Sweet Roses

"That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell taste as sweet." - Shakespeare (sort of)

I've been playing with my vanilla cookie recipe, trying to get it just right - my husband and I don't like the traditional buttery sugar cookies. So I had a whole batch of cookies, in random shapes, sitting there, just begging to be iced, I just wasn't sure what to do with them. Then I got out my trays, the ones I always do my decorating on, and inspiration struck.

Don't you just love the colours, and the polka dots?

I started off with lots of wet-on-wet polka dot bases, most of which I didn't end up using (who knew how hard it would be to do polka dots in straight lines?) then moved on to some paisleys, I love paisleys. 

But when I got to the flower shaped cookies, they just weren't looking right, so I decided to ignore the daisy shape and do a rose instead. They looked great! Before I knew it, there were roses on almost all of my cookies!

I guess I had some of Arty McGoo's recent cookies in the back of my mind, because some of mine definitely resemble hers - thanks Liz!

Click here for a tutorial on icing your own rose cookies.