Gun Nut Cookies

Andy's copywriting partner, aside from being an excellent headline craftsman, is also something of a gun enthusiast. So we thought it would be fun to make him some NRA-approved birthday cookies for his celebratory dinner at a local sushi restaurant.

We started out by cheating and using premade sugar cookie dough sheets which were on sale for Easter and came with atrocious purple and yellow frosting. We googled some images of guns and Andy used his childhood memories of hunting in Minnesota to create a duck decoy and some bullets. We cut the cookies by hand using a butter knife and baked them up the night before.


The undecorated shotgun, bullet and shotgun shell cookies. The next day I used ass-loads of red, blue and yellow food coloring to create gun-like shades of grey and brown frosting. When Andy came home we piped the frosting out of plastic baggies with holes cut in the corners and decorated up a full gun cabinet of delights.


Some spring flowers that Andy picked up for me on his way home. Seattle is all of a sudden completely in bloom with all kinds of beautiful local flowers and trees that I don't get to see in the converted desert that is LA. I've been meaning to go on a photo excursion and do a blog post about it, but for now here is a preview. Ok, back to disturbing cookies.


The wood detailing on the handle of the handgun is really what sets it apart.


The completed set of Gun Nut Cookies which includes two of each gun plus various sizes of bullets, and Andre's initials. There were supposed to be some target cookies, but they somehow got eaten by someone. We could have added some dead animal cookies, but I've already had some bad experiences with that. It never turns out pretty.


We used the leftover frosting to make mini cookie sandwiches. Andy wants to share.


Andre can't believe his eyes! We also got him some beer and wasabi peas and Pocky for Men, and Andy got him a nice compass and a book about cooking with beer.


Happy birthday wishes!


There is no waiting period to enjoy these delicious sugar weapons.


The Ototo Sushi Seattle roll and California roll. My two homes come together on one plate.


Andy and Andre pretend to share some house sake at Ototo.


Andre should know better... the frosting safety is on.