Jumping the gun.

March is a mere few hours away, which means St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner. Or...17 days and a few hours around the corner.

At any rate, after drooling over many food blogs as of late, I keep stumbling across beautiful cookies. Now, I love cookies AND I love beautiful things. Enter a recipe for chocolate sugar cookies (yes, please) and I'm sold.  Soooo, I had to buy a shamrock cookie cutter and I just had to begin testing these cookies out in order to really perfect them within the next 17 days.

While this isn't a food blog, these cookies are pretty darn crafty.

Piping the cookies with intensity. Note: cookie in left hand "on deck".

Flooding the cookies.

Filling in the flooding with a toothpick and frosted fingers.

Voila!

Louis' favorite.

My favorite.

I'm taking orders for cookies now so I can quit my day job.  (Kidding. About the quitting part. I'll gladly accept offers for you to pay me to bake, however.)

Chocolate sugar cookie recipe, royal icing tutorial, and other deliciousness found here:  Annie's Eats.