Butts, Boobs, and Bachelorette Cookies...Oh My!

You know you are growing up when your friends start getting married...

I had seen these fantastic cookies at a bridal party and knew I just had to recreate them.  The cookies were the shapes of boobs and butts, and decorated with colorful icing to look like undergarments.  I finally got my opportunity a few weeks ago when my girlfriends and I went to Vegas for a bachelorette party. I couldn't be more excited!

To start I decided to make my own sugar cookie dough because homemade dough usually keeps its shape better while it bakes.

Ingredients:

• 2 cup soft unsalted butter
• 3 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 Tbs vanilla extract
• 1 Tbs Butter Extract
• 7 cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt

(Hint: The butter extract really creates a great authentic sugar cookie flavor.)

Directions: 

1. Cream together butter and sugar til light and fluffy
2. Add eggs, vanilla extract, and butter extract
3. Add dry ingredients.  Mix til thoroughly combine... but do not over mix
4. Wrap in plastic. Let sit in refrigerator for at least 3 hours 
5. When ready to make the cookies roll out dough between two pieces of parchment paper.  This reduces having to add flour to the dough and making it dry. 
6. Dip the cookie cutter in flour before pushing it into the dough. It makes the cutting process easier. (Hint: Let dough sit in fridge for about 10 minutes after you cut out the shapes.  This helps the dough keep its shape during the baking process.) 
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 9-11 min.  Let cool completely before you decorate. 

To get the two shapes all you need is a basic heart cookie cutter and a paring knife. A smaller cut at the bottom of the heart gives you boobs, while a larger cut gives you the butt.  See diagram below. (Hint: Cut the triangles off before you bake the shapes!)

For the "undergarments" I used Betty Crocker cookie icing and Cake Mate Cake icing.

They both come in a variety of colors and dry great so that you can stack the cookies on top of each other without ruining them! To embellish my cookies just a bit more I used star shaped sprinkles and colored sugar to look like glitter (not shown).  Have fun and get creative!

These were such a big hit that I might have to make them for more bachlorette parties to come!

The Simpler The Better!

Being creative doesn't mean you have to get uber-involved.  In fact, the simpler the better.  Most of my "art" has very few ingredients and is usually semi-homemade! 

For example, the Sunflower Cupcakes in the above post started as a basic chocolate cake box mix with sugar free chocolate pudding added to the batter.  (Yes, sugar free.... but I swear you cannot tell!)  The pudding doesn't change the flavor it just insures that your cake stays moist in the final product.  The frosting is cream cheese frosting with yellow food coloring.  Each sunflower center was created by pushing mini chocolate chip into the frosting with the points facing down.  If the points are facing down it helps keep them in place and it creates a flat effect.  For a little extra touch I added M&M's and mini gumdrops to look like little bugs sunbathing on the flowers!


Recently I celebrated the 4th of July like most, at a BBQ with friends eating, relaxing, and watched fireworks. With Labor Day weekend just a month away I wanted to post my Patriotic Strawberries! It was an idea I had seen on Pinterest and I must give credit where credit is due. Talk about a simple recipe, it doesn't get any simpler than this with only three ingredients. 

Ingredients List:

• Fresh Whole Strawberries
• White Baking Chocolate
• Blue Sugar/Sprinkles 

Directions:

1. Wash the strawberries and pat dry.  Make sure your strawberries are completely dry before you dip them in the chocolate.  (Alert! If any water accidentally touches the chocolate before you melt it, it will unfortunately cause the chocolate to burn instead of melt.)  
2. Melt the chocolate.  I chose to do it in the microwave in a microwave safe bowl at 30-45 sec intervals. Keep an eye on the chocolate because it burns very quickly! When it is thoroughly melted go ahead and dip the strawberries about halfway in.
3. Carefully pour the blue sugar on the bottom of the strawberry leaving a ring of white chocolate still showing. Let the strawberries set on wax paper until dry.  

Hints:

• I recommend melting the white chocolate a little at a time as well as completing the strawberries in small batches.  This is to ensure the chocolate stays hot enough to stick to the strawberries. 

• I also recommend pouring the sugar on as opposed to dipping the strawberries into the sugar for two reasons.  1. It keeps the sugar from getting wet and clumpy in the bowl and 2. When you dip the the strawberries in the sugar you lose the pointy look at the bottom.

Edible Art

Let me introduce myself.  My name is Jenny and I enjoy looking for different ways to be creative.  Food just happens to be one of my favorite creative outlets.  Everyone likes to eat, so why not take it one step further and turn food into edible art.  I hope you have fun following my journey as I attempt to make food look as good as it tastes!