Take-A-Peek Tuesday! Easter Cookie Tutorial!

It's Take-A-Peek Tuesday!
This week I've got a peek at the decorating process for you!
Remember those little teeny tiny bunny bottoms?

Wanna make some of your own?
Here you go!
These are quite possibly the easiest cookies ever.
I used:
1. White royal icing, both piping and flood consistency 2. Pink royal icing, 20-second consistency 3. White Sparkling Sugar

Use your favorite sugar cookie recipe (you can find mine HERE) and cut out bunny head shaped cookies.  

Any bunny head will do, just make sure it has great ears.






Then....turn it upside-down.

See, the ears are now the feet!

Outline the ears/feet, then the body. I used a number 3 tip, but use what you're comfortable with.

This is a great example of a cookie that you don't need a tip for. You could put the icing into a pastry bag or plastic baggy and just snip off the very tip.

Fill the body with flood icing and let that dry at least an hour.

Then fill in the feet with the same icing.

Let this dry for a few hours.

For the pads of the feet and toes I use a squeeze bottle filled with 20 second icing.

The feet are just an oval in the middle and three little dots for toes.

aaaaaaand.....more drying time.

It needs to dry all the way so you don't smudge

 your pretty bunny pedicure with the sugar.

The key to fluffy tails is Sparkling Sugar instead of Sanding Sugar.

See?  Really big....like kosher salt, but sweet.

Use your white piping icing and pipe a half a sphere for the tail 

and immediately cover all the wet icing with sparkling sugar.

Shake off the excess and let them dry!

(these bunnies were up much to late, it was getting dark!)

Little tiny bunny tushies!!
You can make great big ones too if you want... I won't tell.

Easter Cookies....What's in the Garden Today?!

When Bonnie and Trish from Uncommon Designs asked if I could make cookies for their  Easter Tablescape project, these popped in my head.

I made them last year and couldn't wait to make them again...with a few added ideas.

Same little bunny tushies, but the carrots are a bit bumpy now.
Trish thought these would be perfect for a Garden Patch Dirt Cake.

Which made me think.... 'We need a few garden signs!' What should they say?

That gardener probably doesn't need all those carrots, he can sell one or two.

Free?  Why would the bunnies be free? They're so cute!

Oh my, okay.  The bunnies shouldn't be eating the carrots. That's just bad manners.

I love them just like they are but....





 how sweet is this cake!!

I'll be needing to make this for Easter for sure!
You can see lots more pictures and fabulous ideas for your Easter table  at Uncommon Designs all week.

There's a new tablescape everyday!

Happy Easter to you too little bunny. (At least one little guy remembered his manners!)

I almost forgot...I made a little tutorial for these bunny tail cookies!
Come back tomorrow for Take-A-Peek Tuesday.  Its a tutorial edition!
AND
it's the last day to enter the GIVEAWAY! Good Luck!

Bunnies Who Love Carrots

He doesn't like to talk about it....

...but the Easter Bunny...

...has hoarding issues.

Thanks for stopping by,

Lizy B

Pretty Little Bunny Cookies!

I loved Mr. Bunny...really I did.

But, he looked a little lonely didn't he....

I made him a girlfriend!!

(*wink*)

She needs a name....

Becky?

Bridget?

Bree?

Oh no!

Becky, Bridget AND Bree!!!!

That Mr. Bunny sure does get around....

Want to guess what comes next?

Baby bunny cookies....in a box!

Looks like I'm going to need a few more homes for all these bunnies.....

Thanks for stopping by,

Lizy B

Personalized Easter Egg Cookies!

I can't seem to let a holiday go by without putting a name on something.

I could say I don't know why...but I do.

Personalized goodies were a hard to come by when I was a kid.

Every time I spotted a spinning rack of keychains or mugs or mini license plates

I made a beeline towards it and began searching...

Want to know how often I found 'Elizabeth' on those racks?

ZERO!

Okay, maybe once or twice...but not on the good stuff.

My name was never on anything cool like,

unicorn barrettes

or

rainbow necklaces

or 

scratch and sniff stickers!!!!!

(really, I'm not bitter at all)

So now, I'll pretty much put a name on anything...

These are for Kelly's little boys!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Don't forget to enter the giveaway over at Managing Marbles!

I'm giving away Easter cookies for your Easter Baskets!!!

Giveaway closed!

Congrats Brooksley!

 Thanks for stopping by,

Lizy B

Easter Bunny Cookies!

There's only one thing better than an Easter Bunny Cookie....

Know what that is?

A really BIG Easter Bunny Cookie!!!!

That's right!!!

He's Supersize!!

That's a 6 inch bunny!

He needs a home don't you think?

Hmmmm....

How should we get him a home?

Any ideas?

I know!

Let's Have A Giveaway!!!!!

(come back tomorrow for details!)

Edit:  Here are the details!!!

Head over to Managing Marbles

for the giveaway!!!!

Winner is chosen on Thursday, March 29th!

Thanks for stopping by,

Lizy B

DIY Peeps Easter Bunny Cutter!

Who doesn't love Peeps!!!

Okay...me.  I don't like them.

Please don't hate me...just not a raw marshmallow fan.

However,  give me a s'more made with a peep and I might bite off your finger.

Maybe that's why I've never made these before.  

 I just might be the very last baker to get around to them.

Until recently, peep cutters were hard to come by.  

Now I've heard that Peeps sells them online and

Copper gifts makes a gorgeous copper peep cutter called

the 'Bunny Bun'.  They even have different sizes!

I've put them into my virtual shopping cart a few times now,

 but they always seem to be the cutters that get left behind when I see my total!!

(copper's not cheap....)

So here we are again, it's Easter time, and I still don't have the right cutter...

(*sigh*)

"NO PEEPS FOR YOU!!!!"

Well we can't have that now can we...?

Time for a little creativity....and pliers.

I found this cookie cutter set at Wal-Mart, in the Easter candy section.

Jack and I were searching for something completely different

 and this jumped off the shelf at me!

I barely had it in my hot little hand when Jack said,

"MooooooooM!  You already have a bunny cutter!"

(some children are much too observant aren't they?)

So I explained to him...

"You know, you're right Jack, I do.  Look at the ears on this bunny though.  

They look a lot like something I need and don't have.  

I think I can turn this into what I need it to be."

.....then...

...after mulling that over for about thirty seconds....

"Mom, can I get that star wars lego set with the clones in it.  

I know I already have it but I can mix up the clones and make new ones.  

I really need it so Ethan and I can have a battle and play together...."

(Little stinker...)

So here's the set that came home with us...

The ears looked just like the ears on a peep to me,

I just needed to get rid of the feet.

I flipped the cutter over 

and just worried about the shape of the edge that would do the cutting.

Its much harder to manipulate the folded/top edge!

It took about five minutes of smushing and pinching 

with a pair of needle-nosed pliers.

No more feet!!!

His cheeks are a little less pointy too.

What do you think?

(they're 4"inches tall, in case you want to make your own!)

Pretty Peepish I'd say!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Lizy B