A while ago a friend of mine sent me a cookie cutter kit that makes 3-D cookies. Ever since, Andrew has repeatedly asked if we can make “stand up cookies”. I put it off because it was the holidays and I was baking everything else in my arsenal. The stand-up cookies needed to wait.
And then this weekend, I decided to give them a whirl. These babies are not easy. The cookie cutters have lots of detailing that makes for a very fragile affair. Andrew gave up on the cookie cutting almost immediately. I was determined to make at least one of each of the six animals and then I would use the remaining dough to make other, less snazzy, 2-D cookies.
We baked them Sunday night and I didn’t get around to glazing them until yesterday morning. I’m really enjoying glazing my cookies, letting them harden and then having the boys go crazy with the food markers. Less messy than passing them goopy bags of frosting.
Last night they decorated them. Isaac colored a few of the 2D animals and wrote “Isaac”, “Mom” and “Dad” on some circle cookies.
I was lazy and took the “hearts on the butt” approach.
But Andrew really got into it. What a great combination! Building/Puzzles/Cookies! He labored away for over an hour coloring in his cookies and getting them to stand up. A few cookies broke in the coloring/assembling process.
But these three hearty cookies made it!
And a bunch of little 2D cookies will be snuck into lunchboxes, used as bribery when necessary, and will join me for tea time this week. :)
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I think your aspiring photographer blog readers would be encouraged to know that the first shot on this post was taken on a teeny-tiny scrap of countertop at one end of a galley kitchen. You seriously should do an apartment tour on your blog sometime.
Those are adorable. I have never seen those before. Thanks for sharing.
3D, 2D…I’ll devour any of your cookies.