My most recent cookie project was making these cute little kids!
I struggled with the idea of making realistic looking kid cookies. I knew it would backfire on me because I’m not an artist. But I knew I could pull off some simple stick figure kids.
Now, when I say simple, I mean they only contain like 20ish icing colors and consistencies.
Yes, they were a little more intense than I thought when I chose some simple clip art off this site.
Here’s how these kids were made: haha ๐
Let me start by saying that I prefer to eat a cookie that has a single layer of royal icing. Some detailed dimension is fine, but if I were to have done a whole white layer, then the kid on top, then a large portion of the cookie would have had 2 layers of icing, making it a bit crunchier to eat. So I went to the extra effort of filling in the white after I frosted the kids!
1. I piped the black outline (except the arms and legs) using my kopykake projector and a #2 tip. I waited almost 24 hours for that to dry, so I wouldn’t get color bleeding.
2. I filled in the shorts, shirts. For the polka dot dress, I used the wet on wet technique.
3. I filled in the faces with different flesh tones made from ivory and copper (flesh tone) americolor gel paste.
4. I made a white border with piping consistency royal icing.
5. I filled in the background with flood icing. I let that dry for several hours.
6. Next I added the hair and piped the arms and legs in black.
7. I added hair bows.
8. I drew the pockets on the boys with black edible ink.
9. I drew the stripes on the girl’s shirt with edible ink.
I know you’re not supposed to choose a favorite kid, but since they are cookies…
I just love this little curly haired darling. A #1 tip did the trick for making those locks!
I just love this little curly haired darling. A #1 tip did the trick for making those locks!
You did more than "pull it off" – these are so amaaaazing! x
Thanks for the detailed instuctions. My Grandkiddos and I will have a go at these really fun cookies. Great job!
Those are so so super adorable!
oh those are just too cute!
I bit the head off that curly haired girl with i little giggle! So cute i loved them!!
These are absolutely adorable!!! Thanks for the how to!
You are an inspiration! It's an honor just to know you and Kathryn! ๐
You are an inspiration! It's an honor just to know you and Kathryn! ๐
It's a lot of extra work when they are so many different colours but you certainly did an excellent job. These are the cutest!
They are adorable! I started adding 1TBSP of butter to my royal icing. The cookies still dry hard enough to stack, but the icing is not so hard.
very cute – I also don't like tons of icing on a cookie – pretty but gross. this is a good solution to all the layers of sugar!
These kid cookies are completely amazing! Lovelovelove!
These cookies are SO cute! And yes, you are a cookie ARTIST! The curly=haired girl is my favorite too:)
OMG! Remember when these were super popular scrapbook images?? I used to LOVE those stickers! And I think they are BRILLIANT as cookies!! Great job ๐
Pinned and stumbled for SURE!