I've never been to Germany for the real Oktoberfest.  The little town that we live in has an Oktoberfest celebration this weekend, which is pretty exciting.  My husband and I attended last year, and are looking forward to attending again this year.  Hooray for beer!

For the pretzel cookie, I used a heart cookie cutter and just cut off the tip.  Then I took a brown food coloring marker and sketched the pretzel shape on the cookie.  I followed the drawing and outlined the pretzel.  Then I flooded the cookie.  While the icing was still wet, I used real sea salt on the cookie.  I felt it would make for a fun salty/sweet combination. 

For beer mugs, I used two different shapes.  One shape was this cookie cutter; the other was this shape for the Silhouette.  I started out by drawing the handle portion of the mugs with a food coloring marker.  Then I piped and flooded this area with light blue icing and allowed it time to dry.  With a brownish yellow icing, I filled in the inner portion of the mug.  While still wet, I added a few bubbles to the beer.  Once that section dried, I added a light shade of the beer color on top.  Then I used ivory icing for the foam portion.  I used a darker and light brown on the other two cookies to represent different kinds of beers.

For Mr. and Mrs. Oktoberfest, I used my Wilton's boy and girl cutters.  I made a drawing beforehand which helped with placement of everything.  I took pictures to better show the steps to decorate these two. For the girl I cut off the pigtail portion before baking.  The first thing I did was fill in any flesh tone areas.  I used "15-second" icing.  While the icing was still wet, I added black dragees decoration balls for eyes.

Once the flesh tone icing was dried, I added the blue dress for the girl and the white shirt for the guy.  I also added a line with flesh tone piping icing to define the girls legs.

The next step was adding white sleeves to the girls dress and some white ruffles to the neck area. I then used a light yellow to fill in the left section of her hair.  For the guy I added the brown lederhosen.

The next step in the process was to add the apron with white icing.  While the icing was still wet, I used pink and green to create a design on the apron.  I filled in the right section of hair and added in one black shoe.  On the guy, I added the detail to the lederhosen and shirt.  I piped a white section to represent socks below the lederhosen.

The final touches for the girl were adding the other shoe, a bow at her waist for the apron, and a white "X" just about the apron to represent the lacing on German dresses.  I placed a black line across her neck.  A lot of pictures I looked at, the women wore a black necklace-like thing.  I'm not sure if it has a more formal name.  Then I added hair detail and braids.  For the guy I added his shoes and some lines on the socks.  I put in the chest section on the lederhosen and yellow buttons and buckles.  I piped in his hair and mustache.  I piped the hat once the hair had dried.  The final touches were a line for the hat and a little flower on the lederhosen.

If you attend an Oktoberfest celebration, I hope you have a pleasurable and secure time.  PROST!