I have to admit that between school and church activities we don’t always get to bake as much as we would like to during the holidays. I have no worries though, because one of our favorite cookies is store bought; we love Danish Butter Cookies by Royal Dansk! And these are great cookies to leave for Santa too! I decided to surprise my daughters by making them DIY polymer clay Danish Butter Cookies for our dolls.
I found a fabulous online store called Miniature Sweet. This store offers a very large variety of crafting supplies for DIYers, like myself, who like to make doll food.
I reviewed four different Danish butter cookie molds. These molds varied in sized from 22-25mm. These molds are firmer than some I have worked with, but the clay removed easily by turning the mold upside down and flexing the mold. Theses molds can be found here: Rectangular cookie, Swirl cookie, Round cookie, and Pretzel cookie.
I thought these cookies would look adorable in doll scenes where the dolls were getting cookies ready for Santa on Christmas Eve!
To make the clay dough, I mixed (conditioned by hand) tan, white, and yellow clay until I got the desired color. Remember, clay darkens with baking, so always go a shade lighter on your color. All clay used was Sculpey III.
Each mold made a perfectly shaped cookie!
Once all polymer clay cookies were made, they were baked. I baked all cookies at 275°. The rectangular cookies are thin, so they were only baked for 6 minutes. The rest of the cookies remained in the oven for an additional 4 minutes (for a total of 10 minutes.)
Once baked and fully cooled, the polymer clay Danish butter cookies were given a little shading to give them a more realistic baked appearance. I used a blade and scraped off chalk from my brown chalk stick. I gave the brown chalk dust a quick spray of water with a spritzing bottle. The water and chalk were mixed. This mixture was rubbed over the cookie edges and any creases. I started with a brush, but found a Q-tip worked faster.
Here you can see how the chalk shading gives more dimension and realism to the polymer clay Danish butter cookie. If chalk is not available, matte brown eye shadow is an alternative.
After all shading is complete you can add faux sugar to your cookies. The rectangular and pretzel shaped cookies have a sugar topping. I used Welbond adhesive; I squirted a small dab onto a paper plate, then I used a qtip and spread a very thin amount of glue over the top of the cookie and sprinkled with artificial sugar.
To make the Royal Dansk Danish Butter Cookies Cookie-Tin, I used mini tins found at the Dollar Tree. These tins measured about 2 inches in diameter. I created a free printable for your tin that you can find here: Danish Butter Cookies Tin Printable
**Update 1/2/2018 I had a request to make the printable larger to fit a 2.5 inch diameter tin. Here is the printable for that tin: Danish Butter Cookies Tin Printable 2
The bottom white circle is the paper liner for your tin.
Simply cut out the printable cover for the lid, then using a glue stick, glue it to the tin lid.
Cut out the blue strips and glue into place to cover the sides.
These molds worked really well for 14 inch and 18 inch sized dolls.
Kendall wanted to give Santa a cookie…but, I think Santa wanted to discuss her why she was on the “naughty list!”
These adorable doll pjs and Santa suit can be found at the Neat N’ Cheap Doll Outlet. I love the footed doll pajamas!
Craft on! …AND Happy Dollidays!
These are at Dollar Tree again.
Thanks Linda!
I found the tins at Hobby Lobby. There was 10 or 12 in the pack.
Thank you so much Brandy!!!! Can’t wait to get started!
Hi, Brandy! I really want to do this craft, but the tins I found in my Dollar Tree are 2 to a pack, are magnetized, and measure 2 1/2″ across, so your printable is a bit small, and since it’s a pdf, I can’t resize it (or at least don’t know HOW to!) If you can resize the pdf to fit these slightly larger tins, that would be great! Thanks! Carol
Absolutely! I will work on it next week and get it right off to you.
Amazing!
So cute! I couldn’t find this at Dollar Tree. What section of the store did you find them?
They are in the crafts section. In my store the crafts are in the same isle as the floral items and picture frames. Keep me posted. I can check my store for more and send you some. OR I can resize my printable to fit whatever tin you decide to use.
Thanks Brandy. I went to three Dollar Tree stores an there were none to be found. I’ll continue to check other stores. This is such a cute craft! Love your blog!
Yes Brandy, if it’s convenient, please check your store and if you find them, please send them to me. I even went to the website and looked through thousands of products to find the containers. No luck, even putting the info from the front of the package from your blog in the search bar. I will gladly pay for these and the shipping if you find them. I don’t want to order the molds until I know that I can get the containers. Thank you!
I just sent you an email!
Hi, been reading your posts & recall seeing in school/office supplies sections in a store that had small tins that are probably 2”3”, which would work. I want to say I saw these is Dollar Tree? But it may be Walmart too. Hope this helps.
Been waiting for your Christmas cookies! My best repeat BESTFriend found me the Springerle rolling pin from Kit’s holiday baking set and gave it to me this past weekend. Totally ready to do my doll and people baking now! Thanks Brandy and wishing you the happiest Christmas!
And a very Merry Christmas your way Patti! I can’t wait to see what you create! 🙂
These are adorable!!
Thanks Kathi! 🙂
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BRANDY!!! I WILL BE MAKING SOME FOR SURE!!!
Thanks so much Lisa! I can’t wait to see pics! 🙂