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My best friend's baby shower is next Sunday, and I will be making either sugar or shortbread cookies and icing them. Her nursery theme is "Busy Bee", so I need

**Sticky** · February 24th, 2008, 06:25 PM

My best friend's baby shower is next Sunday, and I will be making either sugar or shortbread cookies and icing them. Her nursery theme is "Busy Bee", so I need to make some kind of cookie that can be rolled out and cut with a cookie cutter (in the shape of a bee).

Do any of you have kickass cookie recipes, for cookie-cutter cookies that can be iced?

And also, is there an icing recipe out there that will harden for decorative purposes and not turn soft?

Thanks

Unruely35 · February 24th, 2008, 07:41 PM

If you have cooling grates, this is a good one for covering the entire cookie

Wilton: Recipe Box: Large Batch Quick-Pour Cookie Icing Recipe

then, you can use colored royal icing for piping the designs and details.

Wilton: Recipe Box: Royal Icing

I know youre crafty, but I have a million tips and icing colors that are sitting and waiting for me to do something with. Before you buy anything, hit me up to see if I have it first.

**mcsorleyminute** · February 24th, 2008, 08:55 PM

Creative time-saving

Yellow food coloring in the cookie batter+black frosting for bee stripes=more time to sleep in before the shower on Sunday. Just a thought.

Cold dough is easier to roll out for me, so if it were my project I'd make the dough Fri. night and fridge overnight in fist-sized balls (one fist=one sheet o' cookies) .

edit* fyi: that smiley came up all by itself... wtf?

**Sticky** · February 24th, 2008, 09:29 PM

When you type the word "idea" with a colon after it, it automatically inserts the smiley.

Thanks for the suggestions, you guys. I was hoping for an alternative to Royal Icing, though. I'm familiar with it, because it's the same stuff I use as mortar to hold together gingerbread houses. It's hard and crunchy, and not the best-tasting. But, I guess if I have to use it for the result I'm looking for, then I will.

Ruely: I already have every bottle of food coloring imaginable. But thanks for the offer! Wanna get together and bake cookies?

Unruely35 · February 24th, 2008, 10:29 PM

you could use a buttercream, but leave them out overnight/several hours so the buttercream gets a nice crust....

or you could try the color flow icing...

Wilton: Recipe Box: Wilton Color Flow Icing Recipe

when ya talkin about going on this cookie fiesta??

HOCKEYAHOLIC · February 24th, 2008, 11:00 PM

Ya ever use applesauce instead of oil. way less fat and taste the same.

Call me, I got some frosting for ya

ewgirl · February 25th, 2008, 12:06 AM

i got an awesome sugar cookie recipe if ya want it.. pm me.

I also make frosting out of powder sugar and milk... (add butter if you want a butter flavor). Make it a little bit on the thicker side, but thin enough to spread! Cheap and easy.. It goes a long way!

Unruely35 · February 25th, 2008, 07:36 AM

powdered sugar + Milk + butter = buttercream frosting.

Post your recipe here!!! This forum is totally about sharing... and sharing *IS* caring!!!

**Sticky** · February 26th, 2008, 05:56 PM

Well, as it turns out, the baby shower is kind of on hold at the moment, because the mother-to-be is in the hospital. We don't know if she's going to have to have an emergency cesarean or what.

But, if I do make the cookies, it will have to be Friday afternoon or Saturday sometime.