Glee Cookies!

Any Gleeks out there? I happen to love TV comedies, plus I'm a sucker for musicals, so Glee definitely fits my bill for awesome TV. Because the season premiere for Glee's second season is tomorrow, I decided to make some Glee character sugar cookies.

The challenge I had with these cookies was translating real people into a cartoon-y cookie form. Luckily, all the characters on the show have distinguishing hair and clothing, so it wasn't that big of a problem. I used the Glee Season 1 Volume 1 DVD set as my reference for the characters (which explains why some characters are missing and why Quinn is still a Cheerio), so for non-Glee watchers, if you're wondering who is who, you can always search up the DVD cover.

Seems like there will be some interesting couple drama in the upcoming season with the introduction of John Stamos's character as Emma's new beau, a love triangle between Artie, Tina, and Mike, the now post-baby Puck and Quinn, and Rachel and Finn getting back together. Oh, and fun cameos like Britney Spears, I can't wait!

Glee Cookies

sugar cookie dough
sugar cookie icing
food coloring
1-inch circle cookie
knife
pearl milk tea straw
chopstick
toothpicks

For all the characters, except Sue (she was more square), I started with a circle for the face, and made additional additions with little bits of dough for the hair and ears. Then I used a knife to alter a rectangle for the neck/body. The ears were made as usual, by cutting out circles with a pearl milk tea straw, pushing the circles out with a chopstick, and then cutting the dough circle in half.

Below, on the left side of the pictures, I've illustrated how I generally made each of the character cookie dough shapes. The numbered steps above the pictures are the order in which I iced and decorated each character after the cookies were baked and cooled. The right side of the character image shows how the cookies look after all the icing is done. Mix food coloring with the sugar cookie icing and use toothpicks to spread the icing onto the cookies. Let the icing dry between steps.

Finn
1) Brown hair
2) Blue shirt stripes + collar
3) Gray shirt stripes
4) Peach skin
5) Blue sprinkle eyes
6) Black smile

Artie
1) White shirt collar
2) Brown hair
3) Blue vest
4) Yellow vest stripes
5) Rest of white shirt
6) Peach skin
7) Blue sprinkle eyes
8) Black smile + glasses

Puck
1) Brown mohawk
2) Gray shirt
3) Tan scalp
4) Peach skin
5) Purple sprinkle eyes
6) Black smile

Kurt
1) White shirt collar
2) Brown hair
3) Brown blazer
4) Red tie
5) Rest of white shirt
6) Peach skin
7) Blue sprinkle eyes
8) Black smile

Will
1) White shirt collar
2) Brown hair
3) Brown blazer
4) Black tie
5) Rest of white shirt
6) Peach skin
7) Blue sprinkle eyes
8) Black smile

Tina
1) White shirt collar
2) Blue hair stripes
3) Purple shirt
4) Black hair poof
4) Black stripes on shirt
5) Black hair
6) Dark purple stripes on shirt
7) Peach skin
8) Purple sprinkle eyes
9) Red smile

Sue
1) Red tracksuit collar
2) White tracksuit stripes
3) Yellow hair
4) Res of red tracksuit
5) Peach skin
6) Blue sprinkle eyes
7) Red smile

Rachel
1) White shirt collar
2) Mustard yellow cardigan
3) Brown hair
4) Rest of white shirt
5) Peach skin
6) Purple sprinkle eyes
7) Red smile

Quinn
1) Red uniform stripes
2) Blue uniform stripes
3) Yellow hair
4) White areas of uniform
5) Peach skin
6) Blue sprinkle eyes
7) Red smile

Mercedes
1) Purple shirt
2) Orange headband
3) Green part of shirt
4) Black hair
5) Brown skin
6) Purple sprinkle eyes
7) Red smile

Emma
1) Yellow shirt collar
2) Orange hair
3) Salmon cardigan
4) Rest of yellow shirt
5) White sprinkle necklace
6) Peach skin
7) Green sprinkle eyes
8) Red smile

Terri
1) Pink shirt
2) Yellow hair
3) Peach skin
4) Blue sprinkle eyes
5) Red smile