• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Brandy's Happy Home

Doll Crafts, Home crafts, Kid Crafts, Recipes

MENUMENU
  • Doll Room
    • Pool Party for AG Dolls
    • Toothsome Chocolate Emporium
    • Luciana's STEM Room
    • Unicorn Cafe
    • Doll Drive-In Theater
    • Tenney's Stage
    • Tenney's Chicken Truck Series
    • Wellie Wishers Crafts
    • Doll TACO Truck Series
    • The Doll WEDDING
    • Dollhouse Decor
    • Doll Tailgate Party Series
    • HOLIDAYS for Dolls
    • Doll FOOD
    • CLOTHES for Dolls
    • Custom Dolls
    • Toy Reviews
    • Doll "Coop Crew" Series
  • Kid's Corner
  • The Cozy Hole
  • From the Kitchen
  • Just Because...
    • DIY Planner Calendar Printables
  • Become a SPONSOR!
  • About Me
You are here: Home / Doll Room / DIY Polymer Clay Danish Butter Cookies

DIY Polymer Clay Danish Butter Cookies

December 4, 2017 By Brandy 19 Comments

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!

Filed Under: Doll Food, Doll Room, Holidays for Dolls Tagged With: christmas, doll cookies, doll food, polymer clay, polymer clay cookies, polymer clay food, the doll room

Previous Post: « Santa Letter Template for Kids & Dolls
Next Post: DIY Galvanized Ornaments »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Linda Reynolds says

    November 11, 2019 at 9:54 am

    These are at Dollar Tree again.

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      November 26, 2019 at 12:42 pm

      Thanks Linda!

      Reply
  2. Kathy says

    July 30, 2018 at 10:26 am

    I found the tins at Hobby Lobby. There was 10 or 12 in the pack.

    Reply
  3. Linda Reynolds says

    January 2, 2018 at 10:48 am

    Thank you so much Brandy!!!! Can’t wait to get started!

    Reply
  4. Carol Meadows says

    December 20, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    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

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      December 21, 2017 at 10:04 am

      Absolutely! I will work on it next week and get it right off to you.

      Reply
  5. Xyra says

    December 13, 2017 at 7:55 pm

    Amazing!

    Reply
  6. Linda Reynolds says

    December 7, 2017 at 9:55 am

    So cute! I couldn’t find this at Dollar Tree. What section of the store did you find them?

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      December 7, 2017 at 1:46 pm

      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.

      Reply
      • Linda Reynolds says

        December 7, 2017 at 8:06 pm

        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!

        Reply
      • Linda Reynolds says

        December 8, 2017 at 10:08 am

        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!

        Reply
        • Brandy says

          December 10, 2017 at 5:27 pm

          I just sent you an email!

          Reply
        • Ally says

          December 12, 2017 at 3:46 pm

          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.

          Reply
  7. Patti Uphoff says

    December 5, 2017 at 9:44 am

    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!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      December 5, 2017 at 10:24 am

      And a very Merry Christmas your way Patti! I can’t wait to see what you create! 🙂

      Reply
  8. Kathi Massey says

    December 5, 2017 at 9:24 am

    These are adorable!!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      December 5, 2017 at 9:39 am

      Thanks Kathi! 🙂

      Reply
  9. Lisa walker says

    December 4, 2017 at 12:16 pm

    I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BRANDY!!! I WILL BE MAKING SOME FOR SURE!!!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      December 5, 2017 at 9:40 am

      Thanks so much Lisa! I can’t wait to see pics! 🙂

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to Brandy’s Happy Home!

I'm Brandy. Join me in my passion of crafting. In the "Doll Room" I'll show you doll crafts and reviews. We will craft up some fun in "Kids Corner" with kid and family crafts and activities. "From the Kitchen," I'll share tasty recipes. "The Cozy Hole" is where I will share crafts that have to do everything else HOME. And "Just Because"...is a place for me to share things that I like or find interesting. Craft on!

Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on InstagramFollow Us on PinterestFollow Us on TwitterFollow Us on EmailFollow Us on YouTube

Archives

Brandy's Happy Home Newsletter Sign Up!GIVEAWAY: Doll Feed Sack Dress & Apron!

Sponsors

Copyright Notice

© Brandy Boyd and Brandy's Happy Home, 2016-infinity. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Brandy Boyd and Brandy's Happy Home with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Copyright © 2023 · BRANDYSHAPPYHOME.COM