Hello and welcome back for yet another faux food post!
Today I'm sharing how I store and display my fake cookies. I have more than what's pictured here that are specific to holidays and seasons, but those I keep in my bakery storage when not in use. These however are out all of the time and can be found in my dining room.
Scroll on to see a photo of each shelf individually coupled with close-ups and descriptions:
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(In case you missed it, here is a post with all of my faux ice cream, here is one featuring my bakery and here is one all about my fake cakes)
Now on to that cookie cabinet-
Here is the cabinet with the door opened. I found the cabinet at a thrift store and refinished it to house my cookies. You can read about the cabinet here or see the rest of the dining room here.
Top Shelf
The large cookie sandwich in the left corner was made by painting giant checkers and sandwiching joint compound in the middle (here is a post where I did the same thing with some standard sized checkers in case you are interested). In addition to the giant cookie sandwiches, I also used some of the big checkers to make faux peppermints. I'll share a my tutorial for that as we get closer to the holidays 😍
The chocolate cookies stacked in the jar were an Ebay purchase from a store that no longer operates. I can tell you that they are standard salt dough and if you want to see them up close, check out this post from before I rebranded (my blog used to be called Jennifer Adams Flowers).
The two small cookies on top of the jar are toy pancakes that I painted with acrylic to look as though they are covered in icing and then glued on Dollar Tree foam sprinkles.
The shortbread cookies are a set that I purchased (I think from Amazon) and are made of plastic. You can find a similar set here.
The oatmeal sandwich cookies I made myself using clay in a silicone mold that I also made myself - tutorial here. In fact that tutorial contains many of the cookies from this cabinet, including the paint colors I used, so check it out if you want to replicate!
The artificial milk I bought here on Amazon. I also bought this set so that I could have two glassed of milk along with the gingerbread cookies. It's been about 7 years since I bought these and you can see that the tops of the milk have yellowed. I've now begun making my own faux milk glasses using candle wax, you can see how here.
The tiny shortbread cookies in the front are children's toys that I repainted with puffy paint.
Continuing on you have another view of those shortbread toy cookies and the discolored milk😄. All of the cookies in jars are made from clay and can be viewed in that silicone mold post I mentioned earlier. The stacked shortbread tower is made of salt dough cookies that I sandwiched with joint compound and topped with chocolate embellishments. And in the far top corner are more of those repainted pancakes.
You can find the cookie printable here in my Etsy shop.
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2nd Shelf
The open jar contains salt dough cookies that I made by using one whole cookie cutout and layered an open cutout on top. When they were dry I used acrylic paint to create the jam and sprinkled with baby powder to look like sugar. These are similar to the cookie cutters that I used. Just cut out two cookies in the same size, then use the next size down cutter to remove the center from one of your large cookies. Now you have an edge that you can stick on top.
All of the rest of the cookies here are clay painted in acrylic, again check out that silicone mold post.
More of the same as already described, but with a few differences: Some of the cookies in the largest jar were made with these molds, the shortbread stack here has been topped with faux clay fruit that I used this mold set to create, and the silicone molds (that I made myself) for the tiny bear and round cookies were made with kids toys.
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3rd Shelf
The jars on the left are filled with cookies I purchased from that no-longer-existing Ebay store, but again are salt dough. This shortbread stack is topped with faux clay blackberries, made with this mold set. The hearts in the front and rounds in the jar are both clay that I painted in acrylic, topped with spackle and then either drizzled puffy paint for chocolate (hearts) or sprinkled real cinnamon (rounds). The Oreo type of sandwich cookies I made with clay (silicone mold post) and acrylic paint.
Another angle of the cinnamon sprinkled rounds and clay faux 'Oreos'. Both types of striped shorbread (large and small) are again from that silicone mold post. The waffle sandwich cookies are from using clay in these molds, painting in acrylic and layering with joint compound. The fruit shortbread are salt dough that I painted with acrylic, topped with joint compound to look like icing and then popped in a faux cherry.
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Bottom Shelf
The far back corner features a collection of various salt dough cookies that I got from Amazon, but are no longer available 😢 The multicolored wafers are clay in more of my home made silicone molds and this shortbread stack is topped in faux clay strawberries/ blackberries from this mold set. The tiny jam cookies are just itty bitty salt dough rounds that I used my thumb to shape and then painted in acrylic. The Oreo cookies in the back are plastic toys from this vintage matching game.
Not seen before / already described in this photo angle are the faux chocolate chip cookies that came with my discolored fake set 😄, a jar of tiny bears and a mixed jar of mint chocolate cookies. The tiny bears were made using hot glue in this mold, painting in acrylic and sprinkling in cinnamon. I have this post where I show how to use hot glue in silicone molds, but I will say that air dry clay is cheaper and easier! The mixed jar of mint chocolate cookies are half salt dough (made the same way as those cherry topped ones a few photos ago) and half clay that I painted.
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And there you have it, my faux cookie storage and display!
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I hope you enjoyed this faux food post, thanks for stopping by!
-Jennifer
© Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams 2022
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