For the Love of Cookies

Before this month is over, here I am to share the cutest pair of gnome and floral designed by Amy from @seriouslysweet. Keep in mind you can always join the fun (click here for details).

Isn’t that the most adorable set of cookies in the known universe? You tell me! They rely on fondant decorations which you can make way in advance and once they are done, the cookies come to life super fast. Here is a link to the mold I used. I intend to make lemon cupcakes and decorate the top with buttercream and little fondant lemon slices. I dyed the fondant yellow and green, and later painted them with some luster dust.

The whole design is pretty simple, just eye-ball the position of the hat, use wet on wet to add lemons to the blue base. The fondant pieces (nose included) will be placed after icing the base with the beard area, which calls for thick icing. The leaves on the floral are a mixture of fondant and piping, which gives the cookie more movement and pizzazz. Details matter and Amy is on top of all that. I learn a lot in every single class and you can too!

At that point I looked at the gnome and felt that the lemons needed a bit more work, so I did the outline with a very fine tip black pen.

So one more combo of gnome and floral is done! Looking forward to whatever Amy has up her sleeve for the month of June! Stay tuned…

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