Not Just Cookies
Here I made the Santa hat ahead of time. Then iced my Koala cookie with royal icing. While the icing was still wet I transferred my dried Santa hat onto the cookie.
Print transfer sheet here
Make white, red and green royal icing
Place a piece of baking paper over the top of your printed A4 page
Use the images a guides to create Santa/Elf hats with your royal icing
Set aside to dry completely
Transfer onto your iced cookies
Make Santa/Elf Hats for your cookies!
Watermelon…
Have you ever thought to use watermelon? Slice the melon so it is an even 1 cm thick. Then press your cookie cutters in and slot pieces together.
DIY Clay Ornaments
An idea to keep the kids entertained on a wet or cold day. Decorate using glitter glue, paint or bits of coloured paper.
Combine over low heat in a CLEAN frying pan until it comes together like play dough. Let it cool in a bowl before rolling out to a 0.6-1cm thickness. Cut shapes using your Hattie & Mouse cookie cutters. Bake at 95 Degrees Celsius for 1 hour and then flip and bake for a further 1 hour.
1 cup baking soda
1/2 cup corn flour
3/4 cup water
Pop-up Toast
Toast a thicker style bread and cut shapes out using your cookies cutters. Decorate with Peanut Butter, Jam, Vegemite….any spread
Peek-a-boo Sandwich
Butter your bread. Cut shapes using your cookie cutters. Sprinkle some hundreds and thousands on one side and bunch a hole in the other to make a window.
Let’s Eat Cake
Move over single cupcake, the 3D Standing sponge cake is here. Slice your bought sponge slab to a 1 cm thickness and decorate with buttercream.
Its Butter
Give your guests something to talk about…a butter sculpture!
Soften butter
Spread to a 1 cm thickness on non stick paper
Chill
Cut shapes with cookie cutters
Pancake Bunny
Add that little bit extra to your Sunday brunch or Easter breaky with a standing pancake bunny. I used store bought pancakes because they are the right thickness, firmness and sooo easy.