Graduation Hat Sugar Cookies

The big day is drawing near for many students and I thought I would post some cookies I made for my friend Shelly when she graduated from medical assisting school last year. I don’t have anyone in my life graduating from anything right now, but I will say that I am very proud of my husband who is franticly studying for his Step 1 Boards Exam for medical school which he will take next week. You can do it, Benj!

I’m not going to go into much detail about how I made these cookies. If you want to learn more about how to make cookies like these, visit my sugar cookie tutorial. The recipe on the tutorial is a brown sugar spice cookie, but if you would like to make a coconut sugar cookie, click here for the recipe.

I started by outlining and flooding the cookie in black.

Once it was dry, I used black piping icing to separate the bottom and top of the hat. Then I used yellow piping icing to make a tassel. I added some yellow sanding sugar to the tassel to make it pop. Lastly, I added a thick black blob of black icing for the button on top of the hat.

I will say, I did have some problems with the tassels breaking because it is such a thin extension. I know there are other types of graduation hat cookie cutters out there with a more sturdy tassel. So, when choosing your cookie cutter, keep that in mind. If you don’t have to transfer them very far, a skinny tassel is probably fine, but I had to take them to work and from there to a graduation party and there was some breakage along the way.

If you have trouble getting your black icing black enough, add a little cocoa powder to darken it up.

Congrats Graduates!

By Edible Experiments