A Cookie Birthday for CookieCrazie's 4th!

It's here!

The birthday is finally here......

Come in.....make yourselves at home.

I have all the decorations (uhhh....COOKIES!) in place....

I made some birthday banners.....

All the decorations are happily waiting to celebrate.

Oh.....and I made you a very special cake.

It is a SEVEN layer cookie cake.

Yes, us cookie girls can make cake too. (well.....sort of!)

Of course, it is not beautifully decorated

like real birthday cakes might be.....

but I did the best I could with glaze
and a big stack of round cookies. :)

OK......the candles are lit
(they've been burnin' for days now, lol) 

and it is time to sing. :)

"Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday dear CookieCrazie,

Happy Birthday to you."

Did you sing? 

I've cut the cake so that everyone may have a slice......

Ahhh.....come on, just one small slice.....

 What an awesome party!

I'm so glad you came.

If you haven't signed up for the birthday give-away,

but sure to do that before tomorrow (Monday) midnight, CST.

You don't want to miss the chance

at all those great prizes!

If you haven't seen SweetSugarBelle's awesome

gift to CookieCrazie, check it out HERE.

And now for even more fun.
Bring some cookies to the party to share!

Even if you don't have a blog, 

you can share your cookie photos 

from Flickr and Facebook too.

So.....consider this a gift to CookieCrazie's party....

a link to cookies you've made that are your favorites.

And then we all get to enjoy the gifts together. :)

It is my honor to host this party and have you all here.

Thank you for being the best blog followers ever!

I appreciate each and everyone of you.

I'm so glad for the opportunity to share my creations with you.

I hope they at least delight you......

and if they can inspire you as well......

that makes me so happy.

May we have many more birthdays ahead to celebrate

all the blessings God gives us. :)

A Birthday Cookie Cake

Someone asked me to make a birthday cookie cake for their daughter. I had never made such a large cookie before, and I was a bit nervous.

Since it was so large (about the size of a small pizza), I was concerned that it would not get done in the middle. And then there was the issue of what to bake it in and then how to present it to the customer. I finally settled on buying a disposable aluminum pizza pan....and everything worked out fine.

Decorating such a large surface was very new to me. I know it is like decorating a cake, but I had never done it before. And let's just say, I wasn't very good at making enough of the main colored icing that would cover the majority of the cake. I had no idea it would take that much! Also....the icing dries faster than you want when you are covering that big of an area. I ended up with a "dry line" down part of the middle area. :(

This was the first time I've used my KopyKake.....finally! I wanted the writing to look nice, so I jumped over that hurdle of using a new contraption (sometimes that is hard to do). I was pretty happy about how the writing turned out. And now that I've used the KK.....I anticipate I will use it more often. Somehow I had to get over the "fear & unknown" of using it. Must have worked....because I used it yesterday for some tricky golf cookies I am working on. :)

For presentation of the cookie cake, I chose the window box I'd gotten from BRP Box Shop. How cool that you could see the majority of the design. :)

Coming up this weekend..... I'll show you some train cookies I did last week. Another first for me......I hadn't done trains before and they pure joy to decorate. :)