A while back I signed up for a cookie bouquet making class. Autumn is my favorite season so I really wanted to do a bouquet with a Halloween theme. My brother dubbed my idea the "Spookay Bouquet". Isn't that cute? So I stuck with it.
The Spookay Bouquet:
This is the bouquet my mother made.
Flower Bouquet:
We used crumbed up chocolate cake for dirt and put little gummy worms in it.
Flower Bouquet's "Dirt":
Theses are other bouquets that were made by other people in the class.
Floral Bouquet:
Ghost/Halloween:
Shoes:
We decorated the cookies with a glaze, fondant, and royal icing.
Sugar Cookie Recipe:
- 1 cup Butter; softened
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp. Vanilla (or flavoring of choice)
- 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 3 cups Flour
In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Add flour slowly mixing well. Blend the last of the flour by hand.
You don't need to chill the dough. When ready, roll out dough 1/4" thick and cut out desired shapes with cookie cutters. A trick is to roll out your dough between two pieces of parchment paper. It keeps things cleaner. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place cookie cut outs on parchment lined cookie sheets. If making a cookie bouquet, place cookies upside down on the cookie sheet. Press a stick, like a skewer, into the cookie. Make sure you place the stick high enough to cover about 3/4 of the cookie. Cover stick with a little bit of cookie dough, pressing the cookie and the little piece of cookie dough firmly together. Place cookie sheet in freezer for about 5 minutes. Flip cookies over so they are right side up. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until done. Let chill on wire rack.
Once cookies are cool, you can decorate as desired.
Baking Tips:
- If you decide to make a cookie bouquet after you baked the cookies, you can add sticks to the cookies by using royal icing to "glue" the stick to the cookies.
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