Princess Sugar Cookies

Saturday, my place of working was evacuated because of a gas leak in the street. What better what better way to spend my time than to go to Michael's?????

I couldn't resist the temptation!

First thing I did when I walked through the door was make my way over to the Wilton products. And these little jewels caught my eye. [Amongst many other things...]

Adorable little princess cookie cutters! Now, I'm not one to stock up on cookie cutters.. My mom has a drawer full of them that I go to when in need of sugar cookies. But I couldn't NOT buy these. They were just too cute. And they are soooo me.. high heels.. tiaras.. princess castle.. Yep, I was done for as soon as I saw them.

So I came home and planned on making some more sugar cookies to practice the Royal flood icing method.

Aren't they just so cute?

My little helper had these counted, but I don't remember how many we had.

After my cookies were cooling, I made up a batch of Royal icing. :)

~2 lbs. of Powdered Sugar

~1/3 cup + 1 TBS of Meringue Powder

~3/4 cup warm water

[I added about 1 1/2 TBS of Almond Extract for taste.]

Black, Pink, Blue, White!

They were pretty fun to decorate, and I'm excited for new decorations! 

Hopefully you'll see my next adventure this weekend... It's gonna be a big one!

Thanks for reading!

Flooding Cookies!!!

I decided I wanted to make some super cute sugar cookies, but I wasn't up for the idea of trying to make things work with piping decorations on my cookies, and finding cute shapes to cut out.

So, I went with the easy route of plain circle cookies, and tried my hand at Royal icing!

I must say this was so fun and easy, that I don't think I'll ever frost sugar cookies any other way again!

After doing a little bit of searching on Google and different blogs, and watching several YouTube videos, I finally found a Royal icing recipe I liked from SweetSugarBelle. It didn't taste so great though, so next time I'm going to use more almond extract as flavoring.

I had my little helper with me, and we got busy rolling out dough and cutting circles.

And then we waited until they all baked and cooled before we got busy decorating!

I went and bought these cute little bottles at WalMart for three bucks, and they were perfect for the Royal flood icing method. 

Then I just went to town! I came up with random little swirly's and polka dots in these cute colors.

When they dried over night, I was able to stack them on plates and take them around to friends around town. Everyone loved them, and I have definitely found a new way to decorate my sugar cookies!

Thanks for reading!