Tiger Cookie

A modeling chocolate tiger face with rainbow-colored fur stripes and yellow eyes on a green background
Intermediate

Learn how to decorate a tiger cookie using modeling chocolate with colorful details, clay tools, and edible paints.

Supply List

4-Inch Square Sugar Cookie
Edible Marker
Modeling chocolate
Piping Gel
Two Small Paintbrushes
Clay Tool with a Point
Small Ball Tool
Small Cup of Water
Paper Towel
Edible colors (navy blue)

Instructions

  • Sketch the tiger design onto the cookie with an edible marker.
    Hand drawing a tiger face sketch on a sugar cookie with a marker.
  • Using green modeling chocolate and a clay tool, add the background.
    Hand piping green modeling chocolate around the tiger sketched cookie.
  • Roll black modeling chocolate into thin tubes and add the outline details.
    Hand using a tool to smooth black modeling chocolate stripes on the cookie.
  • Build up the face using different colored modeling chocolate — use light colors to highlight and dark colors to shadow.
    Tiger face built with colorful modeling chocolate stripes on a cookie.
  • Use a clay tool to add texture to the fur and details.
    Hand using a clay tool to add fur texture to the modeling chocolate tiger.
  • Add the nose using black and red modeling chocolate.
    Hand adding modeling chocolate nose details to the tiger cookie.
  • Add black modeling chocolate to the eye area and use a ball tool to make indentations.
    Hand using a ball tool to indent eye sockets on the tiger cookie.
  • Roll two eighth-inch balls of yellow modeling chocolate for the eyes. Add a small piece of black for the pupil and a tiny piece of white for the highlight.
    Hand adjusting yellow modeling chocolate eyes on the tiger face.
  • Use white and royal blue petal dust to add highlights and shadows.
    Hand dusting petal dust highlights onto the tiger cookie.

Products Used

Satin Ice: Modeling chocolate (white, black, blue, light blue, red, pink, orange, yellow, green, light green, purple)

The Sugar Art: Edible colors