Owl Cookies Using a Pumpkin Cutter

When Callye, SweetSugarBelle, asked me to be a part of her latest 20+ ways project I was over the moon. You see Callye is my cookie idol. She is the reason I began decorating. This is like getting a call from a celebrity. Of course, I said YES! I mean who says no to Callye? After I said yes then the panic set in. What on Earth was I going to make from a pumpkin cutter?

My co-worker and great friend Terri has a very artistic mind. I sometimes turn to her for ideas when I'm lacking creativity. I went to work armed with my different pumpkin cutters {yes I took my cutters to work} and put them on her desk. I said "look at these cutters and tell me what you see other than a pumpkin?". Right away she started naming and sketching different things that she saw. Ugggh. Why do so many people have this ability to see cutters for things other than what they are? Makes me sick. Anyway, she said she saw a face of a bird and sketched it out. Well that's all I needed to hear and see. Instead of a bird like the one she sketched out I decided to try and make an owl since owls are everywhere right now. I was on a quest to make an owl that was as unique as I could possibly make it. This is what I came up with.

I stumbled across this gift bag at Hobby Lobby and immediately saw a mustache as the brows.

I knew I had a mustache cutter so I went home and found it and began my plan.

To make pumpkin owls:

Start off with a pumpkin cutter {I used Wilton's large grip cutter} and a mustache cutter {I don't remember where I got this one}.

Then, cut out the pumpkin shape and use the mustache cutter {upside down} to cut out a section of the pumpkin. Cut the mustache shape and place it in the section you cut out. Trim the pumpkin stem to a point to look like a beak and use a circle cutter of your choice to imprint where the eyes will go. Be careful not to imprint as hard as I did. It left a little bit too much of an indentation in the cookie. 

Next, outline and flood the cookie. You could outline your brow shape at this point and fill the cookie in sections for dimension but I decided after the fact that I wanted a raised brow so I added mine after the cookie was dry.

Here you can see where I added the brow and filled it in. I let the outline dry before I filled it in.

Then,  fill in the eyes white and use soft piping consistency icing to make a beak. Let the white icing dry completely.

Then, take a black fine tip food writer and a circle cutter to outline the inner part of the eyes. Use black piping consistency icing to outline around the line and also outline around the outer eye section {I didn't take pics of all the steps}. After the outline is dry fill in with orange flood icing and allow to dry for about 30 minutes. Finally, with black piping consistency icing pipe the pupils. 

The great thing about these owls is that you can make them in any color that you want. I went with fall colors to celebrate the beginning of fall.

Now it's time to see what all the other participants made. I'm in complete awe of all the talent! Be sure to visit everyone's pages and show them some love.

1.     Panda Calaveras, Miss Cuit

2.     Owl S’mores on a Stick, Kitchen Fun with my Three Sons

3.     Pumpkin Cheesecake Pasties, Bakingdom

4.     Halloween Pumpkin Wall, Arty McGoo

5.     Cocoa Krispies Trick or Treat Bears, Hungry Happenings

6.     Creative Cherry Cookies, Lila Loa

7.     The Ultimate Halloween Candy Bar, Dollhouse Bake Shoppe

8.     Halloween Pumpkin Carriage Cookie, Trilogy Edibles

9.     Easy Cheveron Pumpkin Cookies, Lizy B Bakes

10.   Pumpkin Fudge on a Stick, The Decorated Cookie

11.   Funny Face Pumpkin Cookies, Munchkin Munchies

12.   Woodland Owl Cookies, The Bearfoot Baker

13.   Pumpkin Cheesecake Hand Pies, Created by Diane

14.   Wide Eyed Owl Cookies, Simply Sweets by Honeybee

15.   Zombie Girl and Brains Cookies, Not Your Momma’s Cookies

16.   Cookie Cutter Pumpkin Fudge, The Partiologist

17.   3-D Pumpkin Cookie, Cookie Crazie

18.   Faberge-Style Pumpkin Coach, Oh, Sugar Events

19.   Peek-a-Boo Pumpkin Cupcake Topper, Sweetology 101

20.   Slimy Green Ghost Cookies, Pink Little Cake

21.   Silly Pumpkin Face Cookies, Klickitat Street

22.   Pretty Painted Pumpkin Cookies, Glorious Treats

23.   Lalaloopsie Cookies with a Twist, SweetSugarBelle

I had so much fun working on this project! It was such an honor to be included with this group of talented artisans. Thank you so much Callye :)