I love to create new sets of cookies. Designing a new cookie set is actually one of the best parts for me. When I design a cookie, I first map it out in my head and start to get a feel for what I want it to look like. Then I trace an outline of the cookies with the cookie cutter and draw it out. With these cookies, I used pre-made icing decorations and hand-made ones as well. I used a lot of edible sparkles, and I hand-painted edible gold on the details of the cookies. Things get pretty serious in cookie decorating when you're holding a paint brush. You start to feel like an artist painting a layered canvas, haha. There's royal icing and then there's abstract oil paining.
I'm not sure if it's just the nostalgia from when I performed, or just because they are kinda cute, but these cookies are my some of my favorite! I love the Nutcracker and always look forward to going around Christmas time. Its' become one of our family traditions, especially since my two oldest girls perform now. I figure I've perform in over a hundred Nutcracker's since about the time I was 12, and I can't listen to the music without feeling the need to start dancing.
I hope you're enjoying this wonderful time of year!
Merry Christmas!
xoxo
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