Potion Bottle Cookies
If cookies could have a theme song you’d be reading this to the tune from The Wonder Years. If it weren’t for a little {or a lot} of help from my friends, we wouldn’t even be talking about them now.
They started out like a lot of my cookie ideas, as a completely different cutter. From the moment I saw them I was imagining new shapes. Like potion bottles. All it took was a little trimming.
If you don’t have these cutters, that’s okay. You could use another sundae cutter, a beaker, a baby rattle, a skull, or maybe a hot air balloon. Be creative.
I thought about adding a cork, but scrapped that idea in the interest of cutting colors. But you could if ya really wanted.
Anywho, to make these cookies you will need:
- White piping and flood icing
- Blue 20-second icing
- Green 20-second icing
- Ivory 20-second icing
- Ivory gel color and a paintbrush
- Black piping icing
- A little help from friends
Begin by outlining the cookie with white icing. I used a #2 tip. Fill the bottle with blue icing leaving a space pictured below. After the blue has set, fill in the remaining space with green.
This is where it turns into a story about friends rather than a cookie tutorial. Bet you didn’t see that coming.
Up until this step I was on a roll. I had an idea and a plan. I used 20-second icing to add a label, let it dry then set out to antique them a la Arty McGoo. I mean, I’ve seen her live demo it and it looked simple enough. Then I realized I’m no Arty McGoo. It took three tries and a little coaching {from those friends I mentioned} to even get into the ballpark.
Since I’m now painfully aware that I am not qualified to give tips on cookie painting, I’ll just summarize the experience.
Begin by watching Arty McGoo’s antiquing video. Use a paper towel to dab the wet brush before touching the cookie, paint with a swirly motion rather than strokes, and I prefer ivory gel paste over brown. Did I mention that I made a mess?
The antiquing debacle threw me so much that I kind of lost steam. I was frustrated and nothing looked right. I ended up sending out SOS messages to some of my closest cookie friends. I ended up with these.
There aren’t step-by-step photos of that nightmare, but the moral of the story and the reason that these cookies have a theme song is that I got by with a little help from my friends. Which is kind of appropriate for Alice in Wonderland cookies anyway.
If you like these cookies be sure to check out these links:
- Easy Alice Cookie {how to make the Alice cookie above}
- Harlequin Cookie Stencil {if you don’t see it listed, message the seller}
- Antiquing Cookies with Arty McGoo
- Antiquing with Lustre Dust via Lila Loa
- Antiquing Cookies with Thinned Icing via The Bearfoot Baker
I ? you!
Waittttt, that was supposed to be a “heart” … I HEART YOU!!!
I’m just laughing at Jill questioning you…..!!!!
I love these…every.single.one.
love you too!
You could almost use a dress cookie cutter, if you look at your shapes. Honestly, thanks to you, I sure do look at my cookie cutters differently these days. My 392 (counted them yesterday!) cutters could be four or five times that amount if I keep stalking your site! 😉
oh i love these cookies.
alice in wonderland has been my favorite since i was little.
How precious!!! Love Alice!!!
Absolutely STUNNING!!!!!
I was just thinking the opposite of Lisamarie!!! I don’t have a dress cutter and that might would work! I do have the sundae cutter!!
If you’ve got the sundae, then you’ve got a dress!
Very cool, Callye! I’m off to check out all the links you provided for the different ways to create an antique look.
I love these cookies, and I can’t believe how you continue to find the perfect shapes with your existing cutters. You did a fantastic job on the antiquing – Liz will be proud of you!
Wow, these are so cool! I need to work on painting on cookies. Picking up a paint brush still intimidates me. I think you just inspired me to brave it out.
I so adore this set…every single cookie is amazing! And I think the potion cookies came out more than fabulous! You are so talented!!!!
Amazing!! I love these. Like always your cookies are the best!! You are truly blessed.
You are so lucky to have cookie friends!
And you are waaayyy to hard on yourself because these are awesome cookies!
I’d love a tutorial on how to do your flooded checkered alice cookies?
Ahh these look like so much fun! Love the attention to detail and the colours – your cookies always look so flawless 🙂
I love the wonder years! Now the song is stuck in my head! LOL
You would never know you had trouble with these by looking at them! They are perfect!!
I think you found the perfect potion for these amazing cookies!
You never cease to amaze me. I used one of these cutters this week and all I saw was an ice cream sundae. Your “potion bottle” looks terrific, so much better than the mason jar cutter that I used to make a Witch’s Brew cookie for Halloween last year. As always, thanks for sharing your creativity.
Callye, you are amazing, and continue to be so. I love reading your posts…they make me giggle, and they show a truly gifted teacher, who knows how to instruct her students with light heartedness, and the gift of gab. You just keep getting better and better.
Ahhh- I better go get those pink cutters out if my “give it away” box! Thank you!
Just adorable!!! Please, please, please do a tutorial for your Alice cookes – too stinkin’ cute! And flawless!
Absolutely adorable! Love these 🙂
These cookies look absolutely amazing! If you hadn’t said that you struggled with some of them, I would have never guessed 🙂 I love the Wonder Years…now if I can only get the theme song out of my head!
Oh man!! can you get any more creative? Absolutely adorable, I am joining the group asking for an Alice cookie tutorial.
It’s incredible : each time I come on your website, something amazes me. You’ve got such an imagination !
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Hello. I just recently started looking at your website since I am a late planner for my daughters bday that will be coming up late September.
You give a lot of tips for new starters and beginners which I will be needing much!
Her theme will be curious George pink, yellow and white.
I want to bake banana-shaped sugar cookies..?
Have a couple of questions if you have time to answer them.
I am thinking of piping yellow and then flooding them with some more yellow if that makes sense After that I want to make some strips of yellow for detail. Also I have found some royal icing mix online and was wondering if that’s any good or am I better off making one,?I just don’t want to mess up. can you please tell me if it seems like I’ll be doing them right?
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