The owl is cut from a standard owl-shaped cookie cutter, available on Amazon and many other places:

https://www.amazon.com/R-M-Owl-Cookie-Cutter/dp/B000HWV9KG

The cookie is completely decorated with royal icing. Dark brown (body) and white(chest)topcoats were first laid with a relatively loose icing. Likewise, eyes were made with small drops of loose yellow and black icing. For the textured detail work (white crest on head, beak, and feathers), a thicker royal icing is needed to hold the shape that’s piped. For the crest, I used thick white royal icing and a small straight cut tip in a parchment pastry cone; used same tool for the beak but with an orange icing, of course. Lastly, used a small leaf tip to create the brown feathers, starting at the outer edge and moving toward the white chest, overlapping feathers slightly on each successive layer. Hope that helps.

Stay tuned – a decorating book may well be in the works.