Bug Cookies

I spent much of last week working on baking and decorating bug cookies for the baby shower yesterday.

The process was even more time-consuming than usual because I was making so many different shapes, and each of them was so detailed. I was pretty happy with how they came out, so in the end, it was worth it. Everyone at the shower loved them, and I think it was a pretty nice favor for each of them to take home!

Here are some photos of the cookies. One of the whole group:

And then each cookie individually:

The caterpillar

The bee. The details on his wings are difficult to see, but there was a pattern of lines on the tips of his wings, and then polka dots toward the middle.

The ladybug. I think these ones were my favorite.

The snail. Cute, but the swirl of the shell was really hard to do well.

The dragonfly. Probably my other favorite. I used a toothpick to combine two different colors on the wings, and I loved how it turned out.

This is how the favors were put together. Everyone got one big cookie, and then a small bee. I put them into cookie bags, and tied them with curling ribbon, and added an "It's a Boy!" charm.

As always, I used this recipe for the sugar cookie cutouts.

Tomorrow, I'll share more details about the cake!