...In My Kitchen...
I've been cooking and baking a lot lately so I thought I would start a new series on my blog, dedicated to sharing recipes and such. I'm not sure if I'll be very consistent or if it will even be a weekly thing, but I'll do my best!
This is my kitchen! Please excuse the ugly beer bottles on the top of the fridge and the all around clutter!
This is my kitchen! Please excuse the ugly beer bottles on the top of the fridge and the all around clutter!
One of my very best friends at work celebrated her birthday earlier this week. I knew I had to make something special for her, so I went with sugar cookies! I used The Cookie Queen's [aka Pink Martinis and Pearls] sugar cookie and royal icing recipes. I also used one of my favorite cookie cutters...a cupcake, of course!
For this particular cookie, I also needed red food coloring, colored sprinkles, and red skittles, in addition to the recipe ingredients. After baking the cookies, I made a batch of royal icing and separated it into 4 containers - one for thick white icing to outline the "frosting" of the cupcake, one for thin white icing to fill the frosting, one for thick pink icing to outline the base of the cupcake, and one for the thin pink icing to fill the base. Once the pink portion dried, I added some vertical lines to symbolize the cupcake liner.
I would say that this time around, my experience was much better than the last time I made decorated sugar cookies.
For this particular cookie, I also needed red food coloring, colored sprinkles, and red skittles, in addition to the recipe ingredients. After baking the cookies, I made a batch of royal icing and separated it into 4 containers - one for thick white icing to outline the "frosting" of the cupcake, one for thin white icing to fill the frosting, one for thick pink icing to outline the base of the cupcake, and one for the thin pink icing to fill the base. Once the pink portion dried, I added some vertical lines to symbolize the cupcake liner.
I would say that this time around, my experience was much better than the last time I made decorated sugar cookies.
I packaged the cookies up in these cute little treat boxes I found at Cost Plus World Market. The box was originally for cupcakes and came with an insert, but I just omitted that part. I can't find the boxes online, but it was such a good find. I recommend that if you bake a lot of treats to go check out your Cost Plus soon. They were 50% off so it was around $2.99 for 3 boxes!!
What do you think?
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And now to continue with the cupcake theme...a Giveaway!
And now to continue with the cupcake theme...a Giveaway!
cupcake cookie cutters
cupcake spatula
orange-swirl cupcake linersIf you'd like to enter, please leave a comment on this post. It can say anything. Leave it by next Wednesday :)
60 comments:
Ben does the same thing! He puts the beer bottles on top of the fridge, drives me nuts!
love this blog! how did you make the icing look so neat?
Those cookies are seriously amazing! Great job :)
I love the cookies! They are sooo pretty and look proffessional!!
I love anything Cupcake :)
Ive been baking A LOT lately too! I love baking stuff!
Those cookies are so CUTE! Great job!
Those cookies are so pretty! They look like something you would find in an upscale bakery. I don't know how you got the icing to look so perfect.
You are so talented, Angela!
These would all make the perfect gift for my best friend (who has a birthday in August)! She makes some amazing cupcakes, as well! =.)
Have a great day!
Those cupcakes look great girl! How did you get your icing so straight on there? They look perfect! Looking forward to many more recipes :)
i am in LOVE with those cookies! i want to make them now! :)
Aw, your cookies turned out so good! I thought they were one's you bought :) I'd love to be entered in the giveaway!
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Sweetheart, you are amazingly talented! While I am a pretty good cook, I can't bake to save my life! You could totally start up a little baking side business, those are so professional :)
What a precious giveaway, I am obsessed with those cupcake liners! xoxox
so, so cute! you could have your own bakery!
OH my gosh! Soooo ridiculously cute! I can't even get over it!
Wow! Those turned out awesome! you are too cute!
Love the cookies. How do you do that frosting so good?
Those cookie are too cute and they look delish.
Oh my gosh, so cute!! They look professional! You need to give a tutorial!
Oh my goodness those are DARLING!!! Now I want to go baking!!!!
These cookies are so stinking cute --- I would love to be entered in your giveaway --- what fun!
I am SO impressed with your cookies!! They are too cute to eat!! :)
Such cute cookies! I *heart* cupcakes!
Precious cookies & giveaway!
Absolutely adorable!! Did you enter my cutter give-away this week? I haven't made cupcake design cookies yet but these are so cute you've made me want to! Love the packaging idea too!
I can't believe you made those cookies! They are ADORABLE!!!!!
Love the giveaway items!
Those cookies are amazing! The goodies in the giveaway would be perfect for my upcoming birthday :)
The cookies look amazing! Also great giveaway. I would love to win!
Ooo! I'd love to win that cupcake cookie cutter! You did such a great job on those cookies! One of your In the Kitchen posts should be about how you decorate your sugar cookies to look so professional. I know you said one thick, one thin, etc, but I need more help than that!
yay for cupcakes and your super sweet giveaway! hope i win! xoxo
Wow! I couldn't make such pretty cookies if I TRIED!
You are the Best! They totally look like designer cookies. I am inspired by your thoughtfulness. :)
Send me some!! Those look awesome!!
Come see me at my new, I have PUBLIC one finally! lol
xxoo
your cookies look amazing! love all the goodies too. I am well known among my social circle for my love of baking and threw myself self a cupcake themed birthday party!
What sweet cupcake cookies!!!
I seriously need to know your secret because I'm really, really bad at baking/decorating cookies.
Wow! Those look great! Mine always look weird... :)
Those are too danger cute! What talent you have. I'm looking forward to your new series & getting ideas from you. Love, Mrs Jansson
You are so very talented!! Love this post!
The cupcake cookies are cute, and you did a much better job that I could even attempt!
The cupcake cookies you made are seriously adorable, and right up my alley :)
Um, if I ever run into you in LA, I will be the person begging for decorating lessons! You have mad skillz!
I love cupcakes! And your cookies are so cute.
what a cute giveaway!
ummm those cookies look professionally made, oh my goodness!
How do you make the icing so perfect? They look bakery-worthy!
Angela, I have to say that you have outdone yourself with these cookies. They are too cute for words and the box that you packaged them in really buttons things up and makes it gift ready. I honestly think you could and should open your own Etsy shop. I can almost taste the sugar from here :)
This giveaway is so cute. Please count me in. I love anything cupcake related.
your cookies look great! I'd hire you to make some for me in a heart beat!
Your cookies are so cute! I'm so impressed that you made them since they look so professional. Of course if I wound up with that cupcake cookie cutter mine would look nothing like yours.
How adorable!!!! I love your cookies!!! and am your newest follower!
Oh my goodness...I love cupcakes and would these little additions to my kitchen.
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Yum, they look amazing!!!
My goal this winter is to learn how to ice and flood cookies :) I am very excited!!! Yours are darling!!!
Oh my gosh... your cookies are 110% perfect and CUTE. You're so talented!
You did a beautiful job decorating and packaging those cookies. Brava!
I'm so glad that I found your blog; I'm a new follower. I love the cupcake papers--they're adorable.
Thanks for the fun giveaway.
What an awesome giveaway! and your cookies look incredible!
Such a sweet lil giveaway.
Please add my name to your list of wanna be winners!
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Thanks Ms. Sweet Tea!!
You are going to DIE when you see the pics of my hot mess cupcake sugar cookies-I should have hired YOU!
OMG. Those cookies look AMAZING!!!!! Seriously professional. I would die if I won this giveaway. Consider me entered! HA!
Those cookies are too pretty to eat! Seriously. You need to open your own bakery!
These cupcakes are adorable!!! You did SUCH a good job!
Those cookies look so good! I'm lousy at making cookies, I have to bribe my fiends to make them for me at holiday time!
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