Summer Christmas

Christmas is not always a white one. there are many places that are warm and sunny during Christmas. nothing like a couple tanned snowmen enjoying thier warm sunny christmas out at the beach ;)

Sugar Sister Gingerbread House ♥

i belong to this amazing group of cookie artist. we all make custom decorated cookies. whether its for a hobby or our business we all share this deep passion for detailed sugar cookies. this was our second cookie swap and the theme was "Christmas" how fun right? well i decided to make a cute little gingerbread house. i have always been fascinated with gingerbread houses. they are adorable and make me feel like a kid again. feeling like a kid again is always FUN!

Holiday Cookies

how about a Holiday Martini....i like to think of this as a peppermint cosmo. yeah thats what it is HaHa. so i thought id experiment in a few holiday cookies since we are getting close to Christmas. more to come...

Man Cookies!

my dad turned 60 this past weekend so i decided to make him some cookies. what better way to say happy birthday with some manly cookies haha. harley davidson logos & beer mug cookies seemed to fit well.

Drummer/Surfer Birthday Bash

i was able to make some really fun cookies for a birthday party. he was a drummer & a surfer AND....was turning 30. very cool to make some cookie favors for this special event. i was given full leeway to do what i wished. love the way they all turned out!

Gobble Gobble

well here it is November 1st. thought I would make some Thanksgiving cookies to get me in the mood. i cant believe how fast the year has gone. I will be doing Christmas cookies before I know it.

Breast Cancer Awareness

Better late than never right? I know October is Breast Cancer Awareness month so I decided to make some cookies for the cause. Love the assortment ♥

Special Wedding Favors

I just got married October 13 2011. I made my own favors to match the color scheme of the flowers I had in my bouquet and centerpieces. Red, orange, purple, hot pink and deep green. The cookies were HUGE...about 6" tall. I flooded them with an ivory color and then did some flower designs with the brush embroidery technique cascading on one side. The centers of the flowers I added a little silver luster dust for some sparkle. They came out beautiful & everyone loved them. I will always remember these because they were my wedding favors AND...because they are the one cookie that literally took me the longest to decorate. haha...luckily it was for a special occasion ;)

Black & White wedding

a dear friend of mine is getting married & i was privileged to make her wedding favors. she wanted a wedding cake cookie with black & white flowers. i used the brush embroidery technique which is always a winner. so pretty....so elegant! they came out nice!

Halloween Cookies

I think these Halloween cookies had to be the funnest yet. Who doesn't love Halloween? Its still early an have time to make some more Halloween cookies if I like....Hmmmm I think that may be a GO! Check my Flickr for more pics...

Hello-ween Time!

I saw this cute image on an invitation and of course I thought....ooohhh that would be so cool if I made a cookie like that. Well these came out mighty cute I may say. I didnt want to ice the whole cookie black....since black icing tends to leave your mouth & teeth black haha. So I read on LilaLoa's blog that if you add some drops of black food coloring into your chocolate cookie dough you will get black cookies. No black teeth & no aftertaste. WOW this is brilliant!

Autumn themed cookies

i did a cookie swap with about 16 amazing and talented cookie artists. we had to do an autumn themed cookie. first thing that came to my mind was a tree and leaves in autumn colors. i had some issues with the oils of the cookie coming up through the royal icing since i did not wait a day to let them dry out. so i took a brand new sponge and dipped it in food coloring very lightly and touched it up. i kinda like the effect it gave and it covered up the mess up haha. all in all i am happy with them.

Its a Zoo in here...

i have been wokring on some fun cookies for a lil girls birthday party at the zoo. thats right....a giraffe, monkey and elephant. i also made some pretty zebra print cupcake toppers made out of cookies. i really like the way they all came out. cute CUTE ♥

color Color COLOR!!!

I love color and really enjoy using Americolor Electric gels. the colors that they create are vibrant and so pretty. I just got this cool hard candy cookie cutter. i decided to make a variety of colored candies. So with all this coloful icing i made some fun Hawaiian print cookies. fun fun FUN...COLOR is FUN !

Dragonflies...

i love how these dragonfly cookies came out. all the pretty vibrant colors and details. the only downfall is in about three bites the cookie is all gone haha. well i guess that could be a good thing for my waist right?
oh how i LOVE color!!!

I Love You!

what a great way to say "I Love You" ....with a cookie of course. i saw this cutter and thought it was adorable.

corona beer & hawaiian shirts!

my uncles birthday is this weekend & we are having a BBQ/swim party for him. i decided to make some cookies of his two favorite things...corona beer & hawaiian shirts. haha well i dont know if hawaiian shirts are one of his two favorite things but i know he wears them all the time. these cookies were fun to make. cant wait til my family sees the cookies. summertime fun!!! oh yeah!!!

girls like skulls too!

i had some fun with some skulls i made as royal transfers. whipped up some cool colors....black, teal, purple & pink and went to town with some leopard print & hearts. what girl doesnt like that? i think they came out pretty cool. girly punk cookies i like to call em.

More Henna

so what do i do when i have extra cookies & extra icing...i love to pipe henna designs. they look so cool on a cookie. it does take some time but the end result is beautiful...i tried painting on some luster dust on the pink ones. it gave it a shiny shimmery look. i dig it!!!

Cupookie Logo

i was thinkin....my logo should be on a cookie. hell yeah, thats just what i did. i think next time i will make a long rectangular cookie so i can pipe cupcakes & cookies underneath. yes i need to re-do this. im too much of a perfectionist when it comes to stuff like this. by the way...my ultimate favorite chocolate cookie dough is made by LilaLola and here is the recipe...The End-All for Chocolate Cookies Recipe. its amazing and i love how the light pink icing on the brown cookie looks....

Baby Shower Cookies

Baby Shower cookies are a huge hit. Some women go all out for baby showers. Cookie favors are perfect for big get togethers of women. These are too cute. Plus baby showers are becoming more & more creative with themes and colors. These cookies are endless when it comes to ideas & style. Let your imagination run wild...

Wedding

I thougth it would be time to dabble in some wedding cookies. I have seen so many beautiful designs from fellow inspiring cookie artists i was excited to create some myself. Practice Practice Practice...it is what I am doing. I learn with every cookie and as I learn I am getting better. So to me that is a BIG plus. Not to mention I am enjoying it on the way....more cookies here...FLICKR

Patriotic Heart in Hand Cookies

i decided to try my HAND at making some patriotic cookies. these come from the HEART. oh yes they do! 4th of July is coming up on us and i was inspired to do some red, white & blue cookies. looking forward to spending 4th of july here in LA. was living in NYC last year so im looking forward to heading to the beach and seeing some fireworks blast off!!!

Icecream Cone Cookies!

I love icecream & I love cookies so why not Icecream Cone Cookies? yeah i like that touch. Ive had this cookie cutter for some time now & thought it was time to have some fun with it. I think they are cute for a girls birthday party. The colors could be anything posssible. So yeah..i better go eat up some of these cookies before they melt on me....be right back!

WIX....not twix, WIX !

i have been using blogger for my cupookie website for sometime now and just switched over to a "real" website if thats what you want to call it lol. wix.com is a really cool site that lets you create your own website yourself. its pretty simple and self explanitory. if you are pretty good with computers & understand software you can do alot of cool things to your site as well and make it that much better. so here it is cupookie.com just finished it lastnight. im sure i will have some additions and tweaks here & there but overall im pretty happy with it. its simple, basic, informative and all i need. just wanted to share this in case some didnt know about this site and have been wanting to do a website of their own that you can DIY! yes DO IT YOURSELF!!!
alright folks...wishing all my fellow bakers, creators, artists, decorators and any others that share the same passion with me a wonderful sunday ♥

Henna Inspired

I love to do intricate designs. Where I can sit down and just pay attention to detail and then the finished product blows my mind away. Ive seen heena inspired cookies and thought I would take a crack at it. My problem was figuring out how to get royal icing out of a teeny tiny tip. I remember reading somewhere online to take your royal icing and strain it through a nylon...a clean one of course haha! That way any hard pieces of meringue powder will stay in the nylon. I tried it and WOW....no clogged tip. I was impressed. I wish I would of used this method before because I cant tell you how many frusterating times my tip would clog and I would have to take it apart, clean and then a few minutes later clogging again. But then again...gotta learn the hard way sometimes lol.

Im so thrilled with the way these cookies came out. All the hours spent on these and the back ache from sitting in the chair was all worth it. ;)

Flames N Skullz

one thing i love is flames & skulls. now my house is not decorated in such but i do have a few things that have flames n skulls decorated on it. ive always loved the badass look. i wanted to do a black cookie with black skull, red & orange flames. well we all know what black icing does to the mouth so i decided to go with white background. i made some skull royal transfers in black and they just didnt look right on the white cookie. so yes i tossed em and started over and made the white skulls. ahhh so much better. i love this cookie!