Chewie and BB8

Peppa Pig Cookies

Elf 2014

A Cookie About Nothing

I don't know how I get so lucky to have some of the coolest customers ever.  Like this one who ordered a dozen Seinfeld inspired cookies to celebrate her 37th birthday.  I mean, how cool is that?  I got a little carried away because Seinfeld is one of my all time favorite shows, so she got half a dozen bonus cookies because I just couldn't stop myself.  Too many classic moments to cookify.  See if your favorites made the cookie cut.  Enjoy!

The full set.

JERRY COOKIES

The Puffy Shirt

Fusilli Jerry

The Contest

Monk's Diner

GEORGE COOKIES

"The Timeless Art of Seduction"

Alter Ego: Art Vandelay

Festivus Pole

The Soup Nazi

Del Boca Vista

ELAINE COOKIES

"Little Kicks" Dance

Love her feet.

The Urban Sombrero

Muffin Tops

"What about the breathing, the panting, the moaning, the screaming?"

KRAMER COOKIES

Kramerica Industries

The Bro/Manzier

"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"

Ass Man

Star Wars Cookies

Arabian Nights Cookies

Having Faith - Character Cookie Tutorial

I'm no character cookie veteran, so it always makes me cringe a little when I get an order for them.   But I have learned one thing, you've got to break a few eggs to make an omelette.  What I mean is, it's going to look terrible before it looks good. 

Exhibit A:  Real Mermaid of Orange County

You've seen her at South Coast Plaza or down at Newport Beach; the heavy eye makeup, the weirdly drawn in eyebrows, the blown out lips.  It's a little unnatural and off putting.  It's a character cookie before its "skin" has been filled in, and it makes me nervous EVERY TIME.

I've figured out that I need to use a number 2 tip to out line the facial features because the skin tone is going to "eat" into my drawing on either side of the linework, making the lines much smaller and finer (sometimes disappearing all together because my icing consistency is off just a hair and too runny - grrr...).

Better.

Next step is the fun one as the character finally starts to look like her old self.  I go in and fill with a gooey (not runny) icing consistency, using a number 1 tip to help me keep definition in the smaller areas.  I start in the largest area and work towards the small delicate spaces.  In this case, I started with the chest and shoulders, up the neck and then sloooowly and carefully around the facial features.  I try not to ice right up to the features because I know the icing is going to settle and touch them on its own.  If I piped it right up to  the mouth, I might lose the entire top lip (as you can see I lost a lot of my black eye outline).  I don't, however, want any gaps so I might work the icing to touch my outlines with a toothpick if they need some coaxing.

Final product.

This part I haven't perfected either, but I think a little bit of detailing (chin line, nose, shoulder) helps bring her to life.  And there you have it.  My take on character cookies.  With more practice, they can only get better!

Cookie Quickie: Hello Kitty 2.0

Here she is.  Sweet and simple.  The birthday girl wanted her bow in brown and pink and we were happy to oblige.  On a side note, it cracks me up.  On Facebook I can post about a pretty intricate and labor intensive cookie design and get a smattering of response.  But post about this relatively easy design (I know, I know, of a much beloved character) and I get  a couple hundred virtual thumbs up in no time.  Just an observation.

Cookie Quickie: PeeWee Herman

"I know you are, but what am I?" What you are, PeeWee, is proof that sometimes things don't always come together as you envision and cookie-fying recognizable figures is really, really hard!  I think the hairline and red bow tie might just have saved these.

Cookie Quickie: Optimus Prime

Here's a quick post about a set of a dozen Optimus Prime Transformer cookies done for one of Baby Sugar's long time pal's birthday party.  These were crazy labor intensive cookies with tons of tiny spaces to fill, but they were my redemption cookies for another set of Transformer cookies I'd attempted awhile back that looked like poop.  I feel like I've redeemed myself with this set and hope never to have to do them again!