There's lots of options when making tassel cookies.

They can be made in any color needed.

You can color the cookie dough or not.

(Colored dough adds a little "pop" to the appearance.)

For a 3D effect, you can roll the dough like a "snake" between your hands as shown below.....

or use a long rectangle cutter or a tie cutter.

Here's the 3D-look cookies.

 I pinched a neck towards the top to make it look like a tassel.

Start off the decorating portion by making lines with 10-Second Glaze.

Remember that glaze will run together if the lines touch.....so pipe them separate.

This will require several layers.

Here's the first layer.

Second layer......

While waiting for layers to  dry on the tassels, start work on the year plates.

On a piece of parchment paper, make small rectangles that will "hang" across the upper part of tassel.

Allow them to dry overnight.

Finish layering the tassel strings to have a nice textured look and
allow the tassel cookies to dry overnight  too.

On the second day, paint on a mixture of almond extract & gold luster dust to each of the year plates.

 Allow them to dry for a few hours....then write the year on the plate with a black foodcolor marker.

Add a gold band across the crimped part of the tassel.

Once it has dried a few hours.....you can add luster dust to it as well.

"Glue" the year plates to the tasel with a dab of the tassel glaze color.

If you'd like, you can add a small gold piped line from the band down to the plate

to make it look like it is hanging on the tassel.

I added bakers twine to the tassels so they could be hung.

If you plan ahead, you can indent a hole in the top end of your cookie tassel.

This will allow you to add a dab of glaze into the baked cookie hole

and then stuff the twine into the hole.

Here's a link to SweetSugarBelle's perfect tutorial for adding string to the cookie.

The alternative is to just put a dab of glaze on the top of the back of the cookie and

press the two ends of the loop into the glaze. This will need to dry overnight.

Here's some ways to use these tassels:
Graduation Cap Cookies (Tutorial)
Cookie Graduation Cap (Tutorial)
2013 Graduation Cookie Collection