Dirty's Little Secrets: Dirty's Secret Edible Christmas Ornaments!

Here they are, the finished product I was looking for!

Instead of the usual Christmas suspects: Snowmen, Christmas Trees, Santas, Bells, etc. I wanted to make cookies that maintained the festive holiday spirit but added a little updated style! I had to go all the way to Troy, NY to get the cookie cutters needed... a little shop called Confectionary House. It was SO worth it, they have almost every cookie cutting shape you could ever want! I found my Flippy Floppie shape up there and also my large and small mittens and winter hat featured in this post!

These I made to be sold at the Arkville Bread and Breakfast. The owner Jack was the one who decided to call them Edible Ornaments because they looked so cute and yummy! I rolled out my sugar cookie recipes par usual and I went back to my old faithful royal icing recipe using egg whites. I picked up a lighter kelly green in place of a brighter traditional Christmas green and I also mixed up my own attempted version of a darker burgundy color which came out to be more on the purple/ chocolatley brown side. Dirty's Little Secret: sometimes mistakes work even better than what you had originally planned!

Here's a freshy few chilling pre photo shoot.

Showing the details on some of the mini-mittens!

Perfect pairs, mittens and hats!

I couldn't repeat the same decorations twice so every mitten and hat was 100% unique.

From left to right: Minamlist glitz, winter bling bling, beauty without the bling!

These are a little more funky and experimental!

To dot? Or not to dot? That is my question!

A little mix and match of the snowflakes, hats, and mittens!

I know I bragged earlier about the uniqueness of the cookie designs, but with the snowflakes I just had to do them all the same because it looked so beautiful!