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Macramé Potted Plant Cookie

10/4/2020

Potted plants. Macramé art. These flashbacks from a 1970's-era living room are trendy again! And how do we celebrate home decor trends? With cookie-fied versions, of course! These hanging macramé plant cookies are made with a simple cutter that's found in many cookier's cutter arsenals- an ice cream cone shape. Let me show you!

What you'll need:
* pointed ice cream cone cookie shape. I used one from Sweet Sugarbelle.
* Royal icing in the following colors/consistencies:
base flood royal icing, optional: 20 second
white royal icing: 20 second
ivory royal icing: piping consistency
green royal icing: thicker piping consistency
* Icing tips: round, leaf (or you can cut a tipless bag into a V for a leaf tip)
* Wilton petal dust (available at many craft stores), vodka, small paintbrush (optional)

Disclaimer: The following in-process pictures are not my best work. Like they're pretty embarrassing. It was at night and I was tired and the lighting was all wonky when I shot them. But I loved this cookie design so much! So just look past the icky pics. I'll get around to re-making (and re-photographing) this design one day. Hopefully!

1. Flood the base of your cookie, if you wish. I went with blue royal icing so that it would coordinated with other cookies with the set. Let the base icing dry.

2. Use the white icing to pipe the planter bowl. Use the ivory icing to pipe a circle at the tip of the cone to represent the macramé hanging ring. Allow these sections to crust.

3. Use the ivory royal icing to pipe the hanging ropes from the ring to the planter. Next, add the first series of "knots", represented by the groups of three horizontal lines.

4. Add more "rope" details with the ivory icing. I added curved icing lines between each "knot" on the planter and "knots" at the ends of each hanging rope. I also added perpendicular icing lines at the planter hanger (at the ice cream cone point). Put rope lines and knots wherever you'd like! You're just trying to get the impression of macramé. It doesn't have to be perfect!

You can even stack icing lines to give more dimension.

5. Grab the green icing with a round tip. Add some plant stems.

6. Pipe icing leaves on your plant stems. I used a PME ST50 icing tip. Any small leaf tip will do! Or make your own by cutting a V at the end of a tipless bag.

7. Once the leaves were dry, I mixed some Wilton green petal dust with a little bit of vodka. I painted this mixture on some of the leaves to add some color variation. That's it!

Cookie macramé hanging plants are a great addition to a realtor or housewarming cookie set. And you don't have to worry about having a green thumb to enjoy these plants!

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Airbrushed Message Board Cookies

9/21/2020

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Message boards are trendy right now in home decor. From words of encouragement to snarky statements, message boards give a perfect outlet for our thoughts. Real message boards are pretty simple: pleated felt fabric in a frame + plastic letters that are pushed into the pleats. That's it! Cookie message boards can be much more complicated if you try to pipe every pleat. The look of a pleated board can be made quickly with an airbrush and the flat edge of a stencil, without having to pipe every pleat or worry about cratered sections.

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Palm Tree Cookies with Coconuts

6/28/2020

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I love adding texture to cookies. Texture introduces a new dimension to an otherwise flat cookie. Don't get me wrong- there's great beauty (and great skill!) in making a perfectly flat, flooded cookie. But my heart will always be drawn towards texture. And an added bonus of textured decoration? It can hide flaws in your icing!

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Poppy Flowers as Royal Icing Transfers

5/24/2020

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These royal icing poppy flowers can be lovely accents for cookies, cupcakes, and full-sized cakes for Memorial Day celebrations. Since they are royal icing transfers, they can be made weeks/months in advance. Or you can speed up the drying time by using a fan on low speed or a food dehydrator.

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Tequila Shot Decorated Cookies

5/5/2020

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Tequila. Salt. Lime.
Putting together a collection of cookies for a Cinco de Mayo birthday created a challenge. I wanted to include this quintessential indulgence in the set of cookies, but I didn't have a shot glass cutter.
Cutter flips to the rescue!

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Aldi Deutche Küche Peanut Puff Drool-Worthy Treat!

10/1/2019

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Wait, what? That doesn't look like a decorated cookie! And you would be absolutely correct.
Say hello to my newest drool-worthy, diet-postponing treat! Imagine a cheese puff (without the cheese) that tastes like a Butterfinger. Yup, you really did just hear angels singing.

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Cutter handles aren't just for holding!

9/15/2019

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We all know that cookie cutters are made differently. Some are made with molded plastic, some are made with bent metal, some are created with a 3D printer. I genuinely don't have a preference of plastic over metal- there are pros and cons to both.

However, there is one feature of some plastic cutters that I like- a HANDLE!
Oh wait, you didn't know that some cutters have handles? Let me show you!

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Tips for Floral Monogram Cookies

8/2/2019

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I love making monogram cookies! They are perfect for many cookie events like weddings, bridal and baby showers, and birthday celebrations. Monogram cookies can easily tie into any decor theme, but floral monograms always have my heart! Take a look at some of my simple tips to make floral monogram cookies the star of your cookie show!

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Drippy Ice Cream Cookies

7/20/2019

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Ice cream cone cookies are a staple for sweet summer-time events, and you don't need a heat wave to make drippy ice cream cone cookies. Best of all, you can make an ice cream-inspired cookie using whatever shape you like! These cookies were for a sweet first birthday party, hence the "1" shape. No matter what shape you use, you can make some great drippy cones with this technique!

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Tri-Color Flower Cookies

6/23/2019

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These tri-color flower cookies are the perfect way to use up leftover dough and icing! They're created by layering different icing colors in a single decorating bag (versus striping the inside of the bag with colors). Best of all, you can make them with whatever icing colors you have on hand! In this case, I had leftover red and navy blue icing- perfect for a patriotic platter of cookies! Deeply tinted icing is tough to re-purpose into another color because it's already saturated with food dye. So why not use it up to make some small treats to share with friends and family?

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Macramé Potted Plant Cookie

Airbrushed Message Board Cookies

Palm Tree Cookies with Coconuts

Poppy Flowers as Royal Icing Transfers

Tequila Shot Decorated Cookies

Aldi Deutche Küche Peanut Puff Drool-Worthy Treat!

Cutter handles aren't just for holding!

Tips for Floral Monogram Cookies

Drippy Ice Cream Cookies

Tri-Color Flower Cookies

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