Fender Bass Guitar Cookies

Did these for my cousin's husband at the end of July for his birthday. He was a bass player in his younger days and did the whole hair band thing, so these were perfect for him.

Bass Guitar Cookies

Bass Guitar Cookies

 

A Couple of Other Projects from this Month

Here is my second stab at guitar cookies.  I really dislike that cutter.  These cookies break so easily, no matter how cool they look. :(

Guitar Cookies

And here are some dinosaurs I did for a little girl's 7th birthday party.

Dinosaur Cookies

Here's another shot of them after I had started packaging them.  Found a really cool free dinosaur printable treat bag topper that I used for the small ones.  They have a lot of other items in this set besides just treat bag toppers. I heat sealed the bags with a lot of space at the top and then attached the toppers with double stick tape.

Dinosaur Cookies with Dinosaur Bag Toppers

Rock On!!

Decided to try something completely different today with a lot of detail.  Of course there are things about them I don't like, but overall I am thrilled with them.  And the teenage guy they were for loved them and was amazed with all of the details.

I started by putting the center on them.  I printed a template I found online in the appropriate size and cut out the center section.  I then traced that onto the cookie with a food color marker.  Then outlined and flooded that section.  Then I outlined and filled the neck and then the rest of the body.  After everything had dried, I took the food color marker again and drew in all of the black details just doing a mental sort of gauge as to where everything should be.  Let those dry and then came the scary part - putting on the six strings.  I used my new 00 Ateco tip with piping consistency icing for those and was in pure amazement that they came out the way they did. At first draft of the green one, which was my test cookie, I didn't have the whammy bar on it, but decided that adding that just gave them that little extra something they needed.  These were pretty scary to me to tackle, but I approached it methodically over a series of hours - would work on them a bit, do something else and then come back to them - and am still alive to tell about it!  I laughed at my sister's facebook comment about them. She said, "Ok, now you are just showing out!"

Thanks to  Ellie's Bites Decorated Cookies for the tutorial on doing these. Not sure I could have done these without it!

I couldn't resist doing this with the pink ones before I delivered them!  I had to dig out my Barbie stuff from storage just for this shot!!! (Barbie - don't ask.  I have a small but cool collection of cool characters portrayed by Barbie - Bewitched Barbie, I Dream of Jeannie Barbie, Wonder Woman Barbie and Super Girl Barbie)