A friend/coworker’s daughter (Mallory!) is leaving for a 6-month exchange program in Australia. Her mom asked me to make her some cookies as a surprise.
I used a teddy bear cutter that came in my Wilton baby set (top cookie) but I turned it upsidedown to make my koalas. Koalas have big ears ya know!
To get an idea of my design, I first sketched it out on the cookie with a yellow food color marker.
Then I outlined all the cookies in black. I will be doing this more often, it made my life 1000 times easier.
I also made some kangaroos!
I teased everyone on fb with this photo of my colors… I didn’t realize how many things could be made with browns and greys until everyone started guessing!
I filled in my little koalas’ bellies, chins, and ears with light grey and let it dry a bit.
Then I came back and filled in the grey. The ears were tricky because I didn’t want to lose the “fluff” definition I made with my black.
So cute already!
Once the grey had dried a little I added some eyes and filled in the noses.
The kangaroos got filled in with brown and light tan for the bellies.
I added a little mouth to a couple of the koalas.
Bye Mallory!! You’re going to have an amazing time!
Cookie Carrie 
Holy Hell those are cute!!!!
haha glad you like them!
Adorable!!
thanks angela!
Wow, the upside down Teddy Bear is a perfect Koala! How cute! Thanks for sharing that!!!
How exciting for your friend Mallory. She’s going to love these cookies. I hope she saves some for the plane trip and shows them off to everyone on the flight 🙂
SUPER cute!
Thanks Jennifer!
These are amazing! I love that you had the vision to see a koala in an upside down teddy bear! I never would have seen that…you’re so creative! Both the koala and kangaroo are perfect. Great job Carrie!