Look it's not a unicorn!  I do make other cookies.  Summer is not over yet, even though all the kids in Arizona have gone back to school.  I want to squeeze in some fun summer cookies before September and pumpkin season rolls around. 

I love this Ball Jar cutter.  It's so versatile - I've use it to create so many great cookies.  I was thinking of how I could use the jar for summer cookies other than with flowers.  Fireflies or as my Dad calls them, lighting bugs, pop into my head.  It's the quintessential picture of a summer evening, kids with Ball jars in hand running out to the nearby field at twilight to catch fireflies.  I remember seeing fireflies a few times when my family would vacation in northern Minnesota.  It's a beautiful sight.

I stated off by piping and flooding the lid of the jar white.  Once the icing dried, I airbrushed the lid with silver.  Next, I piped and flooded the jar with light blue icing.  While the blue icing was still wet, I piped on the yellow dots (two larger dots and two smaller dots).  My yellow icing bled into the blue.  In most cases I would have trashed the cookies and started over, but with these cookies it works.  The bleeding gives the fireflies the look of glowing.  I would like to say I planned it that way, but I didn't.  Sometime the cookie gods bless you!   Once the jar section was dry, I used black icing to pipe on the body and wings.  I used a lighter blue icing to pipe a line on the jar to create dimension.