Watercolor Painted Thanksgiving Theme Cookies

Happy Friday! Can't wait for this week to be over. I haven't baked cakes in 2 weeks and I still get up at 4 AM every day and can't sleep pass that time.  This weekend I am planning on a few naps with the kids, the weather is certainly allowing some nap time and I better catch up some because next week I have a lot of cake order to fulfill.

For this month's tutorial for The Cookie Cutter Company I gave it a try painting on cookies, I am not that talented with brushes, but I actually enjoyed it and the cookies turned out cute. I loved this project, I think is a great idea to have it with kids and let their imaginations fly and paint anything they want. For sure this activity will go in my to do list for Christmas vacation.

I used a Vintage Style Thanksgiving Cookie Cutter set, this cutters might look odd to cut cookies with but don’t be intimidated by the style of the cutter at all.

 

I used a well chilled cookie dough, I dipped the cutters in flour before cutting the cookies and I didn't have any issues at all.

 

 

 

Now let's gather supplies and start painting away

 

 

 

 

Vintage Style Thanksgiving Cookie Cutter set

 

Americolor white royal icing

Tip #2, disposable bag and coupler

Lemon extract and a mix of small brushes

Americolor food coloring brown, mint green and yellow

Gold luster dust

Disposable containers to mix the colors

 

 

 

 

Let's beging with a  few pointers for watercolor painting on cookies:

 

-Most people mix the food color with water , I like to use a small amount of lemon extract and paint without being worried about destroying the cookie surface.

Cookies and water are not really like best friends and to be honest, I tried with water and the royal icing started looking funny

-Use a good mix of small brushes, they can be  flat, round, thin or thick brushes. This gives the cookie a different texture.

-Play with colors. Add a few drops of lemon extract and just one of food color to get a pastel color, mix other colors to create a blended look, add more food coloring than lemon extract and you will get a great dark color.

-Use the tip of the brush to create dots, make big or small strokes, outline the cookies with gold or silver for extra details.  The possibilities are endless and there is no way for mistakes because you pretty much can go wrong with these cookies. Meaning if I can do it, so can you!

 

Now let's pain and have some fun! 

 

Decorating the cookies:

 

Add a few drops of lemon extract to the disposable containers and a few drops of the colors of your choice.

Mix the colors and paint away!  Yes, that easy!

 

 

Keep some paper tower handy to clean your brush and control the intensity of the color before painting on the cookie.

 

 

 

Outline and flood your cookies

Make sure you let your cookies dry over night, they have to be completely dry before you paint on them. 

 

Acorn  Cookies

 

Dip your brush in the brown paint and paint the stalk and the cupule of the acorn making strokes in different directions

Then paint the nut

I love adding gold to cookies, this particular luster dust is called “Diamond Gold” and I just love it!

Turkey and Fall leaves Cookies

Here is a pictorial in the color order I painted the turkey and the Fall leaves.

 

Have you try painting on cookies?

Thanksgiving theme cake

                                 Wishing everyone a wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Thanksgiving Theme cookies

 

Well Thanksgiving week is here and I am looking forward to get some time off from work and spend some quality time with my family. My husband is going to be working on Thanksgiving day, the girls and I are planning on watching holiday movies, make some Christmas crafting and

 squeezing baking in between.

This holiday day is a little bittersweet, I love the celebration and meaning behind of it, it just gets a little lonely not having a big family around to have a dinner feast and celebrate together.

 

 
Any way, I finally baked and decorated some Thanksgiving cookies to give out to some of my friends and my kid's school teachers. I used an old color palette that never gets old.

 

I love how the turkey's feathers  turned out using a small petal tip, the effect on the green Fall leaves wasn't even made with flooding consistency icing, just regular piping icing and a tooth pick.

Ivory leaves with dots for a little something different.

And I couldn't pass the opportunity to make Sugarbelle's simple turkeys using a snow man cookie cutter

                                           Here is a plate of cookies I made for the daycare

 ohh this pumpkin pie cookies are so cute, Sugarbelle's ideas are just the best!!

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Thanksgiving Chocolate Barks on a Stick

Super easy and budget friendly Chocolate Barks on a stick , I made them as thank you gifts for some friends. I think  they would be great as little Thanksgiving gifts for coworkers and teachers .
I made these barks with just white and milk chocolate and I added the red turkey using candy melts (that's pretty much the only ingredients I had at the house at that moment). But for Christmas, I will be making more using dried fruits and nuts and putting them in a really cute cookie tin and giving them to my kids teachers.

 



Disregard the food coloring, I was going to do something and then I changed my mind!

 -Melt the milk chocolate in a double boiler and while the chocolate is still warm pour into a chilled baking sheet lined with parchment paper.Then melt the white chocolate and pour over the milk chocolate.
-Spread the chocolate evenly using a small offset spatula, place the cookie sticks and put in the freezer to set for approximately 20 minutes.

Allow the bark to harden completely before breaking it up into pieces

Turkey Candy Melts

These are super easy, just melt the candy melts following instructions in the packet, spread the candy melt in a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, let it set and using a small turkey cookie cutter, cut the turkeys.

Attach the little turkeys to the bark with a dot of candy melt and your set!

Or you can just put pieces of the bark in a pretty box inside a cello bag.

Then give them away or you are going to end up eating more than you should.

Gobble-Gobble-Thanksgiving cookies

My last week of maternity leave is gone and next Monday I am going back to work.Part of me is really sad about leaving the baby at day care and part of me is happy to get out of my pijamas,talk to adults and go back to work. The bright side is that I know my baby will be in good hands with people that I know... after all I am not the only mom who goes back to work .

Since I had to do another tutorial for The Cookie Cutter Company's site, I decided to make some cookies for the teachers at the Day Care. Thanksgiving is around the corner and is never to early to say THANK YOU!.

These cookies turned out really cute and you don't need hours of cookie decorating work  to put them together.

To make these Thanksgiving Cookie designs you will need:

• Indian Cookie cutter
• Turkey Cookie cutter
• White, dark and light brown, red,orange and black royal icing ( stiff for pipping and thin for flooding the cookies)
• Pastry bags, couplers and tips #1,#2 and #59
• Toothpicks
• Rainbow sprinkles
• Food writer

To make the Native American Cookies 

This is the first time for me making these cookies, since I do not have a cookie projector ( and I am sure most of you don't have it either ) I just decided to pull some clip art from the Internet for inspiration.

I hand traced the images using a food writer, I think is easier to do it this way

instead of piping directly onto the cookie.

Start piping the lines of both cookies with stiff black royal icing using tip #1 and let them dry for a few hours

I have to say that I enjoyed making the braids for this little fella, I also added the sprinkles to pop a little color . You do not have to worry about making feet and hands with a lot of detail,

 I just piped some brown lines.

This next cookie is even easier to decorate

*After you are done flooding the cookie, let it dry for a few hours. Attach the sprinkles with a dot of orange royal icing. For the necklace and the pants details  use tip #1. 

Making the Turkey cookies

Pipe and flood the cookies. Let them dry completely before moving into the next step

For this Turkey cookie, let the cookie dry completely before you start adding the details.

Add the eye and the wattle with tip #1 using stiff icing

Using tip #59 pipe the feathers with white stiff royal icing . I love using this tip because it has a

 curved ribbon border and swag that creates an exciting effect.

This brown and red Turkey cookie has a little more detail

1-Flood the cookie with the brown icing

2-While the icing is still wet, using flood type icing in a squeeze bottle pipe orange and red icing stripes in semicircles around the tail area.

3-Draw a toothpick through the orange and red tail stripes from edge of cookie toward body.

4-Using flood orange icing, pipe a few semicircles to make the wing and draw toothpick through them .Let the cookie dry for a few hours.

Once the cookie is dry, pipe the eye,feet and wattle using tip #1 and outline the tail with brown stiff royal icing and tip #2.

And what about an almost plain tasty cookie?

 If you are in a rush it doesn't mean that you can't still make some cute cookies.

For this cookie I didn't want to flood it, I just added details for character and a pop of color

Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by.

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