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My son wanted Mario and my daughter wanted foxes. I thought my solution tying them together was clever, but no one at the party seemed sufficiently impressed.

edit: I should have specified, these are mini sandwiches, not cookies. The colors are from food dye markers.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

For when your son wants a Mario party and your daughter wants a Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7.0 party.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

My last job (this year) is still actively developing in VFP. Yeah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Pleasantly surprised that the themes were simply wolves and Mario and not two political dogwhistle codes I wasn't aware of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

TIL that food due comes in markers now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I'd just learned about it too. They were super easy to use. I'm going to have a lot of fun making my kids lunch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Post reported: Too cool to be dull.

those foxes look awesome! those people at the party are the real dullsters.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

This is awesome, definitely pushing the boundaries of dullsters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

OH. I didn't zoom in and thought they were sugar cookies. Still I could go for some pbj about now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

but no one at the party seemed sufficiently impressed.

Sorry to hear that. I am impressed. My parents never put that much effort into anything like that for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

My parents are great, and they did a lot for me, but they didn't put in any extra effort on things like birthdays.

I go all out for my kids' birthdays. Like for my daughter's third birthday, I transformed the house into Elsa's ice palace. I built the exterior out of cardboard and a roll of blue plastic tablecloth, two stories tall, hanging from our indoor balcony. Then I bathed the living in blue light, covered it in snowflake decorations, and turned the AC way down.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

It's star fox! Also Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I loooveee these! I'd have been so happy if my parents had done this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

:O

You can make foxes or wolves from stars? The only cookie cutter set I have is also star shapes. This is useful info for me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Nicely done, just the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

Well there are terrific! Not only are the design very pretty but the use of a single cookie cutter make it very smart.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was looking at the orange one, trying to figure out what it was. Then you said 'fox' and it all came together. Looks exactly like a face. Maybe a small line of icing on the edge of the sugar would help define it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is that sugar? It looks like it has the texture of sandwich + food marker

Edit: oop, refreshed the page and saw OP said that’s what it is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those look amazing. What's in the layer in between?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

They're actually PB&J sandwiches. Kids party.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They look awesome. Well done. I have to ask, because the texture is throwing me off. Are they mini sandwiches or cookies? The closer I look the less sure I am. Well done anyway. I could tell what they were right off the bat.

I just finished decorating a Mario cake last night for my child. It is safely in the freezer well in advance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with food dye marker on them.

I was planning to do cookies the same way, but ran out of time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Cool! What a great idea!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Butter knife. Cut the two extra angles off, profit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

What extra angles? Foxes have ears and whiskers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Plus you get a ton of cookie scraps to eat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I think that's bread not cookies. It looks like they're sandwiches cut into shape.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Mmmm, cookie scrap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago