Merry & Bright Christmas Decorated Sugar Cookie Collection

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Oh how MERRY & BRIGHT this season is.

Cookies always enhance the season and give it even more delight and pizazz. 

I pray you have a very blessed Christmas filled with amazing sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and memories.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Basket & Wood Plank Christmas Decorated Sugar Cookies YouTube video HERE

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Snowman on Distressed Wood Decorated Sugar Cookie YouTube video HERE

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Homespun Christmas Tree Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)

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Wood Grain NOEL Plaque Decorated Sugar Cookie YouTube video HERE

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Truck with Christmas Tree Decorated Sugar Cookie YouTube video HERE

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Funky Snowman Decorated Sugar Cookie YouTube video HERE

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Four Christmas Trees Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)

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Christmas Gift with Bow Decorated Sugar Cookie YouTube video HERE

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Christmas Gift Tag Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)

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Homespun Christmas Tree Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)

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This is one of my favorite Christmas cutters.
Several years ago, I designed this shape with some good cookie friends and the cutters were made in mass quantity. But eventually, they sold out of the cutter and it was hard to place another order. Thankfully, my good friends at Creative Cookier agreed to offer this shape in their shop. You can find the "Homespun Christmas Tree" cutter HERE. 

Refer to the video and photos below to learn how the two homespun tree designs were made.

Before baking the cookie dough, place an impression mat face down on the dough and impress the dough by adding pressure from a rolling pin. Cut out the shape using the embossed dough. The two mats used for these designs: 1) Burlap and 2) Wood planks

After the cookies have been baked and cooled, brush the embossed dough with dry caramel dust.

For the first design, cover the tree portion of the cookie with green glaze using random zig zag lines. (see photo and video for more visual details)

After the initial layer of glaze has dried for at least 15 minutes, add an additional layer of zig zag lines.

Completely fill a silicone button mold with red edible clay. (Recipe for clay found HERE & Mold used found HERE.) Place the filled mold in the freezer for at least one hour.

Once the clay has been frozen for more than an hour, you should be able to pop the buttons out of the mold and place directly on the cookie. If preferred, you can mold the buttons, pop them out, dry them on parchment paper overnight, and then "glue" them onto the tree using left over glaze. (see photos and video for more visual details)

For the second design, emboss the dough with the wood plank impression mat. Bake and cool the cookies. Brush dry caramel dust over the embossed dough.

Outline and flood each "plank" with a different color glaze and a different wet-on-wet pattern to give a patchwork appearance. (see photos and video for more visual details)

And there you have it......two fun homespun Christmas tree cookie designs.

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Christmas Gift Tag Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)

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If you've followed me at all in 2017, you know that I tend to favor these cute gift tag cutters.
I certainly love the shapes......but I also love that they are extremely versatile. 
You can literally use them for any season or occasion and I've definitely taken advantage of that this year. haha

The Creative Cookier graciously agreed to make these cutters for me.....and also make them available to you. Check out their store and all their great cutters and products!

The videos shows how to create all the Christmas gift tags in the photo.

For these circle and rectangle designed cookies, you'll need a circle cutter and/or a rectangle cutter (2.5" x 1.5") to impress in the dough before you bake them.
The knit impression mat can be found HERE. You'll need to allow the glaze to dry for at least 3.5 hours before pressing the mat into it for a knitted impression.
The "Merry Christmas" embosser can be found HERE. Press this into glaze that has dried for at least 2.5 hours.

For these smaller tags, use this tea bag cookie cutter.
Pick a mini cutter that fits well within the tag shape.

These tags require molding cookie dough and adding it on top of the cut-out tag before baking.
This tree mold and this pinecone mold were used for the tags.
The tree was covered in green dust.
The pinecone was covered in caramel dust.
The "Merry Christmas" embosser can be found HERE. Press this into glaze that has dried for at least 2.5 hours.

For this snowflake gift tag, use the largest snowflake plunger in THIS SET.
You'll need to impress the cookie dough with the plunger before you bake the cookies.

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Four Christmas Trees Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)

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Christmas trees are one of the standard shapes for the season's arsenal.
There are so many ways to decorate them.
Here's a few simple designs for basic evergreen cookies.

The first one makes use of sprinkles (sprinkles found HERE) and edible clay (recipe found HERE) to decorate up a tree super fast and yet, super festive at the same time. Check out the photos and video for visual details. 

Outline and flood the tree with green glaze. While still wet, cover glaze with sprinkles and shake off excess.

Completely fill a silicone button mold with red edible clay. (Mold shown found HERE.) Place the filled mold in the freezer for 1 hour or more. 

Color the trunk with a brown food color marker (Americolor marker found in a set HERE.)

After at least one hour of the clay freezing in the button silicone mold, you should be able to pop it out and place it directly on the top of the tree.

For the other tree designs, start by coloring the trunk with a brown food color marker (Americolor brown marker found in THIS SET).

Outline and flood the tree with white glaze.

Here's where the variance comes in. Using green glaze, you can make various patterns on the tree using the wet-on-wet technique. For this particular design, go back and forth with a sweeping swag motion. (see video for more visual detail).

For this design, make horizontal scallops with green glaze all the way down the tree.

And for the final design, make random zig zag motions as you move down the entire tree. (see video for more visual detail)

For each of these three final designs, allow the initial flood to dry for at least 30 minutes, and then go back and add a layer of the same pattern on top of the wet on wet surface to give it a 3D look.

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Gingerbread 2017 Decorated Cookie Collection

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Gingerbread cookies are the cutest.......but they also fill the house with the "smell of Christmas". Everytime I bake them, the nostalgia comes over me as I open that oven door and catch a waft of that spic-y cinnamon-y yumm-y smell that immediately reminds me of Christmas memories.

Here's the "official" gingerbread cookie set of the season, complete with several ginger people, a house, and lots of "merry-ness". ❤️

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Gingerbread Boy & Girl Decorated Cookies YouTube video HERE   Gingerbread House Decorated Cookie YouTube Video HERE

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Gingerbread Christmas Tree Quilt Decorated Cookie Collection

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Alphabet Cutters found HERE

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