Flip Flop Cookies

by Sharon Evans
Sharon Evans
I'm a self-taught baker and have done designer cookies for several years.  I started out baking cookies to treat the gang at work on holidays.  I got better and better at it and people were telling me, "These are wonderful, you need to go into business."  So, I took them up on it and started Sharon's Edible Art.  Now it's a paying hobby.  I try to design "outside the box" by trying different ideas to bring more 3-D images into the cookies.  I live in Carlsbad, NM.

Flip Flop Cookies

These are very popular for little girl parties in the summer.  Flip flops are made baking the soles first.  Some of the straps are shaped pieces of dough that have been baked separately and attached after they have been iced.  For the red straps, I cut holes in the cookie dough using the end of a straw before I baked them.  Then I used pull-apart Twizlers and glued the ends into the holes using Royal icing.  The flowers are tiny balls of cookie dough that have been stuck together and baked separately.  This design also works well for Christmas and Halloween flip flops, using the Cake Mate cake decorations instead of a flower.