Fall Cookies

I haven't made cookies in a very long time. These were for a school bake sale. I decided to do a fall forest theme with foxes, birds, leaves, acorns, and mushrooms.

Sun Cookies

Emoji Cookies

Made these for my daughter's birthday.

Christmas Cookies 2016

It's been a while since I've posted. I've been busy with things other than cookie decorating. I made these for my daughter's Christmas party. Polar bears, snowflakes, and Christmas trees. I mixed the green with 3 parts violet, 2 parts lemon yellow, and 1 part leaf green (AmeriColor). I added a little the green icing to the red, yellow and blue to make color palette match.

Giraffe Cookies

One more daughter with a birthday ... an early July summer birthday ... but she wanted cookies to share with her class too, of course. I'm glad her teacher didn't mind accommodating a last minute request! Giraffes are her favorite animal. I've made giraffe cookies before but used different cookies cutter.

Snowy Owl Cookies

My second youngest daughter turned six recently and she loves owls. She has a white owl stuffed animal that she sleeps with every nights and she wanted her cookies to look just like this. That made it a bit easier for me since these owls didn't require a lot of color mixing. These cookies were fairly simple to make.

I own an owl cookie cutter but it's for Halloween and it's wearing a witch's hat. Rather than modify 24 cookies by cutting off the hats before I baked them (these were for her Kindergarten class), I went to Pinterest for inspiration and saw that a tulip cookie cutter made a perfect owl shape. Fortunately, I already owned one of these. All I needed to do was outline and flood the tulip-shaped cookie in white. I let them dry overnight. And then I added the details. I only needed to mix yellow and black icing for the eyes, beak, and feet. There wasn't that much to these.

Flower Cookies

Some simple flower cookies. I made these back in March for my youngest daughter's 4th birthday.

Pokemon Cookies

No tutorial this time. I made these for my oldest daughter's 9th birthday to share with her class. The cookies cutters can be found here: Pokemon Center. This was a fantastic find for me since my daughters are completely obsessed with Pokemon at the moment. My younger daughters have already requested these cookies for their birthdays too.

Jack-O-Lantern Cookies - Tutorial with Pictures

For these cookies, I used the pumpkin cookie cutter in the Wilton 101 cookie cutter set although just about any medium to large sized pumpkin cookie cutter would work for these.

I wanted these jack-o-lanterns to have a layered look with the black jack-o-lantern faces receding into the background, so I used the technique where the black icing is spread flat onto the cookie first and all other icings are layered on top. I have included a few pictures to show how this works.

To spread the black icing onto the cookie, I used an angled cake icing spatula to place of small glob (approximately 1/2 tsp.) of icing onto the cookie. Then I carefully and evenly spread it with the spatula, making sure to not get it too close to the edges of the cookie. The black icing was stiff but not quite outline consistency - closer to 20-second consistency. I needed it to spread easily but not run off the sides of the cookies. 

Once the black icing was dry, I outlined jack-o-lantern faces onto the cookies and the outside edges of the cookies. I left a small indent at the top so that I could add the pumpkins' brown stems and leaves later.

As soon as the outlines were dry, I carefully filled in the pumpkins with a Wilton #2 tip and orange 20-second consistency icing. I was careful not to overfill with the icing, otherwise it might run over my outlined edges and into the jack-o-lantern's faces.

I left these overnight to dry. Then I added the additional details - the brown stem, leaves, and top outlines as shown in the finished picture at the top.

Halloween Cookies - Spiders, Creepy Eyes, Jack-O-Lanterns, and Owls

This is the complete set. I added the owls with witch hats. The cookie cutter is available here: Witchy Owl Cookie Cutter.

Spider Cookies - Tutorial with Pictures

The cookie cutter I used for these spider cookies is available here: Crouching Spider Cookie Cutter.



When I decorate cookies, I don't like to leave any parts of the cookie undecorated so, first, I outlined and flooded the entire cookie with white royal icing. I left it overnight to dry.

Next, I outlined a circle in the center of the cookies. I used my projector to trace the circle because I am terrible at freehand drawing circles. I used a Wilton icing tip #2 to add the spider's legs.

I let these to dry for about 2-3 hours and then flooded the center of the circle.

While this icing was still wet I added some Jimmie sprinkles to the top of the circle, and then I gently tapped off the excess.

 

I let these dry slightly, and then I added some leftover icing to the back of two Wilton Candy Eyeballs. I carefully placed the eyeballs on the front of the spiders for the last, finishing touch. This step can wait until the spiders are completely dry, but if you are careful you can add them while the icing is still drying.

Creepy Eyeball Cookies

I've started making Halloween cookies for the season. I'm making a few different types that are meant to go together. These eyeballs are a simplified version of Sugarbelle's Easy Eyeball Cookies. The cookie cutter can be purchased here: Spooky Halloween Eyes Cookie Cutter.

Clown Fish Cookies

Elephant Cookies

Bald Eagle and Patriotic Star Cookies

It's been a while since I've posted here. I've taken a break from making and decorating cookies. These are for my oldest daughter's American Symbols and Landmarks assembly at her elementary school. She's in second grade and giving a presentation to class parents on the bald eagle. Her teacher asked for there to be a cookie table for the kids and parents to enjoy after the presentations were finished and I knew of this bald eagle cookie cutter so I couldn't resist getting into the spirit of things.

Snowflake Cookies

I used Americolor food gels for these: Sky Blue, Sky Blue mixed with Royal Blue, and Sky Blue mixed with Teal. The little flowers in the center of the snowflakes are Wilton Daisy Sprinkles.

Christmas Cookies

This time of the year tends to get very busy so I didn't make anything too complicated for Christmas cookies this year. I made the same snowman last year. I've made so many snowflakes that I wanted to do something a little different this year. This snowflake is something I saw on Pinterest and I thought it was incredibly cute. The bonus was it used the same colors and consistency frosting as the snowmen so I didn't need to mix any additional colors.

Wedding Cake Cookies

I made these cookies to give out as party favors for my little sister's wedding. They are made entirely with white royal icing and a variety of white accents. I used the cake cookie cutter from the Wilton Party Cookie Cutter Set to make the cookie shake. After the cookies had cooled completely, I flooded the base of each cookie with white royal icing and let them dry overnight.

My next step was to airbrush the cookies with a mixture of white pearl dust and vodka to give the them a subtle sheen. I used vodka rather than water in my airbrush mixture because the alcohol evaporates faster than water and it's likely that it will mottle the surface of the royal icing like water sometimes can. I made sure to go over lightly with the airbrush. I didn't get the shiny look I wanted with just one pass so I waited for the pearl dust to dry slighting and then went over the cookies with the airbrush again. I needed to do this 3-4 times to get the sheen that I wanted. Once I completed this step, I let the cookies dry for another 20 minutes.

Now came the best part. Adding the details. I used a variety of different sprinkles and accents for this: 

• Wilton Sugar Pearls
• Wilton White Sparkling Sugar
• Wilton White Nonpareils
• White Edible Glitter

And I used outline consistency royal icing as well. The steps for decorating these was adding ("sanding") the sprinkles first, then adding the sugar pearls, and then piping on any last details with the royal icing. If I had applied the details first (like the lines and twirly vines), the sprinkles might have adhered to them. I would have needed to wait for the details to dry before adding the sprinkles. Adding the sprinkles first saved me a little time.

I applied the sugar pearls by placing a dab of royal icing onto the cookie and then carefully positioning the pearl with a pair of tweezers. I used a PME 1.5 tip to add the outline details (lines and twirly vines) and I used a leaf tip (Wilton 65s) to add the leaves around the sugar pearls.

Pastel Rainbow Cookies

My oldest daughter asked for rainbow cookies to share with her class for her birthday last year and she asked for rainbow cookies again this year. I used the rainbow cookie cutter from the Wilton 3 Piece St. Patrick's Day Cookie Cutter Set. I outlined the clouds in white and then filled them with white, flood consistency royal icing. I let these dry for a couple of hours and then piped on the rainbow with a Wilton #13 star tip. I made sure the royal icing was a stiff consistency so that the stars would keep their shape. This was actually a very easy project. Mixing the different colors and piping the stars took some time, but it wasn't that bad.

To obtain the pastel colors I used the following Americolor food gels:

• Pink: Dusty pink with a very small amount of royal blue (I used a tiny drop added with a toothpick)
• Orange: Orange with a very small amount of dusty pink
• Yellow: 1/3 Lemon yellow and 2/3 Egg Yellow
• Green: Avocado with a small amount of Leaf Green
• Blue: Sky Blue
• Purple: Dusty Pink, Sky Blue, and Royal Purple

 I used Sweet Sugar Belle's trick that she describes here here to make the icing colors match.

Zombie Cookies