basket. When all was said and done there were about 56 cookies in there, give or take a few that "broke" along the way, aka had to have a snack!

During the holidays I usually make small baskets or boxes of cookies for neighbors so where is one that I did for them.

So there you have it...my spring and easter cookie basket for this year. I think I'm gonna fight to do a cake for next year, although fun these suckers were super time consuming. Have a good one guys!

Luv,
-Chris-