Celebrating 50 Years of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

As a young child, I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and was enthralled by the incredible imagination of Roald Dahl.  The book is now 50 years old, and cake artists worldwide came together to celebrate the anniversary as only they can - with cakes, cookies, and edible sculptures. 

I was thrilled to be a part of this special collaboration.   For my selection, I presented hand-painted shortbread cookies featuring Charlie Bucket (as depicted in Quentin Blake's original story artwork) and Augustus Gloop (looking rather like an obese Dennis the Menace).  The cookies were decorated with royal icing and edible food paints. 

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A Christmas Story

These are "A Christmas Story" sugar cookies.  They were made with Fun Dough, a set of four tubs of colored cookie dough in red, green, blue, and yellow.  The dough was purchased through a school fundraiser and was very tasty.  The cookie cutters were in the shapes of a house, a star, a roasted turkey, Ralphie in his pink bunny suit, and the infamous "major award" - the leg lamp.  The cutters only came in the deluxe boxed DVD set, but were worth the extra cost.  Everyone loved these.