Oh what a difference a month makes.  I first made these Chica cookies in April.  About a month ago, I had another request and it was a bit of a disaster.  I had major problems with the icing and things went down hill fast.  This set of Chicas was a success. 

I don't have a Chica cookie cutter - man I wish I did!  I hand-cut these cookies.  I used this coloring book page as my template.  I started by outlining the cookie with black icing.  When the black icing had dried, I filled in the yellow face and red head feather.  I allowed those two sections to dry overnight.  The next day I added eyebrows and eyelashes.  Then I adhered the royal icing eye I had made ahead of time.  I had such trouble with putting the eyes on the wet icing last time.  This time I waited and adhered them to dry icing to prevent bleeding.  I piped the black outline for the beak and allowed it time to dry.  I filled in the beak with a lighter yellow icing.  The final touch was to add the black section of the mouth with a red tongue.

The barn cookie cutter is from here.  I started off by drawing on where I wanted the roof to be with a food coloring maker (shown in photo).  Then I piped and flooded the red section of the barn.  I allowed that to dry for 24 hours, I did not want to take the chance of having the red bleed into the white roof.  With the red fully dried, I added the white roof.  I piped on the white door and added a black rectangular window.  Once the window had dried, I took yellow icing and made a squiggly line for the hay.  I covered the wet yellow icing with sanding sugar as the final touch. 

For the number "1" cookie, I used my cutter from here.  I started by piping and flooding it with yellow icing.  Then I used this stencil to create the gingham plaid look.  I used red Wilton's Color Mist.  I used my new stencil genie from here and it works out pretty handy.  I placed the stencil with the lines on a diagonal and sprayed it.  Then I rotated the stencil so the lines criss-crossed and sprayed again.  I piped a red board line on the cookie to finish it off.