Vintage Inspired Christmas Cookie Ornaments

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I made more Christmas cookie ornaments! You can see the other two sets of cookie ornaments here and here. I was inspired to make this set after seeing this photo of vintage ornaments posted on Rachel Ashwell’s Facebook page.

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For this project you will need:

• Roll out cookie recipe (my Orange Vanilla Spice Recipe can be found in my tutorial shop)
• Fancy square cookie cutter or your favorite ornament shaped cookie cutter
• Flood consistency royal icing
• Stiff consistency royal icing
• Decorating tips 2, 3 and 8
• Scribe tool
• Wilton pearl dust in white, orchid pink and bronze
• NY Cake super gold luster dust
• Alcohol or flavored extract for painting
• Small paint brush

Most of these products can be found on my recommended products page.

Colors:

• Light brown: Wilton brown + a touch of green
• Light green: Sugarflair gooseberry
• Pink: Sugarflair dusky pink
• Cream: Wilton golden yellow
• Light blue: Sugarflair navy

I was cutting out some fancy squares for my cookie decorating class when I noticed that the scraps made really pretty shapes. So, I used the edges of the fancy square to cut out my ornaments.

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I used a round decorating tip number 8 to cut a hole at the top of the cookies before they went into the oven.        

  

Once the cookies were baked and cooled, I used the wet on wet technique to decorate them with flood consistency royal icing and a tip 2. You can see an example of the wet on wet technique here and you can see the filigree technique here.

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All of the sections that were painted gold were iced in brown first. 

 

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I allowed the icing to dry overnight and then painted the cookies with a mixture of white pearl dust and a few drops of alcohol, avoiding the areas of light brown. I also painted some of the pink sections with the orchid pink. Read this post for more information about painting with pearl dust. 

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The NY Cake super gold was also applied as a paint. 

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Once the pearl dust paint was completely dry (wait about 20 minutes to be safe), I added a little bit of dry bronze pearl dust around the edges of the cookies.

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I also added some strings of beads with stiff consistency icing and a tip 3, then painted the beads with the white pearl dust. 

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Click on the images below for more cookie decorating tutorials

  

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