A co-worker was having a baby, and so, I jumped at the opportunity to create some cookies for the shower celebration. She wasn't finding out if the baby was a boy/girl, and she was keeping a fairly neutral color palate of white/gray. (Great idea to then add blue/pink, both of which look so good with gray.) Something along the lines of this Pottery Barn Kids collection.
So, I decided to make gray and white quilted cookies with the 20-second icing trick, and I used the wet-on-wet technique to create little chevron cookies, as inspired by Peapods Cookies. Minis had to be incorporated somehow, so that's how I added a little more color.
The babies were actually made from a balloon cookie cutter. I made all their hats gray, but the little pouf on top was then either white/pink or white/blue. I added lashes to the "girl" babies too for fun. Although a pretty easy design, I started to worry when the babies in stocking caps started to look more like knights in armor. Can you see it too, or was it just my tired eyes?
Anyways, in the end, it was a cute little platter, and much to our surprise, she ended up having a sweet baby boy. (I had even made a few extra pink cookies, since I was so sure she was having a girl...what do I know?)
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