Christmas in July Giveaway with Zazzle

Thanks for the blog, your videos, and all your information sharing!

 

I'm pretty new to cookie decorating, so my favorite so far is snowflakes with royal icing and clear sanding sugar on them to give some sparkle. I used just a drop of blue in the white icing to make it slightly icy-looking. 

 

I've got your post set to tweet on a schedule when the most people will see it tomorrow. 

 

I'm just wondering since it's Christmas in July, how long can you bake, decorate, and store cookies before you sell/serve them?

 

Thanks again!

 

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I'M ANSWERING IN YOUR POST SO I DON'T GET ENTERED INTO THE GIVEAWAY! I LIKE TO BAKE MY COOKIES "TO ORDER" FOR MAXIMUM FRESHNESS, SO I TYPICALLY DO ALL OF THE BAKING IN ONE DAY, TOPCOATS THE NEXT, DETAILS THE NEXT IF THE TOPCOATS NEED TO DRY FIRST; THEN SERVE. SO TWO TO THREE DAYS IN PROCESS DEPENDING ON THE DESIGN AND QUANTITY.  ~JMU P.S. WELCOME TO THE SITE AND HAVE FUN!]

The only Christmas cookies I did were last year's... And they were my very first decorated cookies. So not very particular designs... I just replicate other's cookies from the internet! But I was pretty happy the way my white-on-white snowflakes came out! Thanks for this giveaway... So many things I could buy for this year Christmas! <3

Thanks for hosting this fun give away Julia and Zazzle..Christmas and baking in one,double whammy.I have done lots of different Christmas designs but my favourite has to be the annual gingerbread house I make with my daughters..great fun!

Hey, Zazzle sounds like a great company, off to check them out.

Now, favourite Christmas cookies... Some called them Harpies, but I prefer to call them my Whistling Angels.  Flooded dresses, lacy wings, different hairstyles and necklaces and all whistling, I even got my daughter doing them! Will tweet (not whistle ) in the am. Cheers!

Oh never heard of Zazzle, love finding new stores! Thanks

 

My favourite cookie design I have ever done would be these "offset" tree, holly and star designs in the photo attached thanks!

 

I'm new to cookie decorating, so I haven't hit Christmas yet, but I do always make a gingerbread house with the kids. Can't wait for this year! 

My favorite Christmas cookies so far were the "Paint-your-own" ones that I did before I got my KK.  It was challenging to do them with RI transfers but they came out really cute.

I loved Christmas cookies this year. My favorite were a set of snow people I did but there were many more. I love Christmas more than anything! Well except cookies!

How great!  I actually just discovered Zazzle the other night as I was looking into ordering some labels and cards  I just started decorating cookies last November, so when Christmas came around it was only my 3rd time using royal icing....I used Sugarbelle's reindeer design and he was a big hit!

Last Christmas was my first attempt at decorating a cookie with royal icing. I made a lot of different cookies mostly copied from the internet, but one of my favorites was the last one. I had one more cookie and didn't know what to do with it so I piped red and green lines horizontally and vertically, then threw on some red sanding sugar. It looked like a sparkly plaid and I loved it.

I just made decorated cookies for the first time, last Christmas. I would say that the favorite design was 3d snowflakes. We took 2 different sized snowflake cutters, colored them different and then stacked them together.

Ooooo!  Love Zazzle!  I haven't been cookie-ing long enough to have much Christmas under my belt. I have an aunt whose birthday is close to Christmas and I made her some sharks eating Christmas gifts. They were pretty darn cute!!

I am new to cookie decorating so haven't made any x-mas cookies yet but have made some chanukkah cookies with my kids.  I have ordered from zazzle a couple times so would definitely use them again!

Christmas trees are my favorite because they are such a blank slate.  It can be any kind of design you want.  I made a cute plaid one last year.

 

This past Christmas was my first decorating cookies. I tried many, but my favorites were the funky shaped stockings, hats and mittens I did. They match one of the trees I put up each year and they were so much fun to make! I'm gonna make them again this year

I love to bake Christmas cookies for family, friends and neighbors.  I don't have a particular favorite but I love putting together a tray of various Christmas themed cookies decorated with royal icing and sparkly trims.  Gingerbread people, candy canes, trees, bells, stars, angels, santas, sleighs and reindeer are always included

Thank you for the chance!  I'm a beginner to cookie decorating, but so far my favorite cookies are ones that I made based on closeups of some of my favorite famous paintings.  After "painting" the closeups, I piped ornate frames around them without any sort of stencil or example.  Some of them were not so good, but I was proud of most of them.  After dusting with gold they really looked great and I received a lot of compliments on them. 

I just started decorating cookies around Christmas last year and those were pretty sorry looking since I had no idea what I was doing with royal icing. Looking forward to decorating Christmas cookies this year though!!

Last Christmas was my first christmas cookie decorating attempt! I had a lot of fun and I would say my best design would be the needlepoint mittens I learnt from My Little Bakery!

 

Thank you so much for this wonderful giveaway!

My favorite cookies that I decorated for Christmas were little drummer boy cookies!  Christmas is my favorite holiday, and we decorate cookies every year.  My grandchildren love to join in on the fun!

I made a "hot chocolate with marshmallows" cookie set in red, white, and turquoise for a Christmas party we attended.  They were very pretty.

My favourite of my own Christmas cookie designs, much to my delight,  took third place in the Christmas Countdown contest! I did the Woodland Christmas set, I just love gnomes and woodland creatures!

My favorite decorated cookie for Christmas is the snowflake.Each one is different and it doesn't matter because real snowflakes are unique too. LOL!

 

The first Christmas after I bought a kopykake I copied a design by vanilla bean baker called the littlest caroler.  The kopykake really improved my ability.

Probably would have to be a snowman ice cream sandwich!  I decorated two snowman cookies then put softened ice cream in the middle and refroze.  Displayed on a platter with mini snowflake cookies all around.  It was years ago before digital technology was around, so who knows which box the photo is in, otherwise, I would post!

i decided to make snowflake cookies last night with leftover icing (practicing for the christmas season since i am new to cookie decorating and hadn't made any yet.

Probably the bet Christmas design I've done is my advent calendar.  I guess technically it's 25 different designs, but it has to go together as one big set to make sense!

This is an awesome giveaway!

 

By far, my most favorite Christmas cookie of all is my Grinch cookie.  I absolutely love him!  I hand cut him for a couple of years until I had a custom cutter of my design made for him.  What's Christmas without the Grinch!  :-)

For Christmas dinner in 2012, I decorated several different penguin-shaped cookies, using Callye's (Sugarbelle) trick for re-purposing cookie cutters to fit my needs.

 

Thanks for the giveaway Julia!

Gingerbread people were the first cookies I ever made with RI decoration and remain as my favorite xmas cookies!
Thank you for the chance on the giveaway!

My favorite Christmas cookies have to be my differently textured Christmas Trees I made for a contest.

Last Christmas I made a huge amount of reindeer and Christmas tree sugar cookies for my son's primary school class and they were a HUGE hit! That's the part I love the most!

Thank you so much for the chance to enter in this awesome competition.

Julia, your detail is so delicate and beautiful

I look forward to seeing your future video posts xoxo

The best Christmas cookies I ever made where the 2nd time I made them.  The first time I was a beginner.  The 2nd time ... I saw improvement and I knew I could do this.

My goal this year is to send our family christmas card on a cookie. I'm hoping to take a picture, posterize it, print it and cut stencils in multiple layers, and then create an image on the cookie (in black and white) that mimics spray paint layer art. 

This was not especially original but my favorite Christmas cookie design I have made were Santa cookies. I made these last Christmas when I first started decorating cookies and I tried some new techniques with sprinkles and sanding. I also made my first eyes ... and this was how I realized how tricky making eyes could be!

My favorite design would have to be reindeer silhouette on a plaque cookie. This was the first time I ever attempted a silhouette on a cookie, and I absolutely love the result.  

My favorite are my christmas elves... inspired by the popularity of the elf on a shelf.  I do cute elf faces, with fun hats, and pointed ears of course

Hmmm...best Christmas cookie design? I do love the large snowflakes!

My favorite Christmas project was the Holly Christmas Wreath. I was very new & my color got too dark. I have learned a lot since then & am really looking forward to this Christnas season!