Beepoo Cookies

I've started a tradition of making cookies for my niece's birthday. Last year she wasn't old enough to have real specific interests, so she got generic tropical cookies for her first birthday in Hawaii. Since then, she has become very attached to her penguin, Beepoo. Beepoo is a fuzzy chinstrap penguin toy that looks kind of like this:

Turns out it was easier to do the eyes first, opposite of what I expected.

Not all of the cookies got sprinkles. The first cookie of any design (much like the first pancake) is often an experiment, or a test of icing consistency and the design, which doesn't always look like I planned. Beepoo looked cute, so I added sprinkles to the others once I was sure I had the design down.

He was surprisingly easy to make in cookie form. I thought he looked especially cute with his crystal sugar "fur"! The cutter for the penguin cookie was a beehive, which I have never used as intended, but is great for other cookies! To go with I made a few jungle animal cookies because she seems to really like animals, from the chickens outside to chatting with Grandma's "doggy" on skype. 

Since her new brother was due just after her birthday I included some baby cookies for Mom and Dad.

The onesie cutter I have is HUGE, so I used a tombstone cutter and trimmed to make a reasonably sized onesie. 

Next year I'll have TWO sets of birthday cookies to send!