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2014 Apple Cookies Collection






Sometimes it's easy to get a little CRAZIE when making a theme of cookies.
This apple cookie collection was no exception. ;)


There are so many things you can do with apples.
Ready, set, go!


These Helvetica lowercase alphabet cutters are super popular right now.
(They will fit in to any theme!)



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The truck shape is part of the new CookieCrazie custom cutters.


All of these are CookieCrazie Custom Cutters. Check them out!




2014 Apple Cookies Collection

CookieCrazie Chatter...... Friday, September 5, 2014










 
Join CookieCrazie for......



Cookie'sCool November 14 - 16, 2014 in Genoa, Italy

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CookieCruise 2015 on January 22-26, 2015

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CookieCrazie's Week in Review



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Personal Side


This Friday finds me back at home and diligently preparing for my daughter's
wedding just one week from tomorrow.

Arriving home from Ukraine and sleeping in my own bed last Friday night was pure bliss.
Then I took an entire day to do laundry, pay bills, and clean off my desk.

On Sunday, it was time to jump back into life and start decorating 200 wedding cookies!
I had to work Labor Day Monday at the hospital......so that took a chunk out of my week.
But some how, I managed to get finish decorating yesterday.
And now all I have to do is package each one of them. :)

Once they are finished.....I plan to start preparing for my family's arrival next week.
I want to decorate the house for fall.......
and prepare some yummy foods ahead so that I can
concentrate on enjoying my family while they are here.

My husband and I are official empty nesters as of last month.
While I was gone in Ukraine......my son moved about 3 hours away.
The house has been pretty quiet now that I'm back.
I miss him a bunch.....but I know the move was a good step for him.

Ginny of Creative Cookier has partnered with me to help raise funds for Ukraine missions.
She is producing CookieCrazie custom cutters.....and donating a part of the sales to my efforts.
In August.....she sold 79 of the CC custom cutters!
How awesome is that? :)
Thanks to all of you that have ordered some of those cutters.
Ginny & I are excited about the substantial impact the cutters sales
could have on next year's Ukraine trip.

I have many ideas rolling in my head for more custom cutters.
Stay tuned for exciting news and tutorials on this new venture. :)


♥♥♥



Instagram photos for this week:


Happy Friday to you!

Here's a happy little panda bear cookie from the past.
Today we start our 24 hour journey from Ukraine to the States.
Can't wait to be h.o.m.e.


Happy Little Acorn Cookies for this fine Saturday.
I'm home from Ukraine safe and sound......
already unpacked and finishing up the second load of laundry.
Home is an awesome place.



Favorites from the melon/turquoise cookie set.....
Have an awesome Sunday!


So it's the day after Labor Day.....
Let's talk FALL!
(I've been trying to wait patiently....but it's been hard.)


Decorating my oldest daughter's wedding cookies for next weekend.
My house is going to sparkle like CRAZIE for quite a while. Ha ha


Throwback to last year's fall leaf cookies.....




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Last CookieCrazie Chatter....


Apple Tree Cookie Platter (Tutorial)






There's something to be said for simplicity.
This platter is relatively simple.....but makes a big impression.


For this original cookie platter, I made a humongous tree trunk cookie.
Now that it is all said and done,
I realize how impractical it is to have a long thin gigantic cookie. :)
But alas, Ginny of Creative Cookier has made some CookieCrazie Custom Cutters for this platter.

https://www.creativecookier.com/store/p165/Tree_for_all_Seasons_by_CookieCrazie_4_piece_set.html
You can find the whole set HERE.


Outline and flood the tree trunk with tan glaze.
(If you use the custom cutter set, the trunk is in two pieces.)



Allow it to dry for about 2 hours.
Using small oval and round cookie cutters, and the wood grain texture mat,
press texture into the tree trunk. 
For vertical lines, use a cake tester.


Outline and flood many leaf cookies with green glaze.


Outline and flood small apple cookies with red glaze.


After about 1 hour, add a tan stem to the tops of the apples.


Once the leaf cookies have dried for about 2 hours,
Use a cake tester and/or a scribe to imprint vein markings in the leaves.


Allow the cookies to dry overnight.

Make a mixture of "trunk paint" with Americolor chocolate brown, gold, and white gels.
Randomly paint it on the tree trunk.



Using a long rectangle-shaped platter, position the trunk, apple and leaf cookies.




2014 Apple Cookies Collection
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