Musical Instrument Cake Toppers

Fondant-covered musical instrument cookies
Kim Simons
Intermediate
Make musical instrument-shaped cookies covered in fondant with hand-painted details — perfect cake toppers for music lovers.

Supply List

Your favorite gingerbread cookie recipe
White fondant
Edible colors
Edible marker
Wooden dowels
Silicone mat
Rolling pin
Cake tools
Paint brushes
Small precision knife
Oven
Cookie baking sheet
Parchment paper

Instructions

  • Start with your favorite gingerbread cookie recipe. Mix up the ingredients and roll out the dough.
    Hands rolling out cookie dough with a rolling pin on a silicone mat.
  • Place musical instrument stencil on rolled out dough. Cut to shape with a sharp blade. Repeat as necessary.
    Hands pressing a guitar stencil onto rolled cookie dough.
  • Bake shaped cookies as per your recipe.
    Guitar-shaped cookie cutout on parchment paper before baking.
  • Roll out fondant. Cover instrument cookies with fondant sheets. Trim excess.
    Hand cutting fondant around a guitar-shaped cookie with a knife.
  • Sculpt details out of fondant and add to cookies as needed.
    Fondant-covered guitar-shaped cookie on a cutting mat.
  • Draw on any necessary details with a pen using edible ink.
    Hand drawing details on a fondant guitar cookie with an edible ink pen.
  • Paint cookies to your preference with edible paint.
    Hand painting details on a fondant-covered guitar cookie with a brush.