White Chocolate Blueberry Shortbread Cookies
Countdown Cookies (Holiday Cookies)
Chocolate Oatmeal Cranberry Cookie
Sugar Cookies 101. Class is in session.
These cookies were made for a charity auction through Kraus Anderson.
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Happy Birthday! I designed this set of colorful letter cookies to decorate the perimeter of a birthday cake.
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Want to wow potential home buyers? How about personalized address cookies. One very inexpensive way to make an impression!
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In celebration of a beautiful new baby, these cookies were a gift for one very special new mom!
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I was so honored to be able to make cookies for the Liz Logelin Foundation 5K run.
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I officially have one wedding under my belt.
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Lions, tigers, and bears.... nope. Just monkeys.
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I was so privileged to participate in two country fairs in 2009. Even more amazing, I won Grand Champion in both!
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The mckpicnic even got cookti-fied!
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A birthday gift for a very sweet boy!
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I'm a midwest girl. And I likes my cookies.
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God bless America.
What kind of icing do you use as the "background"? The flat white that is the base. Would you mind sharing your recipe? I am looking for something like that but nothing I try dries flat and shiny like I want.
Posted by: Amanda Sikes | Nov 03, 2009 at 10:06 AM
http://iammommy.typepad.com/i_am_baker/2009/10/sugar-cookie-frosting-recipe.html
This is the recipe I use for all my sugar cookies! :)
Blessings!
Amanda
Posted by: Amanda Rettke | Nov 03, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Wow!!! Your website is a feast for my eyes!!! I saw your Baby Shower cookies on the Pineapple Princess's website and I just had to come visit you here. Your sweets and treats are so beautiful and I love your photography!!! You have been bookmarked and I will be back often!
Posted by: Rachymommy | Dec 03, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Thank you so much!! What a huge compliment!! I stopped by mommy topics and it looks great! I could get lost in there!:)
Posted by: Amanda Rettke | Dec 03, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Amanda your site is great. Found you on Tasty kitchen and happily followed to your baking blog. Can't wait to try out your sugar cooking and icing recipes this year! Keep your fingers crossed that my will look half as good as yours!
Posted by: Andrea | Dec 14, 2009 at 03:23 PM
What type of icing do you use to write with? I use the same recipe you do to fill but when I go to write it seems to spread out and run together.
Posted by: Hope | Jan 21, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Amanda... you are so talented! Wow.
Posted by: Naomi | Jan 26, 2010 at 09:28 PM
Amanda,
My son Zachary has an egg allergy, being that he is a twin we judt totally avoid giving either eggs and definately whites...
I picked up the recipe for the icing you make at Taste Kitchen and was so excited to see a "royal" icing with no eggs...I need to make some "eyes"...up til now I have been using marskmellow and chocolate chips...but would like to make something more hard candyish...
So my question, I just love the way your frosting looks so bright and shiney...
Does it harden enough to make "eyes" or Discs for "ears"???
I hope to hear from you soon...
Posted by: Juanita | Feb 08, 2010 at 08:31 AM
Ive got a MASSIVE project at the moment making cakes for a 1000 bike riders (they eat ALOT) and there not going to be very interesting cakes, so i wanted to make some sugar cookies to go with them (just so i can have a break from baking boring loaves of date and walnuts). Im hoping i can make them look half decent but at the mo i cant afford to buy the really thin nozzles i might just end up making a big mess, but thanks for the ideas! and wish me luck. hehe.
THANK YOU for the inspiration.
Posted by: steph | Feb 14, 2010 at 06:49 PM
I think I am in love with you!
I found your site yesterday and haven't stopped ooh-ing and ahh-ing all day!! Even my husband joined me in my admiration of your creativity. I cannot wait to start baking up some goodies!!! Thanks for the inspiration!
Posted by: Jo | Apr 02, 2010 at 11:03 AM
I love all of these! And let's just say that I will be "taking" your sugar cookie class. :)
Posted by: Tanya - The Chatty Mom | Apr 18, 2010 at 02:22 AM
Hi there:
I made your cookie and icing recipes for a Christmas cookie exchange and loved BOTH of them - I'll never use anything else again - especially the icing one - that process is amazing - LOVE IT...anyway, I came across this the other day and immediately thought of you! Please do a Google search for: Edible Googly Eyes
I am sure you can put this idea to a fun use! :)
Take care.
Posted by: KarenD | Apr 27, 2010 at 04:05 PM
i like how you do the cookies, but how you make them cream shiny &stuff. cause i dont know how, lols. (:
Posted by: Dia Lo | May 27, 2010 at 12:03 PM
and also how you make the dough of the cookies in each different shapes?
Posted by: Dia Lo | May 27, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Oh i just adore your work!! Lovely!
Posted by: Danielle | Oct 21, 2010 at 06:26 PM
Holy Smokes! Beautiful! You are an artist!
Posted by: trish | Dec 06, 2010 at 07:40 AM
Just found you via Pioneer Woman! WOW! Are you using a teensy weensy tip for lettering? Do you use the same icing for the lettering as for the background?
Someday I'll stop reading and collecting recipes and actually bake something! :o)
Posted by: Laurel | Dec 07, 2010 at 02:20 PM
I'd like to use your recipe for sugar cookies and mail them to a friend. Any suggestions on packing them?
Posted by: Mary | Dec 08, 2010 at 05:54 AM
love love love
Posted by: Ema | Dec 08, 2010 at 12:01 PM
Ridiculously amazing! Never seen anything so beautiful! My most sincere congratulations!
I just wanted to ask you if you can share how you spread the icing on top of the cake. Do you use a spatula or a bag with a tip, because it looks perfect. I doesn't have any marks at all.
Just beautiful!
Posted by: Andrea | Dec 10, 2010 at 09:47 PM
Sorry, I meant to say cookie not cake.
Posted by: Andrea | Dec 10, 2010 at 09:50 PM
I want to be just like you someday! :) WOW!! LOVE all your cookies!
Posted by: Kara@Cookies in the Cupboard | Jan 07, 2011 at 08:38 PM
wow, you are just amazing!
Posted by: Mas | Feb 10, 2011 at 09:30 PM
I got the recipe for the background white icing but can you share the recipe for the icing to write? what tip do you use?
Posted by: Alejandra | Feb 12, 2011 at 07:35 PM
These are unbelievable. How much practice did it take for you to get them to be this perfect???
Posted by: Marie (Chocolate & Wine) | Feb 17, 2011 at 02:08 PM
Wow, these cookies are unbelievable! You are one very talented individual. I was looking for a tutorial to offer my visitors, this is fantastic, and of course you've given me the desire to have a go myself!
Thank you!
Posted by: Jackie | Feb 24, 2011 at 04:40 PM
I am BLOWN AWAY by your cookie decorating talent!! Holy wow! What a gift you have.
Posted by: Laura @ Our House Of Joyful Noise | Mar 14, 2011 at 08:44 AM
Amanda,
I use your icing recipe on all my decorated sugar cookies - thanks for the recipe by the way! Do you ever freeze your decorated cookies? If so, do you have any tips?
Thanks and much love to you,
Danielle
Posted by: Danielle | Mar 23, 2011 at 10:21 PM
Wow Amanda, you rock!!! I wanna be like you when I grow up! :)
Posted by: Rosie | Mar 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Amazing cookies, so clever.
Posted by: Diane | Mar 30, 2011 at 12:21 PM
These cookies are insane! What a gift!
Posted by: Mary | Apr 08, 2011 at 11:12 PM
Amazing, with a keen sense of individuality and creative freedom. I love her goodies...and the instructions are spot-on.
Posted by: Joy Benson | Apr 22, 2011 at 03:26 PM
wowsers!!!!!!!
Posted by: Patti | Apr 23, 2011 at 06:03 AM
Amanda,you are amazing. I have been looking at all your work and am truely impressed. I have been doing cakes and cookies for years and like you, started at a very young age but I can not believe how good you already are.I did your Rose cake the other day and was surprised at how easy and beautiful it turned out. Thanks for posting all the neat ideas. It has been fun to see such amazing work. Great job!
Posted by: Susan | May 16, 2011 at 09:00 AM
you are amazing.what a creative ideas you have and your all cakes and cookies are very impressed.while i'm serching to make a b'day cake for my 4 years daughter i just found your website.thanks god, your amazing work and neat ideas i will folow onward.thanks again.
Posted by: kumari | May 25, 2011 at 02:58 AM
Thank you for the inspiration. Some friends and I decided to give decorated sugar cookies a try. I've blogged about it here: http://somesomeandsome.blogspot.com/2011/06/friends-and-decorated-sugar-cookies.html. We've got a way to go before we're as good as you though! Thank you!
Posted by: Becky | Jun 08, 2011 at 04:40 AM
I'm super impressed with your skillz - I want to be just like you one day (though that day will probably be a long ways in the future seeing as my frosting abilities are terrible)!
Posted by: Suzywho.wordpress.com | Jun 18, 2011 at 12:31 AM
I am going to make engagement cookies for a friend and I love the pink lovelovelove cookies soooo much I am going to try it out! Wish me luck! I love doing sugar cookies but I never seem to decorate very well!!
Posted by: Heather @ Sweet Sins | Jul 31, 2011 at 03:00 PM
Wow! This whole site is amazing! I cannot believe how one person could make all these different, delicious-looking treats! I just added this page to my favorites. I love to bake, but I never can find good, easy recipes, until now! Thanks for giving me more inspiration to bake!
Posted by: Tess! | Aug 04, 2011 at 12:35 PM
You make the best looking cookies I have ever seen! So inspirational! Please keep up this amazing work!
Posted by: Zarina | Aug 23, 2011 at 01:25 AM
All your cookies looks amazing. Amazing! I'm drooling a little bit...
Posted by: kyleen | Sep 01, 2011 at 09:41 PM
I WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE YOUR BLOG. I THINK WHAT YOU BAKE AND DESIGN ARE GREAT.
Posted by: BRENDA B | Sep 30, 2011 at 09:22 AM
Beautiful cookies. My Norwegian husband and I loved your cake flour video... stopped by your blog looking for something to bake today. :)
Posted by: Jsakrisson | Oct 29, 2011 at 07:16 AM
God bless you for sharing!!!! Your message on i can tell you the way to get to heaven but you have to know for yourself!!! Amen!!Brought a tear to my eye..smile..Gonna try recipe for my sister-in-laws bridal shower at church on Tuesday. Thank you for the cup of water ...refreshing
Posted by: Camillia | Nov 05, 2011 at 06:43 PM