Happy Valentine’s Day! If you happen to live in Arizona, then happy Arizona Centennial to you too! I am getting ready for Centennial themed bunco tonight, but I wanted to drop in and show you these cookies I made.
It was my very first time making and using royal icing. I can’t believe I waited so long. It was not nearly as scary as I thought. I bought the Arizona shaped cookie cutter from ABC Cake Decorating Supplies. They carry all the different states in cookie cutters. I piped the design from the Arizona State flag onto the cookies.
No matter what you are celebrating today, I hope you have a great day!
Update:
Now that I have a few more minutes, I wanted to come back and tell you what resources I used for my cookies.
The royal icing recipe I used came from the The Decorated Cookie. The author, Meaghan Mountford, just came out with a great new book called Sugarlicious
I opted for the 10 second icing consistency. Over on Sweetopia, you can watch a great video tutorial on getting a good consistency. It’s important that it is not stiff, but not too runny either.
Between Sugarlicious and the video on Sweetopia, I felt confident enough to give this new technique a try. I was very happy with the results too!
Here is one more picture of the cookies at the party.
Hi. I love your cookies! And thanks so much for selecting my cookies & cream lollipops as a reader’s pick over at Sugar Bee Crafts!
So cute! Great blog 🙂
From another Phoenician (West side baby!)
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I love finding other AZ bloggers. Hooray! East Valley over here. 🙂 These cookies are great. I’m excited to start checking out your blog.
You did such an awesome job! Those cookies are fabulous!!
Oh that is just too cute! I am in AZ too, so maybe I should give these a shot in honor of the centennial. On second thought, I will just eat a cookie and look at yours. Seems more my pace 🙂 Haha. Thanks for being awesome!
Cute! I grew up in AZ and now live in upstate NY. I miss it!
I was born in Casa Grande, lived in Eloy for a while, spent some of my childhood years in Florence, then my family moved to Arkansas. My dad worked for Ernest McFarland back in the 70s. I love Arizona! Great job on the cookies and hope you had a happy Arizona Centennial! ~ Barbara
super cute! i’m also a zonie! 😉 dropping in from lolly jane linky.
Very cute! Another Arizonan here (west side!)
Whoo hoo!!! another Arizonan here(currently living in TX, but a Zona girl at heart!) I love seeing things from the greatest state ever!
-Samm
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State cookies–who knew?! Too bad Colorado’s shape is so boring! Arizona’s is much more exciting! 🙂 I’m impressed with your decorating skills! Thanks for sharing at oopsey daisy!
Those look SO professional- and YUMMY! Lucky Bunco gals! 😉
Featuring you tomorrow!
xoxo
These are soo stinking adorable! I just love working with royal icing… so easy and fun.. and it makes for such gorgeous cookies! Thanks so much for sharing with the Pink Hippo party.. can’t wait to see what you share next!
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Just seeing this more than a year later…any chance you sell these for other people’s parties? 🙂 If so let me know & how much, thanks!
Thanks for the interest! I don’t make and sell these, but The Baked Equation might be able to help you out. She makes beautiful cookies. http://thebakedequation.com/custom-sugar-cookies/