Green Eggs & Ham

Okay, so my daughter is a big fan of Dr. Seuss...always has been...always will be. 

That's just who she is-----And we love you for that Em!   

So, one day while I was going thru online pictures (for inspiration, of course),

I came across some really cute Green Eggs & Ham cookies and I thought: "Hmm, MAYBE..

(just maybe) I can make these myself...?  What are the odds that I can do this?" 

And of course, there was that surge of anticipation in seeing my daughters

facial expression when she saw them IF I did succeed...<that was motivation

in itself ;)>  You see, I'm so NOT a good artist...so faaaarrrrrr

 from it, actually.   I do remember taking Art in High School....well,

maybe more like Jr High?...IDK, it was so long ago, I really can't

remember...(you can add that to the long list of things I've

 forgotten)  But what I do remember is that it was fun trying to make all those

sketches, paintings, paper mache projects, clay vases/pots, even the pinata...

of course, they were pretty horrible looking.....but it was a fun process.

 

SO I WENT FOR IT!!!!!!!  I pulled out all of my cookie cutters to see

which ones would fit the egg & ham shapes.  I decided to go

with the egg (as in egg that's still in a shell shape--before being cracked open)

as well as a plain round cutter.  I traced those 2 cutters on a

piece of paper & began sketching...

I used the round cutter and traced out what would look like

an over easy egg and I then traced the ham chunk on

the oval egg cutter.

 

After baking the cookies and letting them cool overnight,

I then took a black food coloring marker (edible, of course) and then I

lightly traced out the shapes according to the cutter sketches.  Once I was happy...

(still skeptical about how they would actually turn out) I bit the

bullet and started to outline the shape in black piping icing, like so--

and then I went ahead & piped the ham bone and egg yolk outlines, like so--

I let these dry out for about 30 min to an hour.  As you can see, the shapes

don't (more like shouldn't) have to be perfect.  Actually, they

end up looking more natural if each one is "off" a little bit,

but that's just my opinion.  If you like them to be exactly the same, then

go for it--whatever works for you is fine, too ;)

 

After these outlines were set and dry, I began flooding the cookies.  This is what

they look like after they were flooded--

Not so hot looking, right!  Yeah, I was pretty disappointed and thought "Great...I really do suck at this" :\  But, oh well...what can you do?!?!?

 

Well, I then realized....I wasn't done!!!!!  I let them dry .....

AND THEN...I took my lil black food coloring marker, and

started making all the little details on them!  And my-oh-my...I was once a happy

camper all over again!!!  Here's the final look of them--

Yay!!!   Not bad (if I do say so myself) for my first try, huh!  I know they aren't the

 greatest decorated cookies in the entire universe, but in my little corner

of the world...they are considered perfect---for me & my Em (she totally approved!) 

& everyone else that hangs around in my lil neck of the woods (there are no neck

 of the woods around here--really)....Bwahahahaha-hahah!

 

I think next time, I'll go thru our collection of Dr. Seuss books

and see what else I can bake up!

 

Thanx for hanging around my blog.  I hope you found it.....interesting?!?!?!

 

See ya next time,

 

Cori