Play with your Food!

I recently did a very fun project with some fellow cookie friends. Play with your Food! Picking a game and making it edible. Fun right? I think so. I picked Hungry Hungry Hippos. I used to play that game til my hand hurt when I was a kid haha.  Okay on to the project....

Started off baking the base and the sides. Then flooding the top of the base and both sides of the sides.

 

Then using royal icing to "glue" the sides down to the base. I also flooded the tops to hide the cookie part.

 

Flooding both sides of the Hippo cookies. Attaching and holding them into place with royal icing added to the 3D effect I wanted to achieve.

I used white Sixlets candies for the balls. They were perfect! I got a 1 lb bag online and they were so yummy I think they only lasted about a week lol. 

Every time I see these cookies I have the Hungry Hungry Hippo theme song in my head haha. Don't go looking for it because it is the kind of catchy song that will be stuck in your head all day!

Wanna see more????

Please go check out some creative, most spectacular Play with your Food entries.

Be prepared to be AMAZED!!!!

Paper Dolls - Arty McGoo
Flip Book - Cookies With Character
Word Search and Cross Word - Palestine Painted Cookie
Cards and Poker Chips - Mt. Lookout Sweets
Cootie - Kookie Kreations by Kim
Scrabble - Flour Box Bakery
Candy Land - Life's A Batch
Pin The Tail On The Donkey - Sweet Tweets
Twister - Jill FCS
Dominoes - Sweet Dough
Wooly Willy - Oh, Sugar! Events
Words With Friends - The Cookie Countness
Miss Pac-Man - Flour-de-Lis
Hungry Hungry Hippos - Cupookie
Marble Maze - Oh Sugar! Events
Fisher-Price Classics - SugarBelle
Monopoly - TLC (Trinnie Loves Cookies)
Horseshoes, Jacks, Marbles, Pick Up Sticks - Sweet Hope Cookies

So FUN and so many memories. ♥  

California Loooove

Wow it has been a while since I posted last. Kinda took a break from cookies. I think I was getting a lil burned out there for a bit. My passion for cookies is getting lit again with the fire so with that being said I made some fun California and peace sign cookies. I love LA!!!

PEACE from the WestSiiiiiide my friends ♥

Happy 4th of July!!!

Happy 4th everyone. I went for a morning hike and now relaxing the rest of the day & night away. Always a good way to spend the day IMO. Made some fun red, white & blue cookies since I was in the festive mood lol. Had some left over cookies...(I always have leftovers HA) and decided to do some wet-on-wet. They are so fun because you can really mess up but cannot tell ;)

 

These red, white & blue meringue swirls were inspired form Martha Stewart LIVING magazine May 2012 issue. On the cover are some really neat meringue swirls in yellow & orange. I have never tasted or made these cookies so I figured why not get patriotic on some meringues and give it a try. They are super easy to make and SUPER yummy!!! 

 

Friends ♥

 

  I recently made some cookies for some special people. These kind of cookies are always the most meaningful & enjoyable to make. A very good friend of mine got married and I made the wedding favors. Simple monogram cookies but they came out beautiful. I asked her what other color she wanted besides white & she picked green. I used my airbrush on the edges to give it an added nice touch. Damn I love my airbrush. I am so happy I purchased one. She also asked me to make a tiger & puma cookie for her husband. I would guess he is the tiger & she is the puma lol. They seem to have more creative names for one another than babe & honey I would say ;)

  These cookies were for a buddy of mine that competes in bodybuilding. He is a true champ and an inspiration to so many! These are cookies from the heart ♥

Monochromatic Fun

Monochromatic colors are all the colors (tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue. Okay...so let me try something different. These were alot of fun and I realy like the end result. Flooding a design on the cookie in a color. Then airbrushing it with pearl sheen. THEN...flooding the rest with the same color. Pretty Cool!!!

 

  

Watercolor Cookie Art

I had some extra cookies, some extra icing and some extra time. Perfect right? Well I thought to myself "what would be an easy way to decorate some cookies without making up a bunch of colored icing" So I flooded some cookies with white then dipped my toothpick right into the food coloring and went to town. Wet-on-wet results in some beautiful designs. It really resembles a watercolor painting look to me. I used to watercolor in high school and college so it brought back some memories....good ones.  

INSPIRE!

We are all inspired by many things around us. We all live it...to inspire & to be inspired. My husband is reading this book and it caught my eye. The big colorful flower towards the top had to be my own version on a cookie. I see things I think 'cookie'. Cookie vision as they call it. I don't meditate but then again I feel cookies are my form of meditation. Look around and be inspired ♥

 

Pretty colorful flower cookies...like a rainbow ;)

 

Enjoy your weekend everybody. Get out & enjoy all the colors of the world and be INSPIRED!