I’m very excited for Finding Dory to open on the June 17th. We’ve already made plans as a family to see it opening weekend.

I’ve been seeing so such amazing cookie decorating videos on Facebook, I wanted to make custom Finding Dory and Finding Nemo cookies that would be both easy to make and super cute. So here’s what I did…

How To Make Finding Dory and Finding Nemo Cookies

(Makes 8 cookies.)

First I rolled out store-bought sugar cookie dough. You can definitely make your own and if you do, I recommend our perfect sugar cookie recipe.

Next, using my fish cookie cutter, I cut out some fish shapes.

Here are my naked fish cookies right out of the oven.

Next I gathered my tools and supplies.

Supplies:

• 2 Betty Crocker White Cookie Icing
• 1 Betty Crocker Black Cookie Icing
• Orange, blue, and yellow food coloring
• White decorating gel
• Candy eyes
• AmeriColor Gourmet Writer
• Fondant modeling stick

In a Ziplock bag, I squeezed out about 1/3 a bag of white cookie icing, added some orange food coloring, and mixed it until the color was even.

Then I cut off a tiny end of the Ziplock bag so I could pipe it. I drew a simple orange fish and filled it in with the cookie icing.

Then I added an eye, and when the orange was dry, I added a band of black cookie icing along the end of the tail.

TIP: Use a fondant molding stick to smooth out and spread your cooking icing. It works great!

Next, using the white decorating gel, I added three white stripes to the Nemo body, the middle one a little thicker than the other two.

I made blue cookie icing using the same technique I used for the orange. I drew the round Dory fish bodies and added candy eyes.

Then using yellow cookie icing, I added the yellow Dory tails.

Using my black food marker, I drew the Dory details. I was very pleased with how they turned out!

To serve the Dory cookies, I placed them on top of plastic fish bowls filled with Cool Blue Gatorade, and added blue striped paper straws.

And my Nemo cookies I displayed on a cake stand and placed them on top of orange Sixlets. I love how Sixlets look as a cookie backdrop.

For more inspiration, check out these Finding Nemo parties on our site. If you throw a Finding Dory, please add it to our site. I’d love to see what creative things you do!