Made this flower bouquet for a special birthday last summer. Love the ease and simplicity that cookie flowers allow. Make as many or as little flower cookies as you want. Throw in some leaves for good measure. Change the colors or shapes to work any time of the year.
Okay. I am devoted to the Rainbow Dust double sided professional food pens. I’ve used them for years, highlighting hand painted cookies, outlining where royal icing designs should go on blank cookies, stamping letters for message cookies, and for little itty bitty lines as needed on these cookies.
For this gathering, the seal for the University of the South was requested. I wanted a festive and pretty way to display them so I used the seal as a flower petal with a simple rose for the center- using the university colors, of course. The order was for 40 seals but I made 42 (so I could have the correct number of petals for 6 “flowers”). Advanced planning and thought is incredibly important for a successful cookie presentation. Don’t forget to consider this planning and prep time if you are either the buyer (it’s a lot of work!) or the seller of fancy decorated cookies. The devil is in the details.
Just a little whimsy of a hopping bunny and some late summer flowers.
I love using minis when you have to feed a larger crowd but still want to make those couple of bites special.
So this centerpiece platter is a perfect example of how my brain plays “association.” I latch on to a thread (spring time bridal shower and the bride.to.be’s love of happy flowers) and off my thoughts go! What is happier than daisies, right? Jump to “he loves me”, “he loves me not.” No negativity at such a happy occasion so that becomes “he loves me lots.” Which also rhymes with “we’re tying the knot.” And you pick a petal, so a big cookie that does so too, why not? And as I think of multiple daisies, I start humming the song “Daisy Bell” (circa 1892, thank you Harry Dacre). ***Google “Daisy Bell” and you will find a fun story about the origin of the lyrics– it always comes back to either love or money or both! Or Hal from the movie: 2001, a Space Odyssy*** Floated around the idea of using the “I’m half crazy” part but opted for a more appropriate “give me your answer” nod to the wedding vow “I do!” and placed that with the bicycle built for two! Back to picking things, the bride picked the groom and visa versa and Bob’s your uncle, platter is planned! Anyway, hope you’re not half crazy following my creation process. um. Enjoy the pictures, at least?
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