How to Utilise a Bloom Cutter to Make a Gingerbread Human being

Looking at these cute footling gingerbread men would you lot ever guess they were made with a flower cookie cutter? Well, you tin can make a gingerbread man cookie with a bloom cookie cutter. This is the flower cutter from the Sugarbelle's Stackers Cookie Cutter Set and it'southward a practiced ready. I take plans for every cookie cutter in the box. I'll share them with you as I make them and hopefully you can share your decorated cookies with me. I'd love to see them.

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For now, let's focus on these cute niggling gingerbread guys. Oh, the snowman is made from a cutter from that set every bit well. I love Callye'south cutters!

What do you need to make a gingerbread man cookie? Well, y'all should be able to find everything in the supply list below.

Supply List:
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Recipes:
  • Sugar Cookie Recipe
  • Royal Icing Recipe
Cookie Cutters:
  • Flower Cookie Cutter- A lot of flower cookie cutters will work to make these guys. Look for ane that has five petals which volition be i head, two artillery, and two legs. I used the blossom from the Sugarbelle's Stackers Cookie Cutter Set for these footling guys. I think it'due south a cute flower.
Regal Icing Colors:
  • Gingerbread Color- Outline and Alluvion Consistency or a xv- Second Consistency
            I mixed a piffling Ameriolor Tulip Red, Americolor Ivory, and Americolor Chocolate Brown. Start with a small corporeality of each and mix until you become a color you like.
  • Red– Outline and flood consistency or a 15- Second Consistency.
  • Black– Outline Consistency
  • White– Outline Consistency
Tools:
  • Turkey Lacer
  • Tipless Piping Bags
Optional:
  • Airbrush Arrangement
  • Totally Dark-brown Airbrush Colour

Gingerbread Man Video:

Enjoy the video!

Let's brand a gingerbread man cookie:

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  • As I mentioned earlier well-nigh any flower cutter with five petals will piece of work for this cookie. I honey Callye's cutters because her shapes are fun, whimsical, and totally transformable.  Her shapes are begging to shift into many dissimilar cookies.
Outline and Flood:

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  • I know a lot of people use 15- Second Royal Icing Consistency and I personally love using that consistency, but for some reason (I'chiliad not quite sure what that reason is) I'm making outline and alluvion consistency right now. The skilful thing is you can brand any you want. If yous desire i consistency of royal icing then get for it. If you desire an outline and a inundation consistency, become for information technology. It'due south up to yous. I decided to use ii for these piffling guys.
  • One time you have your gingerbread colored icing then outline and flood the bloom cookie.
  • Permit it dry for about 30 minutes.
Airbrush:
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  • Adjacent,  airbrush the edges of the cookie with brown airbrush colour. I love this function!

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  • I used The Cookie Countess Totally Brown and I similar the way it turned out.

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  • Airbrush the edges of your gingerbread human.
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  • Next, pipe the outline of the scarf.

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  • Flood the scarf and permit it dry for nigh twenty minutes. If you watch the video y'all'll see I painted the scarf with tulip red food gel color. As I painted it I had the brilliant idea to add together a niggling texture so I piped lines and "v's" and I liked the way information technology turned out.

  • Adding the food gel color outset fabricated the base of operations darker so the texture really stood out ameliorate. I probably won't do this technique every time I desire to add texture, but I volition add it sometimes because I similar the expect.
  • Pipe black dots for the eyes and buttons and crimson dots for the cheeks.
  • Add some white wavy lines on the arms and legs.
  • Add a few white dots to the optics, cheeks, and buttons and you're done.

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This piffling snowman shape is in the Sugarbelle'southward Stackers Cookie Cutter Set and it makes a beautiful lilliputian sidekick for the gingerbread human being. If yous have a infinitesimal to check out the set I bet your caput will spin with the possibilities of cookies. Every time I look at them I see something different. Do you?

What can y'all make with this flower cutter? Leave the states a annotate because nosotros would love to know!

Bear hugs,

Lisa