Birthday Cookie

This cute double-decker Birthday Cookie is so simple to make, decorate and customize with a personal message. All you need to make it is cookie dough, royal icing and an edible ink marker.

When it came to cutting the parts for the cookie, I used a knife and cut them freehand. I cut a large 6-inch square for the base and for the candle, a thin strip of dough and a teardrop shape for the flame. 

The cookies parts before baking.

Candle close-up.

Here's how I decorated and assembled the cookie:

Outline and flood the base cookie with royal icing and set it aside to dry completely.

With a paint brush, paint on the dark pink and gold royal icing for the candle and the flame and let these dry completely before attaching them to the dried base cookie. I even added icing to the sides of the candle and flame cookies so that there were no bare edges to be seen after they were attached to the base. Let the cookie dry for another hour or so until the "icing glue" is set.

Then just use an edible ink marker to write a birthday greeting and that's all there is to it.

A side view of the finished cookie that's for our good friend Elise's 15th birthday.

Custom Giant Sugar Cookie

Recently my daughter Eleanor wanted to give two friends a giant decorated sugar cookie for their birthdays and so we came up with these designs.

Midori's cookie.

Owen's cookie.

We made the custom cookies just by hand cutting the dough into a large rectangle. Then, all you have to do is bake it and decorate it the way you want. Using cookie cutters to cut shapes for the double-decker cookie is easy and gives you professional looking results.

The pieces before baking. The giant rectangle took 18 minutes to bake.

The cookies we cut were 6 by 8-inches and Owen's double-decker one weighed three-fourths of a pound! These cookies were made to be shared - at least I hope so!

Wrapped and ready to give.