These frogs are cavorting in a bowl of sandwich cookies. The cookies were made in press molds. I shopped around for my favorite sandwich cookies and then pressed them into some fresh plaster of Paris. When the plaster got hard I washed out the cookie and could then press bits of clay to make all the cookies I wanted.

When the cookie blanks had stiffened up a bit, I could put a bit of clay between two of them and squeeze thus making a sandwich cookie. Make a whole bunch of them and a few frogmounties and you get the Canadian version of a bowl of frogs and cookies.

These were not only cookie jars, but they also functioned as a sort of piggy bank, a savings bank for the clay sandwich cookies which were often used as money in the FrogWorld. The cookies are loose inside the jars and you could take them out and play with them.

Just when you start running out of ideas, you suddenly realize you had overlooked one of your all time favorites!

It was inevitable that I would finally design the ultimate frogcookie. A generic sandwich cookie with nothing in the center allowed me to carve an "F" into the plaster of the mold.

I visited California almost every summer that I was in Canada. That summer I brought back a bag of Oreos and decided to make the first Oreo mold. It was to take me a few years before I made frogs as the filling between the two cookies.

These are my favorite FrogChip cookies. I made a mold of a real cookie and then carved frog heads into it. It was a nice regular sized cookie. The cookie itself looked like a kind of miniature landscape.

The frogs are glazed green but these thin oatmeal cookies have been colored with oil paint thinned with turpintine. Just in time for the first bakesales.

Most of these cookies were made to be tied into a little box inside The Grocery Bag Portfolio. The portfolio was a collection of delicatessen food works on paper and the frogchip cookies were a little surprise.

Just to be fair, for a short time I made these FrogHydroxes. Do they even still make them? Or has Oreo conquered all?

The magical shape of this unlidded cookie jar along with the food magic of Osiris himself keeps the cookies from becoming stale. Oh course, if you picked up these cookies, since they are made of clay, they do seem rather stale!

This was a last true cookie piece made at a time when for the most part I was only repeating or rather, stealing from myself. Suddenly, this idea popped up and I found just the right glaze and found it was a lot of fun to fold my own fortune cookies out of little pancakes of clay. I always imagined that if people wanted they could even insert fortunes into the cookies.