I did some baking yesterday. You see, in the morning I went to a kitchenware shop to buy my mum a birthday present and, as always, spent as much on myself. Which is why I avoid kitchenalia shops. Along with an egg poacher and cup cake patties, I picked up some cookie cutters. I’m getting quite a collection, so I figured it was time to hunt down a good recipe and try some of them out.

Google found me Nigella’s Cut-Out Cookies recipe and I got to work. The first lot of cutters I tried were little fruit shapes:

I’m going to hunt for fruit flavourings to put in the icing next time I make these. I have orange flavouring, but unfortunately there was no cutter of an orange.

Then I used one of the cutters I’d bought that morning:

The little feet begged for nailpolish and shoes. Decorating them was a lot of fun. Unfortunately the colours bled. Anyone know why, or how to prevent it?