Get Well Soon Cookies
After the last three weeks how could I not make get well soon cookies?
I’m partial to nurse cookies because my best friend Barbara is a nurse and I can never resist an opportunity to cookie-fy her. Isn’t she cute?
Even though I made Barbara, with a little tweaking, this idea can easily be customized to match the nurse in your life.
Start with a bell cutter. I think mine was a Dollar Tree find. If you don’t have this exact cutter, don’t panic. Any bell will do as long as it’s similar.
To make these cookies you will need:
- White piping and flood icing
- Fleshtone 20-second icing
- Icing for hair {piping and flood or 20-second icing}
- Black piping icing
- Red 20-second icing
- Black gel color {optional}
Begin by outlining the hat. I made a wide and narrow version for the sake of demonstration.
Next use 20-second icing to create a face. If you’re cookiefying a person, I recommend taking a look at their facial shape before you begin. Common face shapes are oval, round, diamond, heart, and square. Details like this really take people cookies to the next level so keep that in mind during the design phase.
Once the face is dry, use white flood icing to fill the hat. At this point let the cookie dry for a couple of hours.
Once the base layer is dry add hair. I used a #3 tip. Depending on the design you might have to approach the steps in a little different order but this will not affect the final product.
Give the cookie a while to dry then use a #2 tip to add the facial details. You can also buy lbs of CBD flower and add it to the cookie if you’d like and also add a collar or neck if you like. Since Barbara likes to rock red lipstick I painted her kisser a bright fire engine red.
Next, add a cross to the hat. Use red 20-second icing to make a simple “x” then shape the corners with a boo boo stick {or toothpick}.
Finish up with a few final details. You can use a little petal dust to create rosy cheeks or maybe add eyebrows.
My Barbara isn’t into all that makeup business {minus the eyebrows, she has those} but she is down with girly lashes. To create lashes, I use the teensie tiniest little paintbrush I have ever seen. If you’d like to read more about it, click HERE.
I also like to add a tiny little dot of sparkle to the eyes. It’s a small detail, but I really think it gives them a lot of life.
There you have it, one of the best buddies a gal could have, Nurse Barbara. If I had to be sick, there’s no one else I’d rather have looking out for me!
Nurse cookies are great alone but I always like to throw in other designs for fun. Here are some of my favorite ideas!
I used a small round cutter and the oblong cutter from this set to make pill cookies. Take the cuteness up a notch with this adorable printable label from Sugar Dot Cookies. She also has a helpful how-to if you’re not sure where to start.
Double hearts, baby rattles, and snowmen, {among many others} are perfect for stethoscope cookies. If you’re looking to make a “beefier” version, you might find the tips in THIS POST helpful.
And if that’s not quite enough, I was able to use this random collection of cutters to create even more medical-themed fun. Can you guess what they are?
I am so glad to be feeling better and super excited to have my mojo back. I hope everyone is having a great week!
Omg omg!!! I cannot believe how cute and innovative these look!!!
My brother who is training to be a doctor is visitng me next week and I was thinking what I could bake for him. I come to your site and vola.
You are soooo amazing! My inspiration. I took up cookie decoration after reading your blog and I try to take one tutorial at a time and recreate it. Just a few batches in and even though am not so good it feels like I finally have a creative outlet right here at home
Ah these are just so adorable!! I’m sure the future medics on my course will love these 😀
Yep, you definitely have your mojo back, Callye! Barbara sure is a cute cookie:) I am smitten with all the extras you’ve added. I love the pills (I have that same petit four set), the band-aids, and the stethoscope, to begin with! Happy you’re feeling well, and welcome back! I missed you!
Oh, I have never seen så cute cookies before 🙂
Love those nurses! Yet another great use of a regular ol’ cutter!
Thanks soooooo much for the link to my blog!
I’m rather embarrassed of that post. I was so new to cookie decorating. The struggle I had with simple pill cookies is rather funny.
Your friend must be thrilled to have been cooki-fied – it’s the ultimate compliment! Love how you created her from a bell and all the others are fantastic as well!
Sooo Cute.. I love that you show us all how to make great cookies with simple cookie cutters!
SO happy to have you back again..you were missed!
these are so cute, callye! and im thrilled to hear that you and your family are finally feeling better:) i was looking at the cutters that you used for the last photo, and i use that same triple rectangle brownie cutter when i make band aid cookies too..its the perfect size!
Hey you! I owe you an email! You made a horrible Christmas a little brighter xoxoxoxo.
hi callye:) im so happy to hear that you got your christmas goodies!!! and i still cant believe that you and your family had the unfortunate luck of being sick over the holidays…no fun! but im thrilled that you liked everyhting:) and im happy that i was able to put a bit of christmas cheer into a tough holiday for you guys!
Good to have you back Callye! Glad you’re feeling better!
Those nurse cookies are adorable!
These are so adorable and I’m so glad you’re back cookie-ing!!!
Obviously you are back with all of your decorating talents intact! These are just adorable and Barbara makes the cutest cookie ever! Love that you used a bell to make her. So smart!
These are so cute, Callye! Barbara is pretty adorable in cookie form 🙂
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These are just terrific! What I really love about your tutorials is that you seem to know exactly the details that I would want to know….and you lay them all out there, step-by-step. It takes all of the stress out of my having to potentially tackle something that would otherwise be so daunting.
Speaking of daunting….I’ve been asked to make cookies for my neighbor’s little girl’s ‘candy-themed’ birthday party. What to do? I’m already stressed and have a full month to think about it! Have you done any ‘candy’ cookies other than the Candy Corn? <3
Great post, Callye. I’m still in awe of your ability to see different shapes in your cutters. Glad you’re feeling better!!
Oh my gosh, these are adorable. I make cookies for my mom’s Doctor whenever I visit (he is amazing) but I think I like the nurse ideas, as we all know who is overworked and underpaid in a practice! So cute! He’s an eye specialist so I had lots of ideas, but Nurse Barbara just may make an appearance next time!!!
These are adorable. My daughter will be graduating from nursing school in May, I will be making these for her and some of her friends. You are such an inspiration to me.
I work in the office for a hospice company here in California. I do not ‘do’ cookies, although someday, i hope to be able to work on it. But i wanted to tell you, that these are adorable, and I am sad that my wonderful nurses could not see them. (Maybe I will print out the cute pictures here!)
These are just adorable! I’m sure you’re friend Barbara is tickled pink! 🙂
I’m so glad your back, I missed you a lot. Everyday I have to stop by (I don’t want to miss anything..LOL) Your the best ?
Hi Callye, gorgeous, fun cookies, as always!
I’m wondering if you need to let each hair strand dry between making them, or if the piping icing is thick enough as is, to avoid them blending together?
Oh Callye these are all PERFECT and I have to make get well cookies TODAY! You’re my savior! Thanks for sharing such adorable ideas and designs! You’re the BEST! Cristin
Super cute cookies!! I love the variety of shapes you used!
loving this set and it never ceases to amaze me how many times this set has been done with the nurses and docs stuff with the pills and stethescope things but everyones take on it isa little different which I love because I think it is so important to learn great technique through others that are willing to teach but to find your middle ground and what your style is at the same time. One thing Ilove about the cookie community for the most part like 99.9999 percent is that most are willing to help,answer questions , share ideas offer ideas give you confidence and also let you practice using what they have done as thems and then let you put your spin on it or your style to it and I think its mostly fair to say that if you do that then to give that person credit when showing your work and where you got your idea from . No harm in letting someone know that you have been inspired by their work or asking them if you can use a theme they have done or giving them partial credit for the theme you have done by mentioning their name when you post. I think it is only fair especially for all the hard work they put into it before you got your hands on it. I am thankful to have made so many nice cookier friends and love how caring and enthusiastic about your work. I find it funny though when I go back and look at work that others have comented on and given me props for that some of the work I did and still do is horrid looking to me and makes me wonder what iwas thinking when I put up the pic. Pfft. So nice though to have the best cheerleaders and cookiers are the best cheerleaders in my book. Thanks caylle fo always teaching and being on point with your descriptions. BTW I found the issue with the Wilton tip and the slit on the side with the number 0 tip an getting seepage. TY so so soso much.
You are cookie think GENIUS. You think I would stop being amazed. It is so cool how you can see cutters in a whole new way.
I’m glad you and your family are better now. These cookies are cute and I bet you are glad to be back in the kitchen. I spent last Christmas in hospital with Salmonella, it sucked over the holiday season. Then again it was the first Christmas I’d ever lost weight instead of gaining it. In all seriousness though it was awful. It made me appreciate the simple non fancy Christmas with my family this year. Hope you don’t get a flu like that for many years to come if ever again 🙂
SO glad you’re back and feeling better! Missed you! LOVE this set as I do ALL of your sets!
Miss Callye, I learn something new every single time you post! Face shapes on cookies!!! (head slap!) Of course!!! That’s why you are you and we’re so glad you are teaching us all to be better!
So awesome! I loved your confetti technique you posted last year, and to think it easily works for stethoscopes… Genius!! Great post.
you are a genius!!!!!! 😀
I’m yuor mega fan!!!! 🙂
These are the cutest things I have ever seen! I sure wish I had your “vision” when it comes to repurposing cookie cutters. A bell for a nurses head, who would have thought…well you, apparently! Thanks for sharing!
Love these! Especially like the pills and thermometer – too clever.
Ok, I am into year 3 of my quest to be a great cookie maker, my skills are improving… I usually only use the big holidays to make “iced” cookies, but after stumbling on to this blog I may step that up.
Your cookies are stunning and your skill level off the charts. But what is jaw-dropping to me is your creativity. You can’t practice that. I’m a Creative Director by day and work with Creative (and some not so creative) people all day, every day. What you have can’t be bought or learned, you’re just born that way. Kind of like Michelangelo with cookies. You see the nurse’s head in the bell and you free it.
Truly Awesome! Thanks for setting the bar higher for me and lending me a few of your inspired ideas.
so cute!
holy cow ! these speak quite LOUDLY to me, especially since i’m a nurse blogger! thanks for sharing-you are too clever! 🙂
Absolutely adorable! What is the thermometer cookie cutter?? I can’t tell. Is the tongue depressor a surfboard? My sister in law is a nurse. These would be precious for her!
That one is an exclamation point…and you’re exactly right on the surfboard =)
I have been following your cookie creations for a long time. You are, in a word, amazing! Your ability to transform cutters just blows me away. I’ve tried to expand my horizons and flip & turn cutters, but no matter what, my snowman is just… an upside down snowman…a sideways snowman etc. lol. But that’s ok because there’s you; and you so freely share your creativity, lessons learned & incredible tutorials with anyone who wants it. I’m not sure I’ve ever said thank you for that. You make me excited about cookies! You rock, now please tell me what cutter that is you used for the Rx bottle, it is driving me nuts I can’t figure it out 🙂 Thanks much! Andrea
LOL, that is a tombstone…I am thinking Wilton. I’ve never use it for it’s intended purpose, but it makes for a great bottle, right?
Ahh! Now I see it, brilliant and I’m pretty sure I have an unused tombstone in my cc stash too 🙂 Thank you!
fantastic !!!
I know you have a lot of comments, and cant get to them all. But I hope you can this one. I have made the nurse cookies a couple of times. They go over very well. Of course they are no where as good as yours, because I’m a beginner(who gets flustered) sometimes. But the question I have is on the hair? I used 20 second icing so it would be thick, and tried to make it look curly. But mine all just kind of bled together? Are you doing a layer, letting it dry, and then another layer on top of that? And how do you make it curly looking? Can you please help me with this? Thanks: Tammy
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AMAZING!!! I’ve visited your blog almost everyday since December. I can’t stop looking and admiring your cookie creations. It’s cookie therapy for me. Thanks for sharing.
May I ask if you make orders of Only the nurse cookie in caucasian, brown hair and brown eyes? And may I ask how much would 12 – 15 Nurse Cookies cost? I would love to hear back from you. Thank you, Cheryl 3/30/14
With Nurses week coming up, these would be the ideal homemade gift to the hospital that took care of my mom, and make something for the Hospice chapter here. Where did you find the set with the various cutters? Luv it