Love Ewe Valentines Day Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)

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Don't you love how homonyms work perfectly for Valentines Day?

How about making little lamb (ewe) cookies to share love with others?
 

Using this lamb cutter,  cover most of the surface with white glaze, but leave the face, ears and hooves bare. Fill those areas in with tan glaze after finishing with the white.
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Allow the glaze to dry for a couple of hours, and then imprint tiny hearts all over the white portion. (I used the heart shape in this impression tool set.)

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Using a small heart cookie cutter, press it into the bottom/back part of the lamb to create an outline. Fill the outline with red glaze. (The smallest cutter in this set was used here.)

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Add some facial features with a black marker if desired.

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Here is the full Love Ewe Deer One Valentines Day Cookie Collection.

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Zoo Animals Cookie Collection

A very precious friend asked me to make some zoo animal cookies for her daughter's 2nd birthday. 
She wanted them to be grain-free, so that added a twist to the challenge. 
My Simple Grain-Free Cut Out Cookie recipe worked perfectly for this occasion.

I did a Jungle Buddies cookie series about three years ago. 
It included a hippo, giraffe, lion, elephant, zebra, and monkey with cookie tutorials for each. 
Since that time, Cheap Cookie Cutters has created some of those shapes into cutters.

Here's the brown bear cookie tutorial I put together for this series.

And since the monkey shape was not included with Cheap Cookie Cutters designs, here's how I simplified that shape. Using a snowman head cutter and the curved edge cutter in SugarBelle's Shape Shifters set, cut out the monkey head as shown below.

Outline the monkey head filling in a thicker outline of the ears and the entire upper head with dark brown glaze.

After the glaze has dried for about 30 minutes, fill in the ears and "snout" portion of the monkey with light tan glaze as shown below.

After some dry time, add the eyes, nose, and mouth with white and black glaze. 

Langley loved her animal cookies. Her favorite was the lion........ Rrrrrrr!

Brown Bear Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

While making a zoo animals cookie collection for Langley's 2nd birthday, I realized that when I did the Jungle Buddies Cookie Collection  back in 2013, I didn't create a brown bear. Oh my!

So I'm filling in the gap by presenting Mr. Brown Bear cookie to you now. :)

Just like the Panda Bear Cookies I did in the past, 
I used a Mickey Mouse cutter to create the initial shape for the brown bear. 
Of course, Mickey Mouse's ears are a little big for a brown bear......
so I lopped them right off with the edger cutter from SugarBelle's new Shape Shifters set.
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Outline and flood the main circle shape of the bear's face in brown glaze.
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After about 30 minutes of dry time, outline and flood the ears and "snout" of the bear as seen below.

Allow the brown glaze to set for a couple of hours. Add eyes, nose, and mouth with white and black glaze as shown below.