

Cookie Birdhouse
Ingredients
Lemon Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz.
FoodWriter® Extra Fine Tip Edible Markers
Kelly Green Icing Color, 1 oz.
Sky Blue Icing Color, 1 oz.
Roll-Out Cookie Dough
Royal Icing
Meringue Powder, 4 oz. Egg White Substitute
Tools
Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack
Standard Round Tip 2
Round Cake Decorating Tip 5
Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count
Petal Cake Decorating Tip 104
Round Cake Decorating Tip 12
French Rolling Pin
Perfect Results Premium Non-Stick Bakeware Mega Cookie Pan, 15 x 21-Inch
Flower, Bunny and Egg Cookie Cutter Set, 3-Piece
Instructions
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- Make cookie panels. Prepare cookie dough following recipe directions. Roll out 1/8 in. thick Use patterns to cut out two of each panel. Use round cutter “D” to cut opening in front of house. Bake and cool.
- Prepare royal icing. Make 2 recipes royal icing following recipe. Combine Sky Blue with a little Kelly Green for blue shown. Combine Kelly Green with a little Sky Blue for green shown. Divide icing and tint ¼ cup blue, 1 cup green, and 2 cups yellow. Reserve 1 cup white. Thin 1 ½ cups yellow icing. Thin ½ cup white icing.
- Ice panels. Use thinned yellow icing and tip 2 to outline and flow in front and back house panels and two side panels. Use tip 12 and green icing to pipe a 1 in. long stripe on parchment paper for perch. Let dry 24 hours.
- Decorate house front. Use FoodWriter edible color marker and flower cutter from set to trace flower outline on front. Use tip 2 and thinned white icing to outline and flow in icing. Let dry 4 hours.
- Assemble house. Use tip 5 and full-strength yellow icing to assemble house. Pipe lines of icing on inside edges of front, attach both side pieces. Repeat to attach back. Let dry 30 minutes. Pipe icing on edges of peaked front and back and side panels. Position one roof panel. Pipe icing on inside edge of roof peak and position second roof panel. Let dry 1 hour before further decorating.
- Outline house. Use tip 2 and full-strength white icing to pipe beads at corners of house and under eaves.
Decorate roof. Fit decorating bag with tip 104. Spatula stripe bag with blue icing. Fill bag with green icing. Begin at bottom edge of roof and pipe rows of petals.
Use tip 2 and full-strength white icing to pipe beads on eaves and on roof peak.
- Attach perch. Use full-strength yellow icing and tip 5 to pipe a dot under opening on front. Attach perch.
Notes
How To
Decorating Bag Spatula Striping
To create a softer color contrast effect with icing, use the spatula striping technique.
How to Pipe Beads
The bead shape makes impressive borders outlines and accents on letters and designs; also a cute trim on clothing and gingerbread houses. The basis for making piped hearts and figure piping.
How to Make Petal Tip Flowers
Whether creating small or large blossoms, petal tips are essential for creating lifelike flowers with great dimension.
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