Happy Day of the Dead! We don’t celebrate it here, but you know I can’t pass on the opportunity to make cute goodies! I kept them simple since I was also busy making ghost cake pops these week (those won’t make it to the blog but my coworkers enjoyed them!).
So, I drew on the cookies with edible markers instead of icing. Much easier, but still cute.
Whether you take the icing or marker route, Sweet Sugarbelle has a super helpful post on the real-deal calavera cookies. I also used her recipe for cookies since it makes the yummiest softest sugar cookies.
And I unfortunately had to take inspiration from all her cookies made with combined shapes. I searched everywhere for a skull cutter, but it just didn’t come up (seriously though, I went to at least 5 places and I only found two pirate skulls…)
I basically combined two circles, one bigger and one smaller, although the small circle happened to be a bunny face. So I used the bunny and the circle to make a half moon shape that I attached to the original circle shape. Just put one next to the other and press them together a bit. Although the shapes will still be discernible (well, under all the icing anyway), the cookies will bind when baking and they won’t break apart.
I also made a couple with the whole bunny inside! |
When the cookies were cool, I covered them with thick icing and let them dry overnight. Apparently the icing was a bit too thick since the surface ended up not perfectly even, but it worked. Then I decorated and nommed :D (ok, I also nommed before decorating).
You can find the recipes here! (feel free to make less icing since you’ll probably have leftovers).
They look great, colorful and tempting. Thanks for visiting me and for your sweet words :)
No problem :) Thanks to you!
Amazing blog layout here. Was it hard to create a nice looking website like this?
I’d say it’s not hard but you do need a bit of a background!