Oh yes…there’s more!
While I realize I don’t write an actual foodie blog, there is just no denying that I’ve been bitten by the baking bug lately.
I just can’t seem to get enough of making sugar pretty and colorful.
So I’m dragging you along with me for the ride {good thing photos are calorie free, eh?”}
Next sugar cookie fancy…paisley!
It all started with a baby shower invitation I designed a few weeks ago…green and pink paisley…for a momma with a baby girl named…wait for it, “Paisley”…in her belly.
Yes, I contributed a fair amount of delighted maternal cooing when I made the connection too. What a lovely name!
I was secretly hoping to break out my recently purchased squeeze bottles and the remainder of the royal icing chilling in the fridge and spread this theme on a fresh batch of cookies when the request came… “I saw the “henna tattoo” ones you did for your sister and they were incredible…and I was thinking how cute it would be to have a couple of the paisley prints reproduced on cookies”.
{insert heavenly beams of light and angelic Hallelujah Chorus melodies here}
Oh, baby! Pick me, pick me!
So I whipped those bad boys out of my baking cupboard {you’ll find the fabulous little squeeze bottles with coupler tips right here}, a myriad of Wilton tips {1,2, 3 & 4 – the larger ones for flooding, and the smaller ones for outlining and detail work}, and the new Americolor gel coloring I acquired during the feeding of this new frenzy {I scored mine at Hobby Lobby for half off, thank you very much!}.
I must confess…I thoroughly enjoyed the hours {ahem} it took to pull this off! There’s a very good chance little Bug watched more Wild Kratts than the average day at our household provides during the making of these cookies. Bean avoided the mass brain numbing session by positioning herself nicely at preschool that day. Lucky duck.
Just in case you catch the vicious cookie decorating bug. you’ll find some fabulous royal icing tips here:
Basic Sugar Cookie Decorating Supplies {with Printable Shopping List}
Outlining & Flooding with Royal Icing
What’s next, you wonder? I may have something fun and mildly adventurous up my sleeve for my hubby’s birthday this weekend. Just maybe.
Or maybe I’ll take on these little suckers one day. Scroll to the bottom. Ahem.
{2013 Update: we have, over the past few months, cut artificial food coloring out of our diets…but these cookies still make me smile!}
