Cookie Crush Wednesday Ecrandal cookie cutters, Sweetopia and Alicia from Pintrest

OK - I'm not all about the cookies. I love other stuff, you know cake pops, macarons, brownies, peanut butter brownies. Sweets on a stick - for sure.

but at the moment I do have a bit of a thing for cookies. So I thought I would share some of the things I'm cookie crushing on.

First up is cookie cutter store Ecrandal in the US who make beautiful cookie cutters, and wait for it.....they do custom made ones too. In fact they have just done up some for me based on the mask cookies in the above picture so I wont need a template and knife to handcut those babies anymore. That equals complete cookie awesomeness in my books.

Also they do custom baby hand cookie cutters where you send in a drawing of your baby's hand and they make up a cutter.

Honestly have you heard of anything sweeter (pun totally intended). Imagine precious little hand made keepsake cookie cutters which make it so you actually CAN nibble on your sweetest little ones hands.

They are not the cheapest cutters around as you would expect but sometimes I like to splurge. If you pop over check out their bird and birdcage cutters which I adore.



Next up is one of my very first ever cookie crushes Sweetopia who for many years has been the prettiest and loveliest cookie site in the whole wide web world.

Look at this picture from Sweetopia ah-mazing! Honestly who makes cookies this cute.

They have a number of fail proof recipes and instructions on how to make beautiful royal icing cookies and I'm just going to have to say again how pretty it all is. When I grow up I totally want a website that looks like Sweetopia.

Finally I'm going to point you to someone I found on Pintrest who has the most uncanny ability to locate gorgeous cookies (and cakes). Alicia has curated a cookie Pinfest and this is one board I love to follow.

If your not sure what Pintrest is, it's a kinda online scrapbook for everything not just cookies and you get to peek into everyone else's stuff. It's kinda Pindictive (addictive not vindictive) at first as there is just so much loveliness to behold in the world.

I'm not sure how Alicia finds all these gorgeous cookies I'm just happy that she finds ones like this

Source: adozeneggs.com via Alicia on Pinterest

 cookie by a Dozen Eggs Bake Shop

and these....

Source: flickr.com via Alicia on Pinterest

 cookie by sweetapolita

and so many more you'll have to pop over there and have look yourself.

If you have any cookie crushes yourself, don't keep them to yourself please share. I am going to post some more soon and I would love to hear what your cookie crushing on at the moment either here on the comments or at BubbleandSweet(at)hotmail(dot)com - you know the drill just replace the (at) with an @ and the (dot) with an actual dot.

Party Bunting Sugar Cookies

I'm recovering from a little bit of surgery at the moment and I'm pretty sure there will be no baking around here for about a week, also very little sitting in front of the computer or taking photo's.

So I've had a quick search through some of my photo's to see if there was anything worthwhile and found these pretty and simple bunting cookies I made back in February for a magazine photo shoot. They didn't end up using these ones, they took the flashy lollipop cookies instead, but I kinda preferred these ones with their simple shapes and white background.

After I found these I noticed my previous post with the cherry cookies were exactly the same round cookie cutter and white background with a simple design as well.

Obviously I'm all about the simple things, I like to think that's my strong point, here at Bubble and Sweet we're all for simply sweet treats.

So once again take a sugar cookie and cover in shop bought white ready roll fondant or home made marshmallow fondant. To do this you roll out fondant quite thinly and cut out the round shape with the same cookie cutter you have used to cut the cookie so they should be the same size. Brush a little water onto the cookie using a clean brush and adhere the fondant pressing it on lightly with a rolling pin.

Then cut out some small triangles and make the bunting shape. I used small ateco triangles from my fondant cutter shapes and trimmed a tiny amount of the top of each one, but you could just draw a template and cut them yourself with a sharp knife. Then adhere each of the little triangle buntings with a tiny amount of water starting from one end of the cookie and working your way across to the other end with a slight curve down to look like flags hanging from a string.

 

This design is easy to adapt to any colour theme, a light blue background with red and white bunting, or green with lilac and pink would look perfect. If you like you can even get an edible marker and write on the bunting.

Here is a link to my sugar cookie recipe or chocolate sugar cookie recipe

Here is a link to marshmallow fondant recipe

Cherry Love Cookies for the Polkadot Prints printable range

Do you love cherries like I love cherries.

If the answer is yes you must check out the gorgeous new Polkadot Prints Cherry Love printables range.

 

Yup Love It! Told you. Especially the straw tags. I Love them! They are the new must have bling for you party drinks and would also look great on cake pops as well.

I baked up some cookies and some little cherry pies to go along with the printables for a set of photo's taken by Naomi V Photography.

The cookies are so simple, just a large round sugar cookie topped with white ready rolled fondant, a couple of smaller circles of ready rolled fondant and then a hand shaped stem and leaves.

The green ones are a ruffled round cutter (I used one from my Ikea cookie cutter set) sugar cookie topped with a green round ready rolled fondant cut out. Hand shaped round balls of red fondant, hand shaped stems and leaves and then some dots of royal icing around the edges.

Cherry Love printables - totally sweet, you can check out Jordan from Polkadot prints blog post on it here.

Oh and the pie crust recipe is from my book being released in December, Sweets on a Stick, it's the sugar pie crust recipe I use to make all my pie pops with.