The change of all the seasons is always such a special time of year,
but after a cold bleak winter, spring is most definitely welcomed.
What better way to celebrate spring than to observe every thing blooming all around!
Bird egg cookies are really simple.
I debated on whether or not they were too simple to include in a blog tutorial.
But some of my readers request simple cookies, so here it is.
Use a mini egg cutter like this one to cut the cookies.
Outline and flood the cookies with white glaze.
Allow the cookies to dry overnight.
Rub some blue forget-me-not dust onto random spots of each egg with a cotton swab.
Add speckles to the eggs using Sugarbelle's template markers.
With this awesome basketweave mold, it's fairly easy to make basket cookies just in time to "fill" them with spring flowers.
Place the mold face down over sugar cookie dough.
Using a rolling pin over the top of the mold, impress the dough with basketweave.
Take the cutter of your choice (I chose a tall rectangle) to cut out the cookie.
Feel free to leave the top portion of the cookie smooth for adding flowers. (see photo below)
Bake and cool the cookies as normal.
Cut out flowers using mini cookie cutters. I like to make the dough fairly thin so the flowers are not too overpowering on top of the basket cookie. Decorate these beauties as desired.
Brush chestnut dust over the basketweave portion of the molded cookies.
Add a greenery background on top of the basket by outlining and flooding it with green glaze.
Adhere the flowers on top of the basket with more green glaze. Add additional flowers and vines as desired.
