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Build-A-Snowman Cookie Platter (Tutorial)





This "build-a-snowman" idea has been brewing in my mind for months.
My family can tell you.....I would suddenly have an "ah-ha" moment with another element.
It was such fun pulling this project together.

The shapes/cutters used are shown below.
Pipes were cut out using a long rectangle and then cutting out a smaller rectangle to form the pipe.
 There are specific cutters for Carrots. (Cut off the leaf top.)
Hats were done using this cutter.
Mittens and caps are common cutters.
Scarves were made with an awareness ribbon cutter as shown on this post.
Coal pieces came from a rounded square mini cutter. (Any random cutter will do.)
Twigs were a long thing rectangle.
The snowman himself was done with various circle cutters.


For the snowballs, outline and flood the circle in white 10-second glaze and
then cover the still wet glaze in either white sanding sugar or white edible glitter.
(photo below shows edible glitter.....my personal favorite)


Twigs can be made with a long branch in tan glaze, and after it has dried a bit,
add some small extensions.


Not wanting to have to mix up orange glaze, 
I opted to outline and flood the carrots in white glaze and
then paint them the next day with orange food color gel once they had dried overnight.


For coal pieces, outline and flood with black glaze.
Dry overnight.
Paint on swirls of light gray food color gel to give them some dimension.


Pipes were easy.....outline and flood the pipe in black glaze....
leaving a oval with no icing at the top.
The next day, use that same light gray food color gel used for the coal to fill in the oval.


Lots of fun shapes...


Once arranged on a platter, the cookie snowman comes to life. :)


Using a cool box, you can make a Build-A-Snowman cookie gift to give away.


Build-a-Snowman Cookie Platter

Simple Snowman Cookies (Tutorial)





I'm seeing lots of Valentines cookies from others already......
but I'm too in love with snowmen and snow to let this season pass.
I hope to devote the next couple of weeks to WINTER.

But then will come Valentines Day cookies in all their glory. :)


These snowman faces got their shape from a stretched out diamond ring cutter.
Smooth out the edges to form the top hat.


Outline and flood the top hat in black 10-second glaze.
Allow it to dry overnight. 
(I have a really hard time with black bleeding into white glaze.....so I take every precaution.)


Outline and flood the white snowman face.
As you can see in this photo, I immediately added black sixlets for the eyes 
and black pearls for the coal smile.
However, now that I know black sixlets will bleed against wet white glaze,
I recommend that you let the white glaze dry before adding the sixlets.
Use black glaze to "glue" them on.
(The black pearls had no problem with bleeding.)


I didn't want to mix up orange glaze for the carrot nose,
so I added a huge round nose using white glaze...under the eyes.
After it all dried over night, I added pink cheeks by brushing on dry pink pearl dust
and painted the nose orange using Americolor orange gel.

Sweet snowmen......I luv 'em!


Simply Winter Cookies

Simply Winter Cookies: Snowman with Top Hat (Tutorial)





To make a snowman cookie with top hat you will need:

 Cut out a cupcake cookie and a circle cookie and piece them together as shown

Outline and flood the hat portion with black glaze.
To prevent bleeding, allow it to dry for a few hours before 
outlining and flooding the circle with white glaze.
Allow the cookie to dry overnight.

 Using black and orange glaze, add eyes and a carrot nose.
 Use a food color marker to make a mouth, eyebrows, or any other details you'd like.
Feel free to embellish the hat with a colorful flower, holly leaves, or band around the base.


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