Frozen Themed Cupcakes (Royal Icing Cookie Toppers .. Olad & Snowflakes)

One more fun cookie project made! As you most know that I work with a charity that brings birthday's to homeless kids staying in shelters. Please check out Birthday Dreams (they can use all donations). I had a request for an 8 y/o little girl wanting a Frozen Theme. I've done a few frozen themes before for them so I thought I would try to do something different. I'm really loving royal icing and how the cookies make the perfect toppers.

  

What you Need:

Sugar Cookies cut into Olaf and Snow Flakes
Frozen Cookie Cutters

Royal Icing in white and blue(recipe below)

AmeriColor Gel Food Coloring Blue (to dye Icing - This is my fav brand)

Silver Sprinkles
Food Pen in black and Orange

I used the dipping method with my royal icing. I started to do the dipping method about 6 months ago to speed up my decorating time. You can pipe each cookie which is a little cleaner but I find the dipping method to be the best. You get your royal icing to the outline consistency and put into a pie dish (I find this is not too deep). Once you dip the top of the cookie you tap off the extra icing and then you let dry! Once dry you can add your details.

For Olaf I dipped in the white royal icing. When that was dry I took the food pens and drew on Olaf's face. I'm no artist and was very worried about how they would turn out.

For the snowflakes I dipped in the blue royal icing. Before they were dry I added some silver sprinkles. I let those dry before moving or adding to the cupcakes.

Once the cookies had dried I then added them to the top of frosted cupcakes. I'm obsessed with royal icing and love the way they come out. This way the kid not only gets a cupcake but a cookie, best of both worlds.

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INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups butter, softened 2 cups white sugar 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

5 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS:

1.	In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
2.	Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
3.	Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

Julie Usher, she has a GREAT YouTube video on how to make, color and make consistency adjustments. 

Royal Icing what you need:

2 lbs Powdered Sugar

1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar

5 Large Egg Whites (or equivalent) 

Flavor to Taste

Gel Icing Color

Mix powder sugar and cream of tartar in your mixer, just to make sure it is incorporated in. Slowly add egg whites, then whip start of slow then go to very high speed. She says around 2 minutes, my friend had an older mixer so it took almost 10 minutes. You want stiff peaks that hold on and won't fall off the spoon. Add in your flavor, I would suggest you use a clear flavoring.  This would be the glue texture great for ginger bread houses etc.

Take 1 cup of royal icing in a smaller bowl then add your coloring, lightly mix so you don't get air into the the icing. I'm like her and like the gel coloring. 

For Top Coating - Add 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 tsp Water (This is if you don't want to outline and flood)

For Outlining - Add 1/2 to 3/4 tsp Water

For Flooding  - Add 2 to 3 tsp Water

WATCH her video on How to Top-Coat, Outline, and Flood Cookies. YES it is around 7 minutes BUT if you have never done this technique it's a MUST she explains it perfectly.

Frozen Themed Party ... Frozen Nail Kit

And last on our frozen themed gift was for pretty nails! I saw an idea on Pinterest and thought I can make this work with my theme of Frozen.  What little girl does not like to do her nails?  Well I don't have girls but I once was one ... lol.

What you need:

Nail Polish Remover

Blue Nail Polish (With sparkles if you can find)

Cotton Balls

Blue Gum (Wintermint or something like that)

Dum Dum Lollipops

Blue Kisses

Large Clear Bag

Ribbon

Take a large clear bag and add in your items.  Start with the nail polish remover add some cotton balls.  I found some blue polish with silver glitter in it and it reminds me of snowflakes on your nails. I add handful of kisses and a few dum dum's. I tied a white ribbon on it! Tada done!  This of course doesn't have to be frozen themed.  It can be used for a spa party gift or a teen gift.

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Frozen Party ... Build Olaf the Snowman

Next on my list to do the frozen gift I was making was a fun and easy item. I found several ideas on pinterest for this but then I came across Build a Snowman on Pretty Providence they have great free printable you can use.  Make sure you say thank you, it's so awesome when people make these and share for free.

What you need:

Clear Small Treat Bag (Dollar Tree 50pk $1)

Large Marshmallow's

Stick Pretzels

Mini Chocolate Chips

Stapler

Card Stock Paper / Printer

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Frozen Themed Party ... DYI Olaf Bag

I don't often get to make girl themed gifts, but I went to a friends little granddaughter's party who loved Frozen the movie. I went on the search for fun DYI gift ideas. I found several idea's on Pinterest and ran with.

What You Need:

White Bag (Dollar Tree $1)

Orange Card Stock

Black Sharpie (Dollar Tree $1)

Large Google Eyes (Dollar Tree - Bag $1)

Craft Glue

I had the glue and card stock at home so I ran to the Dollar Tree to grab the other items. I free styled the bag you could find a template but I figured I could do this by hand. 

I outline the eyebrows, one got a little crazy ... lol.  Glue on your eyes.  Take your orange card stock and cut out the nose.  You can find a template and print on your card stock and then cut it out or just freestyle it. Attach the nose with the glue. For the mouth I drew a mouth with a spot for his one front tooth.  I then colored in the mouth around the tooth. I found some sparkle snowflake tissue paper to keep with the theme.

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