Cookies and Flow Icing

I bought a very dangerous book this summer.  "Cookie Swap: Creative Treats to Share Throughout the Year".

It has so many recipes that I want to try, and now I want to have parties just so I can make fancy cookies for them (ok, I'd still make cakes too.)  For the fund auction this year, I decided to have some fun and both make cookies someone could take that night, and give a coupon for holiday cookies later in the year.

But first, I wanted people to know how good the shortbread cookie recipe from the book is, and I found these tiny fall cookie cutters I just had to play with, so I filled a small cake plate with 'tastes'.

See how tiny they are?  I used chocolate candy melts for the acorns and then flow icing (from the bottle -I'd link to it but apparently it's a hush-hush secret shortcut, I can't find it on the Wilton site or the Michael's site) to make the leaves, dotting the wet orange icing with red and using a bamboo skewer to drag through the dots to make the designs.

After the taste, the idea was to get people bidding on the cookies that they could take home that night or the coupon.  It didn't really work, they went for pretty low dollar despite the time and effort I put in.  Most of the cookies were 'tasted' and eaten though, and I did get compliments on the Roller Girl Style cookies that they were fun.  Half of the cookie is dipped in pink candy melts, no extra flavor added. The black is color flow icing but royal icing would've been better the way I used it.  They had the skulls with the other decorating items in Michaels' Halloween section.  I plan to use them again next week on a cake for work.

And then the stiletto cookies - I've had this cutter for years and never managed to use it.  These are decorated purely in color flow icing.  One of my friends got a kick out of them though I didn't really hear any other comments. I had the most fun making these, especially the zebra stripe ones.

Lesson here- making the cookies is great fun (and a huge mess, as usual) but they are not lucrative for a fundraiser.  Save them to brighten someone's day and bring a smile.