How to Draw Your Family on Cookies

Supplies

Dough 

Royal Icing or fondant

1 1/2 inch round cookie cutter (for bite-sized cookies)

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*You can choose any surface you like, such as larger cookies topped with flooded royal icing (that have dried overnight). I made our family portraits on bite-size round cookies topped with fondant. I simply purchased store-bought fondant, rolled it out, cut out circles with the same 1 1/2 inch cookie cutter, dabbed some frosting on the cookie and topped with fondant.

Directions

Tips for drawing cartoon portraits:

The basic portrait is simple: a round head, two ears centered on either side, the eyes are close together, slightly higher than the exact center of the circle, the wisp of a nose is in the center, and smiley is impossibly large.

Draw and fill with the colors (personalize skin tone and hair color) in this order:

An assortment of hair styles:

Draw mustaches, beards, and glasses last, on top of the finished drawing.

Enjoy your cookie portraits with a glass of cold milk or hot tea, and the family members themselves!