Window pane cookies

Day 11 : window pane cookies.

These are a mini version of the type of cookies you can hang on a tree. Made of shortbread, gingerbread or cookie dough. A shape is cut out of the middle and a smashed up boiled sweet put in the space which spreads out when its in the oven.

Christmas cookie biscuits

Christmas is coming ... 

I decided to make some more modern kind of foodstuffs and Pinterest came to my aid again with seasonal Christmas biscuits.  I always look at the food on there and think is it possible to make it in miniature and more importantly make it look real in miniature from polymer clay.

I decided I'd have a go at making seasonal cookies. As usual I have ideas of how to do lots of different ones but decided to start with two simple designs - snowman and robin. 

This is the basic robin in the making. On the left tile - a yellowy clay for the beak, red for the chest and brown for the body. The tiny caviar beads are used for the eyes. On the right hand tile is the biscuit base and the stages of making the robin. 

Left to right how the different pieces were assembled. 

After cooking they I glazed them with a semi matt varnish.

The snowmen were made in the same way with glittery fimo for the snow effect and caviar beads for the eyes, nose and mouth. Each biscuit is around 7mm round which in the real world would be 8.5cm which is more a cookie than a biscuit size. I did try and size it down to a biscuit but it seemed too small and this seemed a much better size. 

Party ring biscuits

Party ring biscuits were a favourite of childhood birthday parties, along with jelly, ice cream, cake and sandwiches. I'm slowly putting together a traditional birthday tea and these are the first things I've made in miniature for it. Each finished biscuit is around 5mm wide, and although the colours aren't authentic party ring colours they are bright which is what I remember of them. 

Shopping and Making Boxes

I normally buy most things that I need for my miniatures on the internet. Partly its because I work full time as well as making minis and don't have the time to go out and finding things I need in a real shop. The other reason is that where I live there wasn't any craft shops and 'normal' shops don't have the kind of useful bits and pieces we need. 

Then a shop opened in town and it's an emporium of paper sheets, bits and bobs, things you never thought you needed type of shop. I bought some paper, lace trim and a few other bits. I must look a bit mad looking at something like lace trim and working out if I could use in in miniature. 

I then made some box templates on a draw program at home and a box making production line started. 

Christmas Jewelled Cookies

Today's creations are sweet little christmas cookies. I took my inspiration from the boiled sweet cookies that I'd seen as Chrsitmas decorations. Shortbread cookies with icing and small gold balls and boiled sweet centres. I'd also made some christmas tree shapes and some snowflake fancies.