Fun With Literary Cookies

I am a baker not an artist BUT it is cookie season and I have no self-control so while cozied up inside with nothing to do I pulled out a roll of gingerbread cookie dough and let my inner bookie and baker blend together. The result? A set of pretty fun literary-inspired cookies. To reiterate, I am not an artist.

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(Goldilocks and the Three Bears)

I started simple and picked stories based around cookie cutters I already owned.

My minimalist three bears was easily planned and executed.

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(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

With the creation of Alice’s white rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, I was feeling good and my confidence was riding high.

But then things took a dark turn.

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(George Orwell’s Animal Farm or William Golding’s Lord of the Flies? You decide.)

Finding inspiration in a tiny duck, I decided to lighten things up by tackling one of my favorite books and molding the dough into a hunting hat.

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(Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger)

Where do the ducks go in the winter, Holden? Where do they go?!

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(Moby Dick by Herman Melville)

Only after frosting did I recall that the whale was white; hopefully Captain Ahab will forgive me.

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(The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne)

This was the point where my family began playing a game called, ‘What’s That Cookie?’ Hester’s badge was one of the few they immediately recognized.

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(Dracula by Bram Stoker)

It was becoming more and more difficult to refrain from eating the cookies.

I reminded myself to take photos before taking bites and powered through.

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(Snow White by The Brothers Grimm)

I looked back and forth between the two cookies I had just made and a well-known fandom sprung to mind.

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(Twilight by Stephanie Meyers)

Once I boarded the fandom train it was impossible to stop.

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(Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling)

I had to attempt homage to my favorite book series and then I looked to the book I had received in our company’s holiday Yankee Swap—the one title I had been dying to read all year.

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(The Fault in Our Stars by John Green)

I actually have never read this next book but with the release of the film it was impossible to not know this rune…

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(City of Bones by Cassandra Clare)

And I couldn’t forget one of the year’s biggest YA hits…

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(Divergent by Veronica Roth)

Poorly made or not, I’m most proud of my final cookie:

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(The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins)

I am the bakingjay.