Cookies Day 3: Embroidery and Painting


Sorry for the delay to this post. I had to take my computer to the tech guys and, they are slow.. I also went away for my birthday. I had to wait till I came back only for the problem to still be there.


So in the previous post we covered icing and marbling. Today I will show Embroidery and Painting. Both are fairly easy.
You will need:
  • Outlined and Flooded cookies, completely dry
  • paint brushes that are used ONLY for baking
  • gel food coloring
  • shimmer dust, glitter, powdered food coloring, etc.
  • Alcohol. (for painting)
  • Water (for embroidery)
  • Icing in which ever colors you like.

First, Take your dry flooded cookie, take your icing (in a piping bag…and you can use the same icing you used to outline) and, draw a swiggly line on the cookie in an arch like so…

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Using a small rounded brush (in this case, the last one, on the bottom) dip into your water and brush down the ridges.
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Like so.. this is all you have to do.. just add layers and repeat..
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In the end you get something like this.. I added the sugar pearls.. but it isn’t necessary.
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Here are a few more that I did.
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Leaves are easy, Just draw the leave shape, brush down the ridges and, add the stem down the center.
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Now for painting. I didn’t do an in depth tutorial for this.. with all the work I did over this time period I was soooo out of it, that I didn’t even use gel food coloring, just the powdered shimmer stuff.
It’s also very simple, either A) Dip your brush into the powder and paint the dried power onto your cookie, this has a light colored affect or
B) Pour out some powder and dip your brush into the alcohol (note the reason you use alcohol is because it evaporates) and, then into the color.. paint. it leaves a darker color.
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Method B
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Method A
For a group I’m in.. a great, crazy bunch of WOMEN!
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Method B
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Another simple Method. Pressed Sugar.. easy as 1,2,3
1Spread on icing
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2 press into sugar
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3 shake off excess, leave to dry
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I’m going to do a quick post next on packaging ideas. Also I have found a post on Royal icing without Meringue powder for those who either live outside of the US or don’t have access to Meringue Powder.

Enjoy

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