Garden Shapes Cookies
Spring shapes and on-trend colors combine with a great woven texture to make these the cookies of the season!
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AmountEach cookie serves 1.
Ingredients
Roll-Out Cookie Dough
Royal Icing
Sky Blue Icing Color
Kelly Green Icing Color
Ivory Icing Color
Orange Icing Color
Buttercup Yellow Icing Color
Pink Icing Color
Tools
Rolling Pin
Cookie Sheet
Flower Garden Cookie Cutter Set
12 in. Disposable Decorating Bags
food-safe scissors
Standard Coupler
Open Star Decorating Tip 14 Carded
Round Cake Decorating Tip 2
Round Cake Decorating Tip 3
Round Cake Decorating Tip 4
Instructions
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- Make cookies 1 day in advance. Prepare and roll out cookie dough following recipe directions. Use garden cutters to cut shapes. Bake and cool cookies.
Decorate cookies also 1 day in advance. Prepare royal icing following recipe directions. Tint portions of icing green, orange, pink and yellow. Prepare four bags with couplers and tinted icing.
For pink and yellow cookies, use tips 14 (pink icing) and 2 (yellow icing) to cover cookie with basketweave, piping lines 1/8 in. apart.
For green and yellow cookies, use tips 4 (green icing) and 3 (yellow icing) to cover cookie with basketweave, piping yellow lines diagonally 1/4 in. apart.
For four-color cookies, use tip 2 to pipe vertical rows of x's in alternating colors. Let all cookies dry 8-12 hours.
Notes
How To
How to Pipe a Basketweave
This technique turns any treat into beautiful baskets. Perfect for Easter, Mother's Day, bridal or any Spring and summertime theme. This technique creates a two-dimensional woven-look design. Use for baskets, fences, or to completely cover the side of a cake.
