Custom Cookie Cake

I get orders all the time asking for custom designed sugar cookies. Most of the time I have the cookie cutter (with a collection of over 100 cookie cutters I should hope so!), but there are the occasional requests that cannot be filled with a cookie cutter so I make do with what I have. This will just be a short tutorial on how to cut out your own cookies.

The great thing about cutting out your own cookies is that you don't need a lot of materials. A sharp knife and parchment paper is all you need!

A customer requested a Range Rover cookie cake for her boyfriend for Valentine's Day. I first started with free hand sketching out the design on a piece of paper (I actually used a brown paper bag because it's a bit more sturdy than regular computer paper). Don't sketch directly on the parchment as pencil doesn't show up very clearly nor is it food safe to have lead in your dough! Even though I was using this sketch to trace the shape of the sugar cookie, I still added the details of the car so that it would be easier to pipe out the details later on. 

Take your sketch and place it on the parchment paper. Because parchment paper is non stick, you'll have to staple your sketch to the parchment in order to cut it out.

Remove the staples.

Only use the parchment tracer to cut out your cookie dough. In order to get the parchment tracer to stay put, dip your finger in water and lightly dab the parchment paper with water (don't soak it though or else your cookie will turn out bumpy)

Make sure that your dough is super chilled or else your cookie will become slightly misshapen as it bakes. Carefully cut around the tracer with a super sharp knife. Try and use fluid motions while you're cutting rather than an up and down motion. 

Place your finished cut out on a parchment lined cookie sheet. 

Click here to see the finished product!

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