I love to garden and I get that from my dad.  We would always have a garden when I was growing up.  One of my fondest memories is picking cherry tomatoes off the vine and eating them.  We don't have a ton of space for a garden at our condo.  We choose a few things each year to grow in our Earth Boxes and that works for us.  I also have house plants in every room of our house from money trees to succulents.  I love having something growing in our home.

Terrariums are all over Esty and Pinterest these day.  I came across this kit to create your own unicorn terrarium.  I really wanted to turn this idea into a cookie.  I used this cutter to make the top portion of the terrarium.  For the birch tree bottom, I hand-cut out a rectangle and combined the two cookies pre-baking. 

I started by piping and flooding the rectangle with white icing.  Once it dried, I used a black food coloring marker to draw on lines.  I also outlined the top portion of the terrarium.  Then I created the moss following this tutorial from Mike over at Semi Sweet.  He used graham crackers but I didn't want to open a whole package for two cookies, so I used honey graham cereal.  I had to bake mine because it ended up being very soggy.  I piped and flooded a green section and covered it with the moss.

I flooded the top portion white and once it was dry, I airbrushed it blue.  To make the unicorn, I created royal icing transfer.  I felt trying to pipe on top of the moss would create an uneven looking unicorn.  I made six transfers hoping to be able to get two that wouldn't break.  I piped icing on the back of the transfer and carefully placed it on top of the moss.  The final touch was adding the grey rock.