Cowboy Cookies

Team Umizoomi Cookies

My projector came in handy when making these cookies. I cut out my own rectangular shapes from the cookie dough because I did not have a rectangular cookie cutter that was quite wide enough for bot. I used a flip flop cookie cutter for the other two.

I flooded the cookies with white royal icing and let them dry completely (overnight). The I outlined the character shapes in black with a PME tip # 1.5 using the projector images as a guide. Next, I flooded the sections with the appropriate colors. I added some remaining details in black. The only details I left until the next morning were the mouths and eyes. I waiting until the characters were completely dry to draw these with a black food dye marker. I used the FooDoodler brand of markers because I appreciate their fine tip for adding these smaller details. For the last step, I added a small spot of white royal icing onto the eyes.

The thin areas that I filled with colored icing became a cratering nightmare. These formed while the icing dried. I've made cookies similar to these (the Dr. Seuss cookies) so I had expected this. I pulled my scribe needle through the narrower sections in an attempt to prevent the craters from forming, but it wasn't 100% effective. I filled in most of the craters with icing after they formed with the same colored icing. It wasn't a perfect solution but it helped improve their appearance.

Minecraft Cookies

Steve, Creeper, TNT, and Pig.

The Minecraft characters are made up of pixelated blocks so I used my projector and projected a grid onto the cookies as a guideline.  For Pig and Creeper, I used an 8x8 grid. For Steve, I used a 10x10 grid. And for TNT, I used a 16x16 grid.

Vintage Winnie the Pooh Cookies

My friend is having her first baby and although I wasn't able to make it to her shower, I offered to make her some cookies for it. She told me that her baby shower's theme was loosely based on a vintage Winnie the Pooh look, so I made the cookies to go along with this.

For these cookies pictured, I used the onesie cookie cutter from the Wilton Baby Theme Set. Winnie Pooh was the Dancing Bear from www.cheapcookiecutters.com and I also found the Honey Pot and Mini Bee cookie cutters at this site as well.

For the rattle, I was inspired by the style Oh Sugar Events' baby rattle. I followed her design but used different colors.

This was one cookie set where having a projector came in handy. I used it to project the polkadots onto the onesie and rattle to get a more precise pattern. I also used it to project my sketches of the honey pot, bees, and Pooh bear onto the cookies. I drew the black outlines on Pooh, Piglet, and the honey pot with a food dye marker once the icing was completely dry.

Teddy Bear Cookies

Frozen Olaf and Dress Cookies

Anna and Elsa's dress, Olaf, and snowflakes.

Wedding Dress Cookies

Aladdin Genie Cookies

For these cookies, I used the ghost cookie cutter that is included in the Wilton 101-Piece Cookie Cutter set. I started with a sketch. I traced the outside of the ghost cookie cutter and then sketched the figure of the genie inside the cookie cutter outline. I then used an Artograph projector to illuminate my sketch onto the cookies. This worked fairly well, but, even with my sketch, I had to adjust the position of the genie's arms and tail on the cookies every so often.

I began by outlining the face and body of the genie in blue and then added the red sash, gold cuffs, eyes (black outline filled in with white), and mouth. Then I flooded the genie's hands, chest, and tail in blue. All that was left was to add a few remaining details - mainly the line on the genie's chest, beard, and hair - and then let the cookies dry overnight. I drew the pupil of his eye, the black line across his mouth, and his nose with a black food dye marker.

Elmo Birthday Cookies

I made these cookies for my own little Elmo fan who turns two years old tomorrow.

Lego Movie Cookies

I had a Lego minifigure cookie cutter, but I wanted to make Emmet from the Lego movie and my cutter didn't have any hair. (It had the look of a hairless lego head.) When I was cutting out the cookies from the dough, I added the hair by cutting out additional pieces of dough and attaching them to the head. It made for some additional work, but this did what I needed. I piped the grey suspenders on top of the orange icing while it was still wet to make it look like they were painted on. I mostly piped on all the details with royal icing but I used a food dye marker for the details around his blue shirt and to draw on his face.