Double-Stuffed Farm Animal Cookie

Three fondant-decorated cupcakes designed as a pig, cow, and sheep farm animals
Kim Simons
Intermediate
Learn how to make adorable double-stuffed farm animal cookies with sugar cookie dough, buttercream, cake, and fondant decorations. A fun project for bakers of all levels.

Supply List

Sugar cookie dough
Buttercream
Cake
Chocolate Ganache (Recipe)
Fondant: white, black, pink, brown, and beige
Parchment paper
Flour
Cornstarch
Piping gel
Paint brushes
Cookie sheets
Round cookie cutters
Round silicone mold
Silicone mat
Rolling pin
Wheel cutter
Cake tools

Instructions

  • Roll out sugar cookie dough.
    Rolling out sugar cookie dough with a rolling pin.
  • Shape top dough with mold and cut excess dough from shape.
    Pressing a round cookie cutter into sugar cookie dough.
  • Roll out sugar cookie dough for bottom and trim dough to shape.
    Cutting sugar cookie dough rounds with a metal cutter.
  • Bake 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Sugar cookies baking on a sheet pan in the oven.
  • Remove mold from the top cookies.
    Removing the silicone mold from a baked cookie.
  • Using a piping bag, coat inside of top with buttercream icing and add cake.
  • Cover cake with chocolate ganache.
    Piping chocolate ganache onto the cookie cake filling.
  • Put top and bottom cookies together.
    Pressing the top and bottom cookies together.
  • Coat body with piping gel using a brush.
    Brushing piping gel onto the cookie body.
  • Roll out fondant thinly and cover the cookie; you now have the body.
    Stretching white fondant to cover the cookie body.
  • Roll out fondant thickly about 1⁄4 inch for head. Using a round cookie cutter, cut out the head.
  • Using a ball tool, add the face details.
    Using a ball tool to add face details to the fondant head.
  • Add more detail to face/body with darker fondant and glue with piping gel.
    Decorating a fondant cow face with black spots, eyes, and a pink snout.
  • Shape horns, feet, eyes, nose, ears, etc. from fondant and glue with piping gel.
    A pink fondant sheep head with brown horns, beard, and facial features.
  • Cut or bite your cookie and enjoy!
    Lifting the top half of the pig cookie to reveal the layered interior.