Sweet Dani B Couture Cookies and Invitations

Cookies Come to Life!

I was so excited when Anduin Havens, Production Designer and Art Director of the Martha Show, emailed me to let me know that Martha’s producers wanted to animate the icing process of my fluted egg cookies for Martha’s Easter special. I have been admiring Martha’s stop animation styling since I first saw it in Martha’s cookie app (which is amazing!) so I was very excited.

On Cookie Egg animation day I arrived at Studio One of Martha’s photo studios in the Starrett Lehigh building in NYC. Cookie supply kit in hand, I quickly unpacked and got down to business.

Here's a shot of my work table- I am not the neatest worker!

Stylist Helen Quinn  greeted me and showed me her sketches of the rundowns- I love her illustrations.

Helen's drawing of Easter Egg Cookie shoot process

I was excited to see Johnny Miller was assigned to the shoot- he is very well known in the Living world- and I was lucky enough to have him shoot my Christmas cookies for the Dec 09 issue!

Johnny Miller and Helen Quinn set up the shot

Helen arranges the undecorated fluted egg cookies with precision

Once the “stage” was set we were off! Being careful not to move the cookies I iced the 3 marbleized eggs in steps as Helen styled and Johnny shot each one.

Here I am icing the fluted egg cookies using the "marbelizing" technique

After the process shots, Helen styled a beauty shot with these and other fluted egg cookies that I decorated.

Helen styles the fluted egg cookie beauty shot

I LOVE this shot- look at how great it looks on screen!

SDB Fluted Egg beauty shot on screen

After lunch (from one of my NYC favorites- ‘wichcraft), Helen was scheduled to shoot stop animation of the Easter baskets and needed some help. We decided the chocolate bunnies needed some finishing touches of royal icing to add color and jimmies to add texture to their baskets.

Here I am adding a jimmy nest to this bunny's basket

Chocolate bunny with candy nest

I helped Helen with a few other touches and stood by to watch the animation take shape. The bunny in basket animation is really fun as the bunny moves into frame and jumps into the basket!

Chocolate Easter Bunny Basket (I especially LOVE the concept of monochromatic Easter baskets!)

It was such a great experience and I can’t wait to see my Fluted Egg Cookies coming to life in Martha’s Eggcellent Easter special! Don’t forget to tune in for the premiere April 17th on the Hallmark channel! Order the Fluted Egg Cookie Cutter here (under the cookie cutter tab) and make some Fluted Easter Egg Cookies of your own- totally Eggcellent!

xoxo Dani