Plaid! Who doesn't love a plaid cookie!

I remember some plaid bunnies, I think from the old Cooky Book, but they were done with some kind of food paint and my mother didn't allow it. I like how this one was done with frosting. I hope you do at least one plaid. :) I'm sure they'll all be great, and the gold dust is a nice touch. :)

How cute, and what a demanding project. Enjoy.

I agree, adorb!

I am, like, totally going to make plaid cookies! I have some left-over cooked buttercream in the fridge. Thanks!

So cute you'd hate to eat them. ;-)

The detail on the plaid cookies remind me of making Big Bird Cookies for our daughter's birthday for the kindergarten class treats. I was so busy working on the feathers on the body I had to enlist hubby to pipe stripes on Big Bird's legs. He did a great got (BTW). We made 50 cookies so that was 100 legs (LOL). Never made large novelty detailed sugar cookies EVER AGAIN!

I made plaids, dots, and feathered lines, plus the plain ones with just icing and sprinkles or edible gold shimmer.

I'm not so sure that you can do this with buttercream, mama goose. I made a royal icing, which starts out flowy, then harden after a few hours. These can be piled on top of each other once fully dry.

Yep, a very tedious project, but I just set everything up in an assembly line and work away sitting down on a stool pulled up to the counter. There's NO good reason why I love to do this, but once I taught myself some techniques and gathered a few tools, I look for any reason to make cookies like this.

Grainlady, my husband thinks I've totally lost my marbles. I don't even eat the cookies.

Like I don't have other things to do for my oyster roast on Friday!

The only time in the last ten years that I've made iced cookies was when I had to put them in a picture, and I just made simple icing from powdered sugar and pomegranate juice, i.e., pink, and dipped the cookies.

MOST impressed, Rhizo, and why shouldn't you make them? Everybody needs a break during stressful preparations, to do something fun and "zen" (quotes because it's an adjective that means what I want to say but has nothing to do with the Zen religion). This way you get to do soul feeding art projects while making something to please your company. Sounds good to me!

plllog, that's exactly right....it gives me a sense of calm, focus, and concentration; it's highly meditative for me.

I have a friend who asked to come over when I was doing Valentine cookies, to learn, she said. Hahaha, the process practically gave her hives and absolutely drove her to the wine bottle! (I called her to see if she wanted to help me, can't figure out why she said no.)

Those are so nice looking, yours will turn out just as pretty. I love making cut-out cookies, I do a couple times a year and always at Christmas. They are my favorite to eat too. Now I want some.

How cute!

Adorb? Don't you dare start talking like that Moonie! ;-/

The cookies just look "okay" to me, but I don't like iced cookies of any kind. But I can appreciate the time and fiddling to make them, so good job, Rhizo!!!

Where's mine? I only want one, just to see if they taste as good as they look.

Shirley

Rhizo, those are really cute and festive. I'm sure they will be well received.

OT - I'm not a cookie maker - give me a pie or other dessert assignment and I'll happily oblige - but for some reason I've never enjoyed making cookies much. I did do some cutout cookies to decorate for my niece and nephew a couple of times though, and was feeling pretty proud of myself - I'd outlined (squeeze bottle, not frosting bag), then flooded with royal icing, had them looking pretty darned good if I can say that ;-)

The next time they were coming, nephew asked, Auntie M, can we have a different kind of cookie this time?

Why, honey?

The frosting on those tastes like egg whites to me!

Those are cute cookies

Too pretty to eat! Love the plaid.

Morz8, is he a child? If so, he has a really good palate! Most kids just taste the sugar.

Super idea Rhizo! Plaid rocks!

He was about 6 or 7 at the time but knew his egg whites - not so much a child anymore.

I'd have guessed the same with the sugar, especially since he rarely got that at home. Or butter. Or any of a number of things, his mother was very strict on healthy foods (read overboard IMO ;-) At my house, he got bacon.

Auntie M (so cute), I like to add a bit of lemon juice to the icing recipe and prefer pasteurized liquid whites. I've experimented with powdered whites, meringue powder, and different flavorings like vanilla because it does need something. The lemon juice takes that raw powdered sugar taste away without altering the color.

I made the cookies, but I didn't have a shamrock cutter, so I made round ones, and one big shamrock, made by putting three large heart-shaped cut-outs together at the points. I just piped lines on the un-iced cookies, and didn't do the plaid design on all of them--some were simpler dots, or outlines of shamrocks, and the ones that I planned to keep in the cooky jar weren't decorated at all, since the buttercream stays soft. Mine weren't nearly as neat--I now realize my hand is not as steady as it once was!

Thanks again for the idea!