Owl Cookie with a Pumpkin Cutter
I got an email a few weeks ago asking me to participate in a pumpkin cutter challenge. The email was from the amazingly talented Callye from Sweet Sugar Belle. She said she wanted to show 20+ ways to use a pumpkin cutter. I was so excited because I could only imagine what all the super talented ladies were going to come up with. Projects like this are fun and get the creative juices flowing. You can get a lot of ideas by seeing how several people take the same cutter and get different ideas. I decided to make an owl cookie with a pumpkin cutter.
So what to make with a pumpkin cutter. I didn’t know what I was going to make until I pulled out all my pumpkin cutters and flipped them all around and I saw an owl. I didn’t want to do a flat owl because I have been on a texture kick lately and wanted to make a fluffy feathery friend. With a #3 tip, leaf tip #352, and very little effort, you can create a lot of texture really fast.
Supplies for Owl Cookie with a Pumpkin Cutter:
Leaf tip #352
#3 Tip
Orange 15 Second Icing
Chocolate Brown Outline Icing (for branch)
Lighter Brown Flood Icing (for branch)
Royal Icing Eyes made with tip #9FT
Snow Owl Cookie with a Pumpkin Cutter Colors:
Off-White Thick Icing (Mix white with a touch of Ivory)
Thick Gray Icing
Brown Owl Cookie with a Pumpkin Cutter Colors:
Brown Thick Icing
Lighter Brown
Note: I am only showing the tutorial for the snow owl.
First, make the royal icing transfer eyes a few day before the owls. You need to make the black centers a few days before you make the base part. I made all white for these so please ignore the blue eyes. I planned on using them but, changed my mind at the last minute. Once the white eyes were dry I used the airbrush gun to make them the colors I wanted. These were made with a cupcake tip# 9FT.
- Hold the bag straight up and down but, don’t let the tip touch the wax paper.
- Keeping the tip steady, squeeze the icing util you get the size eye you want then stop squeezing and pull straight up.
- Then, add the black royal icing circle. I keep several jars of these on hand. I store them in jars arranged by size.
- Outline the branch with the dark brown icing.
- Then, flood with the light brown icing.
- Next, use the dark brown icing to make squiggly lines on the log when you spray.
- This step is optional. If you want add some detail to the branch, you can airbrush it. Let it dry for about 30 minutes and spray the edges of the branch brown with the airbrush gun set on low. Hold the gun about an inch away from the log.
- Make the toes with the orange icing. Make the outer toes first and let them dry for a few minutes then, make the center one.
- Hold the tip with the points at the top and bottom and the slits on the sides.
- Holding the tip just slightly above the cookie, gently squeeze the bag.
- Apply pressure until the leaf base is a wide as you want it.
- Slowly release pressure as you pull the bag up giving a quick pull at the end to form a tip.
- Place them close together so your cookie doesn’t show.
- Notice how the gray is on the right on some of the feathers and left on the others. I would flip the bag upside down so it didn’t look so uniform.
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Happy Creating,
Wow!! This designs deserves a place on the cookies Wall of Fame!!! Terrrific!!!
These are amazing!
Such cute owls. It was fun doing this project with you. ♥
These might be my favorite owls ever – the eyes are perfection!!
These are amazing! Wonderful craftmanship and I love the twinkle in their eyes.
What HOOT!!!! Great idea to flip that cutter over and make it into an owl, you are amazing!!! So happy to be included on this great project w/ people I so admire!!
I just can’t say enough words for these!!! ADORABLE!!! <3 I just love love them! What amazes me most – are eyes! Fabulous!!!!
First of all, I love how texture-intense your owls are! Gives them real life! Super pizzazz! Secondly, the tip that you used to make the eyes is lovely! Do you think I could pick that up at my local bake shop (not Michael’s, a family owned small business) or is it a pretty random internet-order type of thing?
What amazing details you made in these owl cookies,the texture and the use of different tips make them so unique. I love the eyes also.
Thanks for sharing.
More super awesome OWLS!! I love these too Lisa! I really love their eyes!! Owls with a pumpkin cutter! I must get out my pumpkins and see what I can do!
I am loving your owls, these are so amazing and time consuming. Where do you find the time? awesome!
Oh my gosh – how delightful these guys are – show stoppers indeed! I can’t get over how much detail you have on one cookie with each feather so lovingly piped! I LOVE how you did the eyes!!! Great tutorial too – I’ve been holding the leaf tip wrong all this time……….I really should take a cake decorating class one day! BRAVO!!
“OWL” be seeing you soon! 🙂
Your owls are INCREDIBLE! I love how you made the pumpkin stems into branches for the owls to perch on! Perfectly done, and the texture is amazing!
I have indeed spent hours today looking at all the amazing pumpkin cutter creations. Ooops, I just realize there is laundry sitting in the washing machine. Better go take care of that, but before I do, I just wanted to tell you how much I love your owls. They are really beautiful. The eyes are perfect.
Such pretty colors for a fall pumpkin owl!
These are gorgeous! The eyes are fabulous and the icing work for the feathered bodies is wonderful.
Wow These are Gorgeous!!
Oh Lisa! These have GOT to be the MOST beautiful owl cookies I have EVER seen! Just amazing! The eyes really make these pop and the feathers look so fantastic. Take a big bow my sweet friend as you have just totally out done yourself!
I’m in love with your owls Lisa! You are becoming quite the master of texture. I had such a hard time seeing an owl face and you did a full body owl. Simply amazing! So glad to be a part of this project with you.
I looooove the way you made the eyes. With Halloween coming up I’m seeing a lot of googly eyes out there but these are super cool with their added texture!
Lisa, these are just amazing. I am in awe, really. The texture is gorgeous, the airbrushing is perfect! Honored to be in your cookie presence! Can’t wait to meet you in November!
Those eyes are the most AMAZING UNBELIEVABLE things I have ever EVER seen!!! They are stunning!! And all the shading and colors of these owls is INCREDIBLE!!! Lisa — your talent is unmatched!! WOW!!
So exquisite, I can’t believe the eyes! And the detail!! Just amazing.
These owls are stunning. Art. I never would have thought of doing the eyes with a star tip like that, it’s just perfect!
Absolutely adorable! You really know how to party!
What is going on here? This is stupendous! what? wow. Nice. I guess you could do any animal then. You are talented. I know I hear that a lot from friends and family but this is talent and ingenuity. Good for you! It’s a pleasure to look at something like this. Linda
Yay!! More owls…I love that you made them with the pumpkin cutter!! The texture is unbelievable, and oh, so cute!!!
Awe! Thanks Sharon! You are sweet!
So amazing! Great creative use for the cutter and I love all the beautiful texture you took the time to create!
cute cute CUTE!!
Okay, bought a pumpkin cutter and cannot wait to use this technique. I will also try and incorporate your painting technique(with the trucks) on the branches since I don’t have a air brush gun. You are brilliant!!!