Okay… finally, the post from last weekend. My camera never did wake up by the way. But I did manage to get all the photos off using a friend’s card reader. Yay! Unfortunately, no built in card readers on my printer or computer… Boo!
And, I would have posted this last night, but I spent the evening at Pioneer Woman’s book signing in Atlanta. Fun! Fun! More on that soon. Thankfully, I did have a working camera with me for that. A brand new Canon Digital Rebel XSi that I borrowed. It’s nice having generous friends. But, I kinda wish I hadn’t started using it. I might not be able to give it back. Bigger screen, More megapixels. And I’ve convinced myself the photo quality is far superior. It is. I know it is. Maybe my camera will be unfixable. Is that a word?
Anyway, here’s the goods or goodies from last weekend.
It’s coming up on Christmas, so I wanted to make some decorated sugar cookies. But I didn’t really want to make traditional Christmas shapes. So instead, I used a cute little cupcake cutter I recently bought. I also went with a less than traditional color scheme and chocolate sugar cookies to help make the colors pop.
I love sugar cookies. Too bad I love them more than they love me. I’m still trying to perfect my piping. I will not give up. I will have non-lumpy lines one day.
These were two of the better ones.
These … not so much. But squint and they’ll look better.
See …… Okay, I’m kidding. I kid. These are the good ones. Well, the better ones anyway.
It helps to plan ahead when you work with royal icing. Draw out the colors you want for borders and the colors you want to fill with in advance.
The cookie recipe is from the book, Cookie Craft. Get a copy if you have any desire to learn how to make these kind of decorated cookies. It’s jam-packed with tips and tricks.
Or maybe you’ll win this.
Yes, the original Cookie Craft came out with a mini Cookie Craft Christmas book.
Also with recipes, ideas, and tips. It’s very cute. And small, which you know I like.
You’ll also get this cute 2-piece cupcake cookie cutter set. Love it!
And some cupcake stencils. You can use these on cookies, too.
A cupcake-shaped cake tester. This totally unnecessary utensil was too cute to pass up.
And so were these mini spatulas. I bought all the goodies (except for the cookie book I picked up at the bookstore) from Crate & Barrel if you want to look them up. I like finding cute things. Hope you like them, too.
And it all comes stuffed in a sparkly stocking.
Enter to win it all.
- Just leave a comment on this post and tell me what you want this Christmas. Big or small. Silly or Serious. Let’s share.
- Me first… I want to spend time with all my family. Laughing. Hugging. Eating. And I want to take lots of pictures of them with my brand new, big, shiny camera. Yeah, that sounds good.
- Deadline to enter is
Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00 pm ET.TIME’S UP! - Winner selected at random and announced sometime Wednesday evening on this post.
Good luck.
Winner.
We have a winner. And it’s a high number this time.
#5935 – YAY CAROLINE! Hope you like the stocking full of stuff and hope you get that immersion blender, too.
And everyone else that entered. Thank you for sharing your Christmas wishes. I’ve smiled and cried multiple times reading through them. Some really important ones out there. I hope you get them granted. Hugs to you all.
Wow, such an amazing recipe. Looking forward to make this on Christmas.
beautiful cookies!
I love these cookies:-)
i love cooking but my mom hates making cakes and cupcakes my friend told me all about you’ and your cooking i love it
I really want that gift pack! That would be so awesome… Either that or a Wii……. ?
Esta Navidad, deseo la salud de todos los que amo y todos los niños y personas que estén pasando un mal momento, me gustaría llevarles un dulce momento de felicidad a través de los postres que aprendo a hacer cada día.
I really like how your icing looks so thin. How did you do that?
all i want want for christmas is a spice rack for my growing collection of sprinkles and a cricut! :) it will be a bonus if i win this raffle… :))
What i want for Christmas is just to be happy, i want for my kids to get what their heart desires. all my kids are good kids they get great grades in school. So my happieness would be my kids Christmas would be great
Hey! This Cookies, are the best! I love them! :D
That is really nice……
I love these cupcake cookies!! But I can’t find that cookie anywhere!! The ones I find on the internet don’t look as cute, wondering if you have any sources? :) (I live in Australia)
Yum they taste very good
Hi, I love these cookies and are planning on making them soon, i was wondering though how did you make the mini gingerbread, a christmas tree?
thanks so much
Jay – sorry… I don’t remember
Your cookies came out great! May I ask what bottles you used to ice the cookies with?
Love all this i want it all :) please pick me
I adore the cupcake stencils. I’m having my first go at sprinkles tonight and I was just thinking about a stencil! I came over to your blog for some advice. Thanks for being there for me when ever I’m in a cupcake crisis!
I’m planning to make about 60 of these for my nephews preschool and kindergarten classes. What colors did you use for the royal icing? Maining the green. Not sure it maybe it’s mint or a muted leaf green.
Wow. These look amazing! I’d love to win this kit so that I could pass this along (or share) to my best friend, who loves to bake! These cookies are beautiful!!!!! If I won this kit, I’d do a “bakeoff” with my friend and her 4 children and myself and my son – a winter/christmas activity :)
dang, i’m too late for the contest but these cookies were just too cute for me to not comment. i’m LOVING your cupcake sugar cookies! I work at a williams sonoma store in salt lake city and sometimes i forget that there are cute things at places other than my little store. looks like i need to check out crate and barrel soon! thanks for the post!
Just came back from Cake Cruise 2009, in the Mexican Riviera… Oooh la la, can you say FUN!?
Hi, I’m wondering if it is possible to use chocolate instead of candy melts for cupcake pops/cake pops? Could you send some alernative for candy melts to my email? & your creations are awesome! Love them!
Knocked over by the cuteness of your cupcake cookies and the tester!
I am in!……See ya next contest~ I’m getting smarter….must be all those cookies…
I know the contest is over….I just needed to see if my “application” went through…..I’m not too computer savvy….sorry and thanks
Drat! I missed the deadline… shows me that I need to check in more often… I couldn’t believe how many comments there were for this post! Mon Dieu… Not that I want anything for Christmas.. b/c I already am so blessed.. but I wish you a very merry and special Christmas this year Bakerella, because you have been a true inspiration in all of your baking projects!!
Joyeux Noël from France…
Leesa
Oh my! Those are so darn cute…I don’t know if I would be able to eat them. Okay, they are sugar cookies…of course I would be able to eat them!
All I want for Christmas this year is to be home with my family on the east coast, and with our big move next week, it will finally be happening! It would be nice for someone to pick up the tab for the moving company, though :)
I celebrate Hanukkah and don’t really want anything material. Having all 3 of my college kids home for a few days together will be wonderful. Hoping we’ll be doing some baking and cooking together.
I want more time for baking!
Okay I will try to win. Pick me, pick me — can you remember what movie that is from? Pick me, pick me!!!
I want to win this contest! :) Merry Christmas!
~jackie
I enjoy each of your posts immensely, yet I rarely comment. But, these cookies are so gorgeous I simply had to say something…you are sooo very talented!
For Christmas this year, I am hoping for peace.
I would love a Kitchen Aid Mixer in red!
Books! There are so many great books I want! My wishlist is full to bursting and I keep adding cookbooks and novels and books about teaching (my job) and so much more!
I actually already received what I’d wished for – my beloved couldn’t keep it a secret until Christmas! I wanted a new digital camera, and I got it – a Cannon Rebel T1x, with 5 different lenses, filters, extra memory card, card reader, tripod, carrying case, and all the extra bells and whistles that I would have never considered. I’m still a bit overwhelmed with it all. I love it! But I’d also love to have this “stocking” on my mantle too!
why must you torture me so????????
These cookies are amazing. I can’t ever get my sugar cookies to look this great. Love it!
To spend some real quality time with my family without feeling the stress of school and a dissertation I have to write!!!
I want to forget the day to day stress just for a little while and slow down enough to enjoy it.
How funny is it that I read the post about the camera you use the day before you posted about your camera being broken!? And now you are using the XSi, which I have asked for for Christmas!
So what I want for Christmas this year is a new camera and a new post about Bakerella’s camera and accessories!
Too bad I was lazy last night and didn’t get on the computer or I could’ve entered for the prize pack :)
I want to have my kitchen/dining room remodel finished & put back together in time for Christmas dinner!
Sigh…those are adorable cookies!
All I want for christmas is Disney Monopoly. lol
I am ever so sad that I was not able to enter this prize pack …I want bakerella to run it again!!!
honestly, I really want new baking goodies!!!
I just want my newborn to start sleeping through the night, so I can sleep!
I know it’s times up for the contest already. I’m just here to comment. You may already have heard this a thousand times already but those cookies are amazing!!! I can’t eat those! They’re too good, too perfect and the details are incredible. I agree with Harmony. They are the cutest cookies I have ever seen.
I will love to spend time with my family and share with them… that I’m pregnant! =o)!! yey! for the first time and I just found that today! So your are one of the first to know this great news!! =o)
What I want for Christmas is to find out that the baby girl who has been placed in our home as a foster/adoption case, will get to be ours…for good…through adoption. She is 3 months old today, and we have fallen in love with her. We are praying that birth mom (who is only 13) will make a decision to allow us to adopt the baby, without having to go through the whole year that the courts mandate.
I want a new camera :-) I know you understand lol!
Beautiful cookies! And personally, I like the imperfections in the piping! If you get it too perfect, it looks manufactured, and I think food that looks slightly irregular always looks more appetizing because it looks homemade! :)
I am hoping for the proffesional grade kitchenaid mixer from sams club!
For Christmas, I would like peace and happiness……..and a Cricut Expressions machine would be nice, too! :-)
You’re awesome. Thanks for sharing!!!
For Christmas I would like our family all together sharing the season!
I’m not entering (missed the deadline…oh well!)…just wanted to tell you how fun & exciting it was to meet you at PW’s signing on Monday night! What a surprise for my daughter and I!! You really made our night. I think we’ll be making reindeer pops pretty soon!
I want to adopt a grey kitten! I’ve been kitten sitting for a friend and now I want my own!
I want a big ol’ fat box of metal mixed media stuff: watch parts, gears, vintage charms, stuff, stuff, stuff!!
Wow, those are adorable! I would love to be able to decorate cookies so cutely (is that a word?).
For Christmas, I would really just love to survive Christmas with my mom’s family! My grandma gets really stressed out, which makes her cranky and makes everyone else cranky too :-(
Tangibly, though, I’d love the newest Harry Potter movie… I’m a dork.
I would love nothing more than to be with my family, but due to my husband serving our country and being stationed in Japan, we can’t spend the holidays together. Maybe next year. I do want a trip to Singapore, lets hope that happens soon.
I want a beautiful, new sewing machine
New jeans! New shoes, too?
I’m hoping for the flights I’m taking to not be delayed at all! That would be gift enough!
My dream christmas (or anytime, really) gift is a Kitchen Aid Mixer… sigh. Someday!
That stocking of goodies would sure be awesome in the meantime!
For Christmas? Hmmmm… Lemme see. I work full time, go to school full time, and have three kids. What do I want most (besides tissue paper poinsettias glued to a construction paper card, of course)? Prolly a nap. Or at least a week somewhere warm, swim-up bar optional :) Merry Christmas, all!
I want lots of time with my boys and no cleaning!
I want a Keurig coffee maker for my office so I don’t spend so much at Starbucks!!!
Everyone to get together like we use to before my grandparents passed. One big happy family on blessed day.
All I want for Christmas is a day off! :)