Carrie’s Sweet Life

I knew I wanted to make something special for my SIL’s for hosting my baby shower, I had saw cookie bouquets long time ago and decided it was time to give it ago. And I am happy to report that for the most part they turned out excellent!!!!!

Me being me had to ofcourse try a new sugar cookie recipes, I wasn’t very impressed with these and thought them to be a little bland and next time will use this recipe which has proven to be my favorite. In the end I had LOTS of fun with this project and can’t wait to have a reason to make them again.

Sugar Cookies (Found On: Ambers Delectable Delights, Orginally From: Annie’s Eats)

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• ½ t. almond extract
• 1 t. vanilla
• 1 t. salt
• 2 ½ c. sifted flour

Cream butter. Add powdered sugar. Blend in egg, almond extract, vanilla, salt and flour. Chill dough until firm.

Roll to ¼” thickness on well-floured surface. Cut with cookie cutters. Place on greased cookie sheets. Bake at 375° for 8-10 min.

Cookies should not brown. Frost and decorate when cool.

Yields ~40 cookies.

Royal Icing (From: Wilton)

• 3 tablespoons Meringue Powder
• 4 cups (about 1 lb.) confectioners’ sugar
• 6 tablespoons warm water

Beat all ingredients until icing forms peaks (7-10 minutes at low speed with a heavy-duty mixer, 10-12 minutes at high speed with a hand-held mixer).

Cookie Bouquets

To make the cookies I rolled out the dough as instructed and then pushed a cookie stick into the back of it and baked it as stated. Only about 1/2 my sticks stuck the rest fell out but I was able to get them back in with frosting. I am not sure how to do it so they would bake completely in.

I let the cookies cool completely over night before frosting, I frosted as wanted with royal icing and let icing harden.

In my tins (bought from Target) I bought styrofoam to hold the cookies in place.

Once cookies are set wrap in baggies and twist tie to keep freshness, place in foam in tin, wrap tissue paper around sticks to cover up the foam.

**Make sure you put the sticks in the foam BEFORE putting the tissue paper in, I tried to push the stick through the paper and that did NOT work.