Showing posts with label circus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label circus. Show all posts
Circus Animal Cookies - Easy Tutorial
April 18th is National Animal Cracker Day and when I think of animal crackers, my mind races back to my childhood with those small frosted circus animal cookies showered in bright sprinkles. They were my favorite and still are. These cookies are incredibly easy to recreate at home and can be used in fun ways. I graced one of my mini cakes with my favorite pink camels and think it's just adorable. How fun would this be for a baby shower or child's first birthday?
What do you need to bring the nostalgia back in the kitchen?
- cookies in animal shapes (I used my lemon gingerbread and I bought my cookie cutters from Wilton on Amazon)
- pink royal icing in 15 second flow ( I used a touch of Americolor electric pink. My royal icing recipe can be found here)
- tiny rainbow sprinkles
These cookies are so easy and fun, you may want to enlist your children or grand-kids to help. Simply outline and fill the animal cookies with pink royal icing. While it is still wet, gingerly add the sprinkles on top of the cookies. Set the decorated cookies in the dehydrator for 10 minutes at 90 degrees. The color of the sprinkles may slightly bleed into the pink, but it is quite minimal.
Mmm! I just love them and hope you do too.
XO,
Jenny
Confection Connection - Circus Cookie Set
Have you had a chance to watch all the videos from this month's cookie set by the Confection Connection? These were so fun to create with my cookie artist friends. I'm already drumming up theme ideas for the end of July. Do you have a suggestion? Email me - I would love to hear from you!
Yesterday I presented you with my circus tent and ticket tutorial. Wouldn't these be perfect for a school carnival or circus themed birthday party? They are fun and easy! And I think that ring leader hat would be awesome for a magician too!
My friend Tiffany of Baking with Best, made such delicious carnival themed food that would be perfect for so many different cookie sets. That pretzel would be fun paired with beer for Father's Day and the snow cone is so patriotic, perfect for this weekend's Fourth of July parties.
Brooke of Brookie's Cookies created the sweetest lion that you could ever imagine trying to tame. I love the extra sparkles on his mane. And wouldn't these also be perfect for a "Wizard of Oz" themed party? I can just see him with a little Dorthy.
And last, but not least I think Zoe of Miss Doughmestic has ended my crazy fear of clowns. How sweet and colorful are these guys? I love all the rainbow colors and their happy expressions. Such a fun little cookie that would be a perfect for any birthday celebration.
If you haven't already, be sure to stop by YouTube to watch all these yummy cookies created before you!
Confection Connection - Circus Cookie Collaboration
I am so excited to tell you about the collaboration I am a part of - Confection Connection. I have teamed up with Baking With Best, Brookie's Cookies and Miss Doughmestic. We will be bringing you amazing themed cookie tutorials every month on YouTube and our blogs. This month we are headed to the circus for cotton candy, clowns, lions and circus tents!
Today I am presenting circus tickets and carnival tents, easy and fun. Stop by my Instagram later this week to see the easy big tent hat!
Circus Ticket
Materials
- rectangle cookie with corners chopped
- Americolor sky blue in flood consistency
- Americolor super red in thick flood consistency
- white in thick flood consistency
Carnival Tent
Materials
- dog house cookie cutter (I bought mine at Ann Clark)
- Americolor super red in flood consistency
- white in flood consistency
- Americolor sky blue in flood consistency
- Americolor gold in flood consistency
Want to see the cookie decorating in action? Click on over and watch the video! Let me know if you have any questions!
Need a great royal icing recipe? Click here for my favorite one!
Be sure to come back tomorrow for more circus fun from Brookie's Cookies.
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