Last week I started a very long-and I think an incredibly fascinating- post. Unfortunately, I never know when to stop...so the post just keeps getting longer and longer. No surprise there! I thought it would be ready to publish on Friday but it still isn't quite done. Rather than rush it out, I thought I would post something short and sweet, but super duper awesome.
The first thing you have to know is that I have fallen in love with cookie art. What is cookie art you ask? Cookie art is when artists use a plain old sugar or gingerbread cookie as their canvas and icing and food coloring as their paint to produce an edible work of art. The designs range from just plain cute to cartoonish to intricate to looking like they are actual paintings done by the masters. I can tell you from my short time spent in this world, that it is a highly addictive hobby. But more on all that in the big-long-post-that-isn't-done-yet post....when I post it.
I had spent a little time traveling around on cookie art blogs last week when I stumbled on something that literally took my breath away. What could be that interesting you ask? A cookie house of cards, that's what. You heard me right...a COOKIE HOUSE OF CARDS. A stunning and amazing and incredible cookie house of cards.
This enterprise was a group project and I do think that it is part of what makes it so special. I love that the styles and techniques used to decorate each card are all so different, but together they make a very stunning presentation. The woman in charge of it all is known as "The Cookie Architect" aka Rebecca. She is an actual architect. The kind who draw really straight lines on blue paper and print alphabet letters with a precision that baffles the mind? Yeah, that kind.
Rebecca says that she discovered the cookie art community about a year ago and this Christmas she decided to bring together her two favorite things-architecture and cookies. What she ended up with is a spectacular work of art to celebrate her one-year anniversary.
Rebecca blogged about the project on her
blog and/or you can see photos on her
Facebook. To begin, Rebecca recruited her favorite cookie artists to each make one individual card. Once she had 28 artists on board, she baked and cut all the cookie cards. She ended up using a jigsaw to be sure that all the cards were precisely cut. To construct the finished house all the cards had to fit together in any arrangement, so precise cutting of the joints was imperative. Once everything was baked and trimmed, Rebecca mailed them off all over North America; the completed cookies were mailed back to her.
Each artist decorated her cookie anyway she wanted using Christmas as a theme to tie them all together.
I love that they are all so very different, but together they make one beautiful house of cards. Some artists decorated both sides of her card and some just decorated one side. You can see all the cards close up, (including the front and back) and the completed house on her Facebook page
here. On her blog you can find easy links to each artists post.
All of the cards are stunning.
My favorite? This amazing
Chalk cookie by Arty McGoo. She explains her design on her
Facebook post. She painted one side like the traditional chalk paintings of Madonna that she saw in Italy. The other side was decorated with modern chalkboard look that is so trendy right now. I am beyond smitten. The painting is incredible in and of itself but considering that it is done in food coloring on a cookie-and-icing canvas just about blows my mind. The colors really do look like chalk with soft smudged appearance. The backside of her cookie the the modern chalkboard looks like it was done with chalk paint and a piece of white chalk rather than sugar. The details of both sides are beautiful.
As I quickly scroll down Arty McGoo's Facebook to find the post on this cookie, I found lots of fun cookies and breath taking designs that I have to check out later.
Which cookie design is your favorite cookie in this house of cards?
Can't pick a favorite; they're all very impressive.
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