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Ellie the Elephant Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

When I was approached about contributing an animal shape for Cookie Cutters for Charity, I immediately knew I wanted to do an elephant. My daughter-in-law was using elephants to decorate for our second grandchild arriving in May 2017. I had already planned to make some cute elephant cookies for the baby shower. So this was the perfect chance to come up with a cute shape for both the shower and the charity event. It was a win win for both!

The entire collection of animal cutters from a host of awesome decorators is now available HERE. There are 17 different shapes and a beautiful booklet sharing about each decorator and their contribution. 

100% of the profits from the sale of these cutters goes toward the Helping Hands, Inc ministry in India which teaches underprivileged women some professional baking/decorating skills for a job. What a blessed ministry!

Animal Cookie Cutter Set for Charity

Ellie the Elephant (which is not an original name.....but since my granddaughter is Emmy, it fit) was born.

She's pretty easy to decorate. Just outline and flood the entire shape in the color glaze of your choice. Add a wet-on-wet pattern if desired. Allow it to dry for about 1 hour before adding a second layer for the head, ears, and trunk. (see photos below)

While the second layer is still wet, add two black pearls for her eyes.

And if you are so inclined, add stitch marks and eyebrows with a black edible food color marker.

 

Woodland Moss Pot Cookie (Tutorial)






Last year when I saw SemiSweet Designs' awesome moss tutorial,
I knew I wanted to try to make a really cool and moss-y cookie. :)


For the pot shape, I cut a cupcake (CookieCrazie custom cutter) and cut off the top.


https://www.creativecookier.com/store/p137/Crazie_Cupcake!_by_CookieCrazie.html



Once baked, outline and flood the pot portion with white 10-second glaze.
(see photo below)


Allow the glaze to dry for 2-3 hours and then add some "character" to the pot
by pressing in lines, bumps, and scrapes using whatever tools available.


Make some green colored graham cracker crumbs per Mike's tutorial.
Outline and flood the portion above the pot with green glaze.
Cover the wet glaze with green crumbs.
Shake off the excess.


Dry overnight.
Brush dry luster dust over the pot to draw out the texture.
Use black dust first.....and then finish with green dust.
(sorry....no photo taken of the dusting step)




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