Put a Ring on It

For these cookies I bought silver AmeriColor Amerimist Airbrush Color. I was a little apprehensive because I hadn't used the edible paint on royal icing before. I've used the gold before (on fondant for the Hunger Games Cake) and it worked out pretty well, so I was hoping for similar results on icing.

When I rolled out the dough, I used a bottle cap to indent a circle in the middle. I have a pretty steady hand, but not one that can draw a perfect circle. After they were baked and cooled, I outlined in royal icing, then went back and filled them all in. (Is it just me, or when the ring is upside down, does it look an awful lot like Kenny from South Park?)

Once the icing hardened, I painted the ring silver. The paint softened the royal icing, so you have to make sure to let it harden again after painting. I was a little worried that the paint would taste funny (I didn't eat the painted fondant because ewww fondant is gross) but you couldn't taste it at all!

I also put disco dust on the diamond for that extra SPARKLE.

When they were all done I boxed them up and they were ready to go!

Bridal Shower Desserts Part 3

Here are the rest of the desserts I made for Kim's shower! Did I mention how much I loved the color scheme? Because I LOVE the color scheme! First - a major shout out to Mackenzie who came over the night before the shower and helped me to make all the desserts. I would have been up till the wee hours had she not showed up!! For the heart shaped rice krispy treats we dyed the marshmallow goo pink and then cut them out with cookie cutters.

I got yellow and orange candy melts as well as chocolate chips to dip the hearts in. 

This is a great way to spice up your rice krispies!

Next I made my traditional wedding shower cookies in the shapes of dresses and cakes. I used lemon flavoring in my royal icing to give them an extra springy taste. I dyed some of the leftover fondant from my Hunger Games cake to make bows and flowers to decorate the cookies.

Then of course I doused them in disco dust!!

Bridal Showers and Cherry Blossoms

This weekend was my friend Kim's bridal shower. We had a blast! I LOVED the color scheme too - we did a spring brunch and our colors were pink, orange, yellow, and green. It's a wonderful color combination. The sun even decided to make an appearance long enough for us to take pictures outside!

I made yellow and pink heart sugar cookies with the bride and groom's name in them. Tomorrow I'll post about the other desserts I made. Yesterday I ran in the Cherry Blossom 10-miler. I PRd with a time of 1:44:39 (according to my phone). Here's me around mile 4:

Haha, I love the woman behind me. The fun things you can do when you have your smart phone with you on a run ;) The weather was a little chilly, but great for running. Afterwards we went to fill our calorie deficit at Cheesecake factory. What a GREAT weekend. 

Bridal Shower Desserts Part 2

The Message in a Cookie cutter may be one of the best things I ever purchased. It's fitting that the first time I used it was for Sara's bridal shower as she is the one who told me about them.

The set comes with 3 cookie cutter shapes - rectangle, star, and heart. Each cutter has a track you can put letters on to personalize your message. The kit comes with a few words (Happy, Birthday, Congratulations, etc) and a lot of individual letters. You just pick out your message; slide it into the tracks, and walla! Awesome cookie!

I just saw that they have this for Christmas cookies as well. I NEED TO BUY THEM IMMEDIATELY. 

Bridal Shower Desserts Part 1

There are only FOUR days until Sara & Scotty's wedding!!!! SO EXCITING. I thought we'd reminisce about Sara's bridal shower this week. We had a red themed shower so all of the desserts were red. I made red velvet cupcakes, red sugar cookies (look for a post on those Thursday!), my standby iced bridal sugar cookies, and raspberry mousse cups.

I have 3 of Wilton's dessert shells candy molds. Each of the molds makes 3 shells. I also have 2 accent candy molds. The shells were a little bit of a pain to make, if oxygen gets in it'll turn your chocolate a weird chalky color. And some of them broke when I took the mold apart. But that's not a huge deal; you just melt down the broken bits and use them again! Once I got the hang of it, it was much quicker and I didn't break as many.

I looked up a raspberry mousse recipe online. Next time I will strain all the seeds out. I'm not a fan of raspberry seeds and there were A LOT. I filled each shell, refrigerated for about 30 minutes then topped them with the accent candies. This is also a great dessert if you have friends on a gluten free diet!