How to Make Cute Fall Coffee Cup Cookies

Today is International Coffee Day so let’s make some cute fall coffee cup cookies to help us enjoy it! Who am I kidding? It doesn’t have an International Coffee Day to enjoy a fall coffee cup cookie. Trust me! These cookies are cute,  simple to make, and will be loved by anyone you give them to. So what are you waiting for? Let’s make some!

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How to Make Cute Fall Coffee Cup Cookies


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Recipes:
Cookie Cutter:
Royal Icing Colors:
  • Orange- Americolor Orange mixed with a little Americolor Chocolate Brown
  • Chocolate Brown- Americolor
  • Black
  • Green
Splatter Mixture:
  • Black food gel color with a little water
Tools:
  • Food-Safe Marker
  • Toothbrush
  • Tipless Piping Bags
  • Turkey Lacer or Scribe Tool

Mini Pumpkin Royal Icing Transfers:

  • Mini Pumpkin Royal Icing Cookie Decorations- I’ll show you how to make them tomorrow! 🙂

How to Make Fall Coffee Cup Cookies- Video:

Enjoy the video!

Fall Cookies:

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  • Begin by drawing your pattern on your cookie with a food-safe marker. 
  • Outline your cookie with the white royal icing. Let it dry for a few minutes before you flood.
  • Now here is where you have a choice on how to add the coffee to the cup. I choose to add it before I flood the cup with the white royal icing, but you can wait until after you add the black splatted food gel color so your coffee doesn’t have spots. If I add the coffee first, I usually take a damp food-safe paintbrush and gently wipe the splatters off after the brown royal icing has dried for a little while. You don’t have to add the coffee now but if you do, now you know how to get the spots off later.
  • Flood the cookie with 15-Second Consistency white royal icing.
  • Use a turkey lacer or scribe tool to pop any air bubbles and to push the icing into place. 
  • Let the icing dry until the white icing crusts over and then add the rim of the cup. 
Add the rim and the word ‘fall’ to the coffee cup.

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  • I used two different consistencies to make the rim. It was an outline consistency and a flood consistency. I liked the way it worked out, but feel free to use one consistency if you choose. 
  • Pipe the rim around the top of the cup and then flood it.
  • Use a turkey lacer or scribe tool to smooth it out and push it into place.
  • Next, pipe the word ‘fall’ on the cookie. You can practice on a piece of paper so this will feel natural when you pipe it. 
  • You can watch the video tutorial to see how to make the downstrokes a little thicker. 
Time to splatter and add a mini pumpkin:

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  • Mix a little water with some black food gel color.
  • Dip a toothbrush into the mixture and then flick it onto the cookies. Make sure you cover your work surface so clean up will be easy.
  • Add a white dot of royal icing on the corner of the cup and the mini pumpkin.
  • Pipe a stem with the brown royal icing.
Add the leaves and a vine to the pumpkins:

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  • I chose to make these fall coffee cups as simple as possible so I piped a green dot for each leaf. All you need to do is pipe a dot and pull it out away from the pumpkin as you release pressure to the piping bag. Simple and cute!
  • I forgot to take a picture of the vine, but all you have to do is pipe a line with a loop on each side of the stem and you’re done. 
Stop and smell the coffee and cookies!

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Happy International Coffee Day! I hope you enjoy a cup of java and take time to bake some cookies that look like fall coffee cups. I think you’ll have a lot of fun!

Bear hugs,

Lisa