One Direction Cookies and a Printable Kopykake Template
People often ask me what part of cookie decorating takes the longest. Is it the baking? Mixing icing colors? The actual decorating?
All great guesses, but in my case the longest {and sometimes hardest} part of the cookie decorating process is the research and planning. I often work on a cookie collection for hours before I even turn on the oven. Especially when the theme involves a certian British boy band that I was previously unaware of.
In a perfect world research is a normal and relaxing part of the design process. But in the fast-paced real world many of us just don’t have the time. So, I made it easy for you. Because I love you all so much, I turned my sketches into a neat little printable template.
Now, instead of Googling 1-D images and converting them into something usable, you can watch a little TV with your significant other before burning the midnight oil. Click HERE to download.
Print the images and cut them apart.
Clamp the selected teen heartthrob securely in your Kopykake. Turn on the lamp and center the image on the cookie.
The next step is personal preference. You can pipe first and then fill or do what I do and start with the color.
Let the cookie dry, then “clean it up” by piping details. Whatever makes ya happy. All roads lead to Rome.
Use a cute font to add their names if you want {or need} to.
Easy breezy right? Now we just have to pray that they keep their hairstyles long enough for you to use them.
If you’re feeling super ambitious, you might even enlarge the images and use them as a template for hand-cutting.
For help with using a Kopykake projector, check out these posts:
No Kopykake? Try these cool ideas:
- Airbrush Icing Transfer Technique via Montreal Confections
- Making a Paper Cookie Stencil
- How to Draw on a Cookie with an Ipad via Klickitat Street
So sweet of you to share C!
You’re awesome Callye! Thanks!!!
I second that comment!
Thank you so much! I am going to try these as a surprise for my daughter and her friends. You are very generous! Thank you!!
These are so cute! You make everything look easy!
Just decided with my (cake) friends that we have to pick a day to decorate cookies. Sitting in our hotelroom in London, cake show tomorrow, showing eachother cookies we like on our tablets, afcourse I showed your one direction cookies, And today you place the templates!!! HAPPY, next week I can pick up my kopykake!!
This is brilliant! It looks just like them! Will have to invest in a kopykake soon methinks
Callye thank you for sharing but is it possible to post the union jack too…so cookie challenged…
Wow, I use my KK all the time and it never occurred to me to fill the color in first and THEN outline in black! I think that you have just changed my life – thank you!!!! I am such an admirer or your work – it is absolutely fabulous 🙂
You are so unbelievably talented I can’t stand it!
Wow, these cookies are so funny and cute!
You are too, too much. These are so adorable. You are incredibly talented and “that’s what makes you BEAUTIFUL”!! Thanks so much for sharing.
This is pretty much the most genius idea ever. In the history of ever.
These are very cute, but I’m glad that I’m not the only one who’s never heard of this band! To be fair, I don’t hang around teenaged girls much, though.
OMG…..my daughter would die for these!! Why, oh why don’t you live next door so you could make these for her upcoming birthday??
How on earth did you turn real people into adorable illustrations? These are so cute, Callye!
I Googled cartoons, and started with a free drawing program and melded them all into one I liked, LOL
This link:
http://les-cerises-bleues.blogspot.com/2013/02/one-direction-cartoon.html
Plus this link:
http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/12693/1/1/how-to-draw-chibi-one-direction,-one-direction-boys.htm
equals my sketches, LOL! It took FOREVER. I wanted to save everyone the trouble, LOL!
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I already knew you were a cookie genius, now you’re a GENIUS (which involved all catagories)! 🙂
OMg Callye – thank you SO SO MUCH for this! I have a 1D set to do this week and was wondering how I was going to pull it off. I’d seen yours previously (and loved them, BTW!) but having a template will make things much smoother! Mwah (that’s me giving you a big fat kiss!)!!!
Christine – Sugar Cravings
Wow…And I mean WOW!
These are so awesome!
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hola me encanta todo lo que haces te hablo desde españa me gustaria saber donde puedo conseguir ese proyector el kopykake ya que aqui en españa no lo encuentro hay alguna pagina en internet donde pueda comprarlo?me fascina todo tu trabajo eres una artista gracias un saludo
Firstly, potential clients, employers, and anyone else looking to hire you will only spend a nominal amount of time looking at it.
This beginner photography article on common abbreviations and acronyms
will help you understand popular photography terms and direct you to
helpful articles for a deeper look. The first thing you can do
is read that long manual that came with your DSLR camera.
I just found this website now and LOVE IT! But where can I buy myself one of those nifty “Kopykake’s”? I guess this might just me and my ignorance, but do you need a certain type of paper that is edible?… Since it will be left under the cookie…. Or do you just not eat them? Thanks! I love 1D and these are the perfect cookies, they would be a huge hit at a party, THANKS MUCH!(:
I would order from Jerry’s Artarama or Madison art supply. Click on the How to Use a Kopykake link for resources. Its a projection, so there is no paper involved. Just light and icing.
hola una pregunta me podrías pasar las imágenes para poder imprimirlas me encanto tu idea
Of course! That’s what they’re for.
I saw them in concert last month, and I’m sure they would’ve loved to have these!!! Too cute, and so are they!!! 😉
Lol, and Liam has his hair cut really short now. He looks good both ways!!
hi! I was wondering if you have the kopykakes 300xk projector or something different ?
-thank you so much!!
Thank u so much. I was worried because one friend ask me to do 1D cookies for her sister, How can I do that? But here I found the answer!
I used your template and outlined them onto wax paper backwards. turned them over and outlined in edible inked. I put them ink side down on the cookie and pressed the drawing onto the cookie. They turned out great and were a lot of work but worth it. Thank you so much for the template. You always inspire me.
Thank you so much for sharing your post with us, love your tutorials, very helpful. You have answered so many of my questions.
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Thank you for sharing this tutorial. I LOVE your work! So beautiful and so perfect.
I have twin daughters turning 10 in a few days and they will have a B-day party themed on One Direction. I’ll try to make these cookies, but since this is going to be the first time I’ll bake and decorate some cookies, I would like to know how many days can I make them in advance.
Thanks,
Ana Maria ( Brazil )
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Any tutorial on the flags? I want to make some union jack cookies for some friends who are moving to London.