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Q: Hello guys,
I'm in the habit of baking sugar cookies for most major holidays, and this Yuletide, I was given the suggestion that, for the benefit of all my geeky gamer friends, I make D&D shaped cookies. This instantly sparked my interest. I'm already thinking about elfcookies with sparkly tunics, unicorn cookies with white frosting, pretzel sticks with a doubleheaded axe... but my friend wants Orc cookies. Typical. How am i supposed to make an Orc with a gingerbread man shaped cutter? I can figure out how to make an orc shape and trace around each one, but here are my problems:

1.How can I make brown or dark frosting that isn't molasses (too sticky) and will stay put, or dry hard so I can stack the cookies without mooshing them? I usually use a milk and powdered sugar mix that dries hard, but how to dye it brown or black?
2. What sort of edible decorations can I use for armor? Chex? m&m's? I can't think of anything good!

Anyone have any good ideas?

My mother is a professional cake decorator and she manages to find all the food colours she needs at a decorating shop. You should be able to get some basic colours at the grocery store to make brown or black frosting, though black tastes icky and you're better off going for a light blue (silverish) colour. For the armour, you can use laffy taffy! Roll it out flat and then cut the armor shapes from it, lol. Just an idea! Or, you can be REALLY daring and make a little cardboard cutout of the armor shape. Then buy some chocolate chips or meltable dipping chocolate, melt it, and pour it into the armour moulds to make it shape and cool into armor pieces. Have fun, from one D&D nerd to another!