Skylander?  You might be asking what it is.  Don't worry, I had NO idea what it was either.  It's a video game set in a place called Skylands, filled with magic and floating islands.  Each Skylander character is associated with one of these eight elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Magic, Tech, Life, or Undead.  I don't have kids so it's always interesting to see what they're into with cookie requests.

When I first starting researching these cookies, the symbols cookies were the only ones I could find that somebody had already made.  This was the place I found them but the site doesn't credit who made the cookies.  I used a three inch circle cookie cutter.  I thought about making the base white and the design the corresponding color, but didn't do it.  I didn't think the designs would "pop" as much.  I found a free printable of the symbols here.  I printed and cut them out and then used a food coloring marker to trace the design on each cookie.  I piped over the tracing with white icing.

When I first looked at the characters, I realized there are hundreds of them.  I had no idea which ones to make but the client had a few in mind.  One of the things about character cookies is their shape.  Most of the time I hand-cut them.  This time, most of the charters worked with some of my existing cookie cutters.   Shroomboom (the yellow guy with his tongue sticking out) was made with a tombstone cookie cutter.  For Eye-brawl (the one with the large eye), I combined a circle and a Halloween bat.  Pop Fizz (blue guy in the front) was made from a Easter bunny head.   I tried using a heart for Tree-Rex (brown guy in the middle) but in the end had to hand-cut him.  I didn't think I would have fun making these cookies.  I always worry about making characters.  I had SO much fun making these cookies because they were something different and unexpected.