I was thinking it might be fun to make some cookie ornaments for people as christmas gifts....I am thinking that salt dough would hold up the best, since they won't be eaten and that a basic royal recipe would work best, but once the royal is set is there a way to seal it or preserve it so that the icing won't wear off eventually?
One of my coworkers brushed "gel medium" (from a craft store) on a NFSC I made and iced with royal, and two years later, it still looks as good as the day it was made. I would imagine it would be even better with a salt dough "cookie", which wouldn't have a chance of going rancid.
In case anyone is wondering why she would do this to a cookie--it was a wedding shower cookie I made for one of the gals in our office, and the coworker made a plaque for her to commemorate the office bridal shower.
Mod Podge would work...and is probably the "gel medium" that was used on the cookie. It's been around forever and seals everything.
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Thank you for the responses. Now I have another question .....
what would be stronger: running the picture wire through the dough before I bake it and then baking it into the cookie, or cutting small holes in the dough before I bake it and putting the wire in after wards? Have any of you ever done this?
a lot of non edible cookie ornanments, don't have to be baked.. so, after you cut it out with the cookie cutter, just use a straw or a tip to cut out the whole...and since they aren't going to be edible.. you might want to use paint or colored glue to decorate them. The cinnamon and spiced you add to the dough will give it a nice fragrance.
I have worked in polymer clay for more than 25 years and just started edible decorations in May. I want to make cookies all the time! Any excuse and I'll make cookies. Anyway, in my years of clay ornaments I have tried every type of hanger and have found that the hole in the clay is the best. I have glued hangers to the top - they eventually came unglued. I have inserted hangers into the clay and then glued the small hole at the point of insertion - they have on occasion come out. A small hole can not come out. I would suggest nothing larger than a coffee stirrer straw for the hole size. Anything larger will make the ornament hang strangely. I usually use a round toothpick for the hole but with clay I don't have to account for any spreading. Good luck! I would love to see your results. Gotta go make cookies!
Thank you for your help ladies! ( I am assuming you are ladies 
) I will start woking on them probably next week....once school is back in. Have you or anyone on here worked in cut out salt dough cookies? Do they tend to be stronger than regular sugar cookies? Sorry for all the questions but I am also going to be trying to sell some of these to family members and friends for extra christmas money and I don't want the things breaking, etc.
I haven't made them yet but will be making some for this Christmas.. I'm going to be using the recipe on the McCormick site... with just applesauce and cinnamon.. they have a lot of reviews on there and a great deal of them stated that they've had theirs for years and they are still perfect., in site and smell. They just suggest that you store them in a tupperware type container with wax paper between the layers...
I was thinking of doing the same but with gingerbread. I thought I'd use the recipe for gingerbread houses, rather than soft cookies, and bake it quite hard which makes it really strong.
I was wondering about what to paint them with for preservation, and will definitely try the mod podge as I have some already! Thanks for the tip.
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