Gingerbread Strippers!

So I had to make some more cookies to take to my Grandma's retirement home.  I decided to make more gingerbread cookies.  I hadn't made any snowmen cookies yet, so I thought I would make snowmen as well as gingerbread men.  For some reason the gingerbread men cookies I made ended up looking like strippers.  Have a look for yourself.

Just pulling the cookies out of the oven.

You can leave your hat on!

The cookie my brother made.

Here are the snowmen cookies.  I have to be honest, I ran out of time, so I kind of rushed through the decorating process with these cookies.

Empty cookie

Iced cookie

With sprinkle hat.

Here is a shot of all of the cookies!

Holiday Treats!

So I know I said I would post this about a week ago, but I got a bit behind.  I made Chanukah cookies and some more Christmas cookies for our family's holiday party.  People keep telling me that it is impossible to find any Chanukah cookies.  I guess I haven't really seen any around, but then again I wasn't really looking for them.

Chanukah cookies, to me, are not the most interesting to make.  I usually just make Jewish star cookies, but I thought that this year I should expand my horizons. 

 Here are the menorah cookies I made.  Some I did on a plain cookie and others I did with a base of icing.

Plain Cookie

Iced Round Cookie

Plain Menorah

Iced Menorah

For the Christmas cookies I also wanted to make a new shape that I hadn't made before.  I had just bought a Santa head cookie cutter that I was dying to try out.  I had an idea to make a Mrs. Claus cookie with a round cutter shape.

Cheek Imperfection

 I don't know if you can see it, but on the Santa above I put my thumb in his cheek, so I had to refill it with icing.  You can see the imperfection on the right.

Mr. and Mrs. Claus

The Mrs. Claus' cookie had an imperfection on the top left because when it was cooking I put my thumb in it by accident.  Oh well.

Finished Santas

I also made some candy cane, stockings and snowflake cookies. 

You can see on the red and white stripped stocking there are red sprinkles in the white parts.  Basically I was impatient and I didn't let it dry well enough, so they stuck to the white icing.

Finished Snowflakes

Of course the last cookies I made were the titty cookies for my friend Rob.  I always have to add a couple of those for him.

GingerBread Cookies

The holidays as fast approaching and I thought I would try a new cookies recipe.  I have never made gingerbread cookies before and I happened to come across a good recipe in a cookie book I was reading.  The dough was pretty simple to make and waaaay easier to handle then my traditional sugar cookie dough.  The cookies held their shape perfectly.  Oh, but a great trick to getting the cookies to keep their shape is to eliminate the baking soda from the recipe.

Here are the undecorated cookies!

I bought a couple of new cookie cutters recently and I was so excited to try them out.  I ordered a snow globe, a candy, a Santa head and a mini mitten.  I didn't use the Santa head, but I am planning on making some holiday sugar cookies and I was saving the Santa head for that.

I, of course, first mixed my colors and then started decorating.  I had seen online gingerbread men cookies used for reindeer cookies, so I had to try it out.

You start by just making the head and waiting for it to dry.

You can then add the antlers, eyes and nose.

Another cookie I wanted to try out that I thought might be funny was a melted snowman cookie.  I started out by making large and small circle cookies.  I put the small one on top of the large one and then covered it in icing.

I made random icing shapes to show that they are melted.  Honestly, to me, these look like eggs.

Once the white is dry you can start to add all the other extras on the snowman.

Final melted snowmen.  My brother thinks they look a little sad.

The snow globe cookies take a little bit of work, due to the fact that you have to do it one step at a time. Each part needs to dry completely before moving on to the next portion of the cookie.

First step of the cookie was the snow.  I actually think I should have started with the sky, but I know for next time.

I did not make the penguins.  They are royal icing ad-ons that I bought.

 Here are the final snow globe cookies!

The most fun cookies to decorate were the gingerbread men and the mini mittens.  Those cookie shapes really allow you to be creative.

The one cookie that didn't really work for me was the candy cookie.  I bought the large size cutter, and I wish I had gotten the small size.  I feel like the large cutter made it a bit harder to decorate.

The final cookie shapes I made were the small snowmen and the bra and panty for my friend Rob.

I was running out of white icing, so I tried something a bit different.

Rob's holiday titty cookies!

Here are some more cookie photos!

Here are the cookies packaged in bags!

I got small bags and put 2 mittens in each.

I will be making Chanukah cookies out of the sugar cookie dough because Chanukah gingerbread cookies just didn't seem right. I will be posting that blog next week! 
I wish you all a season of tasty baked goods!