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Sailboat Nautical Cookies

Also see Sailboat Dinner Party

Sugar Cookie Recipe

* Ingredients :

* *1/2 cup Butter

*1 cup Sugar

*1 teaspoon Vanilla

*1/2 cup Heavy Cream or Whipping Cream, Sour Cream or Cream Cheese (I’ve used each one of these variation each gives the cookie a slightly different taste and they’re all yummy!) Note: If you use cream cheese use only 3 cups of flour

*3 and 1/4 cup All-purpose Flour

*1 teaspoon Soda

*1/2 teaspoon Salt

* In a stand mixer on medium-low speed cream together the butter and sugar. Then add the vanilla, egg and cream of your choice and mix just until combined.

* Using Sifter, sift together in a bowl the flour soda and salt and slowly add to the creamed mixture, mixing on low just until barely combined. Dough should be slightly sticky. Do Not Over Mix!

* Then divide the dough into 3 dough balls, flatten dough balls making disk shapes. Now wrap each disk in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 30 minutes or more.

* Remove 1 dough disk at a time from the refrigerator and rollout disk on a floured surface with rolling-pin or use 2 pieces of plastic wrap, placing the dough disk in the center of 1 of the pieces of plastic wrap and the second piece on top of the dough disk, use rolling-pin and roll out the cookie dough about 1/2 inch thick.

* Use a cookie cutter of your choice and cut out shapes in the rolled out dough. Repeat for each dough disk. Then add to the next dough disk the scraps from the first disk or (discard scraps of dough), continue this technic until all the dough is used. Place cookies on a Silpat covered half baking sheet, 12 cookies per sheet. For best results refrigerate the cut cookies on baking sheet before baking 5-10 minutes.

* Bake the cookies in a pre-heated 425* F. oven for 8-12 minutes or barely starting to turn golden on the bottom; baking time depends on the size of cookie cutter used. Do Not Over Bake! If you do over bake they will become to hard. Cool on baking sheet.

Recipe from Tested Recipes Cookbook, Central Milling Company third edition, now out of print an old family cookbook

Glac’e Icing

Ingredients:

*1 pound of Powdered Sugar (3 and 3/4 cup) * 6 tablespoons Whole Milk or (I used 5 tablespoons whipping cream 1 tablespoon water it worked extremely well) you can use other milk but you will have to use more powdered sugar

Instructions:

Whisk together in a stand mixer on medium speed, the milk and powdered sugar until smooth no lumps. Now stir in the light corn syrup and extract.

*6 tablespoon Light Corn Syrup (1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons) *1 teaspoon Vanilla extract, use clear Vanilla extract if you need a white frosting and if you want an Almond Flavor use an Almond extract and use it in the cookie dough too.

Use this recipe for glazing cookies and the piping of the outside of cookies. Piping helps contain the frosting while pipe filling in the center of the cookie.

Use a pastry bag for each color of frosting you want to use, small round tip for piping around the edge and then I used a plastic bottle with a tip lid to fill in the center of the cookies which had a larger opening.

Special Supplies:

**Nautical Cookie Cutters, see similar on

Amazon Nautical Cookie Cutters – Sailboat – Fish Cookie Cutters

**Pastry Bags with Small tips or Silicone Piping Bottle

*White, Dots or Sugar Pearls for Eyes on Fish, Sails, Lighthouse

*Copper, Lighthouse Light, Sailboat Flag

*Blue, Border on Lighthouse, Shells and Fish,

*Light Blue, Sailboat, Hull and Mast, Lines on Shells

*Small and Large Candy Balls/Sprinkles/Sugar Pearls found on Walmart or Amazon

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I couldn’t decide if I wanted to draw a blue anchor on a white background…

Or a white anchor on a blue background…

So I did both.

These cookies were all done with the help of my Kopykake projector. I projected the image of the anchor onto the blank cookie canvases to help guide my drawing with royal icing.

The projector was especially helpful with the life preserver cookies. While it might not seem like it, the life preserver cookies were far more difficult to decorate than the anchors. There are three concentric circles (outer background circle, outside edge of the of the life preserver, and inside edge of the life preserver) that leave very little room for error. If one of the circles is more than a little off, there’s just no hiding it.

There are also far more steps to create the life preserver. The background must first be filled and allowed to completely dry. Then, the outside/inside edges of the preserver have to be drawn and left to dry before being filled with white. Once that is left to dry, the red accents are drawn on. Oh yeah, and there’s the rope and additional red to cover the rope. See what I mean? Surprisingly complex stuff here!

What do you think? My husband, who has seen just about everything I’ve made, was pretty damn impressed. If I can make something that gets unsolicited props from him, I know I’m on the right track.

2 Responses

Thanks for the great work, I am the husband/father of those women and the cookies looked terrific! I waited too long to let others see them and by the time I got “below deck” again they were gone. Teaches me to get a bite early next time.I have enjoyed your work before at Tessa’s home. I admire your patience and attention to detail, two skills I have yet to develop. George Judd

Hahahaha! I’m so glad to hear you liked the cookies – or attempted to at least 🙂 Next time, be sure to set one aside “just in case.”

Thank you so much for your kind words as well. I’m glad to hear that patience and attention to detail are reflected in the cookies. I don’t always feel patient when things go awry, but when things work out, it’s AWESOME.

(My comments were being marked as spam (yikes!) until today, so I totally missed your comment until now. Sorry for the delayed reply!)

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How to Make Decorated Sailboat Cookies

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July 25, 2021 By marian 1 Comment

3D Sailboat Cookies {Decorating Video and Sailboat Template}

Hello again sweet friends! With summer in full swing, I’m happy to share this little sweet project with you – 3D sailboat cookies.

Before I jump into the tutorial, there are a few important points to know about before beginning the project. First off, it’s important that the cut-out cookie recipe you use as the base for the sailboat hold their shape well. The key to these cookies keeping their shape lies not only in the combination of ingredients (exact measurement in baking is important) and omission of the leavening agent (i.e. baking powder), but in some crucial points in the process. You can find a whole post dedicated to cookies keeping their shape here .

Cookie Recipe

I used my classic sugar cookie recipe for these, which you can find here . If you’d like to try a different cookie base, other recipes can be found here . It helps to roll your dough quite thin by the way. My pieces are approximately 0.5 cm thick.

If you’re decorating these at a time when the humidity in your area is high, having a de-humidifier on in the room you’re working in will help the cookie dry well and prevent icing from bleeding. You can find more information on drying cookies here , a post on preventing cookies from bleeding here , and spotting here .

How to Make a 3D Sailboat Cookie

If you’ve ever made a gingerbread house, the process to putting together this cookie sailboat is the same. As with a gingerbread house, the recipe for the base and the icing make a huge difference. You can find the cookie recipes here , as well as a video on how to put a gingerbread house together here . I’ll also share the basics below.

Sailboat Cookie Template

If you’d like to use the same template I used for my sailboats, print and cut out the template shapes , place them on your rolled out dough, and cut with a paring knife, tiny roller, or exacto knife. After the pieces have been baked you can decorate them, let the pieces dry, and assemble.

The FULL TEMPLATE for the SAILBOAT can be found by clicking HERE .

Royal Icing for the Sailboat

You can find my favorite royal icing recipe here . The consistency of icing is key for easy decorating. Click here to see a YouTube video on finding the right icing thickness.

Decorating Items

What you’ll need if you’re flooding the sailboat pieces:

Piping Tips
Food Gel Coloring

Sailboat Cookie Decorating Video

If you’d like to see a video demonstration of the you can see one on my Pinterest page HERE . I wasn’t able to upload it to my blog page.

Decorating and assembling are quite straightforward, just make sure the icing you use to assemble the pieces together is a nice thick royal icing, not the same consistency as a cookie decorating icing. Again, if this is helpful for you, here is a video on how to put a gingerbread house together here . The sailboat assembly is a similar process.

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to drop me a line below in the comment section or on social media. You can find me on Facebook , Google+ , Instagram , Pinterest , Twitter and YouTube .

Happy sailing!

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July 26, 2021 at 9:03 am

Wow…Amazing work! Love it! The colours of the boat is very pretty. Very detailed and knowledgeable decorater you are! And the best teacher! Thank you for your hard work and sharing your talents! ML

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