Welcoming Baby Reagan...

We did two sets of cookies for little Ms. Reagan, one for the baby shower and one for the family. Her new room was custom painted with adorable animals and the while she didn't want a bunch of decorations for the shower, we decided on a polka-dot theme.  I carried a little of that theme into the family cookies using just the mom's favorite color (and the dad's favorite animals, can you find the dinosaur?).

I pledge allegiance to the flag...

Reagan is coming... baby shower cookies

I am so excited about our friend's Danny and Alissa are about to be the proud parents of a baby girl. They are the best people and my husband and I could not be happier for them, they are like family. Her mom called and asked if I could help with the shower and of course I was more than happy to help out :)

The theme was animals and polka dots. I have a set of vintage circus animals that I love to use whenever I can. I tried to match the large dot pastel sprinkles by Wilton since we were using them in other deserts, next time I'll rethink the yellow... the dots were a little hard to see when wet :) Each person got to take home a "R" onesie and some of the baby shower themed bites (and maybe some chocolate to fill out the bag).

Animal Crackers in My... Soup?

Animal crackers in my soup
monkies and rabbits loop the loop,
Gosh, oh gee, but I have fun,
swallowin' animals one by one.

I recently purchased an awesome set of vintage animal cookie cutters from my local antique mall and immediately thought of Bake@350's posting for frosted animal cookies. I know she's not the first or only one to have this idea, I've seen quite a few of them, but hers was the first one that came to mind. 

I have a friend in college that used to eat these thing by the tub full (well the non-frosted ones anyway, they're "non-fat" so it's okay to eat a bunch, the frosted ones were a treat). I've been trying to think of something to make for her and her family as a nice "thinking of you" kind of gift, and these are going to be it. It wasn't until after I got them all decorated and ready to ship that I realized I broke the cardinal rule of cookie shipping... Don't ship anything with "limbs," and these are nothing but limbs. I'm gonna try and reinforce them a little and hope they make it. With 3 boys, not counting her husband, I'm sure if they are a little battle damaged by the time they get there. Even limbs will taste good going down.


See close-ups of the animal cookies/crackers here.