So I said was going to get another post up last Friday. Not the one that just passed yesterday— the one a full week before that. Then I had sick kids, I was sick, and you combine that with time flying at break-neck speed, and here we are. Life happens. Sorry about that.
But hey, let’s not look back. Let’s look forward! I have some Halloween ovals to show you! I really should have shown you the ovals first and then ended with the rectangles, because I really liked the rectangles better, which sorta makes this anti-climatic, but such is life.
So we have a set of oval cookie cutters.
Half are plain-edge, and half are crimped edge. I used the plain edge for these cookies.
First are some Halloween treat buckets.
Had a little bleeding on the handle on the one on the left, because I was lacking patience. If you don’t want bleeding, you must wait. Don’t put a dark color on a wet lighter color. Wait. Patience! (Yoda voice)
Next, some plain pumpkins.
These are easy. Just draw an oval in the center that is about three-quarters of the height of the pumpkin. Then add ridges heading outward and slightly upward. Does that make sense? Then add a stem and maybe a leaf. You can have pumpkins in all kinds of sizes. Who needs pumpkin cookie cutters?
Next, I tried just a bunch of candy.
It looks too stark to me. Maybe more candy?
Remember in my rectangle post, I made some monster faces? Frankenstein, Mummy, Dracula, and a Skull and Crossbones. Here are their oval counterparts:
Here are the rectangles and ovals together, just for comparison’s sake.
Definitely like the rectangles better, but the ovals are cute in their own way.
These next guys were my favorite, and they were also the most simple. I wanted something really easy for the smallest ovals, so I decided on spiders.
I loved doing them. They took about 10 seconds and added a lot to the plate of cookies.
And my other favorites were equally easy. Candy corn!
What? You say these aren’t ovals? Well, you would be right. But all I did was cut a sliver off of each side of the oval (at an angle) to make cone shapes. I loved that it worked, because now I can make any size of candy corn. The smallest were almost the same size as real candy corn. Cute.
Here’s a platter of the ovals:
Fun stuff.
I have a handful of sets of oval cookie cutters to give away. I’m probably not going to get them to the winners by Halloween, but the good news is that the uses for oval cutters is ENDLESS. You can use them all year long, and then when next Halloween gets here (in the approximately 2 seconds that will take), you’ll have them to make all the pumpkins, candy corns, spiders, or monster faces you want.
Comment on this post by Wednesday, October 26, midnight, and you’ll be entered to win a set of your own. I’ll choose 5 winners using Random.org. Please enter only once.
Thanks for reading! Good luck this week getting all of your Halloween preparations together. I have 4 little costumes to figure out this week. Do you have a lot to do before Halloween?
How cute! I love the rectangles with the matching ovals!
Pick me! 🙂
adorable!! You’re very creative!
so many options with those cutters, I love the spiders eating candy corn!
Too cute, Karen. The platter looks great.
I would love to win those ovals… I could see lots of possibilities with them…… Great ideas for Halloween you posted with both ovals and rectangles… Thanks!
Sweet! I need those for my Baking and Pastry kit!
Lovin’ the platter Karen! 🙂
Beautiful cookies. Love em!
Love them all !!
SO cute! Now I MUST try the pumpkin bucket, and the spiders holding the candy corn. They are genius.
I was actually thinking I need to find some oval cookie cutters just the other day!! Your cookies are so cute!
Your cookies are just darling. I would love to give them a try, and thanks for the chance to win them.
Another gorgeous batch. I’d love the oval cutters!
Your cookies are always wonderful!
I love your ability to think outside the box, or in this case, the oval. You’ve been inspiring me to really stretch my imagination with my own cookies.
I would LOVE to win a set of oval cutters! (And your cookies are just adorable!)
Imaginative and awesomely creative as always!!! Love your stuff….you rock Karen!!
I love the ovals and all of your ideas! I need to go to cookie camp! You are such an inspiration!
if i won, this would be perfect for a bake sale my team is doing!
Pumpkins, christmas balls, snow flakes, snow globes… What a great background for anything.
I LOVE your cookies! They are so cute! And what great ideas you come up with for these basic cutters! I wish I had half your creativity! Adorable!
Really cute designs! Never would’ve thought a oval could be so versatile!
Very cute cookies. You always are so creative!
love the colors – these are super cute !
How can such a simple shape give so many options! I have Raggedy Ann to finish for my grand-daughter,, and of course, I add extra pressure by still needing to make a matching doll!! But,, she is a little red head, the costume is perfect for her. Thanks for the inspiration!!
This is such a cute idea. Love the cookies!!
I just went and bought round cutters and bent one to make some ovals tomorrow… but I would much rather have the ones with both edges!! LOVE the candy corn trick. I hate buying so many cutters, so I love getting ideas about how to use the ones I already have! But now I will have to bend another one of the round ones ;-P
Oh, well. Life is like that!
Deana
This is so awesome – those would be useful for so many different kinds of cookies!
love, love, love them! would be great to have a set to put to good use!
I thought the ovals faces were just as cute as the rectangles! How adorable!
I love them all, and I’d really enjoy winning a set of the oval cutters. BTW, thanks for explaining how you made the pumpkin design w/the inner oval & drawing outwards. Very clever 🙂
I love the ovals! I can imagine them for many holiday cookies!
How awesome! I would just love those ovals! Already have ideas scrambling around in my head for every holiday season!
Great job, love them just as much as the rectangle cutters.
Super cute.. you are so talented. Thanks for sharing.
The treat buckets are adorable! Don’t worry, I would never be that patient either.
Those look great! I love the pumpkin full of candy.
Love them! What a useful set 🙂
I love your work!
Great cookies! Love your pumpkin with yellow dots!
These are so adorable! I love love love the pumpkin pail full of candy, such a great idea 🙂
Those are so cute. Such neat ideas for the cookie cutters. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, What a talented lady you are. The things that you come up with is just fabulous. I really admire all the work that you put into your cookies.
I like them just as much as the square ones.
Love the pumpkins with the treats and the idea for the candy corn. It’s great seeing all the ways that basic shapes can be used to make other things!
Beth
Love your oval cookie ideas! Thank you for the giveaway!
Those pumpkins are amazing. 🙂 Not too much to do before Halloween, but I’m only costuming one little person who doesn’t know she can have an opinion about it yet.
These cookie cutters would give me just the “umphfff” I need to get decorating again!!!
Karen, you never cease to amaze me! When I first saw the oval cutters I wondered, what in the world would you do with those….until I saw what YOU did with them….WAY cute! Definitely need to put these cutters on my “must have” list!
And you make it all look so easy…and those cookies are so adorable. Would love to win a set!
Cute! Would love some ovals, for a variety of things! 🙂
Love the cookies with the spiders! I could really use these ovals!
Thank you soooooo much! Just took my first step in really decorating iced cookies tonight. My pumpkins and candy corn do NOT look like yours. But – it was a step and your blog provides all kinds of inspiration. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thanks for the chance to win a set of oval cutters too. It’s fun to know there’s a tiny chance!
By the way, enjoy making those Halloween costumes. Seems like just yesterday I was spending a lot of late nights making Clifford the Big Red Dog, a T-rex and a Dalmatian. The Dalmatian was two then – in grad school now. It goes fast – ENJOY!
ADORABLE as always Karen! I was showing my Grandmother tonight some of the cookies I made for Halloween then I happened upon your oval post. She asked if I had made them and of course I had to say NO. My grandmother raved about your cookies and said they were just amazing. Thank you for always inspiring and sharing your talents. The more I see using the simple shapes like to rectangle and oval cutters, makes me want them all the more.
I would be so excited to win these cutters!!
The spiders are my favorite. I would love to have the ovals.
Karen, these are so cute! I love them all, but I think my favs are the pumpking buckets – love the detailing on the candy!
The spiders are my favorite! I would love to have the ovals.
Oh these are so super cute, and you are so clever! I became a ‘follower’ just yesterday, and you are so inspirational. I’m just starting my own biscuit decorating journey, So these posts on how to use simple shapes to make exsquisite cookies are the best!
I adore your mummies! Thank you for offering such a great giveaway!
Loved all your pics – but especially how you cut the edges off to make the candy corn! Cool! 🙂 Thanks for posting, and hoping you and kiddos are all healed up!
I love the mummies, they are so cute!
I love the polka-dotty pumpkin! You have a wonderfully steady hand, Karen, and some adorable ideas. Sorry to hear about the sick kiddos, but hopefully they’re all better and I’m glad to see more creative Karen’s Cookies!
All of those are darling! I wish I were half as creative.
pick me, pick me lol. awesome cookies!!!
Ha! I also have a lot to get done before Halloween. But it is so much fun to make time for cookies! I love your creativity. Keep up the great posts!
I like the oval cookies even more than the first rectangular ones you posted. Especially love the polka-dotted pumpkin! Glad you and your crew are feeling better : )
I love the pumpkins filled with candy from trick-or-treating. Reminds me of when I was younger…
Karen, those Halloween designs are just fantastic! I need to start thinking out of the box more!
Very cute ideas! I just finished up 8 cookie bouquets of Halloween cookies for a co-worker and his grand kids! You just gave me some more great ideas! Thanks!
I love the mini candy corn cookies. I was going to make a cutter but now I can use an oval!
I love these. They are even on my wish list.
Your designs always make me want to bake at midnight!
I would love to win those ovals…
You are so creative!! Thanks for the ideas! And the possibilities are endless with more holidays around the corner!!
You may like the rectangles better than the ovals but you made some adorable cookies with both. I especially like the spider with the candycorn and the pumpkins… Very inspiring….
I’am your supporter! very compliment for this cookies! evrithing are great! by by from Florence, Italy
Me encantan!!!Me gustarìa tenerlos para mi colecciòn!!!Muchas gracias por todo lo que haces,eres espectacular,tienes mucho arte Karen!!!Besos desde España.
I am in love with your mummy and speckled pumpkin! So cute!!!
They are great! I´m thinking on more possibilities. Thanks a lot.
Thank you very much for the new ideas. It´s amazing!
I think those are cute Karen! I especially like the pumpkin with the candy inside and those spiders holding the candy are are so cute! My Grandson’s 1st birthday is Saturday the 29th, so we are doing a Halloween themed party! Planning on making the cute little mummies, pumpkins and candy corn cookies for the party bags and I am going to attempt the “great pumpkin” cake (using a bundt pan) for his 1st birthday cake, can’t wait to see the orange frosting all over him! LOL Again, that’s for sharing and have fun getting your little ones ready for Halloween! 😉
They were worth the wait! I need to do cookies for my granddaughter’s preschool Halloween party and these are so cute…and not scary. They will be perfect. Love the spider with the candy corn. Thanks again for the wonderful ideas. Karen
Hola Karen, me encantan tús ideas para estos cortadores… You are so creative!!
I would LOVE to win a set!
Un beso grande.
Awesome cookies! I love the pumpkins and the candy corn idea I great. I’m really amazed with what you’ve done, all of them are perfect and cute! Thanks for the chance to win
Cool blog post. Your cookies are amazing. Nice giveaway too,
Susie
susies@twcny.rr.com
You are so creative. I love the pumpkins filled with candy. I have to make 100 assorted Halloween cookies for an order this week, and I might have to steal a few of your ideas. Thanks for sharing!
First of all, I hope you and your family are fine now.Secondly, thank again for your ideas and the nice giceaway…
I LOVE the imagination you have inspired with this set of ovals! Like you say, so versatile for any holiday ocassion. Blessings, Donna B.
Karen, You are so creative. I love making cookies. Sadly at my house, my children LOVE your cookie dough, so I have to hide it to actually be able to make my cookies 🙂
These cookies are super cute!! Your creativity with a simple shape cutter blows me away!!
Thanks so much for sharing!!
You have such wonderful talent – your cookies are always gorgeous!! And, not to mention, you are super creative! I love reading your blog – thank you!!
I used your rectangle ideas to decorate circle shapes last week – I tried the mummy stripes but couldn’t get it to look right. Think that is one of the ones I like the best. 🙂
So creative with your cutters!
The cookies are so cute!
How cute and what fun! I need to start thinking “outside the box” more. I will be making cookies this week for a family with 2 sets of twins…they would love the monster and mummy.
The possibilities with the basic shapes are endless….yet they are SO hard to find often!!! I would love to add these to my collection 🙂 Thanks for endless inspirations!
These would be fantastic to win, there are so many possibilities! Thanks for the chance to win!
Karen I love your pumpkin treat buckets, so clever! You really show so many possibilities with the ovals. And I bet they are much more forgiving outlining than circles! ♥
Oh, I would love to win these oval cutters. There are so many different designs you can make with this shape.
Love the idea of the candy inside the pumpkin:)
My faves are the oval mummy and the treat baskets!
I love your work. It´s very imaginative. Thank you very much.
Oh Karen – you are so creative with all these cutters – and to think I got to see you in action! I feel like I’m sorta famous now!
so gald you are posting more often – I love your ideas!
Love the pumpkin treat baskets!
Brilliant! Love the versatility!
Super cute cookies! Please, Random, pick me… 🙂
That mummy has me all wrapped up in ideas!! LOL!
I love following your blog ,thank you for all your ideas!!
What a brilliant idea turning the ovals into candy corn!! I was just thinking how I did not want to go out and buy a cookie cutter just for candy corn, but now I don’t have to!! Thanks for all the great tips!
Those pumpkins and monster faces are too cute! I also love that you cut up the oval to make candy corn.
They are adorable cookies!
How CUTE!!! I would love to win these!
Love the spiders! It’s always great to get new ideas. Thanks.
Hope you and your family are feeling better, Karen!
I love both the rectangles and ovals… and the fact that you made the same design makes them look sooo cool! Love the spider with the candy!!!
You are soooooooo talented! I always love to see what you’ve come up with!
I want to be as imaginative and creative as you. I love the sweets pumpkins-baskets!!
Lola
Beautiful cookies and I want to win those cutters. Thank you for sharing !!!
You are so creative! I love your cookies.
I would absolutely love to be your winner. You and your family have a fantastic company. I am your #1 fan. Lisa
Karen que preciosas galletas, como siempre cuando veo todo lo que haces siento unas ganas tremendas de empezar a hacer galletas, aunque no consiga hacerlas tan lindas como tu. Me encantaria participar en el concurso y espero que tus pequeños se encuentre ya bien.
Besos desde España
Love the use of the oval cutters! So creative 🙂
Cue cute cute! I like the spider holding the candy corn. He looks hungry!
I love, love, love these!! So versatile, I could come up with endless possibilities of cookie ideas! Keep ’em coming!!
thanks for the ideas, I’ve got 6 dozen Halloween cookies to do this week!!!
Love your Halloween platter.
These are incredible. I love the candy filled pumpkins best!
Love the candy corn and pumpkin cookies. So creative.
Great stuff, Karen. I love the treat buckets. And both mummies. Cute all around! Good luck with those costumes this week!
I need those! I’m so ready for Halloween and trick or treaters!
Wow! The detail! Very clever, those candy corn ovals! I think having the summer off and going to cookie camp were just the ticket for you! 🙂 Sorry to hear you were sick, though…. and if time is going by fast for you now, I feel sorry for you as you get even older!
Una forma genial de aprovechar cortadores sencillos … ¡viva la imaginacion! Yo acabo de empezar en este mundo, peor creo que va a ser adictivo.
Besos
Nice work! I LOVE the oval skull.
How did you do the shading around his eyes? is that dust?
Thank you Karen for the giveaway, I love general shapes for multitasking.
Hello Karen !! I´ve just maid cookies this weekend for fisrt time, whith your superhalloween kit. And I love it !! I`ll send you my pictures as soon I can. Kisses. Marian.
Thanks for the giveway! And I love all the designs you came up with! You are so clever!
Karen! You are so creative! I can’t pick a favorite b/c I love so many of them!
I love them all !!!!
Love the ovals!!!!! Love seeing and reading about Great ideas on them and the rectangles!!!!
Dracula and Frankenstein are wonderful! All of them are really funny. You´re ginving me so many ideas for next week! Thankyou very much.
What a great idea! Who need seasonal cutters, when you can make such wonderful cookies with simple shapes?
LOOOVE! them ovals;you have a vision on things that blows my mind!
Wow! What a creative use of cutters!
Adorable as always!
Those are so cute – love everything you do!
I would love to have a set of ovals! Great cookies.
So creative. I love them all. Thanks for sharing.
Karen, you never cease to amaze me with your talent and kindness in sharing! I just wanted to say thank you for being here for me and everyone. 🙂
Your oval Halloween cookies really are the cutest ever! I love them!
I don’t own an oval set of cutters, so here’s hoping I’m one of the lucky 5! But good luck to everyone!
Thanks!!
Ooooh – so creative! The possibilities are endless – I’d love to win these!
pick me! the pumpkin candy bags are too cute!
Oh how cute! 🙂 Always so wonderful! Ovals, circles, and squares…the blank cookie canvas we all learn to love and adore!
Thanks for posting! You and Mike are so amazing!
The Halloween cookies are just soo cute! Especially the monsters. =)
Cute as ever Karen! 🙂
You are so dang creative! Can you bottle up that creativity and sell it on your site?
I’ve been scared to try spiders, but I like your version and may attempt them.
I love the oval cookies. I love that the spider is holding a candy corn.
Wow! Such adorable cookies. Just found your blog but I will definitely be back.
I love the pumpkin basket cookies! So cute.
Thanks for sharing another great idea.
Como siempre tus propuestas son muy divertidas y me ha encantado la comparativa galletas cuadradas- galletas redondas.
Besicos maños.
Your cookies are fabulous! What a cute idea!! I would love to have some oval cutters!
This blog makes me want to bake! I’d love to try some of these ideas!!!!
Those cutters are awsome. Thanks so much for the tutorials, they are so helpful and informative.
WOW…gotta try those
LOVE all your halloween cookies! You made a lot of them! My favorite is the pumpkin with the white dots. I also love the pumpkins with the candy coming out. I have to try that. You’re so talented Karen and love all your tutorials! Thanks! Cristin (Pinkie) of Cristin’s Cookies
Karen, you are so talented- I love the shading on the lollypop stick- makes it look so real. We don’t really celebrate Halloween in South Africa, but that’s the beauty of these cookie cutters, they’re so versatile! 😀
Hi Karen, I’m just getting started in cookie decorating. Been doing cakes for years. Needless to say my supply of cookie cutters is very small. This set of ovals would be great since as you say the possibilites are “endless”. Thanks for all your great ideas.
Hi Karen, I love how you decorated the round cookies. I could use a set of ovals. Thanks.
I love the spiders with candy corn! I also love the candy corns- what a great idea to make them with the ovals. Your treat buckets are amazing. I feel the need to bake…
What a great ideas you gave us, the pumpkins are my favorites, those ovals cutters are great..
I would love to win these. Love all the cookies too!
Your ideas are always amazing! What an imagination!