This past weekend I made woodland cookies for a little girl's fifth birthday.  I had such fun making these cookies.

One cookie I knew that I wanted to make was a tree stump.  I hand-cut the cookies using this picture as my template.  I piped the light brown upper section first and immediately added the darker brown for the rings.  I also piped a small area of light brown for the knot.  I spread that icing very thin with a butter knife.  Then I piped and flooded the rest of the stump with dark brown.  I let the icing set for a minute or two then I ran the butter knife through the icing to create the bark effect.  I piped grass and a small mushroom around the base of the stump.  The finishing touches were painting on more rings on the top and in the knot. I added a tiny amount of moss too.