Elephant Themed Baby Girl Shower Decorated Cookie Collection

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I'd just like to say that this "being a GRAMMY" phenomenon is incredibly wonderful.
My second grandchild arrived late this spring.....HER name is Emmy Kate.  💗

I already LOVE to create cookies for others, but when it's for my grandchildren, it is the BEST.
Just knowing that some day Emmy will see the photos of these cookies and delight in the idea that she is so incredibly loved by her Grammy.......brings me pure joy.
Plus, I love to spoil those around me with cookies.
And baking/decorating is definitely my love language. :)

The  baby shower had an elephant theme......so creating cute elephants and lots of other baby cookies to match was super fun.

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Ellie the Elephant Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

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Elephant Cookie Cutter by BobbisCookiesCutters

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Romper Cutter & Onesie w/ Bow Cutter

Welcome Emmaline Kate!
We think you're awesome...... 💗💗💗

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Ellie the Elephant Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

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When I was approached about contributing an animal shape for Cookie Cutters for Charity, I immediately knew I wanted to do an elephant. My daughter-in-law was using elephants to decorate for our second grandchild arriving in May 2017. I had already planned to make some cute elephant cookies for the baby shower. So this was the perfect chance to come up with a cute shape for both the shower and the charity event. It was a win win for both!

The entire collection of animal cutters from a host of awesome decorators is now available HERE. There are 17 different shapes and a beautiful booklet sharing about each decorator and their contribution. 

100% of the profits from the sale of these cutters goes toward the Helping Hands, Inc ministry in India which teaches underprivileged women some professional baking/decorating skills for a job. What a blessed ministry!

Animal Cookie Cutter Set for Charity

Ellie the Elephant (which is not an original name.....but since my granddaughter is Emmy, it fit) was born.

She's pretty easy to decorate. Just outline and flood the entire shape in the color glaze of your choice. Add a wet-on-wet pattern if desired. Allow it to dry for about 1 hour before adding a second layer for the head, ears, and trunk. (see photos below)

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While the second layer is still wet, add two black pearls for her eyes.

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And if you are so inclined, add stitch marks and eyebrows with a black edible food color marker.

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Pirate Ship Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

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Oh the pirates...... my first grandbaby has a baby room decorated in a pirate theme.
So naturally the baby shower was also themed in pirates.

Every pirate must have a ship to sail, right?

A chubby oval shape works perfectly for this pirate ship.

Using a tiny round cutter (or other circle template) and a black marker, make the portholes on the lower half of the cookie.
I used a 1/2" circle cutter to outline the circles using Sugarbelle's template markers, and then I filled them in with an Americolor black marker.

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Outline & flood the bottom 2/3 of cookie with brown glaze (be sure to outline the portholes too).
(see photo below)

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Add a brown mast from the center of the ship to the top of the cookie.
Allow it to dry for 1-2 hours.
Then add the large white sail and the smaller black sail. (see photo below)

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If desired, add red stitch lines around the white sail, blue scallops on the bottom of the ship to represent waves, and paint a skull-crossbones on the black sail with Americolor white gel.

Ahoy matey...... you're ready to sail. :)

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Baby Boy Little Man Cookie Collection

Mustaches and bow ties are so big right now for baby boy showers.

I kept seeing all the cute cookies.....and the cute cutters.

So I couldn't resist.

I went all out and made a whole collection of cookies for a baby boy shower. :)

Mustache Cookies (Tutorial)

 NeckTie & BowTie Cookies (Tutorial)

Baby Boy Little Man Cookie Collection

Mustache Cookies (Tutorial)

  NeckTie & BowTie Cookies (Tutorial)

Baby Boy Little Man Cookie Collection

Sweet Pea Baby Shower

I had fun assignment last month......to create cookies for a sweet pea baby shower. :) I got license to do whatever I wanted in the colors provided. I LOVE those kind of orders. :)))))

Here's the flowers I did for the game prizes.....

I attempted to paint a "sweet pea" flower......a total failure, but I took a pic of it anyway.....to remind myself that I can NOT paint on cookies. ;)

The entire collection.....

I'm doing lots of fun fall cookies lately......so I need to get those posted soon since it is most certainly fall all around us. :)