Realistic Blueberry Muffin Cookies

When I was testing my blueberry muffin sugar cookie recipe, I knew I wanted to make cookies decorated as blueberry muffins. And I wanted them to look as realistic as possible!

Painting the cookie to add highlights and shadows was obvious, but that pleated muffin liner was going to be tricky to achieve purely from painting.

Thankfully, there has been a trend lately in the cookie decorating community to use pleated parchment paper to create a beautiful bumpy texture. And wouldn’t you know it, but muffin liners are already pieces of pleated parchment! It was kismet.

How to Make Them:

Recipes:

• Blueberry muffin sugar cookie

• Classic sugar cookie

• Royal icing

Supplies:

• Muffin or cupcake cookie cutter (STL file for my cutter here)

• Rounded rectangle cookie cutter

• Stiff consistency icing

  • Light brown (I used Americolor’s warm brown)

  • Ivory

• Piping consistency icing

  • Lighter navy blue

• Flood consistency icing

  • Light grey (I used Americolor ash)

  • Light brown

  • Navy blue

• Clean paint brushes

• Paint pallet

• Scribe tool

• Large muffin liner

• White food paint

• White master elite dust

• Silver metallic dust

• Gel food color (or other painting colors) in dark brown, warm brown, navy blue, and violet.