I’ve always been into fonts. I loved drawing them out by hand, copying band logos, creating my own, browsing through endless supply of fonts on da font, etc.
I’m currently taking a couple of basic graphic design classes, and typography obviously plays a large role in graphic design. I’m all for learning professional ways to incorporate type into designs.
For one assignment, we had to create the alphabet out of anything we wanted, and I love baking, so I thought this was most logical for me. It’s probably been done plenty of times before, but I’ve never done it, so I did it. A cookie alphabet. I played around with red and green food dye, and shaped them to the best of my ability.
This assignment also tested my photography skills, and it was a lot of fun to play around with lighting, colored filters, background colors, and plates to set the cookies on.
If you’re wondering what cookies these are, they’re classic spritz. Super basic cookie recipe, and kinda easy to work with to mold into shapes.
If you’re also wondering what recipe I used, I’ll share.
Ingredients:
• 1 1/2 cups [3 sticks] of butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups of flour
Directions:
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a bowl, beat butter. Then mix sugar, egg, and vanilla.
• Mix well and add flour a little at a time.
• Bake 10-12 minutes on an non greased cookie sheet.
Add food dye, frosting, sprinkles, shape them – go wild and crazy!
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