recycled cookies???

Jessi is having her annual cookie party, but I am busy with Miss Frenchie's Holiday Broncante this weekend and couldn't bake any cookies! So, green living recycler that I am, I decided to recycle an older post about some hand painted cookies. Complete with a baby picture of my Sugarwings, with a big smile on her tiny little face.

Thanks for hosting, Jessi! I'm pre-posting this, since I'll be busy setting up the sale while the party is going on, but I look forward to blog hopping and reading about all the cookie party stories when I get back. That is one of the joys of a virtual party, it never ends!

Which reminds me, I've been thinking about hosting another "What do you LOVE about your Holiday Home?" What do you think? 

Sugarwings Sugarcookies

You add food coloring to clear Karo Corn syrup to make your "paint".

I used coffee stir sticks to mix the colors.

After baking a batch of sugar cookies, I spread white canned icing on one at a time as I was ready to paint them.  If you ice them ahead of time, the icing sets up too hard to paint on.

I dipped a brand new paint brush into the food coloring and started to paint.

For a rose, I used the red food coloring in the clear syrup, and swirled it around, mixing it with the icing itself, which made some areas pink.  I went back with a dot of red on my brush to add a center of the rose.

Using the green and yellow colors, I added leaves and vines.

On some cookies, I used colored sugar sprinkles on the edges. (that also needs to be done while the icing is still soft, not set up)

Keep a glass of warm water handy to rinse the brush out often, it will get clogged up with globs of icing.

After rinsing, make sure you dab off all excess water before dipping into the paint again.

You can also paint direcly onto the cookie, without icing, for  a different look.

I start with the lightest colors first, and add darker ones as I go. 

When you are finished painting, colored sugar lightly sprinkled onto the cookie is a pretty touch, a little like adding the glitter to a collage project! 

I didn't have a butterfly cookie cutter, so I free handed the shape with a knife and cut it out of the dough. I suggest using a cookie cutter instead!!!!

I like to store my painted

cookies under a glass cake dome, but before I do, I let them air dry for a couple of hours at least so they don't stick together.

Comments

[Lee]

I love your cookies!

[clarice]

You even make cookies works of art xoxoxo Clarice

[Sheila R]

I can't believe the artwork on the cookies!! I don't think I would let anyone eat them!

[Bunny Rose Cottage]

Oh Karla, I have never seen such beautiful cookies!! These are just to die for gorgeous!! Is there anything you CANT do??
Hugs,
Amy

[Joanna {sweet finds}]

Hey Karla!

Very neat. I must of missed this post the first go around. Anyhoo, I love the idea... It's so Karla! :)

My free hand painting isn't so great... but it does look like fun. Will definitely have to remember this.
hugs, Joanna

[Thespoena McLaughlin]

Oh, how pretty are those cookies! Beautiful. The only cookie I would think twice about eating because it's so pretty (but the second time would only be a matter of seconds, LOL)

[jessi nagy]

hey sweets,

eeekkk these are gorgeous.
painted cookies. so special.
good luck this weekend.
thanks for playing along.
have a fab holiday season
oxoxo,
Jessi

[Tiffany ~ Shabby Scraps]

I love that you post so much karla, it makes me feel like I am a part of it, and I don't miss you quite so much! (but actually I still do :)
have a great show!
xoxo, Tiffany

[Sarah]

Hey chickadee! I love these cookies I tried them when you posted about them not to long ago! Big hugs
toodles-
Sarah

[Janis]

Hi Karla,
Goodness!! Your cookies are too pretty to eat!!
Sugarwings looks so sweet in the pic too. :)
I'm sure the show will be great!!

Hugs,
Janis

[Lisa]

Oh my, you would be horrified to see the "art" our family creates indeed! Yours are so classy, just like yourself! I never tire of Sugarwings smiling face, it brightens my day!

[Valerie]

Such an adorable Sugarwings - she is so beautiful and fantastic cookies.

Thanks for sharing how to make these gorgeous sugar cookies!

[LORRAINE BELL]

Hi Karla...how sweet are those!!think I might just try them..they look to yummie to eat ...Lorraine

[mendy]

Well those are the prettiest cookies I've ever seen!! You are so talented! I'd love to try my hand at your "painting!" Having fun at the cookie swap! :)mendy

[Jane]

How beautiful - rose painted cookies with the roses on the tablecloth and the napkin! We've always frosted ours with colored frosting, so I want to try this out!
Jane - Jacksonville

[Stephanie O.]

What beautiful cookies!!

[Mitzi Curi]

What an original idea! I've never seen prettier cookies. My mother and I used to make Santa face cookies when I was a kid. They required a special cookie cutter that you had to press the dough into to make an embossed cookie. Then, numerous decorating steps were used to create a really pretty cookie. Santa's beard was shredded coconut pressed into white frosting. It was so fun to help make those little works of art! Very fond memories. Sugarwings will always remember making cookies with you too!

[vivian]

wow! shabby cookies! look so yummy! very impressive Karla!
have a great weekend!

[kayellen]

Beautiful Cookies!!
To pretty to take a bite:)

What a fun post...

Holiday blessings to you!!

Smiles,
kayellen

[HouseHold6]

Those are the prettiest sugar cookies I've ever seen, Karla!

[Bev]

Karla the cookies are so pretty....and yet another perfect picture of your adorable Sugar Wings...what a treasure, she always makes my heart smile...Thank you for sharing her :)

[Suz Reaney]

Karla, I missed this, too, but what a treat...two blog entries! These cookies are so beautiful...you make it look so easy!

Sugarwings has the prettiest eyes I have ever seen! She has always been so cute but she is becoming a beauty.

[Soarenth]

What a great idea to "recycle" a post to still participate. That is so you, Karla. ;->

And the "What do you LOVE about your Holiday Home" party sounds like fun. So much so I might actually decorate a little and take pictures just to join in.

Hope your weekend is fabulous fun!