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Christmas cookies are everywhere, but did you ever do your favorite book character in them?  This works best for a child’s picture book, but if you’re an extraordinary artist, you can make any favorite book cover or character you like! 

The quasi-tutorial here is for those that can make simple characters.  I’ll be using Orville from his book, The Flight of Orville Wright Caterpillar an Amelia from her book,The Adventure of Amelia Airheart Butterfly in bye! bye! Dragonfly! 

I laid out all the ingredients assuming you would have some circular sugar cookies.  My cookies came from a refrigerated roll purchased at a grocery store.  Other items you’ll need:

Items you'll need

• large red gumballs for Orville’s nose
• maraschino cherries for Amelia’s nose (hers is smaller than Orville’s)
• food coloring Red, Blue, Green and Black …leave a little white to the side
• butter cream frosting mixed up
• seperate dishes for each color
• antennae of licorice laces, or gummy spaghetti, or whatever else you can think of
• toothpicks with a warning to those who eat the cookie
• pictures to copy

Pick which color to work with first.  I used red to mix with white and come up with a pink for Amelia.  Then mix pink and a little more red for her cheeks.

Amelia begins

Maraschino cherry for nose and toothpick in antennae

The toothpicks are broken in half and inserted into the antennae and then the cookie.  Make sure you’re keeping it in the cookie and not able poking through to the back surface. 

 The cherry goes on just above the center of the circle.

The next cookie up is Orville and then they’ll be finished together with the black lines.

Put green food coloring into white frosting and mix.  Spread on the cookie.  Next get the large red gumball (look in bulk candies for them) and slice it in half.  Place Orville’s nose just above the center of the circle also.   You can see I had a head start on getting the black lines on his face.  Yes, I’m using a toothpick to do the lines.  I’d recommend buying a tube of black gel frosting with a small, small tip.  You’ll find it a lot easier than I did with a toothpick! 

Orville has a simple smile curved up on each side.  His eyes are simple lines  in a V shape that show his eyes closed.   His antennae go on like Amelia’s…toothpick broken in half put into the antennae and then into the cookie.

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One bow down and one to go!