Cute smiley face graduate cookies decorated with modeling chocolate make great desserts for your graduation party.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Roll out cookie dough, on a floured surface, to about ⅛th inch thickness.
Cut out twelve diamond-shaped grad caps out of the dough.
Use the same diamond-shaped cookie cutter to cut a triangle shaped notch out of the circle of dough.
Then brush two long edges of the diamond-shaped dough and insert it into the notch in the circle of dough.
Use your finger to press the seams together.
Bake for 10-14 minutes until the edges look set and the tops no longer look wet.
Allow cookies to cool completely before decorating.
Reserve about 2 tablespoons of white modeling chocolate to color to make the tassels.
Color about ⅔ of the white modeling chocolate using flesh tone food coloring.
Color the rest using whatever color you want to make your grad caps.
Let the colored modeling chocolate rest at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
Roll the flesh tone modeling chocolate out to about 1/16th inch thickness.
Cut out twelve 3 inch circles.
Then roll out the blue modeling chocolate to the same thickness.
Cut out twelve diamond shaped grad caps.
Use that same diamond cutter to cut a triangle shaped notch from each circle.
Brush a light coating of corn syrup over a cookie.
Place the circle and the diamond over the cookie pressing the seams together.
Color your modeling chocolate appropriately for your tassels.
Roll the modeling chocolate into a tube.
Insert into the barrel of a clay extruder.
Push the chocolate clay through the extruder to create a single strand then cut it into twelve 1-inch pieces for the top section of the tassel.
Brush a dot of corn syrup in the center of each grad cap.
Attach the single strand to the corn syrup.
Then attach a multi-hole disc to the extruder.
Push the candy clay through the multi-hole disc to make lots of little strands.
Pinch together the strands on one end and attach it to the single strand using corn syrup.
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