It’s Akma Akid’s 4th birthday and Arliza (who once has attended my Cookie Class) ordered a whole set of HAPPY BIRTHDAY AKMA AKID and an accompanying circus of dinosaurs an other less mean animals, like hippos, elephants and sheeps.

I think I’ll call this design Patchwork Alphabets.  Truth be told, before I jumped into this cookie-business, I was once and still am an accomplished quilter.  Okay okay!  5 quilts do not necessarily earn me the title.  So sue me!

Anyhow.  The alphabets gave me a reason to tinker with a huge box of alphabet cutters sitting on my shelf.   MrGart has already given up asking me about utilising things that I buy.  Yikes!

Truth be told too,  although the alphabet cookies were simple enough, I ran into a cookie disaster.  Seriously, ppl do get complacent.  I did.

You see, the white patch I did on every cookie, that turned out to be too thin and even after 6 hours of air-conditioning, it just won’t dry.  Not the whole cookie, just a little teeny-weeny patch.  I threw out the whole happy-ness and started again.  Alhamdulillah, the second round went well, except that I missed out one “H”.  *ampun*

These are a sheep that I did, using the rosettes to mimic its fleece.  I never liked black icing, feel that black on food seems a little sinister, so that explains my sheep has blue eyes.  hahaha.

The elephant.  Okay okay.  Maybe elephants have long, swishy tails instead of curly ones like a piglet’s.  Yikes!  Should really listen to my 4-yo Ariz then.  Sorry Arliza.