Peanuts Cookies

First bake your cookies. I used my Chocolate Cutout Recipe.

Next, I put a sheet of wax paper over my Peanuts template and traced the outlines with a tip 1 and royal icing.

Once the outlines are dry, you can fill them with thinned royal icing. If there are any holes you can use a toothpick to fill in the hole. Just make sure to do it quickly because royal icing dries pretty fast.

Let the characters dry overnight. If it's humid, you may need to let them dry for a day or two. Once the characters are dry, you can use food safe markers to add faces and details.

Once the details have dried, you can start icing your cookies. Since royal icing dries quickly, you'll want to do one cookie at a time. I find it's easier to put the royal icing in a piping bag and draw an outline, then fill it in.


Next, peel off your character from the wax paper and place it on your cookie. Since the are a little delicate, it's safest to use the edge of a table to pull the paper away.


Enjoy!

Snail Cake

Yesterday, I took a cake sculpting class at All In One Bake Shop and it was a lot of fun! Mostly because I love cake and snails so the combination is pretty awesome.

This is my first sculpted cake. I was glad to find that it's not as hard as it looks!

Tom's Bee-Day Cake

Here is the cake that I made for my father-in-law's birthday. I found a bee and bee hive cookie cutter that I thought might be nice to use for his birthday cake but realized it would be much cuter in 3D:

I made the bees out of gum paste and put them on wire so they could fly.

Here's their bee hive. It's made out of fondant and I added African violets made out of royal icing.

I used the bee cookie cutter to add bees to the side of the cake.

This is my first attempt at painting on a cake so I think it turned out reasonably well.