
I did. Well, I bought this cookie cutter. I just didn’t buy it to make lips. I bought mine to make dinosaur cookies for Thing 2’s birthday party. Alas, my idea of a very themed birthday party got squashed and we are going fairly basic. “He’s going to be one. He won’t even know that you did crazy stuff for the party.” So? It gives me something to focus my energy into. Duh. Oh well. I’m still slipping in a theme. Coming soon to a blog near you!
Ok, the cookie cutter. I’ve seen amazing cookies being made with cookie cutters that were meant for something else entirely. I love that. I don’t want to buy a cookie cutter for every little idea I might have. Being inventive is fun. Check these cookies out:



Smarty pants girls huh? To be in with the in crowd I turned my lip cookie cutter into Pterodactyl. Thing 1 is beside himself with a plate full of dinosaurs he can eat. Oh and I have to say how freakin’ easy Royal Icing is to make now that I have my amazing, wonderful, coolest thing ever KitchenAid stand mixer!! Thanks killer!
{Don’t freak out. Mike and I call each other Killer for our pet names. Like Jerry Lee Lewis “killer” not Ted Bundy.}
Pterodactyl Cookies
Equpiment:
1/2 recipe No Fail Sugar Cookies
1 recipe Royal Icing
Wilton Leaf Green food coloring gel
Wilton black food coloring gel
Tooth picks
2 Piping bags
1 squeeze bottle
1 teaspoon measuring spoon
Water
Method:
Roll out sugar cookie dough and using lip cookie cutter, cut out cookies and bake according to recipe. Allow cookies to cool completely before icing.
Prepare icing recipe. Divide icing: 1/4 cup for black remaining icing for olive green. Using food coloring gel, tint icing until desired color is reached. For dinosaur coloring, tint icing green first and then add a little black at a time, mixing between each addition. Once desired color is reached, divide green icing in half (for piping and flood). Put half of green icing into a bowl. Put remaining half into a pastry bag fitted with a piping tip.
Let icing set for 15 minutes.
Using black piping icing in a pastry bag fitted with a #2 tip, pipe eyes and nostrils. Hold tip and let icing for eyes build a little for a bigger dot. Nostrils should go onto the dry piped face line.