2016ThanksgivingCC

So Blessed Thanksgiving Decorated Cookie Collection

Recognizing our blessings......it's what Thanksgiving is all about.
I am truly blessed.....and today, I'm counting my blessings.

Psalm 146:2-6 sums it up well:

I will praise the Lord all my life;
    I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes,
    in human beings, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
    on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
    whose hope is in the Lord their God.
He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
    the sea, and everything in them—
    he remains faithful forever.
I hope this special holiday season affords you time to reflect and dwell on the things for which you are most thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Rustic Thanksgiving Pumpkin Decorated Cookies

I can never decorate too many pumpkin cookies during this season.
I love dreaming up as many designs and textures on cookies as possible.
This year was no exception.


We're getting our Thanksgiving "on" in a rustic pumpkin-kind-of-way.

 

Check out this Textured Pumpkin Decorated Cookie Tutorial for one of the techniques shown in some of the pumpkins above.

May your Thanksgiving be filled with lots of pumpkins!

Autumn Leaf Thanksgiving Turkey Decorated Cookie Collection

Making a platter of cookies look like a turkey for Thanksgiving is nothing new. But the twist on this set is to use the feather shapes to make autumn leaves.

Any way you construct it, the results will be charming.

Gobble gobble......

Cookie Cutters found HERE.

 

May your Thanksgiving dessert table be adorned with a cute turkey cookie platter.....

 

Thanksgiving Dinner Place Card Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)


I've dreamed of making place card cookies for Thanksgiving year after year and it hasn't happened until NOW. Hurray! What fun it is to gather family and friends around the table and designate their places with personalized cookies.

There are so many possibilities for place card cookies. Pick a plaque or geometric shape that fits the event or the people invited, and personalize them for each guest. And of course, this idea is not limited to Thanksgiving. It could be used for any holiday, birthday, wedding, etc.

I always hesitate to write words on a cookie. I'm rarely happy with my printing on a cookie. So anytime I can get out of it, I will! This time I tried out these awesome Snap Together Letter Embossers and they worked well.

Outline and flood the cookie with glaze. Allow it to dry for about 2-3 hours.


Pick out the words you desire to express on the plaque, snap them together, and gently press them into the glaze.


Embellish each cookie as desired.
 

Once the cookies have dried overnight, use a food color marker to add the names of the guests to the cookies.

P.S. Don't be surprised if this year's Thanksgiving Dinner starts with dessert! ;)

Indian Corn Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

For some reason, Indian corn cookies have been hard to emulate in the past.
Either they were way too detailed and time consuming, or
they didn't appear the way I wanted them to.
Now with fondant embossers, I found a design that I really like....
and it's not too time-consuming.

 

Believe it or not, I used a tall Easter egg cutter for this design.
But a longer oval will work just fine.

Outline and flood the entire shape in gold glaze.
Allow the icing to dry for at least 3 hours, and then use either one of these embossers to imprint "kernel" marks into the glaze.

There are other brick texture mats that also might work to make these impressions.

Using orange and brown glaze, outline and flood a few random kernel impressions
throughout the cookie.
(see photo below)

Dry overnight.

Dust dry chocolate luster dust over the kernels to give it a shaded and rustic look.

 
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