This season gets me EVERY time.
I LOVE IT!
I'm always amazed at how easy it is to re-create new cookie designs for harvest. What a pleasure to emulate a rustic country vintage harvest season via cookies.
Harvest Mason Jar Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)
Mason jars continue to be a common staple shape in the vintage, shabby chic, & rustic genre. Here's four different ways to decorate them.
First Option
After you have cut, baked, and cooled the mason jar cookies, paint them with diluted autumn colors like lemon yellow, orange & chocolate brown. These gels were diluted with almond extract.
Allow the gel to dry on the cookie. Outline and flood a wide swath of the jar with gold glaze.
(see photo below)
Allow the glaze to dry for 3-4 hours. Use a burlap texture mat on the partially dried glaze to create a burlap-look.
Add dots and lines of white glaze to the edges of the "burlap" to create a lacy border.
Second Option
Outline and flood the entire jar with a glaze color of your choice. Allow the glaze to dry for 2-3 hours and then press a mini cutter into the partially dried glaze. Use that impression outline to create a cute autumn shape on the front of the jar.
Third Option
Divide the jar into three portions and outline and flood each part with the colors of candy corn.
Once the cookie is dry, you can tie bakers twine around the jar and tie it in a bow.
Fourth Option
When baking the mason jar cookies, impress some dough with the burlap impression mat, and cut out a mini cookie using the same method shown in this tutorial. Be sure to cut out a hole at the top of the cookie (with a straw) so that you can tie it to the mason jar.
(Scroll down below to see the finished burlap impressed cookie....a mini acorn hanging on the jar.)
Outline and flood the jar in your choice of glaze color. Outline and flood the lid with grey glaze.
Dry overnight. Make a mixture of silver dust and vodka or almond extract,and paint it over the lid of the mason jar.
Brush dry caramel dust over the burlap impressed mini cookie to give a rustic look.
Attach the mini cookie to the jar with bakers twine.
Lace 'N Frills Valentines Cookie Collection
Valentines Day is such a fun day to show others how much they are loved.
These Lace 'N Frills Cookies go a long way in gifting others with expressions of care and gratitude,
in a frilly-sort-of way.
2016
Valentines
Cookie
Collection
Gold Embossed Valentines Cookies (Tutorial)
Gold Red Teal Valentines Cookie Collection
Pink & Aqua Texture Mat Heart Cookies (Tutorial)
Mason Jar Cookies Filled with Love (Tutorial)
Edible Clay Lace Valentine Heart Cookies (Tutorial)
CookieCrazie Chatter...... Friday, February 5, 2016
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CookieCrazie's Week in Review
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Personal Side
It's been a very accomplished week......
Monday was taxes.
Ugh! I hate doing them.....but when they're done it is the BEST feeling. :)
Then I got to do some really cool cookies for my son this week.
He works at a TV station......so I wanted to make them some unique cookies to his workplace.
I can't wait for his coworkers to receive them next week!
I'm going to do a bunch of Valentines cookies next week to give to my former coworkers.
When I was working in the lab, I'd always bring in cookies for everyone I worked with. :)
I don't want them to forget me (haha),
so I thought they might like to have a little "love" thrown their way.
It makes me happy to share cookies with everyone around me.
(I think it makes them happy too.....and that's the best part.)
I hope you are able to make some memories with your loved ones
this next week in preparation for Valentines Day.
It is such a fun holiday to enjoy cookie decorating.
♥♥♥
Instagram photos for this week:
Filling them with ♥♥♥♥. :)
Happy Saturday!
Two weeks until Valentines Day.....
We have a gorgeous sunshiny 65 degree Sunday here today in Missouri.
It hardly seems like January 31 and that Valentines Day is fast approaching.
Long Heart Blossom Decorated Valentines Cookies.....
Cutter from That's A Nice Cookie Cutter.
Fun textured Valentine Hearts from last year......
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Last CookieCrazie Chatter....
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)
(see photo below)
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.
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
Gold Embossed Valentines Cookies (Tutorial)
Gold Red Teal Valentines Cookie Collection
Pink & Aqua Texture Mat Heart Cookies (Tutorial)
Mason Jar Cookies Filled with Love (Tutorial)
Edible Clay Lace Valentine Heart Cookies (Tutorial)
Eyelet Lace Valentine Heart Cookies (Tutorial)
Frills 'N Lace Valentines Cookie Collection
Gold Red Teal Valentines Cookie Collection
Pink & Aqua Texture Mat Heart Cookies (Tutorial)
Mason Jar Cookies Filled with Love (Tutorial)
Edible Clay Lace Valentine Heart Cookies (Tutorial)
Eyelet Lace Valentine Heart Cookies (Tutorial)
Frills 'N Lace Valentines Cookie Collection