Let the cookies do the talking

I mentioned that our Fall Retreat is this weekend, well I got a little inspiration.

Every Tuesday I like to make cookies (or brownies, bread, muffins, etc.) to send with Chris to our Community Group. It's been hard letting go of being able to attend myself, so this is my way of feeling like I am still contributing something. Anyway, I saw these markers on another website (Bakerella's website) and wanted to try them out:

I bought them at Michael's and also decided to buy a big bin of cookie cutters. I figured since the bin of over 100 was less than $10, it didn't make sense to by just the single cookie cutter shape I wanted for $0.79. I'll use the others another time anyway. Here is the CAR cookie without frosting. I just used the basic sugar cookie cut-out in the Better Homes Cook Book.

I love the simple powdered sugar icing recipe. Notice I also made 1 dinosaur. You can guess who that's for! Yes, Logan always wants to try what I make. He's really into dinosaurs lately, so I'm thinking for his 3rd birthday coming up in November I might need to figure out how to make a very large dinosaur cake...that should be fun!

And....here's how the cookies turned out. A few things to note if you ever try these markers: make the icing very thin & let it set. A lot of the cookies looked messed up because anywhere the icing was thick, the markers would sink and make a blob. Needless to say the cookies taste fine, I mean I couldn't give the ugly ones to the students!

My guess is these would look great on fondant, and if you have amazing penmanship or art skills you could literally make a masterpiece. Although, I still think regular frosting probably looks better. However, here is a way that one of my favorite blogs use them and I think it looks pretty awesome. You can decide yourself:

Here is the picture of Bakerella's Candy Apples, quite expressive!

And here's how she made them: YUM

If you think about it, would you pray for our Fall Retreat this weekend? Some of my favorite memories as a student were at our retreats...there are times I wish I were still at OU! We still have room for people to sign up, so pray that more people will sign up, that all the details will come together, for safe travel, and that students will feel connected to one another, and that students will take a look at their lives and decide to really follow Christ whole-heartedly!