golf cookies

FOR THE LOVE OF GOLF

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Today I share three cookie designs for your favorite golfer…

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THE ARGYLE PATTERN

Any cookie cutter shape will work, round, square, oblong. All you need is a stencil, in this case I cut my own, using two components: the basic diamond shape and the black lines to lay over them. Cutting the stencils was a lot more trouble than I had anticipated, so I advise you to buy a set online and save you the grievance… (wink, wink). It was just pretty tricky to get the dimensions of the two patterns to match perfectly.


Once you have the stencils, flood the base with white the day before, so you can have a fully dry surface to set the stencil and air-brush. I used blue for the diamond and black for the lines, all from Cookie Countess colors. The final detail was the golf ball made of fondant. If you only have a diamond stencil, you can also use that and then add black lines with a ruler. But it will be quite a bit of work.

THE GOLF BAG

I have used this cookie cutter before (see here), this time I kept it super simple. All flooded with white, then the pocket and the rim of the bag piped in white for details. Once it all dried, I used luster powder gold and silver with vodka to paint. Some steps shown below…

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THE PERFECT SHOT

I thought of this design in the middle of the night and could not wait to go work on it next day. I used a very large cookie to accommodate all the features and the little message written on wafer paper and cut to fit the bottom of the cookie. It is a reasonably simple cookie, if you don’t want to pipe fine lines for the path of the ball or the flag stick, you can definitely use a food safe pen. Some of the steps shown below.

I hope you enjoyed this little set. I am always trying to come up with different designs for cookies that my husband can share with his buddies when they finish the first 9 holes. So stay tuned for more, as the golfing season is just starting!

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For more golf cookie designs from the past, click here

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WALKING A FINE LINE

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Fine lines strike again… I am committed to practicing those at every opportunity, so this post shows four different designs that are based on Royal icing piped in fine straight lines.

DESIGN #1
FOR GOLF LOVERS

Just three colors, sky blue for the background, electric green and forest green for the lines (the electric green turned out more as a yellow, but I did not mind).

The lines can be piped in all sorts of orientations, and the golf ball placed anywhere you like. I really love the way these turned out!

DESIGN #2
CELEBRATING FALL

Same exact approach, but using a frame shape and the colors of Fall. The fondant decoration is a small pumpkin, and fine lines happened again in green to add some vines.

DESIGN #3
PLAYING WITH PLAID

The color scheme for these cookies is pretty much endless. The composite below shows the overall strategy, which is quite simple to put together.

DESIGN #4
CIRCLES

The simplest design of all, which could also be coupled with fondant decorations in many different shapes, but I decided to leave them alone…. Pretty much the same method as the third pattern.

The black lines are really what crowns the last two designs in a special way. They do not need to be very fine, so they are a good starting point for those fine-line-o-phobes out there (I was one until not too long ago, so trust me, there is hope!)

ONE YEAR AGO: Two Modern Lions

TWO YEARS AGO: Cat in a Teacup

FOR THE LOVE OF GOLF

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I make golf-related cookies often, so that hubby can take cookies to share with his buddies. They play 9 holes, and when they step on the tee on the 10th hole, they get the cookies for that extra energy during the second half of the course. This is a collection of designs made in the past few months, starting around March.

THE GOLFER


For those, I used a mini-projector. Image was from Funky Cookie Studio. They go well together in a set with a golf ball on a tee, made in fondant.

Another design with a funky golfer, these were made for a tournament called “Eager Beaver”…

THE PUTTING GREEN

One of the classic ways to make golf cookies is showing the green with the flag and hole, and you can use many different cookie shapes and designs for that.

THE CANDY CORN GREEN

For these you work in stages, first the outline gets sprinkled with green sanding sugar, then the rest of the cookie is iced. For the sand trap thick consistency Royal icing worked with a brush.

THE TRIANGLE GREEN


Pretty much the same design, but the sand trap was a section painted with gold luster powder and vodka.

THE OVAL GREEN, TWO WAYS

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THE FRAME GREEN

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GOLF CARTS

For the golf carts above, the cookies were flooded with white icing and next day the design was painted using a projector to make the first draft. I used cluster powder diluted with vodka to get a more patchy look in the painting.

For this second design, a lot more work was involved as far as icing is concerned. Many colors and working slowly, one section at a time. And of course, personalizing the bags with the initial of the players can be a nice touch!

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GOLF BALLS


Little fondant molds for those balls, set over iced cookies decorated with a stencil and air-brushing.


Larger molds for the fondant will also work, especially if you couple it with a big tee, piped with Royal icing and some grass details.

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To make the effect of the golf ball, I used gray on white icing, wet on wet. First the gray dots are piped and immediately after a little white icing is added off center to give the shaded effect. The grass was added once the full icing was set, using thick consistency green and a tipless bag.

GOLF BAGS

Another design that requires a little more work, but is also very cute if you personalize with the player’s initials.

I hope you can find inspiration in this post, in case you find yourself trying to spice up (or sweetened up) the game of a golfer you love!

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FOR THE LOVE OF SOCCER

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Being Brazilian, the sport is ingrained in my genes, I suppose. Of course, at some point I had to “cookie-it”. I went with stick figures and a little fondant soccer ball that was a bit of a labor of love, just because it was small and painting the details with a food pen made me a little cross-eyed. But all worth it!

The cookies are super easy to make. Just flood in two colors for lawn and sky. Let it fully set. Use a pen to draw stick figures. Lots of inspiration online, just google stick figures soccer player… Make a fondant ball, let it dry and go with a pen to paint the details. One pentagon in the top, a few around it, then lines connecting the corners.

You can also use the same basic concept for other sports, like GOLF!

And of course, any sport or activity that can be depicted with stick figures will work… fishing, basketball, swimming… Perfect cookie set to customize as a gift.

ONE YEAR AGO: Stained Glass Hearts

TWO YEARS AGO: Painted Butterflies

THE MANY FACES OF A COOKIE

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Of all the stories in Game of Thrones, the one that really hit me hard was the Many-Faced God (Arya’s blindness bit sent shivers up and down my spine), but these many-faced cookies are supposed to be pure fun instead. I made them the first time as a gift to a physical therapy place in town, as they took such great care of me after a little ski incident back in March, in which yours truly and the snow got too close and personal. But once I made this set I realized the full potential of the design, and immediately turned them into cookies for hubby and his golfing friends. They like to have cookies after playing hole #9, so I tailored the messages for the second half of the course.

I suppose my cookies have special powers…

The husband made a hole-in-one that day! Isn’t that amazing?

It all started with a ‘frankencookie”, joining a regular round with a frame, and baking them together…

Then the two areas were iced and allowed to fully set, before writing the text (I used a projector) and making the facial features…

And now, I share the original set, made for the Physical Therapy office…

There are so many possibilities of expressions, it is fun to play with them… eyebrow shape, mouth, eyes, they all come together to convey whatever expression you want. The only thing you need to worry about is cratering of the eyes, since it is such a small area. To prevent that, before filling it with Royal icing, make a little cross or a little line with icing, allow it to set for 10 minutes or so, then fill with icing to form the eye. They will stay nicely smooth that way.

I had a lot of fun making them, and I bet you would too!


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