For the Love of Cookies

Red is such a beautiful, intense color. It is the focus today on three designs: poppies, strawberries and cherries.

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HANIELA’S POPPIES

Hani demonstrated how to pipe beautiful poppies, using three different icing tips plus super fine black lines to add more pizazz (you can watch her tutorial for free clicking here). I made a cookie composition using some as transfers and some simpler, piped on the iced cookie. Petal tip 101.

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STRAWBERRIES AND CHERRIES

I used leftover red icing to make a couple of designs on my own. I flooded the background with Mint green, let it set and brushed bronze luster to form a kind of checkerboard pattern. Then the little fruits were piped on top, and finally the greenery. Once the strawberries were almost crusted I used a needle to add texture.

The fruits would also work made as Royal icing transfers, but this time I decided to just pipe on the cookie, hoping for the best…

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FOUR YEARS AGO: Painted Butterflies