Mr Movember.

You wouldn't be mistaken if this month every man you see seems to have a huge moustavhe. 

In case you didn't know it's the month of Movember, which aims to raise vital funds and awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. 

One of my brother's is actually growing his "mo" (think Borat) while it's not overly attractive it's for a good cause, which inspired me to create a Mr Movember cookie!! (What do you know I happened to have brought a moustache cookie cutter recently- how convenient!)

Firstly I rolled out some vanilla bean cookie dough. 

I decided that I wanted both Mr Movember's head and moustache to be made from cookie, so using the appropriate cutters I cut them out. (A little tip- if you have cookie dough left over wrap tight in glad wrap and then foil - it freezes very well)



I didn't have a straight edge round cutter big enough so I just inverted this frill cutter and used a knife to cut the dough. 


                                                   


                                     

I placed the cut outs onto a tray and chilled in the freezer until pretty much frozen- this actually stops your cookie from spreading during the cooking process. Then into the oven they went. 

Once your cookies have cooked and cooled it's finally time to decorate!

 (You will notice the edge of my moustache cookie is quite dark, this is because I was lazy and didn't cook the two different shaped cookies separately.. sssshhh don't tell anyone).

                                         
To make the head colour a small piece of white fondant with a dot of warm brown to make skin colour, then place some edible glue on your cookie (if you don't have warm brown, ivory with a touch of pink will also work). 

I rolled out this fondant and completely covered the cookie, unlike the normal process of simply using the cutter to cut the fondant shape. Smooth the fondant surface and edges with your fingers. 

Rolling out some black cover the moustache the same way as you did the face. 

Use a scribe to make cutting motions into your fondant which represents the "hairy" moustache. 

Place some edible glue onto the position where you want your moustache to sit. 

Roll a small piece of skin coloured fondant and place directly above the moustache as a nose. 

Using any decorating tool, indent a small mouth under the moustache.

Roll two balls of white fondant add edible glue and place in the position you would like your eyes to be. 

Roll two smaller pieces of black fondant and place as the iris (this can of course be any colour you want).

Roll two little white balls of fondant and place in the direction you want Mr Moustache to be looking. Then roll two small skin coloured sausages and place over the top of the eye as eye lids, be sure to just touch the iris with the eyelid otherwise your subject will look somewhat startled!!

Roll out two sausages of black fondant and roll slightly with a rolling pin.

 Add some glue to the head and position the hair as desired. Use the scribing tool to mark strands of hair. 

Roll two small black sausages and stick on as eye brows.. I made these ones look very bushy heehee. 

I also gave Mr Moustache some character by adding a whiff of sticking up hair, just a tear drop of black with more lines scribed into fondant to look like hair.  (a tip learnt by Trina Thompson on Cake Crawl!). 

Brush some matte pink dust mixed with a little cornflour over Mr Moustache's eyelids, nose and mouth to give him a bit of warmth (another tip from Trina Thompson!! Thanks Trina). 

Finally make to small balls of skin colour and stick over the top of hair and shape, to represent ears. 

And there you have it, a cool little cookie for the huge month of Movember!  

   

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