Lily's Bag o' Cookies

My niece Lily had her 3rd birthday in January. As we already had a cake loaded with yummy buttercream for her party, I was very reluctant to flood the cookies (royal icing does have quite a high sugar content), so I just outlined them.

Lily is a very active and playful 3 year old with a voice reaching towards the high Cs. Any more sugar will just get her bouncing off the walls. Put 5 kids below 8 years old together, feed them cake and what do you get? An appointment with the ear doctor for sure.

Small Aqiqah Pram

Baby Nik Aiman Hakim had his aqiqah last January. His mummy ordered these small prams to be given away as gifts to the aqiqah guests. Cost per cookie: RM3+ RM1 (for customised name).

Aqiqah Pram

Oh me oh my... I did it again, didn't I? I can't believe I let a month and a half go by without posting anything. A slap on the wrist I should get. Or a rap on the knuckles with a wooden ruler like my piano teacher used to do. Ouch!

Anyway... In January one of my BFFs had an aqiqah for her newborn. It's a large pram- 10 cm. As the handle of the pram was dangerously prone to breaking off, I placed the cookies on corrugated cardboards to support it. Cost per cookie is RM5- flooded and customised, i.e. name on the cookie.

Gingerbread garden

Wow! Has it been a whole month since my last post? I'm afraid I got caught up with the school hols, back-to-school wave and Chinese New Year celebrations (duly celebrated by yours truly as a Malaysian, of course) that I didn't manage any new posts.

Anyhoo, I made these cookies for sweet Tia who turned 4 in January. The cookies are gingerbread and outlined in pink, yellow and white. I sent the cookies to Tropicana where the birthday party was held and almost jumped out of my skin when greeted by a six-foot tall Elmo. Huh? I thought he was supposed to be only knee-high.

Elmo and the Cookie Monster

Last week, Rin from Delishdelight presented me a challenge. Elmo and the Cookie Monster cookies for her son's 1st birthday. I didn't have the specific cutter for the shapes and neither have I decorated cookies based on existing designs. But I couldn't resist testing unchartered waters (for me that is) and... voila! Not too bad for a first timer, eh?

Getting the colours right was a bit tricky (I still don't think I got the shade quite right). Rin suggested putting some cookie crumbs at the side of the Monster's mouth. Pretty good idea, eh? These 7cm cookies are RM3.50 each. They cost a little more than the usual as I had to put my jigsaw puzzle skills together to get the shape right. Rather tricky as the dough was rather sticky. I'm glad I tried it.

Hearts

These heart cookies embellished with silver balls are perfect as an engagement gift. They kinda look like brooches.

Caterpillars n Butterflies

Butterflies. Beautiful, graceful winged creatures. If not for caterpillars, we won't have butterflies. If only caterpillars didn't look so squirmy (or they look like those cookie caterpillars), I would sing equal praises for them.

My eldest son has this thing for squishing bugs and creepy crawlies. Dang! Some of those bugs smell real bad. I think just because I have a great aversion towards worms and slimy stuff, doesn't mean my sons have to feel the same way. I just tell them to take the garden snail far, far away from me (yeah... like they listen). They somehow have this great perversion to see their mummy run the opposite direction screaming.