Cookie Cakes

I’m not sure how this all started, but every year I make Rachel a special cookie “cake”. It’s nothing more than a large chocolate chip cookie which I then frost in some sort of semi-creative manner. The most recent one was this weekend and I thought, what the heck, let’s upload ’em for all the cool kids to see.

2005

Rachel and I had just finished reading The Hobbit. Along the way she grew fascinated by the runes and so we learned them. (The Hobbit runes are easy since they map directly to English.)

That’s when I decided on this design. The center says, “Happy Birthday Rachel”. Then around the edge it says, “One Cookie to Rule Them All.” I proudly displayed the result to her. My then nine-year-old daughter stared a bit, then flatly said, “You misspelled it.” “Huh? … Oh dang it, you’re right.” Extra credit points to anyone out there who catches it:

2006

We’re also big fans of Homestar Runner. If you’ve never seen it, it’s a funny animated web comic. Here’s the main character. I had to cheat on the eyes. They’re just paper:

2007

In October of 2006, we went to Party Pig to buy all sorts of Halloween-related gear for her birthday. In May. Yep, she wanted a Halloween Party that year. All her guests dressed up and we invited Jack Skellington too:

2008

The difficulty I had piping in Jack the previous year made me try fondant this year. Unfortunately, I spent so much time trying to get the materials prepared, I ran out of time to put the actual cookie together. The theme this year was “spa” and that’s supposed to be a woman with a towel on her head, cucumbers on her eyes, and wearing a green mud mask. It didn’t come out at all like I’d planned. (Story of my life. 🙂 ) Check out that crappy piping!

2009

Last weekend I got to spend a little more time with the fondant and the results were much better. In fact, it was the exact same fondant from last year: I had a big wad of it leftover and so I kept it in the freezer.

Rachel had a roller skating party this year, and when I asked her how she wanted her cake decorated, she said simply, “Put a roller skate on it.”

Great. Hmmm… I did a Google Image Search and found this. I converted the image into four colors: white, pink, purple, and black, then printed out templates for each piece. After that it was just a matter of painstakingly cutting out pieces of fondant which stay frozen for only seconds at a time before they turn into goo. After a couple hours, though, I had the result. Not bad:

Can’t wait till next year…