Sparkly Purse Shaped Cookies

I made these purse shaped sugar cookies for my friend's birthday. She absolutely loves sugar cookies with royal icing and her favorite color is purple so I thought I would make these pretty treats for her speical day.

I piped black royal icing onto the cookies and then let the icing dry overnight. The next day, I added purple icing designs to them and covered the wet icing in purple sanding sugar to add that pretty sparkle to them.

They would also make wonderful bachelorette party favors or girls night out cookies!

Ice Cream Cone Cookies

These are some ice cream cone shaped sugar cookies that I made and decorated with royal icing. I thought I would have some fun and put sprinkles on them too. The colorful flowers are just royal icing that I had leftover. I piped the icing onto parchment paper in the shape of little flowers and let them dry (24 hours) before removing them from the parchment paper.

Bright Butterflies

Since spring seems to be right around the corner, I thought I would share these bright and colorful butterfly cookies. They are sugar cookies decorated with royal icing.

The royal icing recipe I used can be found here and the sugar cookie recipe can be found here.

I noticed that using the best ingredients, such as real butter and a high quality vanilla will produce the best tasting sugar cookies. When I was a child, we always used grocery store bought vanilla and I could never really smell it after the cookies were baked.  I didn`t know the difference at the time, but after using Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla and some other premium varieties, the cookies were more fragrant and I could really taste the vanilla.

Cupcake Cookies

I got some new icing gel colors by AmeriColor and wanted to try them out. They are very bright and fun so I thought cupcake shaped cookies would be perfect to use them on.

The colors I used are from the AmeriColor Electric Color Soft Gel Paste Pack and include electric pink, electric purple, electric green and many other bright colors.

The cupcake cookies are sugar cookies decorated with royal icing. (As usual!)

Chocolate Butterfly Cookies

These chocolate cookies were really fun to make. I rolled out the dough from a chocolate cookie recipe and then cut out butterfly shapes. I then decorated them with royal icing. It was a nice change from the typical vanilla sugar cookies that I usually make.