I was in the driver’s seat. Mr NQN was next to me and on his face there was a grimace fixed as if he were bearing the worst torture imaginable.
No it wasn’t water torture or even my driving, it was my singing. I have an unstoppable compulsion to sing even though all evidence points to the fact that I am quite likely tone deaf. My singing usually happens in public or at home (but oddly never in the shower, that’s my silent thinking time) and Mr NQN puts up with it because he knows that he can get away from it-literally he will walk away while I sing.
We were in the second hour of a 2.5 hour drive to the Hunter Valley and suddenly one of my favourite songs came on. It was Adele’s “Someone Like You” which Adele fans knows requires big lungs and an ear that doesn’t double as a tin can. All of these things were mere technicalities that I ignored and I couldn’t help myself. Ignoring the pained look on Mr NQN’s face I sang like I was auditioning for Australian Idol. You know the auditions that they have a laugh at and put on the blooper reel. An excruciating 4 and a half long minutes later I was finished. And Mr NQN looked as though he was about to jump out of the car he was so squashed against the car door. I wanted to sing and no-one was going to stop me.
There are lots of things that I have compulsions for. I take that as a hallmark of the OCD type of which I am. One of them is decorating things and making giant or conversely miniature of anything. I first saw this embroidery cake on dessertgirl’s blog and the cake was originally at A Clockwork Lemon where she made a beautiful cake inspired by an embroidery pattern. I became obsessed. I wanted to do it but I wanted to do it on a cookie. And not just any cookie a giant cookie plus some small ones just in case.
Now just to add to the whole obsessive compulsive element I wasn’t able to find these larger sprinkles sold separately so one evening I separated the colours. This quickly lost its appeal as you can imagine and by the time I got to perhaps 20 of each colour in a bowl I dropped my tweezers bored and exhausted and drifted off with fantasies of living in Louisiana with a wickedly good looking bunch of vampires, werewolves and shapeshifters.
The baking of the cookies are easy and filling an outline with royal icing and then flooding it is straightforward. I used an embroidered doily that my mother loaned me as inspiration. I decided to do a flower and bird theme for the smaller cookies vaguely approximating an owl (hopefully) and a blue bird if only in colour if not appearance. The most fun was decorating the larger cookie and I think that if you squint you might think that it looks like embroidery although I will leave the final verdict up to you. I will suggest that if you are lacking patience, make the smaller cookies as doing the scalloped outline drove me slightly over the edge. Still the look on the face of my friend who I gave this to was worth it- a small sacrifice for sanity 
So tell me Dear Reader, can you sing? And what is your karaoke song?
Giant Edible Embroidered Cookie
Vanilla Butter cookies-makes one giant cookie and 4-5 smaller cookies
- 85 g/3ozs butter, softened
- 140g/5ozs white caster superfine sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 180g/6ozs all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Royal icing
- 200g/7ozs icing sugar
- 1 egg white
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
To decorate
- Multicoloured sprinkles-I also used candied fennel seeds which I bought at an Indian grocery store
- Tweezers
1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. On the lowest speed add in the flour . Cover in cling film, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
2. With a sheet of A4 paper cut out a circle of about 18cms in diameter and make scalloped edges-I used the embroidery that my mother loaned me as a guide.
3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough between two sheets of baking parchment 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Place the paper stencil on top of the rolled out dough and using a small paring knife cut out the outline and remove the excess dough from around the outside. Re-roll the excess dough and cut out some smaller cookies using a scalloped cookie cutter (my smaller ones were 7cms in diameter). Bake the smaller ones in the oven for 5-8 minutes and the large cookie for 15-18 minutes until lightly golden around the edges. Allow to cool.
4. Have your sprinkles ready as once you fill the cookie with the white royal icing, you will need to place the sprinkled on straight away. Make the royal icing (this will make more royal icing than you need but it’s hard to halve an egg). I make the royal icing very quickly in my cordless Braun mini blender. I place the unsifted icing sugar in the container and blitz this for about 20 seconds until the lumps are gone. Then I add the egg whites and lemon juice and then blitz it again until it is smooth.
I checked the consistency by drawing a line and if it holds well without blurring then it is ready. If it is too stiff add a few drops of water, if it is too soft, then add some more icing sugar to achieve the consistency. Then fill a small piping bag with the royal icing (I usually make a small cone using a square of parchment) and draw an outline around the scalloped edges of each of the cookies. Allow to set-I did this on a cold, dry Winter’s day and it set within 10 minutes. In humid weather it will take longer.
5. Add a little warm water to the remainder of the royal icing (a few drops will do) and whiz the icing around to combine and smooth the texture-you will get a few air bubbles so have a skewer or toothpick ready to burst these. Using a spoon “flood” the inside of the outline reaching up to the edge. Don’t use too much-you can see I was a little over eager and flooded the giant one a bit too much and it spilled over the edge in a couple of places-oops!
6. Now working quite quickly as you want to place the sprinkles while the icing is still wet so that they adhere to the icing. Using your tweezers carefully place the sprinkles individually. The larger cookie took about 45-60 minutes to decorate and the smaller ones about 5 minutes to decorate-the scalloped edge takes a long time too so don’t start it unless you want to finish it (I wished I hadn’t on the larger cookie!). Allow to set.
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Beautiful! I love that giant cookie. It would make a great gift.
Cheers,
Rosa
it looks like a handkerchief from far!
I can sing and my karaoke song is L-O-V-E.
How cute (and seemingly achievable) is that? Very cute L! xxx
These cookies are stunning! Love love love. Oh, and I love singing too, especially when I’m in the car. Nevermind the fact that I sound terrible!
45 mins to do the scalloped edge!! Wowy!!! I know I am not that patient!!!
These looks so delicate and beautiful, I love it when you do these imaginative recipes!!!
Now for the question, you and I have the same singing affliction, I love to sing, especially full lung songs. I can’t hear that it is bad but I can tell that I should nt do it by loved ones reactions
The shower is my thinking time too
these are seriously like edible works of art!!! So impressive!
These are very pretty Lorraine – I admire your patience, and take heed of your tip to make smaller cookies if patience is not a virtue.
You must have too much time on your hands LOL!!! Very pretty! You lost me at colouring the sprinkles!!! You must have used your long wet weekend well!!!
Wow NQN, that’s some dedication you have there! But I’m sure it paid off since they look fabulous (and unreal, I was taken aback at first thinking that you had taken up sewing)!
These are soooo lovely. They DO look like you somehow put a hunk of cookie dough into an embroidery frame to create these so painstakingly well.
very cute idea!
i can occasionally carry a tune. i think.
Oh, my gosh! I was so excited when I saw the title of this post! You cookies are so lovely! I especially like the bird and the owl. Oh, and I was also singing an Adele song over the weekend and was told by someone that no one has ever sung a song more off key!
Ah I definitely can’t sing! I try not to when people might be able to hear. It’s better for everyone that way.
Those cookies are so cute!
gorgeous cookies Lorraine!
I CANNOT sing at all. I was literally lol reading your post. It reminded me so much of myself and my poor husband.
I am very tone deaf, but once im in the car I don’t care and sing my little lungs out.
BTW love the Trueblood reference, can’t wait for season 4 to start already!!!!
They look too pretty to eat, what a great job (and what patience separating those colours. Love the tablecloth as well. Can’t sing either but I don’t let that stop me.
WOW … so beautiful. Can I just put it in a glass case for decoration?
I can sing (for myself that is). I don’t like karaoke coz my voice is … well not so nice hahahaa
Beautiful work Lorraine, it makes me want to whip out my sewing basket and embroider .
I love to sew, embroider, bead , do you sew?
In High School , my eldest brother was in a band and I would sing at our school dances,functions and Talent Quests etc. I love to sing and belt out songs, at parties when he takes out the guitar, everyone encourages me to sing (not that I need any encouraging hehe). It’s all good fun, I’ll never be famous but singing makes me happy.
These look great Lorraine, but you have my patience than I do!
Lorraine, once again I am in awe of your patience and attention to detail with your decorating. These are just lovely.
So much work!!! Love the result though, just gorgeous!!
This is the cutest cookie I have ever seen! I love all things nana! Doilies, lace, embroidery…you name it! Might I add that you also have patience in spades to complete the final details!!! Well done!
What a super cute idea, it looks fantastic even without me squinting my eyes. Oh my goodness you have True Blood fever as badly as me (Those vampire cake pops I did a while back were True Blood inspired). Have you read the books yet?
Wow – I so love these cookies. At first I thought you’d hand piped the ‘embroidery’ and was all set to bow to your genius and skill. I’m still bowing though because I know how excrutiating positioning all those sprinkles would have been. Excellent job Lorraine. I am definately going to try this out!
Too, too pretty Lorraine! I’ve never done karioke, but I think I’d need a couple of songs, and some wardrobe changes. Tina Turner version of rolling on the river with tassled dress (of course!), born to be alive, and maybe knock on wood. Nope, haven’t given it any thought at all!
I can sing, and once studied music, but I’m usually too shy these days. However, I do make up silly songs and sing them in a silly voice to get the kids up in the morning. I tell them I’ll keep singing until they get up, and it works wonders!
Stunning. Exquisite. Words fail me to express how much I love these. Beautiful and so imaginative.
Oh wow, are these gorgeous, Lorraine! Once again your attention to detail is really fantastic!
Lol, I wish I could sing!
Those cookies were worth every single painstaking moment it took to finish them, they’re spectacular!
I can’t sing to save my life… but if the lights are dim, the drinks are flowing and the karaoke tunes are playing then it has to be Bon Jovi, Living on a Prayer!
Lady, you’ve got patience!
! But the cakes do look unusual & pretty in the end! I love music and used to sing a lot until my vocal chords decided I was overworking them and refused to perform according to my dictates! So it’s theshower and other private places these days – mostly of R&B songs . . . make me feel good . . . 
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Honestly Lorraine – you’re amazing! When’s the book out – it’s on the birthday wish list!
Hi Roberta-Thanks so much! It’s out April next year
That is unbelievably lovely. I have so many people in my life who would be absolutely tickled by a giant “embroidered” cookie — I can’t wait for all their birthdays to roll around!
Oh, these are very cute. I can’t sing, but that doesn’t stop me from belting out a tune in the car.
Brilliant! You are much more impatient than I…
How long did the large cookie take to decorate?
This is so pretty!!! I can sing, I’m not amazing or anything though. & I dont have a karaoke song…I think I need one
Heidi xo
O000000h, Lorraine…Vampires! Why R they all so good looking? For example: Remember “Interview w/ a Vampire?” WOW! Brad Pitt. Tom Cruise. Annnntonio. Anyhow, the cookies are exquistely grand…yeah, like grandma’s quilts or something. You are amazing. You are just my cuppa Tea. xx
Very cute cookies!! No I can’t sing but yes, I love to do it anyway – and my husband is as repelled by it as Mr NQN! Whatever!
Oh Lorraine, that is just gorgeous. I can’t wait to try this out. My grandmother has a CWA stall coming up, I am sure they would be perfect for that.
Wow, I’m soon to make a cake for a grand daughter’s birthday, now I know how to decorate it, she’ll be thrilled!!! Thank you much!
Ooh I do love a good sing along to the radio. It gets out a lot of frustration I feel as well.
they look so fab!
Love your cookies
Scared me off with the spinkles – can just imagine head down separating sprinkles and suddenly hours later not being able to move my neck!
I, too, am known in my family for my inability to sing in tune. I make up for this in my enthusiasm. Many years ago I was living in a two bedroom flat in a block of 6. Had a surprise party for a uni friend – forty people no problems. A month later my flatmate and I had a few drinks and a singalong to the tapedeck – someone called the cops to complain about the noise!!!!
25 years ago we perfected a mean floorshow to Meatloaf’s Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
Love embroidery – and now love the embroidered cookie. How fantastic!
Now I know why you give away so much of your baking – if I spent that much time decorating a cookie I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to eat it until it was stale & tasteless
It looks fantastic!
Cookies look stunning!
I love karaoke (so long as everyone else is sufficiently tipsy so they won’t laugh TOO much at my horrendous singing!). Favourite songs are Summer Rain and Time after Time – I’m a true child of the 80s!!!
WHAT lovely cookies, INDEED! TRUE!
Something AGAIN, you inspire me to do!
New York, New York…am tone deaf like you!
First and LAST time singing kareoke, got a standing ovation too! WHOO HOO!
This is gorgeous, i absolutely love it, my aunty would love me if i made her one!
and no i can’t sing but yes i love too, though these days it is usually singing along to kiddie songs in the car or on tv
Just when I thought I couldn’t see anything more gorgeous than the lace embroidery cake, you pull these out!! They are stunning, and I can’t even begin to imagine the pain staking work that went into them! Totally worth it though!! And I hate karaoke (although I can sing a little); unfortunately my lovely, but tone deaf husband quite enjoys a sing at the top of his lungs!
Wow! They look fabulous! You don’t need to squint to think that they look embroidered. You have on lucky friend. I think I would have gone insane separating the colours though.
Saying that I did peel about 200 leftover Easter eggs so I could melt them down. It took me over an hour!
thats sooo creative!!!
thats like eating a piece of tapestry ></
That is the cutest thing I have ever seen. Seriously. Craft + cookies = too much cute!
This is one of the most beautiful cookies I have ever seen! Such a fun technique. What a labor of love to edge that large cookie, Lorraine. WOW.
I can sing, and was in singing groups up through college(long ago), but have never done karaoke:)
Love your singing story:)
Wow – giant cookie!! You have a lot of patience to tweezer all those threads – it looks great.
This is absolutely gorgeous NQN! Exquisite attention to detail
the border may have drievn you insane, but it was well worth it – it makes it!
karaoke song – Son of a Preacher Man
Fun! This looks awesome butblife is definitely too short to do this myself.
I too love singing but have no talent for it. You should take lessons. There is technically no such thing as tone deaf unless you are actually deaf, so you can learn. You’ll never be Adele but Mr NQN might not run away.
I will definately have to put this on my to-do list…I am a bit of a nanna and love doing cross stitching and crafty things, so this is right up my alley! I definately can’t sing though…I am so tone deaf it’s not funny (my boyfriend makes fun of me)and I try to inflict it on the world as little as possible
Having said that, I LOVE karaoke, and my song is John Farnham’s ‘You’re the Voice’…I win at Sing Star everytime with that one 
(it seems the worse you are at singing, the better you are at sing star..)
You are stir crazy! An absolute sweetheart
. Good on you for belting out Adele’s songs! I love Adele and when I was about to park and get out of the car at the mall yesterday, “Someone Like You” came on the radio. So I sat there, finished listening and proceeded a few minutes late for an appointment (As if listening to it a 1000 times on repeat on my ipod is not enough, lol).
Those cookies are works of art! Gorgeous and unique stuff Lorraine!
Lorraine, you are so funny, you made me laugh with your singing matter
And these cookies are super cute…you are so patient…45 to 60 minutes to decorate one giant cookie?
Have a great week ahead!
I belt out broadway tunes whenever I can and mostly when it’s inappropriate. Your ginat embroidery cookie is fantastic! The little ones too.
Wow that is creative! And what attention to detail this must require <3
Its beautiful! What a fab idea, I bet a keen needleworker would love it.
ohhhh I’ve been craving buttery lemony cookies lately, and this sounds so delicious! <33 what a creative and fun idea Lorraine~It looks so real too haha. I think I would have gotten neck whiplash or something from separating the sprinkles though hah!
This is just so amazing….. Lorraine, I just love what you’ve done with these cookies….
Variable, Crazy Over Desserts – Nachiketa
Ohhhhhhh! As a cross-stitcher (except I can’t at the moment because it gives me RSI – LAME), this may be my favourite fancy-decorated cake that you’ve ever made. Whee!
Haha poor Mr NQN! I think he deserves this cookie actually!
I don’t sing, in fact I’ve never sung in front of Paul – partly because he’s a muso & sings in a band so I just leave that to him haha.
This embroidered cookie is just gorgeous! Looks like a lot of effort, but what a result.
I thought you had piped on all the embroidery! I love love love it so much, and I have some little pinafores my great grandmother embroidered that I could use to copy. What a beautiful idea.
I love to sing along to all the Glee songs at the top of my lungs, and my favourite karioke song is My Life Would Suck Without You, because I think it sums up my family pretty well!
First of all, there is no place in the worls where I enjoy singing more than in the car…my husband knows and just tries to escape to that secret place inside his head. I also am a sucker for small, intricate detailed things so this kind of decoration is for me. The only thing that would probably bore me is separating the colors before decorating. Amazing job, love these!
This is not only creative but I’m very sure it will test my patience which I do not have a lot. But I would gladly sing while cooking though
Wowee! They are so gorgeous Ms NQN. I can’t imagine ever having the patience for that. I have baked and decorated a few biscuits, doing all the decoration with different coloured royal icing and that does my head in after about the third biscuit (cookies I guess). You get gold stars for patience. These really made me smile.
How delicious and dainty! These would be perfect to give to my grandmother
I can sing, and I have a few karaoke songs – Tubthumping by Chumbawamba, Always by Bon Jovi, and Zombie by The Cranberries
Such fine handiwork! The finest needleworkers in the land have nothing on you..
Wow! Will definitely try this technique, it looks so pretty but seems like something I could actually pull off.
you have amazing patience! haha
Hi Rosa-Thanks so much Rosa!
Hi Michelle-Thanks! Oh really, I haven’t heard that song for ages!
Hi Liss-It’s very achievable but requires patience
Thank you! xxx
Hi Amy-Thanks so much Amy! Doesn’t matter in the car does it? Which is fabulous!
Hi GourmetGetaways-yes I know, if I had known before I started I don’t know if I would have done it
Thank you so much! haha I know exactly what you mean, it sounds fine to me but other’s expressions tell me otherwise! 
It’s a time when you don’t have to think of anything isn’t it!
Hi Lisa-Thank you Lisa!
Hi Cakelaw-Thanks Cakelaw! Hehe patience is something that I don’t usually have
Hi Cate-haha well perhaps I do!
I didn’t colour the sprinkles though!
Hi B-Thanks, I’m not sure if it is lunacy or dedication
Thank you! sadly I have no sewing skills to speak of 
Hi Carolyn -ooh thank you! That is very sweet of you to say!
Hi clearlytangled-Thanks!
good for you! 
Hi Erin-Thanks Erin! As soon as I saw your post I knew I wanted to do it
Thank you! Oh no, wiat til they hear me 
Adele songs should be test songs 
Hi Apple-Ah well! But you can cook!
Haha you are too funny 
thank you!
Hi leah-Thanks Leah! hehe perhaps their hearing is faulty?
can we propose that? Yes in a car noone can hear you sing right? Or at least I hope so 
I know, not long now! 
Hi Red-Thanks so much Red!
I don’t know if separating those colours was a wise choice 
It was soooo boring! hehe good for you! 
Hi AR-Thank you!
Of course! Oh they need to invent karaoke where one sounds great don’t you think? 
Hi Matilda-Thanks so much Matilda you are too kind!
I am afraid I cannot sew for the life of me 
I wish I could. So you can cook, sing and sew-how very talented! 
That’s wonderful!
Hi Janelle-thank you! The funny thing is that I’m definitely not known for my patience
Hi Amanda-Thank you kindly Amanda, that is very sweet of you to say!
Hi The Food Mentalist-thanks so much! It is time consuming but slightly therapeutic
Hi Peita-Thanks Peita
Yes I love them too. Haha I promise I don’t have much patience at all. Mr NQN would chuckle if he read this 
Hi Bubble and Sweet-Thank you! Oh yes I do have it very bad. I’m watching Season 2 right now
I’m still waiting for Fishpond to send me the books! I’ve been waiting for ages… 
Hi Di-licious-Thank you! I don’t know how I’d go with piping, it would be more error prone I think
I’d love to see yours-I think you’d do a wonderful job! 
Hi Holly-Haha I like your thinking! Why do things in halves when you can dress up!
I love how specific you’ve gotten!
Hi bronnie-Oh you’re so clever! hehe you are such a fun mum!
Hi Victoria- Thank you Victoria!
You are always so sweet!
Hi Faith-Thanks Faith!
I bet you’re better than me though 
Hi Keely-You are too kind Keely!
Haha I love it, what a great song to have as your karaoke song!
Hi EHA-Hehe I’m crazy I know-I think it’s that more than patience
Oh it sounds like you’ve still got the pipes!
Hi Meister-Thank you so much!
Oh great! I can’t wait to see yours! 
Hi MissPiggy-Thanks very much!
Hehe don’t ever let that stop you!
Hi Mrs Wils-I am very impatient so I’m amazed I finished it
Hi Angela-Just over an hour I think? 1 hour 15 minutes?
Hi Heidi-Thank you Heidi!
Ooh now that will be fun to choose one won’t it? 
xxx
Hi kim-I know, good question! They’re terribly good looking aren’t they? Oh yes I remember that! Thank you so much Kim, you always leave such lovely comments!
xxx
Hi Chris-Thanks Chris!
Haha we can sing together then! 
Hi Katren-Thanks Katren!
Oh yes they would be just perfect for that! 
Hi Gian-Oh how fabulous! I’m sure she’ll love it! Aren’t you lovely to do that
Hi Nic-It’s fun isn’t it! If only everyone appreciate my efforts
Thank you! 
Hi helen-yes it is tough on the neck! that’s why the smaller ones are a more feasible choice
enthusiasm counts for a lot doesn’t it! LOL that is HILARIOUS! 
Good choice with Meatloaf!
Hi Samelia-Thanks Samelia!
You are too kind!
Hi Phunk-haha you know that’s true! I just couldn’t bite into it!
thank you!
Hi MissA-Thanks!
yes it helps if everyone is tipsy. Maybe I should try that next time 
Oh yes love both of them as a child of the 80s too! 
Hi Joanne- Thank you Joanne and thanks for the lovely rhyme!
Hi muppy-Thanks Muppy!
I bet she would! hehe nothing wrong with that at all! 
Hi jess-Aww shucks you are too sweet Jess!
Haha you guys are the converse of us! 
Hi Claire-Thanks Claire!
Oh phew! I wasn’t sure, I think I had been staring at them for too long 
haha yes I’ve been there and done that (although not quite 200!) 
Hi Dolly-Thank you so much Dolly!
Hi Emma-thanks darling!
I should make one for you!
Hi Sue-Coming from you the queen of cookies that is a huge compliment!
Thank you! Yes I should have made it a bit smaller really to save my sanity 
Oh you sound like you have a lot more talent than me for singing! 
Hi Shanks-Thanks Shanks!
Yes I still can’t believe I managed to finish it 
Hi Cappucino-Thank you Cappucino!
You are too kind!
Hi Elizabeth-thanks! I knew once I started it I had to finish it
Oooh fabulous song-you definitely have to have the lungs for that!
Hi Caitlin-Thanks! But it’s only an hour for a big one
Oh well I think I could challenge you on that 
Hi Rebecca-Oh fabulous! Well at least you have plenty of other talents
Oh I think I should definitely give Sing Star a go then! 
hi Sneh-Hehe perhaps
Oh that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do, I’ve done the same! 
Thank you so much! 
Hi Juliana-Thanks Juliana!
yes thankfully there wasn’t a whole bunch of the large ones! I would have given up! 
You too!
Hi Lora-haha I love that! You’re hilarious!
Thank you! 
Hi Xiaolu-Thanks Xiaolu!
I figured once I started I had to finish it 
Hi Katie-Thank you! I hope so! They would be able to do it really well I think
Hi Ellie-Oh cool, well you can definitely add lemon zest to this instead of cinnamon
Hehe yes that was boring I have to admit 
Hi Nachiketa-thank you so much!
Hi Hannah-Oh no! Yes I can imagine how painstaking it would be! Aww shucks really?
Hi Chanel-haha no he doesn’t
Oh really? How intimidating! 
Thank you! 
Hi InTolerantChef-Now that would have been logical wouldn’t it
Oh that would be so special! 
Aww that’s a sweet song to sing to your family!
Hi Nuts about food-Haha you are too funny!
Maybe I should tell Mr NQN to do that! 
yes I don’t think you need to separate them really. it’s a bit easier but not worth the boredom! 
Hi chopinandmysaucepan-Thank you! Well I don’t have much patience trust me
Hi ck- Thank you so much!
Oh yes I know, imagine doing dozens? 
You are too kind!
Hi JasmyneTea-Thanks!
Absolutely! Oh Zombie would be great!
Hi Celia-Thanks Celia! Haha you are too kind
Hi Hanna-Thank you!
Absolutely you could pull it off! 
Hi Jenny-hehe thanks! I am not known for it to be honest
I love them, they are just gorgeous!! almost too mice to eat, but at the same time there is something sooo delicious about eating something that took forever to make!
Love to sing…i love singing that great jazzy song “Fever”.
but basically my motto is “have microphone…will sing”
Seriously Nigella, this is amazing what you have sone with these cookies! I am so impressed with your craftiness and skill level. Good thing you have lots of photos of these beautiful cookies
What a brilliant idea! Using sprinkles to make embroidered cookies…:)!!
I love these SO much, Lorraine! What pretty cookies, so intricate and delightfully old-fashioned and homey.
Oh you clever cookie…this is gorgeous! (And so much more rewarding to eat the embroidery than to just plain look at it!) speaking as a former embroiderer!
Those cookies are so pretty, i dont know if i’d have the patience that you did though. I dont have a karaoke song but i definitely love to sing, even just to ads on the tv. However my brother and my boyfriend do an awesome duet of Africa by Toto, most entertaining.
You are so creative .Hats -Off to you.
What a fun idea. My sweet little grandmother embroidered a quilt for me when I got married. It’s on the guest bed just waiting for you to visit. xoxo Mum
wow clever stuff – and here I was admiring your piping skills – I love your ocd approach to decorating
I was looking at the response you gave to all the people who commented above, it was a truly good effort!
Back to the cookie, it’s really really beautiful! Have you ever done actual embroidery before? Maybe you have some talent there
Oh my goodness Lorraine this is so sweet! The amount of time it must have taken to complete each one – I salute you, I truly do. True dedication.
Hi Nomsie-thanks Nomsie!
Hehe yes I had to give mine away I’m afraid I just couldn’t after all of that 
Oh that’s a great song, you must have a great voice to do that! Haha love it!
Hi marla-Thanks so much Marla, you are too kind!
Hi Cooking Gallery-Hehe thank you! I hope to make one of your bentos one day!
Hi Krista-Thank you Krista!
I love embroidery, even if I can’t do it myself 
Hi Tenina-Thanks Tenina! You are always so sweet
Haha true!
Hi Nini-I wondered about my own patience to be honest
Oh that’s an unsual karaoke song, I like it! 
Hi abha-Thank you Abha!
Hi mum-Thanks so much! Aww that’s gorgeous and hehe I can’t wait to visit one day!
xxx
Hi Johanna-Thanks Johanna!
Haha it’s a must for things like this!
Hi Akika-Haha thanks! I love to respond but it’s hard to find the time!
I’ve done it a couple of times but I’m not very skilled at it admittedly 
Hi Su-yin-Thanks Su-yin!
Aww you are too sweet-thank you!! 
I can’t get over how pretty they are! And you’ve got LOADS of patience, I must say. I love the smooth finish, and the lovely stitch-like “embroidery” on the cookies.
These are sooooo cuteeeee!
What an amazing and very creative idea-
Your patience is just unbelievable!
It’s always delightful to visit your blog
Inbal from Israel
Oh WOW! you have so much patience to put it all together. This is a work of art!
OMG! this is just precious!!!
alas, i am NOT a talented singer, but that doesn’t mean i don’t enjoy doing it!
lovely cookies, lorraine–it looks like tedious work, but the results are worth it!
love it! looks so much like the embroidery!!
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