Baby Cookie Bites

These little babies are my new favorite cookie!  They are so easy, and just as cute, if I do say so myself:)

I took a couple of full platters to a baby shower that my daughter's friends from church put on for her. Though tiny, they were a huge hit!  People were even sneaking them out the door in paper cups:)  

I made these same cookie bites once before, in April, when my other daughter had a baby.  I piled them into a cute jar,  wrapped  a pink ribbon around the lid, and finished it off with a darling tag.  My daughter loved it and the cookies were so tiny that the munchkins didn't experience sugar overload with a small handful.

I used my favorite sugar cookie recipe and royal icing (I know I sound like a broken record, but I might as well stick with the best). The little cookies were cut out with a 1-inch round cutter (it was a component of another cutter-letter "R", I think. I actually have a few of these tiny cutters). They were rolled out about 1/2-inch thick.

The royal icing was tinted according to Callye's ( The Sweet Adventures of Sugabelle) formula for achieving the light skintone color:  2 parts warm brown + 1 part ivory~AmeriColor soft gel paste. Worked like a charm! Thanks, Callye!

 I was newly inspired to make these again when I spied Paula's (Vanilla Bean Baker) adorable ladybug cookies the other day.  I decorated the baby faces with a black AmeriColor Gourmet writer after the icing was completely dry.   How simple is that? :)

The Baby Cookie Bites are so delicious and fun to eat, but be careful, it's easy to get carried away!

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