Fancy Spritz Cookies Tutorial

Supplies List:

-ruler
-razor blade
-Tan polymer clay
-pasta machine(square cookies) or clear plastic lid (round cookies).
-Toothbrush
-white acrylic paint
-puff paint in brown/chocolate, red/cherry, white/cream
-brownish orange pastel chalk
-(1)paint brush good crisp flat bristles and, (1) gnarly old weird bristles.
-tooth pic
-plastic icing tips (round for piping)
-Wax paper
-baking pan

Let's get started:

1. Light tan clay kneaded until smooth.
2. Roll a length of clay into snake about 1 inch diameter.
3. Slice 1/2 inch pieces of clay off and roll into a smooth ball.
4. Place under plastic lid and evenly press down until balls are about 1/4
of an inch thick.
5. Using the piping tip like a thimble, press completly through the center of each
flattened cookie.
6. If you are going to use as a charm or pendant,
now is the time to insert an eyepin.
7. Using a toothpic or other tiny tipped tool, we're going to create a "cookie press"
effect. Begin pressing tiny dimples into the center's sides on an angle
(left/inside to right/outside - pinwheel pattern)
creating a dotted line started at the inside, across the top and down the outside.
Repeat this pinwheel dotted line 3-4 more times around each cookie.
8. Use the crisp straight edged paint brush to soften the "dots" and create a smoother line.
9. Using the toothbrush gently pounce along the sides and top of the cookies to
give them a textured baked look.
10. Scratch the surface of your brown chalk.
Very lightly dust the bottom edges of your cookie.
11. Ok so that renegade paint brush is going to really pull this guy together.
Dry brush white paint for a nice powder sugar effect,
dip tip of said gnarly bristled paint brush into white acrylic paint.
blot off on a paper towel and very lightly pounce that brush around the top of cookie.
12. After the clay has cooled off you can cut loose and make them chocolate dipped, sprinkle "jimmies" on top of them, sparkling bits of "sugar", etc.



TIP. Holiday or theme spritz cookies look great in other colors of clay.
You can usually find cookies with this pattern in red, pink and green with sugar sprinkles during holidays. Embellish with tiny beads, jimmies etc.
they are a darling cookie with an endless amount of design possiblities!