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Mason Jar Cookies Filled with Love (Tutorial)






As mason jars continue to be the craze in the rustic decorating world,
it's fun to try to create new ways to dress up their cookie counterparts.
For Valentines Day, it seems fitting to "fill them up with love". :)

To give the jars a more 3D look,
cut a duplicate jar cookie and use the second cookie's top portion to overlay the original cookie.
(see photo below)

Note: The top jelly jar cutter can be found here.

After the cookies are baked and cooled, outline and flood the jar and lid as desired.
Allow the glaze to dry for about 3 hours.

Using a mini heart cutter, press heart shapes into the "bottom" of the jar.
These impressions will give you a template to outline and flood multi-colored hearts in the jar.


Outline and flood individual hearts over the impressions with varying colors of glaze.
(see photo below)


Dry the cookies overnight.

Brush the sides and bottom of the jars with some blue dust to show dimension.

If desired, paint silver "lids" on the tops of the jars 
using Rolkem Silver Dust mixed with vodka or clear extract.


For an added embellishment, cut out mini shapes of edible clay 
and "hang them" on the jar with bakers twine or ribbon.
Add text to the clay using this alphabet stamper set.





2016 Valentines Cookie Collection

Cookie Graduation Cap (Tutorial)





You know me.....and 3D cookies. Love 'em!

You'll need some chocolate cookie dough (or just color regular dough with black food color gel).
For one grad cap, you'll need 3-ovals cookies and 1-diamond cookie slightly bigger than the ovals.


With black 10-second glaze, "glue" the ovals and diamond together.

Add a black button to the mortarboard.

Then make a few tassel cookies (tutorial here) with bakers twine attached.....and you're ready to go!



Graduation Cap Cookies (Tutorial)





There's plenty of graduation cap cutters out there that have become rather ordinary.
I wanted to create a unique graduation cap that would be fairly simple for anyone to cut.

I ordered my long rectangle from Ecrandal (it's 5" by 2")
but you can get something similar at Plastics in Print or Cheep Cheap Cookie Cutters.

Use a larger diamond cutter to to give the cap it's shape.
And then just rolled a bit of dough into an oval and add to the top of the cap for a button.
Easy peasy..... :)

Outline and flood the bottom part (skull cap) in black 10-second glaze.
Once it's dried for 30+ minutes, flood the "mortarboard".
And finally, outline and flood the "button" on the top.



And then to make them more authentic and much more interesting,
add a tassel cookie that has some baker's twine attached.

For a cute presentation, package the two cookies together in the same bag. :)





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