Lightning McQueen!

A friend from my mommy group asked me to make cookies for her son's 4th birthday. She had told me that the theme was "Cars", but I could make any old car for the cookies-they didn't have to be Lightning McQueen. Ha! Like I was going to make any old car! So I set out to make LM. First of all I didn't have a cutter that resembled LM. The closest thing I had was a car that looks like a VW Bug and that wasn't going to work. I did a search and found a cute LM (sugarmamasf.blogspot.com). The baker had written in her blog post that she had cut her dough out by hand. I had promised never to do that again after the My Little Pony cookies, but it didn't look to hard! I drew the shape on paper-actually only half of it and then folded the paper and cut both sides at the same time. Symmetry-my first graders would be so proud of me! :)

The whole time I was making these cookies I was trying to come up with my back-up plan. Considering my mommy friend lives in Kansas and I would need time to send these in the mail, there was no back-up plan which meant these needed to turn out perfect (or near perfect). Considering that I've only been making and decorating sugar cookies for 4 months, I think these turned out great! I'm so excited for Kate to get these cookies! Happy Birthday Mason!