Simple Owl Cookies
Growing up, I was surrounded by owls. My mom was a chi omega and collected cute little owl figurines. She thought the were the coolest thing even though my entire family teased her about her collection. Now the laugh is on us. Owls are everywhere! As usual, mom was right.
There are a lot of cute owl cutters on the market but I like an egg cutter as well as any of them. By overlapping the tips you can make two owls at once.
To make these cookies you will need:
- Dark pink outline and flood icing
- Light pink outline and 20-second icing
- White 20-second icing
- Dark brown 20-second icing
- Colored piping icing for finishing details
Begin by outlining and flooding the owl’s body. Be sure to leave a space for wings.
If your goal is to minimize waste, add the the feathers first and thin the extra icing for wings. Pipe scallops on the belly then use light pink 20-second icing to flood the wing area.
Once the base is dry use white 20-second icing to make eyes. Add dark brown pupils when they’ve set.
Finish up with details in the colors of your choice. I added some color around the eyes along with white pupil accents. I also piped a beak and cleaned up the wings with some dots. If you noticed that the cookie in step-by-step photos aren’t the cookies in the final photos, good eye. Sometimes I do that.
I mixed the owls with other fun designs. I especially liked this pretty letter “A” cookie. I used this cutter for the cookie and this template to create the striped base.
Moral of the story, if your mom says something is cool, listen. Most of the time at least. Some trends {like the mullet she gave me in the eighties} should stay in the past.
Apparently the owl-love thing is hereditary. For more cute owl inspired posts check out these links:
Oh my, you’ve out done yourself once again. I just packaged my last set of cookies and was headed to bed wondering what cookies I was going to bake tomorrow. What a wonderful surprise to see you’ve already come up with my next project. I love love love these and I don’t have an owl cutter and can still make them thanks to your always creative use of cutters. Thank you for your creativity and for sharing it with all of us!
Beautiful set, Callye! I love the color palette and the accent cookie designs, as well as the owls! I have a lot of Chi-O friends that would totally dig this set. I’m a Phi Gam myself and we had a snowy white owl as our mascot. Your design would work great to try as a white version of our owl.
That is so cute!!! Its so adorable! the colors are absolutely lovely!
Awe! So cute! Since mom is always right, and you are a mom, then you are always right! 😉
Wow – this set is fabulous! It kind of reminds me of Lilly Pulitzer? I think it is the wonderful colors! 🙂
A very good friend of mine is expecting a baby girl in August, and these are the perfect cookies to send to her – especially since no new cookie cutters need to be purchased. I love the design on the green cookies. Did you freehand them or use your projector? The whole set is just beautiful.
What a HOOT these cookies are!!! Cute as they can be!!!
Adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the colors and these are just the most adorable owls ever!!!
These are adorable!! I know all of my Chi Omega sisters would love them. I’m obsessed with owls and I’m so happy they are still popular. 😀
Super cute! Their eyes are so bright, and I love that funky A! 🙂
These are so pretty Callye. The owl and the accent cookies…just everything. I love your added detail work around the eyes.
Gosh Callye these are so beautiful! I love the colors and the intricate details on the green cookies. Your kids must hate that you never mess up and make a flop 😉 I think Nick loves that I still mess up on cookies from time to time 😉 whereas all yours are just gorgeous every single time! Thanks for sharing!
I heart these and I heart Owls! Your cookies make me happy Ms. Callye…When I grow up I want to make cookies just like you! 😀 Have a wonderful day!
I love the Owl Cookies they are so cute and so are the monogram cookies. Are you going to post a tutorial on the green cookie with the white flower and detail?
Heeee…. I saw this post and thought you would appreciate this image. A webcomic artist designed a cute print around the term YOLO that relates it to owls. SO CUTE!!
http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/qc-yolo.jpg
You are an amazing artist! I am always so excited to get an email in my inbox showing that you have a new post!
I am in love with these! What a gorgeous set of cookies! Would you mind telling me how you mixed those colors? They are simply perfect! Thanks for sharing.
I so appreciate this post. I’ve been looking for owl cookie inspiration!
Soo pretty! Love the colors and all the feminie details on the owl. Did you do the green ccokies freehand?
These are adorable! I hope you do a tutorial on those cute green cookies next!
So adorable! I love the owl colors 🙂
Beautiful cookies, I love the color! For the fine detail on the green cookies, did you just use a thick royal icing?
I absolutely love this platter, especially the green cookies! SImply fabulous! XxX
My granddaughter is having a ladybug theme for her birthday party when she turns 2 next week. I planned on making ladybug cupcakes but I happened to come across your ladybug cookies and they are adorable and look simple enough for me to accomplish. I’ll be making a dozen and I have a daisy cookie cutter. I’ve made lots of wedding cakes. I appreciate your detailed tutorial. I have a lot of decorating tips but never heard of a 1.5. I ordered the balloon cookie cutter and it arrived today so I plan to start baking tomorrow. You are so creative. I look forward to your blogs.
Thank you! I hope everything goes smoothly! I know you can do it!
Pingback: How to Make Quilted Cookies
My fave cookies so far!!! They are too cute 🙂
bello todo
I think I’m pretty darn creative until I come here! GENIUS!
Was looking for some easy owl cookies to make for my daughter’s teacher and these are the ones!!!!
So glad I don’t have to buy yet another cookie cutter
Thanks so much for sharing such a detailed post
I would LOVE to make these for a friend! What frosting tips did you use? Is that a small leaf tip for the color around the eyes and beak?
Looking for good tasting recipes of flooding icing and 20 second icing. So far everything I’ve tried has tasted horrible!
I agree. I have spent countless hours researching and attempting icing with all tasting like chalk. Then when I add a flavor it still taste yuckie or I have to add a while bottle just to dull the nastyness. I would love love love to find that perfect one.
Too cute! I love the green cookies and have always wondered how you and other cookiers create the intricate designs with little to no variation. (Like the lace patterns on heart cookies, or your bandana pattern, and now these) Is a stencil or Koot Kake used or are y’all just super talented free handers? 🙂
Thanks!
-Sally Lewis
(Fellow cookie enthusiast now living in Zambia as a missionary.. Without my kitchenaid! My mother in law just sent be some decorating supplies- thank God! I have missed it for 7 months!)
Haha! Omg! Kopy Kake! Autocorrect changed Kopy to Koot!!! Sorry!
I wish I was that awesome! Some can do the freehand thing. I, however, need my Kopykake. Otherwise it would take me hours to finish one cookie. Here’s a link https://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/2012/07/using-a-kopykake-projector/
Pingback: OWL COOKIES! | alizajulianrosas1
Pingback: 50+ Ways to say, "Happy Valentine's Day" with Cookies
Hi! I love these cookies. Where do you find your patterns, like the one on the green cookie? Just googling? I am looking for something exactly like that.
I actually combined three…I googled some floral patterns, then used two I likes and added dots to fill in blank spaces.
Hi! I love your tutorial and I am going to try these out. I was wondering though, what is 20 second icing?
Pingback: Creating a K-3 Unit Study | greenginger3
Pingback: Hootie the Cutie: Teaching Notes | My Little Story Corner
Hi Callye,
Love your tutorials. I just wanted to ask how you achieved that green color? It’s so gorgeous. My daughter wants the exact same set for her birthday 🙂 thanks!
They’re so pretty!!!! It looks really easy to do but I bet is more complicated than that.
Totally love this blog, thank you for sharing. The cookies came out great, you’re genius!
My only problem was, you gave the royal icing recipe but do you have recipes for the 20 second and flood icing? I googled on the internet, tried various but they were a disaster and I’ve lost half the batch of cookies in the interim. If
Hi! These cookies are so cute! I would love to make them for my baby shower in January. I was wondering- which food colorings did you use to achieve the light and dark pink icings?
Thank you so much! Love your site and your work!
Hello there! These cookies are super cute and I plan on making them for a baby shower next weekend. However, I was wondering how long these cookies actually take to decorate? How long would I have to wait in between steps? I am going to be making 50 of these and need to know if it is going to be an all day adventure? Thanks so much!!!
These are adorable! What brand and color for the food coloring on the pink owls did you use?
Pingback: Owls and My Fall Colors | Sugarpie Custom Cookies
Those are adorable and i want to make them for my baby shower. But I’m new to decorating so what do you mean by the different types of icing. Can i buy them if so where. Or how to make the icings. Please help.
comparto la idea en mi blog: https://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/2013/07/simple-owl-cookies/ donde publiqué un kit para imprimir con motivo búho. Son bellísimas las galletas, dan pena comerlas =)
http://pipapuhprintables.blogspot.com.ar/, copié mal el link
lovely, jenn! as always!
How did you get your A done so perfectly? Is it a stencil? Thanks! 🙂
My mom would LOVE these cookies sooooo much. Are you sure that I can make these cookies as perfectly for my mom as you can, I mean i am a good artist, but NOT good with birds. I can only draw cat’s, Dogs, Foxes, Wolves, And mabey, sometimes, wings.