How Bloggers Painted Our December 2013 Cover Cookies
Every month we ask you to make our cover recipe. More often than not, we ask you to cook it. Sometimes we ask you to bake it, and we've even asked you to freeze it. But never before have we asked you to paint our cover. Now, it usually doesn't take much for a plateful of cookies to grab people's attention, but the striking gold-designed beauties from our December issue really took it to the next level. Not surprisingly, they brought out our readers' inner artists.
1/9Haut Appetit
"I used a paintbrush to paint on food-colouring designs, an idea inspired by a tutorial on how to paint sugar cookies in Bon Appetit Magazine. You can experiment with any colour combinations or designs you like!" Get the recipe at Haut Appetit
2/9Heart of Gold and Luxury
"These cookies are beyond chewy and have the prefect ratio of sweetness to buttery goodness. I decided to tap into my inner artist by painting the royal icing with a beautiful colored luster dust as they suggested in the magazine and the result was so pretty. The cookies glistened under the twinkling lights and made for a great desert served alongside a cup of hot cocoa." Get the recipe at Heart of Gold and Luxury
3/9BA in Vancouver
"So every once in a while I’ll catch something “BA” (clearly meaning Bon Appetit) and think, “oh how cool! It’s my initials!” In the latest (December 2013) issue, I went gaga over their cover feature – exquisitely PAINTED cookies!!" Get the recipe at BA in Vancouver
4/9Take a Megabite
"I’m thankful for super-model dough f’sho, cookie letters, cookie-cutters with handles, rolling pins with red handles, and big huge baking trays." Get the recipe at Take a Megabite
5/9Cooking by the Book
"The December issue of Bon Appetit has a holiday cookie idea that you must try. Even if your father is the Grinch, even if you have never had a tree, one look and these cookies are surely in your future." Get the recipe at Cooking by the Book
6/9Foxes Love Lemons
"While our family sugar cookies usually get a casual smear of milk-powdered sugar-vanilla frosting, I figured I could Cook The Cover and do a “trial run” of cookies early in the month and luster-dust my heart out on them (and use them to send along in the Food52 Secret Holiday Swap!). Turns out, luster dust is pretty fun! So shimmery (more so than the camera can capture), and a chance to unleash your inner artist!" Get the recipe at Foxes Love Lemons
Kristel Poole7/9Stirring Things Up
"I was inspired by my December 2013 issue of Bon Appétit, which featured painted sugar cookies with royal icing. They used a plain sugar cookie, royal icing, and luster/pearl dust to make those beauties." Get the recipe at Stirring Things Up
8/9Feeding My Enthusiasms
"The cookies are vanilla and bake up a little flatter, crisp and delicious. We started out the decorating process for both by icing them with a slightly thinned royal icing to create a canvas for painted decorations...the flow because you thin the icing enough that it flows flat to create a canvas for the painting. Lots of opportunity for creativity! We had a blast and I think the cookies are little works of art in many cases." Get the recipe at Feeding My Enthusiasms
9/9Espresso and Cream
"Although I typically hate decorating Christmas sugar cookies, I had so much fun making these fun sugar cookies, inspired by Bon Appetit magazine. They’re ultra simple, buttery and delicious – pretty much the prefect classic cookie. If you’re afraid of decorating cookies, don’t be! The secret is having the right type of icing. Although royal icing isn’t the tastiest type of icing, it produces the most beautiful results. Just place the icing in a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip and get creative! As you can see, below, I made a bunch of different looking cookies." Get the recipe at Espresso and Cream
