The Original Pink Sugar Cookie Costume

Every year at Christmas-time our family gets together and has “baking day”. We make a list of all our favorite baked goods and we bake them all day. We get covered in flour, sugar, food coloring and frosting and then we get to snack on as much of the resulting treats as we like. It’s a good day.

For many years the only treat I ever requested we make was sugar cookies. And I was the only one who requested it. The reason for this is because in my head I always had fantasies of our sugar cookies turning out exactly like the big, fluffy, pink frosted ones in the store. Every year I was wrong and every year I was the only one who still thought our cookie recipe would magically turn out to be fluffy and soft, hence why I was the only one requesting them.

If, however, we had made cookies as good as the giant soft vending machine kind, I think the whole family would’ve voted that sugar cookies be made every year because who doesn’t LOVE the Original Pink Sugar Cookies??! Nobody. And if someone doesn’t, we don’t want to know them.

So this year, a couple months before baking day, we’re thinking about those soft cookies and realized there is a way for us to attain them at home. Dress up as one for the next best holiday.

Materials
• 3/4 yard cream/tan/ivory felt //
• 1/2 yard light pink felt //
• Sheets of assorted colors of felt //
• Scissors //
• Fabric glue or hot glue //
• Ribbon //
• Sewing Machine //

Fold your ivory colored felt folded in half and then in half again. Cut the biggest circle you can from it. You can free-hand this, trace a circle beforehand or use an object as a guide. I used an ottoman and cut a few inches bigger than it. You should have 4 circles.

Place these circles over your pink felt (also folded in half) and cut a circle the same size. Then go around this circle and cut off a good amount of the edge in a random, wavy line so it looks like frosting. You should have two frosting pieces.

Sew the pink felt onto two of the ivory felt circles and then place one of these circles to a plain circle, right sides together. Cut 4 strips of ribbon, any color and thickness about 12″ long and place these between your two felt circles, leaving about 2 inches out of the edges. The ribbons should be about 7″ apart from each other and make sure the ribbons on both cookies match up with the ribbons on the other cookie. Now sew these circles together, turn it right side out and hand stitch the opening closed.

Using any fabric glue or hot glue, attach 1″ by 3″ strips of an assortment of colors of felt onto your frosting pieces in a random order so it looks like sprinkles!

To wear, hold one cookie to your front, one to your back and then tie the matching ribbons together over your shoulders.

You have no idea how hard it was to stare at that cookie for the few days I had it lying around my house before I got to these pictures and not eat it. HARD.

The great thing about this costume is that you can dress normal underneath it so when you’re sick of being dressed up or you’ve already won the costume contest {yummiest costume, anyone?} you can just take it off and be the non-cookie version of yourself. Though I’m not sure why you’d want to…

And as a happy little ending, a manager at work once brought us sugar cookie and they were remarkably similar to the delightful ones this costume is based off of. She sent me the recipe but I’ve yet to try it. All I know is that it is capable of being amazing. Try it and let us know!

Soft Sugar Cookies
3 Cups Sugar
1/2 C butter
4 eggs
speck of salt
1pint sour cream
1 t baking powder
8 C flour
2 t vanilla

Mix together and bake at 400 for 10 minutes. Frost with favorite frosting when cooled.