Owls are right up there after unicorns on my list of favorite things.  I have something owl related in almost every room of my house.  I love how owls look with their large yellow eyes.  The symbolism of owls standing for wisdom, intuition, and keen observation intrigues are traits that I strongly believe in.

Anytime I get the chance to make owl cookies I jump at it.  Owls for some reason are very adaptable to almost any shape.  In 2012 at the first Cookie Con I participated in the mystery shape challenge, I made an owl.  This is what it looked like.  I have thirteen different owl cutters in my larger cookie cutter collection.  Getting to make an owl out of a non-owl cutter was a fun challenge.

I had a bunch of shades of blue icing so that's what I went with.  I started by piping the head and flooding it.  Once the head was dry, I piped and flooded the body.  While the icing was wet, I piped a circle with polka dots for the tummy.  Below the body, I piped a brown branch as the owls perch.  I added one eye at a time because I didn't want the dots to get to smooshed together.   Once the body was dry, I made brush embroidery wings.  I piped the tail feathers below the branch.  The final touches were adding a beak, feet, and painting some detail on the wings and tail feathers. 

If you haven't figured it out, below is the cookie cutter I used to make today's cookies.  This may look like a snowman but it's known as the Super Cutter.  Sugarbelle has used as a mermaid, football player, flower, etc.