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Easter Bonnets

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I’ll just call them Cookie Hats since Easter is now over. I made these this weekend but you can certainly do them for other occasions like Mothers Day. Showers, too. You can change the colors for different themes. Any Red Hat Society peeps out there? These would be fun. I can also see these for a Kentucky Derby party – you could get really creative with them. Or forget the flowers, paint them with silver luster dust and turn them into flying saucers.

I found the instructions for these cuties in a book called Cookie Swap.

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Here’s what they are supposed to look like. Gorgeous, huh! These are made using royal icing to coat the hat and pipe the perfect little dots. Fondant is used for the flowers and the bands.

Now, I didn’t have extra hours to wait for royal icing to dry when I made these, so I improvised. But, if time weren’t an issue, I’d go royal.

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Instead, I covered the sugar cookie hats in tinted and rolled fondant…

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And used sugar pearls to add detail. To help them stay in place, I used the pearls to press indentations around the hat. Then, I put a tiny amount of water on the sugar pearl and placed it in position.

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Here they are with and without the pearls.

The base of the sugar cookie hats should be rolled thin before baking and the top part of the hat should be thicker to accommodate the fondant band. I used the shortbread sugar cookie recipe in the book, but feel free to use your own recipe and decorate.

Note: To get the fondant and cookie shapes to match in size, I re-cut the cookies with the cutter when I took them out of the oven and while they were still warm because they had spread a little.

You can attach the fondant to the cookies with a little bit of icing and you can attach the fondant flowers with a little dab of water.

Fondant Flowers.

All I can say is I heart my flower blossom plunger cutter. Say that fast three times.

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I bought it a while ago and this is the first time I’ve used it.

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You can cut shapes out of fondant and by pressing down on the plunger, you can make center indentations… or not.

You can also press the plunger into the fondant and remove the flower shape to then press and release onto a sponge.

This will give the flowers a curved shape.

But, without a sponge handy I had to improvise again.

So I grabbed the paper towel roll nearby and laid it on its side.

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See how they curve when you press them into a soft surface and release? If you wanted, you could also add sugar pearls to the centers or pipe with icing.

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These were fun to use. Now I need to get my hands on a little leaf plunger cutter to round out the look.

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Cookie Swap is full of recipes, decorating and displaying ideas.

Like these….

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Yes, this is a cookie. A ridiculously beautiful cookie. Seriously, who does that? Amazing!

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And these are in the book, too. Love them! Looooooove them. But, I’d have to find someone to pipe those dots on for me. Mine would never look that perfect.

In addition to really pretty sweets, the book also has cute cookies to make you swoon.

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Like these hamburger and hotdog shaped macarons. Dying.

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And these watermelon cookies. Oh and umm, the lemons? Those are cookies, too. I know. Craziness.

Want to try your hand at some spectacular cookies?

Or just want to look at pretty pictures?

Enter for a chance to win a copy of the book.

Just leave a comment on this post and tell me if you’re an adventurous cookie maker or content taste tester.

Deadline to enter is Monday, April 5th at 5:00 pm ET. Sorry, Time’s Up! Winner below.

One winner will be chosen at random and announced Monday evening on this post.

Good luck!

Okay, we have a winner. But first, I’d like to say how glad I am that so many of you lean towards the adventurous side. It’s fun to challenge yourself and this book will do just that.

Alright, let’s see who won.

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YAY for Sarah the Adventurer! This book has plenty of projects to keep you busy. Have fun.

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3,222 comments on “Easter Bonnets”

  1. My daughter is the adventurous one and I am her taster. She is so artistic and talented she would love making the cookies in this book. They look too pretty to eat.

  2. I’d like to think I’m a good cookie maker :)
    I LOVE the watermelon cookies!!

  3. I am willing to be an adventurous cookie maker and these photos make me want to get started asap!

  4. I am adventurous with decorating – or at least I try….but when it comes to eating cookies, I am a bit of a traditionalist.

  5. The bonnets look soooo cute. You almost would hate to eat them. They look old fashioned and I am looking for cookies or cupcakes for a sewing retreat that has a old fashioned theme. These would be great. Any other ideas?

  6. adorable cookies, would love to make them all!

  7. These are absolutely beautiful and definitely beyond my spare time levels. However, I DO have time to peruse pages of beautiful cookies and swoon over the details.

    How tasty are these cookies really? I’m more into the taste of the cookies over the beauty. But a good-looking AND good-tasting cookie? Nirvana!

  8. This definitely makes me want to be a very adventurous baker! Adorable!

  9. What a great looking book! I would say I lean towards adventurous!! And always looking for ideas!

  10. I am definitely a content checker…LOL but your post has inspired me to try my hand at cookies this week. Thank, as always,for the inspiration

  11. As much as I love to bake, decorated cookies are way out of my league!

  12. both adventurous (although most people call me crazy) and a taster. one must know if they are doing a good job ;)

    thanks for sharing. must try the hat cookies for mother’s day!

  13. I’m pretty boring when it comes to cookie making. I love the classic sugar cookie and never have tried to change it! :)

  14. I have a feeling this could turn me into a crazy cookie lady.
    These are gorgeous and so beautifully illustrated.
    Taste tester? Isn’t that just good public service ; )

  15. I LOVE cookies….I would love to try making some of those adorable cookies in the book!!!

  16. I am an adventurous cookie maker but they MUST taste good before I make them look pretty

  17. I would love to make cute cookies like some of these… but I’d need some serious help. I’m better at eating than decorating!

  18. Slightly adventurous cupcake maker looking to branch into the world of cookies, always willing to taste!

  19. I am an adventurous baker.
    I would much rather bake them than eat them.
    I give most of my stuff away…which is a lot since i found this website!!!

  20. Adventurous cookie maker who loves to look at cute pictures too!

  21. My go to cookie is the good old chocolate chip cookie. I would love to be able to make the really pretty cookies but I don’t know if I have the patience.

  22. I love cookies and I really love making cookies!! Life is an adventure and baking should be too!

  23. I think one of the most difficult things about decorating cookies is transporting them after they are done. I would get so frustrated that I had worked so hard on them and then I had to take so many pans everywhere just to transport.

  24. I’m a pretty adventurous cookie maker. I love experimenting!

  25. Adventurous for sure…..making all the cookie recipes in this book would be too much fun. My neighbors and family would love to be the taste testers.

  26. This looks great. It would be a great addition to my cookbook collection!!

  27. A cookie taste tester, aspiring to be an adventurous cookie maker, once I have a kitchen of my own. Which is soon I hope, *fingers crossed*.

  28. i LOVE making fun cookies!!! one of my favorites is a lemon raspberry cookie. YUM! definitely adventurous baker.

  29. Those hats are super cute! I’m already thinking of a way to modify them into a beach hat for a summer-y theme. :) I’m all for tasting, but love trying my hand at new baking challenges.

  30. Oh Angie–I LOVE baking cookies and bake them at least once or twice a week. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have this book! Pick me, pleaseeeee!!!

  31. I would love to be an adventurous baker! I like the idea of having a book with the how-to part explained. I often see fancy cookies and wonder how on Earth it all came together.

    I hope you are feeling better. Thanks for the give away.

  32. my husband bakes, so I am VERY content in being the one to taste test them all :-D

  33. oh my goodness, those cookies are too adorable!!
    I’d say I’m an adventurous baker. :)

  34. I’m an adventurous cookie maker. I’ve gone through countless cookie books. My coworks can’t wait til I get into my cookie baking moods.

  35. OMG! How cute are these! I totally love them! I’d like say I’m an adventurous cookie maker but I’m not. At least not yet. I’m more of a content taste tester. But there’s time to learn. Oh wow, those little lemon & watermelon slices are so dang cute!

  36. Adventurous… I’d be even more adventurous with that book!

  37. I am never content with how my cookies turn out. Cakes…no problem…cookies are another story. My oven is older than I am and, depending on how much gunk is in the bottom, the temps can be off so cookie baking is more of a race than I would like. Cookie taster, here! (But that doesn’t stop me from buying cookie cutters!!!)

  38. I would love it! I’m not usually that much of a shape cookie baker, but I would definitely make those hats for my Mom’s red hat group (pry will sometime), and my 4 year old loves doing things like this!

  39. I am an adventurous cookie baker… and I’m sure I’ve had more than my fair share of cookie disasters to prove it!

  40. In recent months, I have become the adventurous baker thanks to your great recipes and ideas!! I am a cakepop making maniac ^.^

  41. I’m definitely a taste tester. But that doesn’t stop me from going in the kitchen every now and then and getting creative. :)

  42. I’m not that adventurous when it comes to making cookies, so I’ll be happy to be a taste tester. =)

  43. I love baking cookies and the ones in the book look so amazing!

  44. i love all cookies!!!!

  45. I love to try new ideas in decorative cookies! The basket with the flowers cookies in this book is amazing! Just need a bigger kitchen to start my business!

  46. I’m an eager taste tester with adventurous dreams!!!

  47. I’m adventurous. My last test cookie had potato chips in it. It needs some tweaks…I love nothing more than to look through a cookie cookbook, though. It’s a book of art!

  48. I would put myself in the ‘adventurous baker’. I love to come up with different ways to utilize my cookie cutters or cute designs with frosting and you are certainly inspiration!

  49. I’m not too adventurous with the decorating, but I love baking your basic homemade chocolate chip cookie! That book looks totally inspirational though!

  50. I am definitely a cookie maker – I love to search for new recipes & then use my husband & kids as my taste testing guinea pigs.

  51. adventurous decorator for sure!

  52. Definitely a content cookie taster! I like to THINK I’m adventurous when it comes to cookies but they require much more patience than a cupcaker like me can muster!

  53. Those are adorable! Would definitely love more inspiration for my baking.

  54. Adventurous!!!!!

  55. I am an adventurous cookie (and cupcake and cake!) maker! A friend asked me to make Nutcracker cookies for her daughter who was dancing in the Nutcraker at Christmas. One cookie cutter, 5 different colors of royal icing, 2 colors of butter cream, multiple sugar pearls and some creative frosting turned out some super cute cookies!

  56. Oh wow! This is too cute! i am definitely an adventurous cookie maker assuming I have somewhere to SEND them. :)

  57. I LOVE doing things like this! My hubby says I’m “wasting time” but I ask him if it’s wasting time if I enjoy it?

    Thanks…hope you’re feeling better ;)

  58. I’m an adventurous cookie baker. Best tool ever for rolled cookies? Dobord. Can’t live without mine now.

  59. So much details I can’t believe it!!! Gorgeous!!

  60. Just got a cookie decorating book for Christmas! looking to become adventurous!

  61. Cookie maker, but not nearly this gifted! How beautiful! I have 2 little girls and years of PTA ahead of me. I could tackle this book…once the girls are in school all day!

    Thanks for a great site.

  62. I like the making and the tasting. Gotta make sure they aren’t poisonous! ;)

  63. These are beautiful. More than beautiful, they’re perfect. I’m envious of your talent!

  64. I am a adventurous cookie maker. Love to make and decorate cookies. I find using fondant to decorate quick and easy compared to royal icing.

  65. so pretty, i want to be more adventurous in cookie making

  66. I haven’t been too adventurous on the cookie making front. I make cookies, but not beautiful ones like these. I’m a fan of the drop-in-a-ball-ish-shape-and-hope-for-the-best cookies. :-)

  67. I usually go with recipes I already know and love but I dabble in adventure from time to time.

  68. I love to bake cookies! I’m still trying to get used to my new oven, but I’m determined to work it out! :)

  69. Right now, since I’m swamped with school work, I would be a super tasters.

    Hopefully once I graduate, I can get back to baking and become an adventurous baker. That book sure would help, hint hint (pick me pick me!!!).

  70. I’d love to be an adventurous cookie baker but it seems that every time I try something new, it ends in disaster. I do LOVE being a taste tester, which is way fun when you’re tasting your own creations…then there’s no one to pop your hand like mom used to do when you tried to eat the raw cookie dough! :-)

  71. I think it’s fun to try, but I’d say I am def a more skilled tester than baker! =)

  72. Depends what kind of mood I’m in… whether I need the sweet fix or am just in the mood to bake. But…. mostly adventurous!!

  73. Adventurous! I often get in trouble for not using a recipe…

  74. I am an adventurous baker, but I make everyone else try them before I do. I can’t wait to be done with school in 30 days so I will have all the time to make the recipes that have been piling up.

  75. I’m a content taster, but am looking forward to becoming an adventurous baker in the near future!

  76. I’m an adventurous cookie maker, also improviser and sometimes taster!

  77. A taster for sure, but I would love to get more adventurous. Just need the tools, the time, and the creative mind.

  78. Both!!

  79. Definitely an adventurous cookie maker, even if I have to re-make it a few times to get it just right. My husband is the content taste tester. :)

  80. I’m definitely both.
    I mean, you gotta eat the stuff you make right?

  81. eater….but when they are so pretty, I hate to!! ( but that only lasts for a minute,LOL!)

    My daughter is our master cookie/cake baker and decorator!

  82. I would say I’m an adventurous baker but my skills still have a long way to go before I can get to pretty as well.

  83. What a cool book! I love baking cookies, they’re my favorite thing to bake! Definitely an adventurous baker.

  84. OMG these are so cute…..I would love to try my hand at some of these fabulous looking cookies!

  85. Wow, these cookies are amazing! I have to try this too!
    I just ordered an ice-cream cookie cutter to decorate with royal icing. first time I’ll try this, hope it will work!

  86. My aunt has evey holiday at her house and I love to bring themed deserts. They stand out from the rest and just make people smile. This book looks like it would be full of good ideas!

  87. I’m definitely content right now, but love getting adventurous when frosting sugar cookies at Christmas time!

  88. These are so beautiful that I would not eat them! I love to bake and make beautiful things, but I never eat my masterpieces. It is too hard.

  89. I am an adventurous cookie maker! i like to try different stuff, and bake at any oppurtunity i have. I would love to try using fondent for decoration, but i am more of a ‘cookie for taste’ kinda girl, than the ‘cookies are pretty’ kind, im just not the best artist! haha, id love to learn though!!

  90. Wow! Such a great prize! I would love to win this. I love to bake cookies, especially sugar/shortbread cutouts and I am always looking for new ideas so I guess you could call me adventurous. I love the flower plunger.

  91. I’ve tried my hand at a few shaped cookies. With little kids about, it’s fun to make cookies in shapes they recognize. My son likes dump trucks and bulldozers while my daughter likes all things girlie. I just need to keep working on my decorating technique. Having something to look at helps me out a lot.

  92. Right now I’m definately a content taste tester but my husband and I are wanting to delve more into baking and decorating. This book looks like a lot of fun!

  93. I’m an adventurous cookie maker. I love to make something that tastes great and is also beautiful.

  94. I’m an adventurous cookie maker to be sure. I especially love finding creative new designs for sugar cookies with royal icing. I like my cookies to be super cute!

    Nice work on the hats! The pearls must have taken ages!

  95. I’m an adventurous cookie maker! bring on the challenge!

  96. I would have to say I am a wanna be adventurous cookie maker. I haven’t moved beyond drop cookies but these look very inspiring. Thanks for the giveaway.

  97. This book looks amazing, love the ideas already shown. Would love to win this, great for my Great American Bake Sale
    “Cupcakes and Cookies”

  98. wow these cookies look amazing! i would be too scared to make them!!!! so i guess im a taste tester. ha ha ha

  99. I would LOVE to see that book! Since reading your blog, i’ve been trying to be an adventurous baker. I stick to the fairly easy ones now but getting better!

    Thanks!

  100. I’m more of a taste tester, but am working on becoming a more adventurous maker of cookies!

  101. My cookies are usually pretty plain but they taste really good!

  102. I love to bake, but rarely get enough time to do so. Most of the time, I’m content on taste testing my friends’ cookies and other goodies! :)

  103. A little bit of both :)

  104. I love both….baking cookies and eating them! We made the most delicious shortbread cookies this Easter and decorated them with a simple flood icing. I can’t wait to try more!

  105. I’m probably more of a taste tester but after seeing these pictures I’m thinking I would love to give adventurous cookie baker a try!

  106. when it comes to cookies I’m more of a taste tester, I prefer to bake pies and cakes. If I had more skill in decorating I’d be adventurous.

  107. These are beautiful cookies! I’d love to try them, but sadly don’t have the patience for them! Kudos to those that do though! :-)

  108. Oh my goodness! I need this book! :)

  109. I love making cookies and have recently been trying my hand at making cute ones! These are too cute! I love reading your blog!

  110. Raw eggs usually freak me, so I’m not to keen on making a lot of really exotic cookies, but honestly, I fall somewhere in between. I like to eat cookies, yes, then again, I like to make them so I can eat them in the first place, and who likes plain ol’ boring ore’ and ore’ again?! :) lol Thx for the giveaway! Happy Easter!

  111. Very Nice, these would be great for a summer tea.

  112. I’m a pretty adventurous baker, but haven’t done much with decorated cookies. Would be fun to check out this book!

  113. Content Taste Tester. I do have well intentions, but it never turns out.

  114. I would have to say both! I love decorating, but who can stop themself from eating them while you make them!?

  115. I think I’d rather try them and leave the adventurous baking to my older sister. She’s up for that task- she has a cookie book from the late 1800’s, I think it is, that doesn’t even prescribe temperatures because of wildly varying oven temps! Yeah, she’ll get excited about a recipe and jump in even if she’s never made anything remotely like it before.

  116. Can I be both? i love looking and then trying to make incredible cookies like this. I have made the wedding cake cookies for a shower and everyone loved them.

    Where did you get the plunge cutters? i would love to have a set of them.

  117. I try adventurous recipes, but have to test run them before I need them so I don’t freak out.

  118. I like to bake cookies, but I wouldn’t say adventurous since I don’t decorate them often. I do have someone that thinks he should be a professional cookie taste tester in my house.

  119. I’m an adventurous cookie maker! :)

  120. Oooh – i loved this post!!!
    And, I’m a content taste tester, for sure!

  121. These cookies are great! I am both an adventurous baker and a content taste tester! I would call myself an adventurous taste tester too! Anything once!

  122. I just love baking cookies, and with 5 boys in my house it is not long before they vanish.

  123. I never thought I’d want to make cookies as much as I do now! What a super cute idea!

  124. I made bunny and egg cookies for Easter. They didn’t taste all that great, but they were cute. I have some practicing to do!

  125. I love baking fun shaped cookies for my friends and families and am always looking for ideas! I am an Adventurous baker!

  126. I have to say I think your cookies are beautiful and one day I might try them out for my Mom’s Red Hat gals…but for now I am an EXPERT taste tester…and Darn good at it! ;) Thank you for putting the fun in cooking for all of us!

  127. It depends on the occasion. I have a 3 year old grandson who likes cookies just for the eating, but sometimes, I like to make special ones for him to enjoy.

    I love seeing all of the creative ideas at your site!

  128. I would absolutely love to challenge my creative part with new ideas. Would love to win this book and try every recipe and then post about the results! Would probably be a years project but worth it!

    All the best
    Rheanne

  129. Oh how i would love to win a copy of this book!! I am alway willing to try something new in the kitchen. It keeps things fun and exciting!

  130. I have to say I am an adventurous cookie maker as well as a good taste tester too. I LOVE that book, my favorite is the watermelon cookies at the end. I have a watermelon cookie cutter I got last summer and I’ve been dying to try it out this summer for family and friends for the the 4th of July. Please oh please randomly choose me!! LOVE all your posts anyway Bakerella!

    Angela Barton
    wwww.angelabartonscakes.blogspot.com

  131. Yay pretty cookies!

  132. I probably fall into the taste tester category but ma working on moving up!

  133. I’m more of a taste tester, mostly because finding the time to make such beautiful creations is a challenge for me-2 small kids at my feel all day! Hopefully some cookie adventures are in my future though!

  134. I’m adventurous but not really good at decorating. Practice makes perfect, though.

  135. Adventurous cookie maker. I love working with cookies!

  136. Love to make cookies! On a good day they taste good and look good!

  137. I love Love Love finding new creative ways to make cookies. I love being able to create something for kids to think is cool.Having a 3 year old son, I know this book would give me awesome cookies to make for him and his friends.

  138. I have a Kentucky derby party every year and the hats look cool for it.

  139. it just depends on my mood~i am a little of both! those cookies are too cute!

  140. What cute Easter Bonnets!

    I’m on the adventurous side with my baking, whether it’s cookies, cupcakes or cakes. I love the decorating aspect even more than eating them (and I really, really love sweet treats)!

  141. I dabble in cookie decorating, but prefer eating them!

  142. I am absolutely an adventurous cookie maker. Although I also do the test-tasting!

  143. I love baking cookies.. I’m not very creative though, so it doesn’t usually occur to me to actually decorate them! (Plus, they don’t usually last long enough once everyone smells fresh cookies in the kitchen!) But these look adorable..may have to try them for Mother’s Day this year!

  144. Those are so cute! Probably hard to undertake w/ my 2 year old assistant, but we would still have a blast!! Hope you had a nice Easter holiday.

  145. Those are beautiful! Almost too pretty to eat! I attempted at making Easter Bunny head cookies this year and decorating using royal icing. They aren’t nearly as nice as yours but the kids liked them :)

  146. I love those lemon slices!

  147. I would like to try to make some of these. Honestly, I am not sure that I have the patience but I would like to try…

  148. I would have to say that I am very amateur..learning, but loving the end product. mostly b.c you can eat it! Love your site!

  149. I am definately a cookie taster! I love to eat. If I had more space I would be a maker but alas. Now when I travel back home…bring on the oven mitt!! I am ready to bake then.. they have so much space! Still a taster but it is so much more fun taster your hard work…!

  150. Oh, I just love playing with cookie dough! I like try different things and lately have enjoyed making more “fancy” cookies. You hats are just amazing!

  151. I love baking but I find it ebbs and flows. I just made easter cookies that reminded me of Peeps!!

  152. I love adventurous cookie baking!! Happy Easter!

  153. IM definetly a baker.

  154. I love making new kinds of cookies (and other baked goods), but the people who help me eat them always ask for the same kinds over and over. Not that I can blame them; chocolate chip and peanut butter oatmeal are classics.

  155. These are awesome! You could have also used the pearls for the inside of the flowers. But they look really nice the way they are also. I can’t wait to have my own kitchen again…counting down the days till we move.

  156. I’m definitely a better taster than a maker. LOVE the cookie ideas!

  157. Bakerella,
    Those Easter bonnets are absolutely gorgeous!!!
    I also was really in love with the basket and beautiful cookies in the book. I’m not sure if I could make something like that myself, I’m more of a out-of-a-box cookie maker. Cookie eater though? You bet!

  158. Amazing cookies! Some great ideas here for my daughter’s bridal shower! And….the fact that you make them look EXACTLY like in the photo is simply a gift!

  159. I like to make the simple cookies but I think I am an expert taster to all cookies!!

  160. I would definitely be adventurous and try to make those cookies! I would also probably “taste” WAY too many of them!

  161. I’d have to say I’m probably more of a cookie tester, although I love to look at the fancy creations and think about doing them! Maybe a book like this would inspire me into action.

  162. I love trying new cookie ideas and tasting them is just as fun!

  163. That book looks great! I’d love to try the butterfly cookies on the cover.

  164. Ooops, I just posted anonymously at 810. Here I am again!

    I am soo a content taster. Pretty cookies are great and all, but the important thing is how it tastes!

  165. Adventurous! At least, with the decorating. I always use the same recipe.

  166. Those bonnet cookies are so cute! I’d love to see some of the other creative cookie ideas that are inside of the Cookie Swap book!

  167. I am a cookie baker, but I seem to stay with the tried and true. I do loooove to taste them all, though. :)

  168. Not only is that easter basket a ridiculously beautiful cookie, it looks like a SANDWICH cookie!

  169. I wish I didn’t like to eat them so much but…..LOL I just love to bake, period!

  170. These are so cute! Cookies happen to be my new obsession because they are so easy to transport to school and sporting events! That book looks outrageous!

    With love and cupcakes,
    CookTeen

  171. LOVE those picnic cookies – this book looks too fun!!!!

  172. i took out “cookie swap” from my local library & was amazed @ her talent…as i am constantly amazed @ yours!
    certainly would love to own this book & try my hand @ some of the beauties within….
    thanks for including me in this fab giveaway!

  173. That book looks amazing. I’ve had it on my Amazon wishlist for ages!

    Now I’ll add that flower plunger to the list! Your bonnet look wonderful, and the plunger tool looks to make them easy!

  174. Love to look, but a totally content taste tester! I could spend hours looking at all kinds of cookbooks!

  175. I love trying out new cookies, but I have to remind myself to be patient with them. Decorating cookies like the ones in that book take a lot of time and practice.

  176. I am an adventurous baker at heart but in reality — I have 3 small kids and a galley kitchen with a fritzy oven.

  177. Trying to be more of an adventurous baker! My little boy just turned 2 on Saturday with with an imaginative little man running around I try to bake things that delight his senses and his mind! For his birthday I made him a Handy Manny birthday cake and he LOVED it!! I live in Central PA and we are lucky to have a lot of great Farmer’s Markets that supply a lot of unique sprinkles, luster dusters and sugar pearls so I’ll be sure to make the Easter Bonnet cookies soon!!! : )

  178. I’m definitely the cookie maker in our house! LOL! My hubs is the taste tester :)

    What a great giveaway!

  179. I recently discovered your site, Bakerella and have *so* been enjoying it! You cookie hats are so fun and brought a warm smile that is still in place. Thanks!

  180. This looks like a very fun book! :) I made sugar cookies with royal icing for the first time this past weekend, so I am slowly becoming adventurous.

  181. I’m a professional test tester in training for adventurous cookie maker!

  182. I’m getting to be more and more of an adventurous baker. My husband is my content taste tester. :)

  183. i’m an adventurous decorator who is content to taste the mistakes!

  184. I am a adventurous cookie maker…I will try to make anything once.

  185. I love making cookies! i usually make some for my daughter’s birthday every year. This year she has a gymnastics themed birthday. Maybe I can try to make gold medals!

  186. Love it! I always get so excited when I see an email from Bakeralla. I am an adventurous baker with cakes, etc. but haven’t played with cookies yet. This post has inspired me to give it a go! I’m sure my co-workers would be thrilled. ;0)

  187. I do like to make cookies and these are just darling. Love your site. You have the best ideas. I introduced my sister-in-law to your cookie pops this weekend. She is hooked now too. :)

  188. These hats are amazingly cute! I would say at this point, I’m content with tast testing! I have to have this book if I don’t win!

  189. I have been wanting that book! The wedding cake cookies are amazing, i will have to try them :)

  190. I am soo a content taster. Pretty cookies are great and all, but the important thing is how it tastes!

  191. The more complicated the design, the better!

  192. I would say I’m an adventurous cookie maker, but only with a recipe in hand! So this book would definatly get used!

  193. I LOVE making cookies – specially with cookie cutters. I have more than I will ever use (but keep buying new ones) :) The last batch was horses, with sugar pearl halters, to celebrate moving to a new barn.

  194. I’m a little bit of both! Awesome cookies!

  195. Love the little hats! And w/ all the showers coming up in my life right now, this little book would be fun to have. And I have to get the cute little flower plunger!! :)

  196. Cookie maker *and* taste tester. I swear sometimes I mess up a few just to have to eat up the evidence. I always take one for the team, you know. It’s a dirty job.

  197. Awesome! Thanks for the opportunity to win this great book!
    Love your site :)

  198. Unfortunately due to time constraints I’m a taste tester most of the time although I love having fun baking.

  199. hmmmm, I think I’d like to be both!

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