My favourite cookies that I made again a few days ago. A friend was going down South for a birthday & wedding in the family, & her son insisted on taking these & some mini muffins for his cousins’ birthday. Got down to baking some of these attractive cookies that add colour to any table & I never tire of making them. I feel like a great painter adding colour to my canvas! Small pleasures, & very therapeutic indeed…
Hearts piled high…
The basic sugar cookie recipe is the same one that I use for ‘Smartie Cookies’. It’s a very versatile one, and works well with this recipe. For the icing, I use powdered sugar mixed with just enough water to make it thick & flowing, then colour according to requirement, and drizzle it on the cookies. I leave them to dry out overnight in trays in the oven, and sometimes give them a minute in a hot oven to get rid of any moisture (depends on the weather actually). Though a bit fiddly to ice, practice makes them better each time.
‘Wheat ,FLOUR,Flowers…& bees for company!’
This is heading as my entry for Jugalbandi’s Click February 2008…the topic for the month being ‘Flour’. The bees seem to be there for Bee…(donno how to make a Jai)!
Assorted cookies – hearts, flowers, stars, bees , leaves…
…in the rays of the rising sun.
I had so much fun doing these…
they r sooooooooooo pretty!
Deeba, they truly look colorful n yum!
How can someone eat something so beautiful. These look great.
You a have developed good mastery over cookies and coupled with your creativity,the cookies must have been happy with your singing while making them. And yes, chocolate pistachio cake as asleep-over for kids is a very good idea.
Cheers to you.
As usual, they look so pretty Deeba !! A great entry for Click. Love your choice of colours on all these cookies.
They look so pretty and yummy. I want a batch right now 😀
Sorry I haven’t visited you so often but I was sick and in bed for more than a week. Fortunately I am well now and I am visiting my favorite blogs again 😀
thanks for your lovely entry, dear deeba.
Oh they are beautiful. The colors are so nice. especially the ones tied up.
They are gorgeous. I wouldn’t mind getting them as a gift. 😉
aww, those are adorable flower cookies.
Hi Deeba, I came across your blog last mth when I was searching for marzipan…These cookis look really yum..You have a very nice & easy way to decorate your cookies / cakes..
I always see some silver bead like things on the flowers or cookies?..Can u please tell me what are those?..And when do u fix them on the cookies..I mean do they need to be put on the cookie before baking…please clarify..
Thanks,
Deepa
Hi Deepa,the silver mimosa balls or dragees are fixed on the basic cookie before baking. If you want them on the icing, then its after baking them. If you take a close look, some are fixed on the cookie, while others are on the icing. Hope I make sense!
Hi Deepa,the silver mimosa balls or dragees are fixed on the basic cookie before baking. If you want them on the icing, then its after baking them. If you take a close look, some are fixed on the cookie, while others are on the icing. Hope I make sense!
Hmm..Thanks Deeba..Now I saw carefully & I got it that some balls are in th ecookie & some are on icing.
Thanks for your respones..I was awaiting for it..
hey u have a gr8 collection of recipes here….u r truly a gr8 cook…thanks for sharing it with us..