Easter Dress Cookies with Flour De Lis {Guest Post}
It’s no big secret that I get super excited about re purposing cookie cutters, so when my friend Samantha of Flour De Lis shared a brilliant idea for turning a double bell cookie into a beautiful dress cookie, I knew it had to be shared. Today, Sam is here showing us the perfect way to breathe new life into a tired old cutter . Enjoy!
Hello cookie friends! My name is Samantha, you’ll usually find me sharing cookies on Flour De Lis. Today I am lucky enough to be invited over to Callye’s house (kinda, sorta… pretend with me, it’ll be an adventure) to share a cookie idea! This idea is actually really old. Callye asked me to share ages ago, and I just kept putting it off because I was scared. Don’t laugh! Have you ever been asked to make cookies for the best cookie maker in the world?!? In the WHOLE universe?!? It’s scary!! Not scary, like weird sounds at night when you are home alone, or your husband jumping out from behind the door when you THINK you’re home alone, or eating fried food on a stick. Okay that last one is not really scary, so much as delicious. But I
digress!
Let’s talk about cookies! These ones are so easy that even I can make them! And you can make them too!
This all came about, a year ago when another cookie friend was getting ready to make christening cookies and wanted a little dress, but she didn’t have a dress cutter that was right and didn’t want to spend the $$ on a pricey copper cutter for just one order. We’ve all been there, right?!?
Well this was the solution, a cheap little cutter that you probably already have, and if you’re like me, never used!
You can pick this cutter up at almost any craft store or via Wilton or Amazon if you prefer to order online.
If you want to change it up a little and leave the shoes off; just trim those little bits at the bottom before you bake the cookies and you’ll have a slightly different outcome.
Mix outline and flood icing in your preferred colors. I used white for the christening cookies and soft pink, teal, and violet for the Easter dresses.
Once your cookies are cool, just outline the cookie, mostly keeping with the true edges, you can take it in a little for a neckline and straight across the bottom edge instead of out for the clappers (do you know that’s what the little dangly thing that makes the noise is called? I didn’t, I had to google “dangly thing inside bell”. It’s true. You can check my Google history ;))
Now you just flood the entire area inside your outline and let it dry. I am a big fan of my heat gun, so I just give it a once or twice or five quick times over and move on. I don’t like to wait… But if you do, let them set for at least 20 minutes before filling in the clapper part. Those are going to be little shoes. Now you can let your cookies set for a few hours or overnight depending on your icing recipe.
That’s really it. Once the base is dry enough to work on, you can add any details you like. I made these little white ones with a few pink roses which I think would be just darling for a little christening favor.
And then I made some pretty pastel ones that I think would be cute for Easter . I love Easter. The prettiest colors and best candies are everywhere!
Whew! That wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be! I hope you get a chance to make these cookies really soon, so you can see for yourself how easy they are.
Now I am off to drink some tea and chat with Callye! I think we’ll sit in her living room all day. I imagine it to be really sunny and bright and there are lots of fun things to see and we’ll talk about all the cool cookies she makes and how much I want to be just like her and about this one time when I had an idea about another cool cookie. And when I get home, I am totally going to jump out from behind a door and scare my husband.
I was so excited about Sam’s adorable dresses that I couldn’t wait to try this idea for myself. I made some adorable pink dresses just in time for Easter.
Thanks for sharing your cookie think with us, Samantha! I hope you’ll give it a try too.
Have a safe and happy week, cookie friends!
How smart – actually I saw the cookie first and then the cutter and I had to do a double take look at the cutter – all I was seeing was cute dress cutter. Thanks for sharing/
SAMANTHA!! Dude, that is such an awesome idea. I love how your mind works. Thanks so much for having her over Callye!
DUDE 😉 You are so fun!
xo
These are so sweet! I think they’d be adorable for a girl-specific baby shower too!
Great idea Joanna! They would make a very cute baby shower favor! I can see them with a little owl detail piped on 😉
Two of my favorite peeps in one post!!!! Thank you for sharing a wonderful idea! You both are repurpose cookie masters!!!!
What an imaginative use of that darn bell cookie cutter!! I would never have thought to use it the way you did! And that’s why we love you, Samantha 🙂
Well that and my super bad ass ninja skills 😉
Okay, no. Just kidding. I guess if I was a real ninja I wouldn’t have to tell you! haha
In terms of fruit (& any food really) and the aonumt of fructose, glucose, etc. in them, the thing to check is the glycemic index. The higher the number the more you should stay away from it ~
Perfect team….Sugarbelle and Flour De Lis!!!!
Love what you did with the cutter, super cute…you nailed it!!!!
Thanks for the post, xoxo
Samantha did a wonderful job, they are so cute!
Thank you Diane!
xo
OMG! that has to be the cutest most adorable idea ever…. I do lots of baby cookies (all my friends are having grandbabies or throwing showers) and I finally broke down and bought that super expensive copper cutter and even paid rush shipping because I was impatient… It’s kind of too big and not nearly as cute as this shape…. you are just brilliant and thank you so much for sharing this great idea… I have never even used my bell cutter, who does wedding bells? It will now be stored with my baby shapes….. thank you!!!
I cannot tell you how long I have owned this cutter and like you, never used it! I do have a serious weakness for the shiny copper and love that it comes in every shape you can dream up! BUT, there are so many days when you just have to use what you have on hand 😉
What a great idea…thank you so much for sharign with us…both of you. I have that cutter…and have never had a chance to play with it…now I can make cute little dresses! Love them!
I love this dress, especially for a christening with all the fluff! Great idea, I have never used this cutter, I bet mine is buried…..
What super cute little Easter dresses – and out of a bell cutter makes them even more fantastic!
I wish I had the time to make all your cookies, I love these dresses. Thank you for sharing with us.
I never would have used that cutter to make the bell but, I will be making these dresses with it. Thanks so much for sharing:)
Whoa, whoa, get out the way with that good inoafmrtion.
Love this idea for the bell cutter. The dresses are adorable.
Two of my favorite cookiers in one spot; what a great way to start the day! Love all the dresses! Great job with the bell cutter, Samantha!
Thank you Sue 🙂
xo
Absolutely adorable! No need to “be scared.” We LOVE seeing something new to try. Thank you for sharing.
Sorry for taking up 2 comment spaces, but I wanted to let you know, Callye, that you have really influenced me with cookie cutter shapes. My daughter and I will pull a cutter at random, turn it every which way, and write down all the shapes we see. (Kinda like the “cloud game.”) It’s been fun and has re-purposed several cutters. Thank you!
May I please ask a question? Your wee, tiny roses, it looks like you piped them right on the cookie. Did you? Or did you use a nail and then applique them? Thank you!
Stephanie, I piped mine directly onto the dress. Once the base was mostly set. I used thick-ish icing to pipe a small dot then very thick icing to make a small swirl on top.
Give it a try! They are very simple and fun 🙂
Thank you so much for the information! I kept peering at the photos to try and figure out what you’d done because the effect is really lovely. You’re very kind to share your techniques. : )
just adorable!
Such a creative use of that cutter! Lovely work too!
Thanks for sharing this technique! It’s really a cute way to use that cutter. Can’t wait to try it too!
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Where did you get the flowers, or did you make them?
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Thank you so much !! I just bought the wilton wedding cookie cutter set this morning and was wondering what I could do with the bells cutter !!! This website always help…. You are awesome!!
This was a wonderful, ehingnteling experience that I will treasure and learn from and give thanks to all of you who have made it possible. I am thankful for: the opportunity; for the different stations to reflect within; for those who made it possible; for the opportunity to reflect and ponder change; for a beautiful place to worship God’s word. What would I change: I would not have events going on immediately outside the doors so that when they are opened, they bring in distracting noises.Thank you!
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Ha, ha. When I saw this cookie cutter set (wedding, wilton), I thought it IS a dres. But why two dresses in one set? Then I realised, it’s a bell 🙂
Sorry for my english and greetings from Poland (in Europe :P, the middle part. actually, east-middle 😛 But not Russia 🙂 )