For the Love of Cookies

This one is for all the Game of Thrones fans out there… I am channeling Amber from @sweetambs to bring you heart-shaped cookies that are total opposites, a kind of yin and yang design.

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Starting with a frosty heart…

This is a fun wet-on-wet method, demonstrated by Amber in her recent tutorial. The frosty aspect is intensified by dabbing white luster paint around the edges. I did not have the exact product she used, so mine ended up a little too rough, but I don’t think it compromised the effect. Amber goes the extra mile by painting tiny snow flakes by hand once the icing is fully set, but I omitted that step. Below, some of the stages to bring this cookie to life…

This type of design is perfect to prove that with only TWO colors you can still do a lot… cannot beat the simplicity of wet-on-wet. Come to think of it, even if you did not pull the dots to make the snowflake, the cookie would look pretty cute with just dots, as modern flowers. I joined them with simple pink hearts decorated with a pearly white beaded border.

And now for something completely different, the Yin of my Yang…

Aren’t those super cool? Amber truly set the hearts on fire with them… The design is simple, but I have to say that getting the flames with a realistic shape is a little tricky. I failed at my first attempt and that cookie had to be sacrificed to the Cookie Gods. You will need black (or dark gray), orange, yellow and red. Some steps of the cookie decorating are shown below.

The cookie below was a little “happy accident” that happened because I ran out of black icing…

They formed a nice fiery team…

I hope you enjoyed this “opposites attract” series. Once again, my advice is to use a large cookie to play with wet-and-wet designs. It makes life easier, and especially for the Frosty Hearts, you’ll have more room to play.

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