What Does the Fox Say?! {fox cookies using a butterfly cutter}

I'm sure everyone has heard the funny/slightly annoying song 'What does the fox say'.. my two year old LOVES it and asks for it every time we get in the car! He is constantly singing it and dancing around the house. I confess, I like it too. So I had to make some fox cookies.

To make these you will need:

* a butterfly cookie cutter

* orange 20-second icing (check out this tutorial here)

* black 20-second icing

* white 20-second icing

* ivory 20-second icing

* fine tipped paintbrush

Once you've cut the bottom of the butterfly off with the top of the butterfly cutter, press the little jagged edge at the bottom until it's smooth

Using your 20-second orange icing, make the outline to the face. Wait for 15 minutes, then fill in the ears and rest of the fox's face. 

Add a black nose and eyes once the cookie is dry (give it at least 6 hours). I used brush embroidery around the face. Out of pure laziness I didn't make a thicker icing to do the brush embroidery and it would've been much cuter if I would have! Oh well, lesson learned :). 

The last step is to pain on little black eyelashes and you are done!

There you have it! Happy fall ya'll. 

Easy Paisley Bird Cookies {and roses too}

Finally had a chance to use my Ateco paisley cutters.. I LOVE them. And these were the easiest cookies on earth. 

Even though my husband says my finger looks deformed in this picture, I had to put it up to show how tiny this little bird is!

Happy decorating!

Painted Cookies {baby announcement}

So,  I've only done a few painted cookies (my first set here), and I was so happy to do an order of all painted cookies! I really want to start painting more, it's fun and its also SOOO nice because you only have to make white royal icing instead of 10 different colors!! Woot woot, I was sure happy about that!

These were for a women who is having her third baby and wanted to announce it to her husband in a fun way. Such a great idea!! 

The 'I'm Pregnant' cookie..

The painted due date and mini onsie with a duck. I really love mini cookies by the way, they are adorable! 

Of course a cookie with a painted stork, this was my faveee!

I'm a dummy and didn't get a picture of this entire cookie, BUUUT it said "& Then There Were 3"

Can't wait to do more painted cookies in the future! Thank you Eliza for your order!!

More cookies coming this week

Winter Forest Animals and Trees

Here are my little forest animals and embroidered pine trees with snow on them. Enjoy!

Easter Bunnies

With Easter right around the corner, I thought I'd make some little easter bunnies. 

Simple and fun to make. There will be more easter cookies to come! Happy Cookie-ing :)

Caitlin

Design Your Own Cookies Tutorial

For these cookies, I wanted to do owls but don't have an owl cookie cutter. So I made my own!

To make the owl, you'll need:

2 circle cutters (one smaller)

a Lemon cutter

a double heart mini cutter

Start with the large circle and put it on your cookie sheet. Then, using the lemon cutters, cut out your owls wings. After that use the smaller sized circle to take some dough off the top to make little ears. 

Then flip the mini double-heart cutter upside down to make the tail. 

After you've baked your cookies, line..

.. and flood. (I let the wings and center dry over night before doing the rest)

After the whole cookie is dry, pipe on a nose, and big owl eyes!

For the nose and eyes I used food color markers (a little secret, then you don't have to make two more colors of royal icing!). 

I love sparkly things.. so I always tend to dust my cookies with super pearl to make them sparkle!

And there you have it! Happy Baking :)

xoxo Sugar Bea

"Owl" Be Your Valentine

 

Tutorial coming soon!

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(though I have NO IDEA what I'm doing, I will figure it out!)

Cowgirl Up!

I finally got a new USB cord for my camera today! I was so happy to see it :) Here are some cowgirl cookies I did for a three year old birthday. I sent them to Arizona, thankfully they made it through the heat.. but unfortunately a few broke (the butterflies). These were a challenge to do when I realized I didn't have a horse cookie cutter and that is what she wanted. But, it worked out! And these horses didn't break.

Stay tuned for a tutorial some time this week!

Happy baking :)

Sugar Bea

Baby Blue Baby Shower

It's baby time! My aunt Jane is having her first baby at the end of August. While she was in Utah we threw her a baby shower. Since I was a little girl, I have always been a party planning nerd. Seriously, whenever it was someone's birthday in the fam I was always the one planning and making my mom or dad go to the store and buy all the food and decorations, so I could create the perfect party. As soon as a birthday was over, I'd be thinking of the many ways I could decorate and plan for the next one (you may think I'm kidding but I'm not). 

For this shower I had the privilege of decorating and doing a dessert table. For the cookies I wanted something different than a plain rocking horse, so I did some funky little brown, green and silver zebra rocking horses. I loved the way everything turned out! Now you will notice the pictures are amazing, seriously they are perfect, only thanks to Julie who is an incredible photographer (check her out here). 

This makes me want a new camera SO bad! Of course, I could never make anything look nearly as beautiful as Julie does. (She also took pictures of my little boy.. I'm in love)

I loved creating this dessert table, it is something I can always get excited about! Now I must go, so I can start planning my next party ;) (but seriously).

Sweet Baby Boy

I made these for a friend who just had her third baby boy! I got the elephant idea from my little boy's bouncer seat that has elephants on it. They were so much fun to make.. welcome to the world baby B!