Who wants some tea and cookies?

So I made the teapot cookies as well as mini teacup cookies. I decided to make them all white just to keep it clean and uniform. 

I started with the white outline.

Then I filled in the cookies!

The only thing I really regretted doing was filling in the handle with white.  I should have left the handle area blank.

No turning back now!

I decided to just add a handle in pink and green on top of the white icing.  I figured it would still look cute.  It is also very important to keep the white icing clean.  Everything tends to show on white!

Pink Handle!

Green Handle!

 I really had a tough time deciding on what to put on the cookies.  I sometimes put a lot of pressure on myself to make it perfect.  After discussing with my mom, I felt a bit more confident and just went for it.  I decorated the tops and bottoms of the teapot before moving onto the middle.

The colors are light pink, bright pink and green.  The bright pink looks red in the pictures, but believe me it's pink.

After the teapots dried thoroughly, I decorated the rest of the cookie!  I also decorated the little mini teapot cookies as well.  Here are some photos of the finished cookies!

I made flower transfers to make it easy to add to the cookies.

The larger flower transfers I bought!

As stressed out as I was, I think the cookies turned out pretty cute.  I put them in bags, tied them up and placed my company sticker on the back.

When I have a picture of the final basket all together I will post it on the blog! 

TEA TIME!

So a friend of mine asked me to make teapot cookies for a bridal shower she is throwing.  I am a bit nervous because I want them to be perfect, or pretty close to it.  I am very new to the cookie decorating world, and I really haven't mastered royal icing.  You really need the perfect consistency to make cookie decorating a lot easier.  I have already baked all of the cookies.  I made large teapots and small teacups.  The cookie dough I made was extremely sticky.  This recipe always seems to be a bit stickier than others I have used, but it tends to taste the best. I guess that's the trade off.  I am going to start decorating tomorrow.  I will make the royal icing in the morning and hit the ground running. The colors for the party are bright and light pink and bright green.  I was thinking of making all the teapots white and then outlining them in pink and green and adding flowers or stripes.  I am not really 100% sure of what I will do, but I know I am nervous.  I have never made cookies for someone else.  I have only played around with it and figured things out as I went along.  When you have a specific theme and colors, you really have to be able to match them.  Well, we shall see how it goes!  Wish me luck!