Candy Coated Halloween Oreos

Make this fun and easy treat that everyone is sure to love this Halloween!

All you need is Halloween Oreo Cookies, a Halloween Wilton Cookie Mold, and Orange and Black Wilton Candy Melts!

I have made candy coated cookies using Wilton Cookie molds quite a few times for various holidays. All you have to do is melt the candy melts in a microwave safe container according to package instructions and fill each mold cavity 2/3 full with candy melts. Press in cookie. If needed, fill smaller spaces like cat ears and pumpkin stems using a piping bag with small end snipped off. Let set up in the refrigerator for 30 to 45 minutes or until cookies easily unmold. This mold makes 6 cookies.

Halloween Oreos have a fun orange colored cream center and 5 different designs!

Enter for a chance to win your own Halloween Oreos and lots of other cool stuff  by entering my Spook-tacular Halloween Giveaway!

Enter now through October 12, 2012 at midnight central time!

Disclosure: Kraft Foods is providing the prizes for this program at no cost to me and has provided me with a gift of equal value for review.  This program is not administered or sponsored by Kraft Foods or its affiliates, but solely by Mrs. Fox's Sweets. 

 

Until Next time....

~Christina

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Summer Vacation Cookies

It's finally here...VACATION TIME!

Here are the cookies I made for the road!

Whole Wheat Chocolate Cut-Out Cookies

2 sticks margarine

3/4 cup sugar

1-1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp sea salt

2 cups unbleached all purpose flour

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 cup cocoa powder

In stand mixer with dough hook mix together margarine, sugar, vanilla, and salt. Add in flours and cocoa powder 1 cup at a time until fully mixed. Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes or more depending on cookies size.

These cookies are made with Wilton mini cookie cutters and this recipe made 100 mini cookies. The cookies are iced with royal icing.

Soft, chewy, and bite sized!

See you in a few weeks!

  ~Christina

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2012 Graduation Cookies

This is my very first cookie order!

Deja Vu? Kinda. Less than a week ago, with the help of my 2 daughters, we made Graduation Cap & Diploma Cookies pretty much just like these. I sent a few of the cookies home with one of my son's friends that is also graduating and his mom asked me to make some for them! I can't tell you how excited I was that someone wanted my cookies! Okay, I get email cookie orders pretty much weekly, but they are usually out of state and I decline. But now, who knows? Maybe this could be the start of something new in my life?

...Graduation Caps

...Diplomas

I really enjoyed making these cookies and once again found relaxation with my piping bag in hand!

The cookie box dividers didn't quite fit the cookies so had to go without, but my first order is boxed and ready to go!

Tonight they finally walk! Tomorrow look for the final graduation sweet of 2012 that I made for my son!

 

CONGRATULATIONS

CLASS

of

2012

~Christina

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Graduation Cap & Diploma Cookies

Less than a week to go until my son's graduation ceremony! His last day of school was actually today!

With so many things going on I just haven't had time or motivation to bake. I had lemon sugar cookie dough in the freezer that I used to make these. My daughter and partner in baking, Katie, actually flooded all of these cookies for me! My 4 year old wanted to get her hands into the fun and actually helped pipe the top outline on some of the graduation caps and diplomas! I helped guide her tiny little hand a bit, but she did great and had lots of fun!

I planned on these being my last cookies for awhile, but actually had a request to make a batch of these for a senior graduation camping trip before we take off on our vacation! I am pretty excited that my cookies are wanted! So look for more cookies similar to these soon!

CONGRATULATIONS

CLASS

of

2012

and

to my dear son Steve, you have made it to the finish line, just waiting for the ceremony now! It seems like just yesterday he was graduating preschool!

   

~Christina, Katie, & Jess

(we all had a hand in making these!)

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Movie Quote Cookies

Hi there! This week is spring break and we are busy having fun, so it is the perfect time to share with you my little adventure to Happy Hour Projects last week! Happy Hour Projects is one of my favorite about everything blogs, Adrianne does so many wonderful projects over there, stop by and visit her if you haven't before! Together we host fun holiday craft and recipe link parties together, be on the look out for another one when holidays approach! This month is a big month for Adrianne with her Script Frenzy challenge and since cookies are currently my favorite sweet to make, I decided to make cookies from 3 of Adrianne's all-time favorite movies, keeping with the script theme.

The quotes on the cookies above are from one of the movies. Keep reading to find out which one! These are made using a basic sugar cookie recipe and royal icing.

 

There are many different cut-out sugar cookie recipes out there. You can view my favorite cut-out cookie recipes on the Mrs. Fox's Sweets FAQ page. I like changing up the basic sugar cookie recipe using different flavorings. Once you have decided on a recipe, cut out, baked, and cooled your cookies you are ready to decorate. For the set of cookies that I am using for the quick tutorial below, I am using a glaze type icing, also found on my FAQ page.

To decorate the cookies you will need a few disposable piping bags, size 1 and size 2 tips, couplers, and I also like to have the covers to keep the icing from leaking on the table and to keep it from drying out.

Once the icing is in the bag, it needs to be closed off so that it doesn't leak out the other end. This can be done with a clip or rubber band.

Outline cookie with size 2 tip and let dry for about a half hour. This outline will prevent the inside icing from running off the sides when flooding in the next step. This glaze type icing is a little more difficult to to work with than royal icing and tends to spread out more, but it is also softer and taste better to me than royal icing.

Still using tip 2, fill in cookie being careful not to overflow the outline. These will need to dry for 8 to 12 hours before decorating with edible ink pens. Without using white coloring, the glaze icing is also a little translucent, but I thought it kinda worked here looking like parchment once it dried.

Once the cookies had dried, I used edible markers to write the quotes from...can you guess the movie?

Keep reading to find out what movie these are from!

These final cookies were made using royal icing. Since I outlined in black, I let the outline dry overnight to make sure that it wouldn't bleed. The next day I flooded the cookie with white, and later than evening piped the quotes on using tip 1. Can you name this movie?

 

These movies were all movies that Adrianne and I both grew up watching. I had a fun time with my daughter watching them all again before creating these cookies!

Movies from top to bottom: A Knight's Tale, The Princess Bride, and Labyrinth

Did you remember any of them?

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Peanut Butter Blossoms

We ended up with A LOT of Hershey's Kisses in a Hershey's Springtime Assortment bag of candy, I mean A LOT, not the Dark Chocolate...my favorite, but Hershey's Kisses, not that they are bad or anything, just way too many of them!

Well, what do you do when you have too much of anything? Find something to bake with it! I looked no further than the Hershey's website for their Peanut Butter Blossom Recipe! The recipe is delicious, no need to change it any.

I do like to make things pretty though, so I rolled them in colored sugars instead of regular sugar to brighten them up a bit! The colors could be changed to fit any occasion and this is a great way to use up Hershey's Kisses if you find yourself with waayyyyy too many!

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Bee & Flower Easter Egg Cookies

A slight twist on a regular looking Easter Egg cookie

I decided with these cookies to try a different cut out cookie. Well when they say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," let me tell you that is the truth. These cookies spread out too much for my liking. I did use lemon extract in the dough for a perfect springy flavor!

Lemon & Berry Anyone?

Think you don't like fondant? Have you tried Fondarific? This blue is the Fondarific Berry Blue and it is so perfect with the lemon flavored cookie! I rolled out the fondant, made the impressions with a rubber stamp, and then cut out out with the same cutter I used to cut the cookie. Now you see why the cookie spreading too much was such a problem? To adhere the fondant to the cookie, immediately place the cut out fondant on the warm cookie. If the cookie has cooled, put the fondant on the cookie and put it in a "warm" oven for just 1 to 2 minutes. Keep an eye out, with both Fondarific and Duff fondant as soon as it begins to get slightly shiny, it is done!

Other than Fondarific and Duff, I have only used Wilton brand fondant. Wilton fondant doesn't adhere to the cookies well and it is just easier to use a food safe brush and brush a little corn syrup onto the back of the fondant to use as glue.

Spring flowers are not complete with out the bees!

This truly is an easy way to decorate cookies, especially when time is running short!

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Movie Quote Cookies at Happy Hour Projects!

Hey everyone! Today I am off and visiting with my good buddy Adrianne over at Happy Hour Projects! I have made movie quote cookies for 3 of her favorite all-time movies...with a little guessing game! Stop by and see if you remember the movies I have made cookies for!

Easter Bunny Cookies

It's Easter Bunny time and here are my bunny cookies!

For these cookies I used 2 teaspoons of lemon extract in my regular sugar cookie recipe. This is my first time using lemon in them and I love the flavor. I would have liked it to be a little bit stronger and may bump it up to 3 teaspoons of lemon extract next time for the batch. They are decorated with royal icing.

The bunny cookie cutters came in a set with a carrot cookie cutter. I originally planned on icing the carrots too, but I have been making so many cookies lately that I ran out of icing. I didn't want to make a batch just for the 5 carrots I cut out, we enjoyed those "as is" and even undecorated they were yummy with that lemon flavor!

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This Weeks Cravings- Easter Cookies

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Thank You Trilogy Edibles!

Let's see...today (yesterday by the time you are reading this) was a rough day from the start, but when the mailman was holding a small box, I rushed up the hill to him...okay, I am a huge dork, the secret is out, now you know! I knew it had to be my special cookies from Karen at Trilogy Edibles! I only took a second to take a couple pictures before I began devouring them like Cookie Monster!

I did share these guys with the family though! We all loved them. It was so fun eating cookies made by someone else...lol. I loved the light shortbread like texture of these cookies! So colorful too!

Thanks Karen for making my day!

Hugs!

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Butterfly & Flower Cookies

Spring is officially here! I am so glad about that! I am just not a cold weather person and I am so glad to be decorating spring themed cookies!

Naturally, the colors are similar to some of my Christmas Cookies...lol! I am finding that I have a particular cookie style. I seem to gravitate towards brighter, more vivid colors and patterns when designing my cookies. I don't like using a ton of different colors in the same batch and usually stick to 3 or 4 colors max.

I also love using fondant accents in my cookies. Fondant is a great way to add extra dimension to cookies.

These cookies are chocolate flavored with royal icing. The chocolate cut out cookie is one of my favorites and the flavor reminds me of chocolate Pop Tarts! If you haven't already, check out my FAQ page to view the recipes that I like to use for my cookies!

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Bunny Hop Cookies

Can you guess what it was that I used as inspiration for these cookies?

We will get to that in a moment, but first let me show you how I made them!

I started by outlining and flooding the chocolate cookies using a size 2 tip and blue cookie icing. I let these dry over night and then the next morning used an edible marker to draw on the bunnies. They aren't perfect, I don't have one of those cool projecting devices, so I gave it a shot free handed. I then outlined the bunnies with black royal icing and let that dry for about 8 hours. After that was dry I flooded with white royal icing, letting that dry over night before piping on the faces. Despite all of the drying time, the black icing still bled a little. I have really never had a problem with icings bleeding before and not sure why I did this time. I also had to fill in a few holes which tend to happen when piping in small spaces, but overall they turned out pretty good!

Have you figured out my inspiration yet?

Here it is! The button for the Bunny Hop Easter link party that I am hosting with Happy Hour Projects!

6 little bunnies hopping in a row waiting for you to join the Bunny Hop too!

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This Week's Cravings- Easter Cookies

 

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Shamrock & Heart Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cut Out Cookies with a glaze style icing...yum! Best of all, I didn't even have to decorate them! These were my daughters project, she was making for her someone special. This is his favorite recipe that we use for cut-out cookies and for icing, and this flavor combination is absolutely perfect!

For the last Shamrock Cookies that we made, Katie cut and baked and then I decorated. Today the roles were reversed. It is always so nice working with my daughter on baking projects! I am so thankful everyday to have my daughter as my best friend!

This was her first time using this type of icing, it is a little different to work with since it is thinner than the royal icing, but it is slightly softer with better flavor too. I love the colors that she chose!

Of course Katie had to make hearts along with the shamrocks since they are for her sweetheart. Everyday, even St. Patrick's Day, is Valentine's Day for the two of them!

 

For a list of recipe links, including those used for these cookies view my FAQ page!

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