A Virtual Baby Shower!

One of the things I love most about the internet is the fact that you get to 'meet' people from all over the world sitting behind your computer.

Over the last few years I have had the opportunity to 'meet' a lot of fellow cookie decorators and even though I never had the chance to meet one of them in person, I really feel like I am part of a very special 'Cookie Community'.

I was surprised and honoured when I was invited to my very first 'Virtual baby Shower' for Sugarbelle and Lila Loa a while ago by Michelle (Make Me Cake Me), Mike (Semi Sweet) and Haniela (Haniela's).

The theme of this shower is 'Her Royal Highness' and even though I really tried coming up with something fit for a Princess (or actually two Princesses...) I somehow ended up with a family of Gingerbread Cookie Bakers.
This always happens when I don't have a plan...

Just to show you what a little make-up can do, here's how they looked before their make-over...

Luckily there where 14 other very talented guests invited to this party and they came up with some really amazing Royal Cookies.

Enjoy!

1. Sweet Ambs
2. Jill FCS
3. The Decorated Cookie
4. Klickitat Street
5. Semi Sweet
6. Simply Sweets by Honey Bee
7. Make Me Cake Me
8. Haniela's
9. Montreal Confections
10. The Partiologist
11. Munchkin Munchies
12. The Cookie Puzzle
13. De-Koekenbakkers
14. Chapix Cookies
15.Ali Bee's Bakeshop


Thank you Michelle, Mike and Haniela for inviting me and congratulations to Callye, Georganne and their families with the birth of their baby girls!!

Cookies are a girl's best friend!

Before I start sharing cookie decorating tutorials I first want to finish a blog post about Royal Icing but since English is not my native language (as you probably noticed) it's taking me a little longer than expected...

In the mean time I'll share a short tutorial from my cookie book. 

I love baking cookies with my kids and am always looking 

for new ideas to let them have some fun playing with their food.

 When my daughter Rosalie turned four last year, this is what we did on her birthday party.

Maybe a fun idea to spend an afternoon baking cookies with your kids or grandkids this weekend?  

Making a cookie necklace with coloured dough beads

*Colour the dough by kneading in some food colouring.

I used 100% natural food colouring from Vrouwtje Deeg.

(You can find the recipe I used for these cookies HERE)

*Roll the dough extra thick (1 cm = 0,4 inch) and cut out lots of different shapes of cookie-beads using mini cutters and make a hole in every cookie with a straw. For the medaillions you could roll the dough a little thinner (5 mm. = 0,2 inch) and cut some bigger shapes like hearts or flowers.

*Bake the cookie-beads just like normal cookies 

only a little shorter (because they are so small).

*Use a ribbon or candy lace to make a necklace with the cookie-beads. You could also add extra candy beads.

Making a cookie necklace is a really fun thing to do on a kids birthday party and it also makes for a great birthday treat or gift for little girls.

** Rosalie happy! **

Cookie Jewelry

Just for fun & inspiration here are some cookies I made a while ago. These are more 'grown-up' versions of cookie jewelry that involve royal icing and a lots of edible glitters so I will talk about these some other time.

Have a wonderful weekend!