Christmas is over, but I did not get to share all the cookie designs I’ve made in the past few weeks with the season in mind. So I am forced to go on with the holiday theme for a while, maybe two or three more posts. Such is the life of a cookie blogger… Ornaments are a lot of fun to play with, not only you can use cookie cutters with the perfect shape, but you can also add fondant ornaments as decorations in a round, rectangular, or plaque format. And you can even add holes to your cookies and turn them into real hanging treats for your tree. Let’s go over each one of these ideas, shall we?
DESIGN #1
SPRINKLED ORNAMENTS
I love how festive those are, and how easy to put together. I used Chocolate-Chipotle as the basic cookie, then all you have to do is ice the part that you want to add sprinkles to. Cover with sprinkles, let that set for 30 minutes or so, and flood the rest. Painting the hook part with gold is optional, but I think it elevates the design a bit.
DESIGN #2
WET-ON-WET
Always so striking and very easy to make, just add horizontal lines with contrasting color to the flooded base while still wet, and pull with a needle in one direction, then the other. The closer you make the lines, and the more lines you add, the better. But you can also add the pattern to just a small portion of the cookie, as I did below…
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DESIGN #3
HANGING ORNAMENTS
You can pick any cookie shape you want, from snowflakes to Christmas trees, bells, ornaments, just make sure they are large enough to incorporate a hole on the top. Then use any decoration style you feel like to bring the ornaments to life.
DESIGN #4
FONDANT ORNAMENTS
For this type of design, any shape of cookie cutter will work, just pick a background color and make little fondant ornaments, in my case I chose to spray them with Wilton gold. A little hanging line piped with a very thin icing tip, is all you need to finish things up. The possibilities of color combinations are endless….
Fondant decorations can come in quite handy for other shapes too… And they can be made in advance and just wait for the right opportunity to play…
DESIGN #5
PLAYING WITH TEXTURE
I loved this set so much! The central ornament was flooded with red, next day thick Royal icing was applied with a stencil. The other ornaments were painted with Americolor White before baking. Then just a few details added to complete the design.
So that wraps up the ornament concept for the year of…. 2022. With the speed that time is flying, I bet it won’t take long for the next round of Christmas-themed cookies to show up here!
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ONE YEAR AGO: Is it a cupcake? Is it a fern?
For the Love of Cookies 
Oh – I simply cannot believe all the work you have put into these ! Christmas may be over . . . actually I am more than happy to begin a new year . . . but this post will remain at hand’s reach for next year ! Having lived thru’ war years and lack of ‘normal’ ornaments at Yule, am very used to fruit, pine cones and cookie decorations on Xmas trees – but surely have never seen anything of the complexity of yours. Love your fondant ones !!!
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