I think this was one the most difficult set of cookies I have ever made.  I stressed out about them a lot.  This is the first time I've been asked to make a realistic image of a dog.  It was as difficult as creating characters and logos.  When my husband told me I had a request to make Snoopys, I was thinking it was the Peanuts character.  I was surprised when I found out I would be trying to create a real dog in cookie form.

For the the Snoopy cookie, I used this picture given to me by the owner.  I used Photoshop to resize the image and just use the face  part for the cookie.  I hand-cut the cookies.  I took a food coloring marker and sketched in the eyes and nose.  To create the fur-like texture, I used a paintbrush to add the royal icing (similar to the brush embroidery).  I refereed to the photo to see the direction of the fur and painted the icing in the same direction.  I stared with the pink of the ears and painted one section of fur.  I allowed that to dry before moving on to the next section.  I filled in most of the fur before filling in the nose and eyes.  After all the icing had dried, I used some brown and black food coloring to paint in some shading to the fur.

For the dog house, I used this cookie cutter.  I piped and flooded the house part.  Once that section had dried, I piped and filled in the roof.  I piped on the lines of the house next.  I was able to find these bone sprinkles at Joann's because it's so close to Halloween.  I drew the sign with a food coloring marker first, then piped over it with a light brown icing and filled it in.  I used a small letter stamp set to stamp Snoopy's name on the sign with black food coloring.  Then I took a brown food coloring marker to create wood grain on the sign.

For the plaque, I used this cookie cutter.   I created my own bone and paw stencil.  I cut it out with my Silhouette, and used black Wilton's Color Mist.

I hope Snoopy had a great doggie birthday!