Honey Jar Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

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Harvest time brings the opportunity for jars of yummy-ness......honey, jelly, jam, and more!
And the cute containers make the delicious treat even more special.

Start with a container or jar-shaped cookie. There's tons of choices of mason jar cutters and the like out there. The site where I purchased the honey jar is not available right now to share a link. :(

You'll also need a mini plaque cutter to create a cute tag cookie that you can tie onto your jar.  Be sure to cut out a hole in the top using a straw.
(see photos and video below)

Outline and flood the bottom portion of the jar with glaze.

Outline and flood the tag with white glaze.

After allowing the initial glaze to dry for at least 30 minutes, add an outline and flood of tan glaze to the lid and top rim of the jar to resemble a burlap cover.

Once the tan glaze has dried overnight, use a mixture of caramel dust and alcohol (or clear flavoring like almond) to paint on lines to the "burlap" cover of the jar.

Brush the tag with caramel dust to give it a rustic- antiqued look.

Using a black food color marker, add words, dots, lines, and/or embellishments to the tag.

Thread food-safe twine or string through the hole of the tag and tie it to the jar.

Harvest time cuteness....coming right up! 

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Autumn Leaf Textured Patchwork Quilt Decorated Cookie Collection

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I love this little leaf tesselation cutter that Creative Cookier made for me a few years ago. Between loving quilts and loving autumn.......it makes the best of both worlds on COOKIES!

Here's a little tutorial I did using this cutter a couple of years ago:
Autumn Leaf Cookie Quilt (Tutorial)

For this particular "quilt", I utilized texture mats on cookie dough to make the tan lacy pieces and the orange burlap pieces. Then once they were baked, I covered them in dry dust. The watercolor pieces were done just like the watercolor cookies I did in this WaterColor Decorated Cookies post. 

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Exposed Brick Wall Decorated Cookies (Tutorial)

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While I was in L'viv Ukraine this summer, I marveled at how beautiful all the old buildings were. They have such a charm about them. Oh the stories they could tell if they could speak. Every time I saw exposed brick, I reminded myself to try making a cookie with that look once I returned home.

So here I am.....fulfilling that dream I had back in June. :)

Using a brick embosser, push it face down into the sugar cookie dough and roll over it with the rolling pin to make a deep impression in the dough. Then use a cutter-shape-of-your-choice, cut out the dough to capture that beautiful brick impression.
(see photo & video below)

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Once the cookie is baked and cooled, brush over the entire surface with dry red dust.

Next brush over random areas of it with pearl dust to give it an aged sheen.

Mix up some pale gray glaze and add enough powdered sugar to make it so thick it won't stick to your fingers. Spread it over portions of the brick without uniformity.
(Take a look at exposed brick.....it is totally random how the top layer has worn and broken off.)

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And there you have it.......beautiful exposed brick.
I can hardly wait to try this on my winter scenes this year.....adding wintry precipitation too. :)

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Autumn Leaf Tree Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

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As I got out all my autumn cookie cutters and began to think about how to make something different this year, I notice how a plain leaf cutter could represent an autumn tree very well. 

Sadly, the cutter I used on these cookies doesn't appear to be available any longer. I've had it for many years....and even with an extensive search just now, I couldn't find it anywhere. But there are cutters available that are conducive to this design. Look for a leaf shape that has a pronounced bottom stem to serve as the "tree trunk".

Here's a set of cutters that could work well.

Refer to the video below to see the details on decorating these cookies.

Brush the surface of the cookie with some dry caramel dust to give it a nice background.

Using dark brown glaze, pipe a trunk and random branches all over the leaf shape.

Allow the glaze to dry for several hours.

Brush the entire cookie, except for the trunk portion with a thin layer of corn syrup.
Immediately sprinkle this sugar pearl fall mix by Sweets & Treats over the corn syrup and lightly push the pearls down into the sticky corn syrup.
 

A simple and lovely autumn tree in no time at all. :)

Tree Trunk Decorated Cookie (Tutorial)

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For whatever reason, I always think of tree trunks and tree bark when I envision a rustic fall setting. Thankfully they are fairly easy to emulate on cookies using texture mats.

Here is where you'll find the tree trunk cutter offered by Ecrandal that I used for these cookies.

There are two varieties of tree trunk bark:

RUSTIC BROWN TREE BARK
Outline and flood the entire cookie with brown glaze.
(see video above to view the details of this tutorial)

Allow the glaze to dry for approximately 4 hours.

Using a bark texture mat, mold the partially dried glaze by pressing firmly on the mat that is laying face down over the glaze.

BIRCHWOOD TREE BARK
Cover the entire cookie shape in dry grey dust.
(see video above to view the details of this tutorial)

Paint over the gray base layer with Americolor Bright White gel.

Use a scribe, boo boo stick, or any other small instrument to carve out random dips, holes, lines, and texture all over the tree trunk.

Brush the carved out areas with dry black dust.

And there you have it......two varieties of tree trunk bark.
Simple and authentic.

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