One of my very best friends got married a couple of days ago. The wedding was referred to as a “very important picnic” and that’s just what it was. A casual but beautiful event, with a simple ceremony outside and a proper picnic in a barn. For the desserts we decided on sugar cookies and a variety of other easy casual desserts and a small carrot cake for cutting.
Picnic basket sugar cookies, daisies and ant sugar cookies were the first things to be made. A bountiful amount of picnic baskets and daisies but only a few ants….a few ants are cute, a plate full of ants would are not-so-pretty.
I usually end up “making” most of my cookies cutters, because a lot of shapes just aren’t out there. I had a daisy, but it was just too symmetrical for this event and I couldn’t even find an ant or a basket. But no worries, I just some scissors and card-stock. It takes a little longer to cut out of the dough but the uniqueness is worth the effort.
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So decorating most cookies are a 3 step process; you start with an outline, fill, add details. The picnic baskets repeated those steps about 4 times, equaling a 12 part process. And I could only find 4 round tips, must have left the others somewhere so I just rotated through 4 tips and had to be very systematic about my color choices. I could not go back to a color once I was done with it….so it proved to be a bit difficult. But sometimes you run into problems like that when you go the bachelorette party and don’t start decorating till midnight!
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I also made a carrot cake chock full of raisins, pineapple, nuts and coconut (here’s the recipe if you’d like it). And some other picnic delights: rice crispie treats, peanut butter rice crispie treats, classic brownies, mint chip brownies and chocolate oatmeal bars (one of my very favorite things ever). With the help of some cute fabric and some picnic baskets it all came together quite nicely!
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I’m so happy I could do her desserts! Congratulations Holley!
