Gift Ideas for Mom
Mothers Day Cookies

Are you looking for gift ideas for mom this Mothers Day?

Have you considered Mothers Day cookies? Surprise your mom with a homemade gift of some brightly colored decorated cookies.

Is your mom a keen gardener? Then why not make cookie flowers or maybe some butterflies and cover them with some colorful frosting and sprinkles. These are ideal gift ideas for mom.

You don't have to be a master baker or a professional cake decorator to produce these masterpieces.

We have a range of cookie recipes that not only taste great, are easy to make but can also be transformed into works of art. Below is our sugar cookie recipe, but you can also try these recipes:

Brown Sugar Cookies

Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Strawberry Meringues

Cover them with a simple cookie icing glaze or, if you are a more adventurous cook, use our royal icing recipe to pipe on decorations.

Decorating your sugar cookies can be as simple as shaking over some sprinkles or as complicated as piping fancy designs. Check out all of our cookie decorating ideas.

Once you have made your Mothers Day cookies you will need to know how to gift wrap them. We have some creative ideas for gift wrapping your cookies from home.

Other Gift Ideas for Mom

Perhaps you have left your gift-giving to the last minute or you are simply time-poor.

These beautifully presented cookie gift baskets are guaranteed to delight any mother.

I Love U Mom Pastel Flowers From: Cookies In Bloom

If Mother`s Were Flowers, I`d Pick You From: Cookies In Bloom

Happy Mother`s Day From: Cookies In Bloom

Mothers Day Sugar Cookie Recipe

This is our easy sugar cookie recipe. Follow our directions and surprise your mom on Mothers Day.

Ingredients

• 175 g / 6 oz unsalted butter, softened
• 200g / 7 oz caster / superfine sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 300 g / 10 ½ oz plain / all-purpose flour
• Pinch of salt

Method

1. Place the butter and sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until the butter becomes pale in color and the sugar is dissolved. The mixture should be light and fluffy.

2. Add the vanilla extract and egg and continue beating until the mixture is creamy. It is important not to overbeat the mixture.

3. Sift together the flour and salt and fold into the butter mixture. Turn the dough out onto a floured board and gently work the dough into a ball.

4. Wrap the dough in cling wrap and chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

5. Preheat the oven to 180°C / 350°F and line two baking sheets with parchment or baking paper.

6. Remove the dough from the fridge and cut in half. While working with one half, leave the other half in the fridge. Roll the dough out until it is about ¼ inch thick and cut out shapes. If the dough is sticky roll it out between two sheets of baking paper. Place the cookie cutters as close as possible to the edges to minimise the number of times the dough is re-rolled.

7. Repeat this process with the other half, then gather up all the remaining dough scraps, re-roll and cut out shapes. Place on cookie trays allowing sufficient room for the cookies to spread during baking.

8. Bake in the oven for 12 - 15 minutes or until the cookies are golden. Remove from the oven, leave on the trays for a few minutes then transfer to wire racks to cool.

9. When the cookies are completely cold, cover with frosting and decorate.

Cookie Icing Glaze

• 1 ½ cups icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon cold water
• Food coloring

To make the glaze, sift the icing sugar into a bowl, add the water and stir until the icing is smooth. Add the water gradually, until you have the desired consistency. If you add too much water and the icing is too runny, simply add more confectioners sugar.

Decorating your Cookies

To make Butterfly Cookies

Make your cookies using a butterfly shaped cookie cutter:

• Cover your cookies with some brightly colored frosting

• Decorate with sprinkles, edible glitter or sugar pearls, or

• Place dragees around the outline of the butterfly cookies

• Cover your cookies with pale, pastel frosting

• Decorate with silver dragees and leave the icing to set

• Take a white or pastel colored icing pen and pipe an outline around the edges of the cookies

To make Flower Cookies

Use a flower shaped cookie cutter to make cookies:

• Cover your cookies with colored frosting

• Buy some sugared flowers and place in the centre of the cookies

• Roll out a small amount of fondant icing and tint with a few drops of food coloring.

• Brush the cookies with some warmed apricot jam. This will help the icing stick to the cookies.

• Using a small flower shaped fondant cutter cut out flower shapes and place in centre of cookie. Cut out a small circle of fondant, in a different color, and place in the center of the flower.