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Halloween Cookies
Bag Of Tricks
Directions:
Prepare your favorite cookie dough or purchase ready-made cookie
dough in your grocery deli case and prepare your favorite Buttercream Icing.
Using assorted Halloween Cookie Cutters (Wilton) or make your own cookie cutter template,
cut, bake and cool bag cookies. Frost the bag area smooth in orange icing.
Using a Tip 5, outline the bag handle in black icing. (Variation: Use black licorice for the handle).
Using Tip 1, print a message in black frosting and outline spider web.
Attach miniaturecandies and icing decoration (ghost or any other candy shape) with icing to act as edible glue.
Each serves 1.
Bride Says "I Boo!"
Directions:
Prepare your favorite cookie. Tint dough in combination Leaf Green and Lemon Yellow. Cut, bake and cool cookies using tombstone cutter from Halloween set (Wilton). Cut, bake and cool cookies using ghost cutter from set. Place cookies on cooling rack over a drip pan. Thin your favorite Royal Icing recipe and pour over cookie; let cookies dry overnight on waxed paper. The next day, decorate cookies on waxed paper with with full-strength Royal Icing. Using a Tip5, decorate face area using a combination of leaf green and lemon yellow; pat smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch. Using Tip 2, pipe mouth in black and dot eyes in white; add Tip1 and add "pull-out" lashes and dot pupils in black. Tint a portion of Royal Icing gray by using black color. Pipe Tip 2 zigzag hair, alternating rows of gray and white. Pipe Tip 4 dot hands and fingers in leaf green/lemon yellow combination. Let dry overnight on waxed paper.
Each serves 1.
Festive Frank
Directions:
Make your favorite cookie dough or purchase from deli section at your grocery store.
Turn tombstone cookie cutter (Wilton) upside down to decorate.
Pipe in mouth with Tip 2 in black.
Add Tip 4 ball eyes in white.
Pipe Tip 3 ball nose and nostrils in Leaf Green/Lemon Yellow combination.
Add Tip 3 hair in black. Pipe Tip 1 dot pupils in black.
Add Tip 2 outline eyelids in green/yellow.
Pipe Tip 1 zigzag scar in black.
Tint a portion of icing gray using black color;
build up neck bolts with tip 4.
Add tip 1 teeth in white.
About the Author:
Mary Ann Ross and Kimberly Lainson are a dynamic mother and daughter team that became business partners in November 1997 for different reasons.
Mom had taken an early retirement and was bored (one can only re-organize the fridge so many times!). Kimberly wanted to stay home with her four
children. So, we did what we knew best… having fun with kids… and started an at-home business that has grown from one room in Mom's house to a
converted outbuilding on her rural property in Washington and now located in a larger office/warehouse facility in the same general area.
In our growth, we've added two additional web sites - CakeWorksCentral.com and HarryPotter-Birthday.com
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