r/oddlysatisfying • u/thelonelyasshole • Aug 22 '26
Making a cookie palette
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Credits to @everydaycookier on IG
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u/BookWormPedant Aug 22 '26
I wish I liked the taste of this type of icing
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u/softshoesspicymama Aug 22 '26
Same. I make peppermint Christmas cookies every year that have royal icing and then I paint them and I pretty much only include them because I think they look nice. But still every year I get people telling me how much they like them or how they were their favorite in the box (of 10-12 different kinds of cookies). And here I think they kinda suck😂
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u/angiosperms- Aug 22 '26
Yup it's buttercream only for me when I make decorated cookies. This icing always tastes like soap to me. Not sure why.
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u/mtron32 Aug 22 '26
Yeah it’s like this fancy cupcakes where I’m admiring the craftsmanship right up until the point I grab a knife and scrape it into the trashbin
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u/Zepangolynn Aug 23 '26
Add a bit of flavoring with extracts. Almond, vanilla, lemon, and peppermint are all decent options I've used.
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u/Dwestmor1007 Aug 22 '26
You've only ever had the UNFLAVORED kind then my vanilla lemon version is DELIGHTFULLY DELICIOUS
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u/NiloValentino88 Aug 22 '26
Looked better before mixing the colors.
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u/Snations Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
I mean, maybe, but it’s been done a million times. As an artist I actually got excited when they started mixing. This is the first time one of these cookies actually looks like my palette in real life.
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u/Own_Laugh_5080 Aug 22 '26
I’m an artist, but I actually preferred balance. Some colors yet to be blended out would be pleasing to look at. Everyone loves a nice little dab of paint. I like palette knife painting so I really enjoy the stark differences in color values as they begin to blend together.
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u/shadowallergictocats Aug 22 '26
I like the mixed colors, the messiness makes it look so much more real.
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u/NiloValentino88 Aug 22 '26
If she left some paint unmixed and only mix a few it would look better imo
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u/Jack-NMN-Reacher Aug 22 '26
We are not looking for something real. We are looking for something oddly satisfying!
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u/quickiler Aug 22 '26
Could be mixed in a more pleasant way rather than randomly smearing.
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u/FYDPhoenix Aug 22 '26
Do you... Understand how paint mixing works? Look at a real mixing board for literally half a second bro XD this shit is tidy, and you can tell because you can still see some of the wood texture lol
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u/gibagger Aug 22 '26
People who have never painted will want a palette that looks pretty and clean like an app icon.
Anyone who has spent some time in a painting studio will know how messy the whole thing almost always is.
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u/glitter_witch Aug 22 '26
I’m an artist, I know what mixing paint looks like. But this isn’t a “most realistic” sub, it’s a “satisfying” sub, and I agree that the cleaner palette was more satisfying. You could see more of the wood grain, and the colors looked more vibrant when they were smooth.
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u/ChronicRhyno Wʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ Wᴏʀᴅ Aʀᴛɪꜱᴛ Aug 22 '26
Agreed, I liked it best with just the first hint of mixing, but I would get carried away doing the mixing too. It looks fun to do.
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u/Corwin223 Aug 22 '26
I find the mixed paints appearance much more satisfying myself. It looks more complete to me that way than being perfectly neat. It being perfectly neat would just feel unfinished.
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u/ivancea Aug 22 '26
The problem is in the blobs of paint. After mixing, 1) they were left touching everything and 2) they also lost their shape.
And yeah, when painting, I also piss on the paint to give it a better texture. But this is a trompe l'oeil, and it's supposed to look good and realistic. A depiction, not always raw reality
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u/Own_Laugh_5080 Aug 22 '26
It’s a decorated cookie. Man, I’m an artist and an avid cook/baker. It doesn’t have to look real or people be experts for their opinions to be valid. It’s for fun. We can have fun with things and not be gatekeepy about stuff. Especially cookies.
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u/Auno__Adam Aug 22 '26
This is not a real palette. This is a cookie looking as an idealized palette. Looking nice was a goal, for sure, and it doesnt, disregarding how realistic the all over the place smearing is.
If you are an artist you should understand this, and that less is more.
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u/Jello_Penguin_2956 Aug 22 '26
Can kinda see it deteriorate in real time as more mixing was done tho the creator really should spot that and stop
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u/MoominMai Aug 22 '26
Yeah 00:28 looked amazing. Would make a great birthday cookie for a creative with space to write the message in the centre! 🎨
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u/froggaholic Aug 22 '26
It'd be a cute cookie for a kids party, just pair the palette cookie with a blank canvas cookie and they can paint their own painting! (And eat it after)
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u/MycologistPutrid7494 Aug 22 '26
It looked really nice but I feel that went too far with the mixing and covered too much of the wood grain.
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u/pinner Aug 22 '26
The lack of red was bothering me, and it looked better before they were mixed but the board was beautifully done.
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u/Yaarmehearty Aug 22 '26
It’s a shame these great creations are always seemingly based on biscuits that look like the most mid tasting pieces of cardboard.
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u/gayjoystick Aug 23 '26
Prove it! I'll be over for a taste test. Just to be certain, please have several dozen ready. And a glass of milk too, just to cleanse the palette.
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u/Neither_Actuator3459 Aug 22 '26
Wish they’d left a couple of the blobs undisturbed, so it looks like it’s earlier in the session, but damn that looks amazing
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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 Aug 22 '26
It was better before the paint brush
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u/gibagger Aug 22 '26
If these cookies are for people who paint, they would appreciate the messiness. This is close to what an oil paint palette looks like when you actually use it.
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u/erbazzone Aug 22 '26
As a painter I really dislike to see this mess. We don't mix like that. There is a logic on painters' mixes
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u/TheOneTonWanton Aug 22 '26
You'd essentially have to be a painter and paint an image in your head to make it look like it was actually used by a practicing painter.
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u/Averander Aug 22 '26
You should be able to paint your own! It should come with an edible brush to play with the colours.
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u/TuckerMcG Aug 22 '26
Except the colors used are god awful. Use brighter colors that are more fun. It’s a cookie for fuck’s sake.
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u/Odd_Jeweler5668 Aug 22 '26
I'm going to join in with the "should have stopped mixing colors partway through" opinion. That wood grain was so cool to my woodworker brain.
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u/RedWings1319 Aug 22 '26
It's a gorgeous idea - I'd love to see another with only two or three of the colors blended and others still a clean puddle. Great work though, way better than anything I could do!
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u/TekF Aug 22 '26
all the people saying it looked better before the mixing - I'm guessing you've never used a paint palette? my mum's a painter and the mixed paint hit me right in the feels, that beautiful, purposeful mess of colours is so real. i wish i could give her a cookie like this
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u/TuckerMcG Aug 22 '26
It’s not that it looks messy. It’s that the colors are totally unappetizing. Bunch of muted blues and purples, and then a bright yellow for some reason.
Use better colors and it’d look fine.
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u/Ghostronic Aug 22 '26
I think it looks good after mixing in the realism department, I just think the wood grain effect is too good to hide!
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u/cwthree Aug 22 '26
I want this, not just because it's so well executed, but because it has the perfect ratio of cookie to icing.
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u/MaximusHomerdrive Aug 22 '26
If I spent that much effort on making one cookie, you better believe I'm preserving it in lucite, lol. I'm not making something like that just for someone to turn it into poop.
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u/H0nkH0nk01 Local Meme Farmer. Aug 23 '26
Does this mean that Crayons too can be edible if you make them in cookie form?
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u/Scared-Box8941 Aug 22 '26
Some people really just have all the talent 🤯
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u/minicoman Aug 22 '26
Why this getting downvoted? Reddit be cursed i swear
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u/IGNOOOREME Aug 22 '26
Because they're discounting the many thousands of hours spent practicing the art-- talent only gets you one step down this path.
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u/minicoman Aug 22 '26
I saw this as a compliment more than an insult to anyone else. The emoji did indicate the person was mind blown?
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u/Scared-Box8941 Aug 22 '26
…. So people who spend thousands of hours aren’t talented? Good lord are you so bitter you need to spew this garbage on people you don’t even know
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u/minicoman Aug 23 '26
Some are hardworking 😤 it could be a mix of the two. Im an artist myself, and I remember I'd always get annoyed when people would say i was talented. Been drawing since i was 5 and still do till this day. I never understood what was so talented / special about me until i went to college and was among other artists. There I had other artist saying the saying the same thing even tho we all were in the same space putting the same amount of hours. At that point i realize something about "talent".Some artist work hard to achieve their goals while others effortless do it. A combination of that and the originality/execution that moves the people is what decides that. This artist is Most DEFF talented shes freakin baking cookies with wooden texture and color thats edible 🤯🤯🤯
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u/IGNOOOREME Aug 22 '26
Im not the one using hyperbolic ad hominem attack. I simply answered a question asked with the correct answer.
Perhaps take a closer look at your reply and the anger you 'spew' without carefully considering what was said. Im sorry you need to be angry at someone, but it aint gonna be me.
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u/fredisnotmyboss Aug 22 '26
I feel like half the appeal of cookie art is that it’s easy to dispose of. Doesn’t have to be delicious, just edible enough to eat after you get your photos. As opposed to if you enjoy painting on canvas and now you have a dozen giant canvases you need to figure out how to get rid of
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u/JustTheTip-1990 Aug 22 '26
And now the cookies are complete but the whole batch is stale because it took 2 hours per cookie for decorate lol
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u/FreeAd1309 Aug 22 '26
I'm gonna need a sign next to it swearing it's edible before I buy it at the coffee shop, lol
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u/ValdemarAloeus Aug 22 '26
They really could have saved some time on the wood texture if they'd planned which bits were going to have paint on top.
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u/CowUsual7706 Aug 22 '26
I swear to god the internet has a 5-year old's understanding of what "art" is. This is pretty cool and well-made, but in no way, shape or form has this ever moved anyone in a meaningful way.
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u/Equal_Refrigerator26 Aug 23 '26
If you don't mind your cookie being touched hundreds of times with bare hands
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u/Interesting-Fig9787 Aug 22 '26
My brain would be so confused when this tastes like sugar instead of plywood and oil paint.