Decorated Cheerleader Cookies
In Texas, Friday is synonymous with football, which makes it the perfect day for decorated cheerleader cookies. But before we get to the decorating, I want to share a little story about what I learned from these cookies.
As some of you might have noticed, I’m kind of a perfectionist (that might be a gross understatement) and I really pride myself on ironing out the kinks in a design so the people using my tutorials don’t have to.
Most of the time this works for me, except sometimes, I have an “off” week. This turned out to be one of those weeks.
Just as I was about to complete this set, I got so hung up on a small detail that I could not move forward. Want to take a guess at what almost caused me to scrap this post?
It’s THAT line. The one I had to point out with huge arrow, because otherwise you wouldn’t know what I was talking about.
One little line that bugs me beyond belief. I don’t even know why it bothers me, it just doesn’t look “right”. As soon as I piped it, I wanted to click undo, but it was too late.
Yes, I know I’m crazy, but I wanted to talk about my little problem…partly to help myself get past the issue, and to help others to avoid the same thing.
Left unchecked, being a slave to perfectionism can be cripple you!
In the end, I will probably never love these cookies, but in the grand scheme of things that little old line isn’t really a big deal. Maybe my idea will inspire someone to create an improved version, or keep them from wasting valuable time redoing something that was fine in the first place.
Lesson learned. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
To make cheerleader cookies I used a small flower to add pom poms to a Wilton girl cutter. If you don’t own this cutter, you can find a similar one here.
If piecing isn’t your thing, you can always bake the cookies separately and attach them later.
To make these cookies you will need:
- Flesh colored 20-second icing
- Red piping and 20-second icing
- White 20-second icing
- Blue piping and 20 second icing
- Black piping icing
Begin by mapping out the design with a food color marker. This is a great way to make uniform cookies without using a projector.
Next, ice the base in sections, allowing a few minutes (more if you have bleeding issues) of drying time between each area before moving to the next.
Let the base dry then add the details:
- Pipe a swirl pattern over the hair.
- Use black icing to pipe two dots for eyes.
- Add blue lines to indicate a collar and the separation between the shirt and skirt (or not).
- Use red icing to create hair bows, pop pom strings, stripes on the sweater, skirt pleats, and socks. For instructions on making the bows, click here.
These cookies are the perfect size for favors, but I like to mix them with other designs to add color and interest.
For more of my favorite football cookie ideas, check out the following posts:
Oh my Goodness THANK YOU
for the link to the cutters!
I’ve been going nuts trying to find
them online ever since I saw them
on your Instagram.
Can’t wait to buy!
THANK YOU!
-Lia
I sooo feel your perfectionist pain! I try and tell myself to embrace “organic” designs that include natural imperfections and make my designs more “real”… but the goofs still drive me crazy! Lol. That said, these are adorbs and those snowman cutter football guys are fantastic! Long live the king of the cutters, the Snowman!! 🙂
I see what you mean with the line….. you wanted it to be the waistband of the skirt? Maybe wet-on-wet next time, with a slightly lighter or darker blue? Regardless, they are still some seriously cute cookies!!!! 🙂 I absolutely love the simplicity of the round stadium ones!
Love these! And I wish I could find that Wilton girl cookie cutter!
They’re hard to find now, but Cheap Cookie Cutters is so close the difference is almost unnoticeable 🙂
Love the cheerleader. Please post a tutorial on the football player. Thank you.
You might be good at Basketball
You might be good at Track
But when it comes to Cookies
Everyone might as well step back.
You Rocked It.
These are darling! And I’m still charmed by those tiny hair bows. (I send you mental thank-yous every time I make them!)
These are perfect!
So awesome! I *need* to get that little girl cutter! And the football player with the upside-down snowman? Pure genius!!
I love you so much right now for putting on full audio the little voices in my head that mock me. Thank you for this!
Those pom-poms could NOT be cuter!!!!
Your cookies are as close to perfect as I’ve ever seen. Please don’t stress so much! This collection is adorable!!
I absolutely love these! But now we need a tutorial on those stinkin cute football players!! Thank you for being everyone’s cookie “how to” girl! You make everything look so easy 🙂
A. you are crazy for thinking these cookies are anything but perfection.
B. your talent makes me want to stop decorating cookies forever and just gaze at yours!
Totally perfect!
Don’t you hate when that happens? The truth is, you are the only one that would have ever noticed it. All I see when I look at your picture is a cute little cheerleader and some great football cookies. Love the pom-poms!
Thin blue line or not, this is one very cute cookie. This entire football collection is adorable and I hope you post more about it.
Adorable, line or no line! 😉 Can’t wait to see the whole set!
Super adorable cookies! I was a cheer mom for years. Love these. I just made some for my little neighbor who made the HS squad recently. I think I need to make more like yours soon. Thank you for the tutorial…
so sweet!!
If you didn’t point out the line with a black arrow, I doubt anybody else would have noticed it 🙂 I have a question though. How did you attach the blossoms to the girl wothout ruining the shapes and makig sure they actually stick to each other while baking?
Cute as cute as cute can be! She is absolutely adorable! And I can so relate to what you are talking about! Again, so cute!
These are seriously cute cookies! Never would have noticed the line, but I get it. Adorable!
I just love this design! Not only that, I’m totally digging the supporting cookies in the background! The footballer and homecoming mum?! Genius!
These are adorable. I was wondering if you have a post about how to make the football players pictured in this picture as well?
Coming By Wednesday =)
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All so cute! But those footballs are just perfection!
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I always adore your cookies and ideas. You are so talented. I wish I could do cookies as cute as you. If I were a stay at home mom, I might make the time to practice to get to that point. Although I wouldn’t know what to do with all the ugly cookies I would make. I have a thought on your line to separate the shirt from skirt but since I don’t even get close to the ideas you have its ok if you just through it out the window…. here goes…..What if you separated the base into two sections(you know the trick you do of filling one section, let it dry, then do the next section). Like I said I don’t do cookies like you do, so I don’t know if this would work, but it might make it look like you want it to. I love your designs! Thank you for posting tutorials! You are the one who sparked me wanting to decorate (even though I have only done it three times). THANKS!!
Super Cute!!!