How to decorate vegetable garden cookies, a fun food idea for spring, Mother’s Day, Earth Day, or a garden party.
garden cookies
These vegetable garden cookies were inspired by this vegetable garden mini quilt featured at The Purl Bee last year. Dang, I wish I could sew. Yep, I don’t sew. I don’t garden either. But I do make cookies.
It’s not that I don’t appreciate the concept of gardening. I do, really, and I wish that I had knowledge of how things grow because it’s beautiful and fascinating. But it’s just not knowledge I retain. Worse, plants seem to whither when I merely walk past them. And if I ever know you, do NOT ask me to water your plants when you go out of town. I’ll try and water them, I will. But I’ll do something terribly wrong and you won’t come back to your plants. They will meet their fates early.
So I leave our yard to my husband who knows more because his mom knows everything there is to know about gardening.
Keeping plants safe and sound on garden cookies is more my speed I think.
To make garden cookies,
I cut out 2 1/2 inch squares from my cut out cookie dough. I prepared royal icing, tinted blue and brown with Americolor Soft Gel Pastes (Sky Blue and Chocolate Brown). Then I outlined and flooded the top half with blue and the bottom half with green, and let the cookies dry overnight. Next, I tinted some fondant with two shades of green, off-white, white, orange, red and purple. Then I rolled out the fondant and cut out shapes for the veggies. I adhered the veggies to the cookies with a little light corn syrup, and let them dry.
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Elizabeth Murray says
March 29, 2012 at 12:06 pmSo cute! I am great at gardening but I have a feeling I would not be able to make these cute cookies! ha!
Cookbook Queen says
March 29, 2012 at 12:07 pmI LOVE these!! So cute and creative.
If I eat these, does it count as gardening?
Katrina @ In Katrina's Kitchen says
March 29, 2012 at 12:08 pmLove these Meaghan! And I sheepishly admit that my MIL comes over ever year to plant flowers and do some landscaping. She loves it and she lives in an apartment now. So it’s a win win. Right? 🙂
meaghanmountford says
March 29, 2012 at 12:10 pmBeth, feel free to come over and garden ANY time! Kristan, yes, yes it does. Yeah, all the plants on our porch are courtesy of MIL.
Elizabeth says
March 29, 2012 at 12:19 pmHow fabulously clever! They’re precious!
Jill @ Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons says
March 29, 2012 at 12:33 pmLove this idea..these turned out very cute! Gardening is not my thing either. My husband takes care of everything outside as well. Love to look at it..just not get hands in it!
bridget {bake at 350} says
March 29, 2012 at 12:37 pmthose are totally, totally precious!
(And the ONLY way I could grow veggies!}
Paula says
March 29, 2012 at 12:43 pmAww! Vegetables served up on a cookie are the best way to eat them! So cute Meaghan.
Victoria (District Chocoholic) says
March 29, 2012 at 12:50 pmThe crumbled chocolate cookie dirt is a brilliant idea. Everything you make is breathtakingly adorable.
Sue says
March 29, 2012 at 12:59 pmMeaghan, These are just about some of the CUTEST cookies I’ve ever seen! Darling idea!
We always plant a variety of squash and sunflowers, because we have good luck with them:)
kaholly says
March 29, 2012 at 1:09 pmReally cute!
Kathia says
March 29, 2012 at 1:45 pmThis is the perfect way I can eat my daily vegetable intake.I love seeing gardens, flowers and beautiful plants in other people’s backyards. But I do not have any talent when it comes to plant anything,plants don’t like me.
sue @ Cakeballs, cookies and more says
March 29, 2012 at 1:53 pmso cute, I always kill plants too, even the cactus die when I get them.
Sweetsugarbelle says
March 29, 2012 at 2:58 pmI have the same darn disease, lol!!! I call it the black thumb…but oh well, peoe like cookies rather than veggies, right?!
Dee says
March 29, 2012 at 5:49 pmThese are adorable
Jen says
March 29, 2012 at 6:28 pmThey are adorable! Just keep on baking-gardening can wait 😉
Marjorie (Sugar for the Brain) says
March 29, 2012 at 8:24 pmThose are so cute. I LOVE them!!!
meaghanmountford says
March 29, 2012 at 10:46 pmYay, thank you all for your no-gardening support! Kind of glad to know I’m not alone, though I, too, love looking at the fruits of OTHER people’s labor! Sue, I did buy a little sunflower kit from Target to do with my daughter, and so far, they are still alive! I consider that a huge success.
Jennifer says
March 30, 2012 at 12:23 amThese are beautiful! For a farmer/gardener like myself, these would be the perfect cookie to decorate any table.
meaghanmountford says
March 30, 2012 at 12:28 pmThank you Jennifer! I secretly wish to be a farmer/gardener, sigh.
Carly says
March 30, 2012 at 1:13 amSo cute. I want to make these out of polymer clay for markers in my garden!
meaghanmountford says
March 30, 2012 at 12:27 pmLove that idea Carly!!
Karen @ Sugartown Sweets says
March 30, 2012 at 4:27 amI neither sew nor sow! But I so love these cookies! Absolutely adorable. 🙂
Jen says
March 30, 2012 at 10:42 amLove these! What a great idea for Spring, a tea party, or even Mothers’ Day. I have a black thumb and can’t even tell the difference between a flower and a weed, so I, too, only garden in sugar. Real gardening is waaaay too hard.
So, any book tour plans yet?!?!?! I will keep pestering you about this…..
Brenda says
March 30, 2012 at 1:33 pmThese are the cutest vegetables I’ve ever seen!
shelly (cookies and cups) says
April 2, 2012 at 8:42 amtotally adorable! This is the kind of vegetable I can get behind 🙂
buttercream bakehouse says
August 28, 2012 at 7:03 amif only I patience to make cookies as beautiful as yours. Great work.
TidyMom says
March 13, 2014 at 3:31 pmso cute!!
Desiree Bell says
March 30, 2015 at 12:28 amGardening is a sure sign of spring. The cookies are so “cute” I will be writing a blog post with a link to your site along with the appropriate credits. Thank you.
meaghanmountford says
March 30, 2015 at 10:59 amThank you Desiree!!