Easter egg cookie decorated with white flowers

I created an other Easter egg set with pastel colors, decorated with white icing only. You can watch the video here:

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Stained Glass Easter Cookies

 It's been a while that I made stained glass cookies and I decided to make some for Easter. I will also teach the technique this weekend at Sweet Wise.

I tried this technique for the first time last year. I wanted to find a method to make my cookie shiny like the real glass and I've found it. My corn syrup mixture dries perfectly and looks like glass.

 I also tried it with golden outlines on this Mother's Day cookie.

And now, I wanted to make some cross cookies. These are the original cookies of this cross cutter.

I wanted to make these cookies in real Easter colors. I had the feeling, that the light pastel colors we use and see everywhere are not the real, traditional colors. So I did some research. I have found a nice and simple summary of the Easter colors in Christianity at about.com:

What Easter colors symbolize in Christianity:

• Red symbolizes the blood of Jesus Christ and the blood of martyrs. [Crimson and Scarlet are associated with theology, the Church, and the Bible.]
• Purple is the color of royalty (Jesus, King of Kings) and also the color of suffering.
• Black represents darkness and sin and mourning.
• White is purity and angels and resurrection.
• Gold is a color of celebration and symbolizes the presence of God and richness (wealth, prosperity, or heavenly riches).

And here are my cross cookies in real Easter colors:

I really liked how beautifully the gold dust dissolved in this corn syrup mixture and covered the surface.

I also wanted to try this mixture on bare cookie, without flooding the cookie first and I really like the look:

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Easter cookies with spring flowers

I love spring flowers, so I decided to make some Easter cookies with them.

Easter egg shape can make a nice basket, so this flower basket was a natural choice.

My first idea was to make a basket from this flower shape as well, but I changed my mind and left a heart shapes opening instead.

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Relax-cookies for St. Patrick's Day

 

I've had a tough last week, so I decided to do something nice for myself (and my kids). Some relax-cookies.

I baked Lila Loa's chocolate cookie recipe that I wanted to try forever and never got to do it. It is wonderful! Then I made a little green icing and made it a little thinner than my favorite piping consistency. I did this to make sure that I don't even think about making perfect, intricate designs.

Then I started to doodle. Drew the lines without thinking about them, let the lines and curves come out of the bag as they wanted. Oh, it felt soooooo good!

This set reminds me a little to my very first cookies from a few years ago. Then it makes me think about how cookie decorators try to create perfect cookies all the time. The cookie community is full of real artists and the boards look like an art gallery. And there are some decorators who started to feel embarrassed posting their own creations, because they feel those are not worthy. This makes me sad, because cookies have to be sweet and fun. Cookies are perfect being imperfect. We should never compare our work to others! Let's enjoy the process of creating, the sweet result and the the smile on the face of the person who gets the cookie.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ~Harriet Braiker

Happy St' Patrick's Day!

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Flower cookies in spring colors with a "Get Well" plaque cookie

The little girl of my friend had an accident and broke her arm. This is her first serious injury so I decided to send her some cookies to cheer her up. I used a cute little flower cutter and a plaque cutter from Cookie Cutter Kingdom. I wanted to keep it simple, so just flooded all cookies and added some yellow flood icing to the middle of the flower. Then I doodled a different pattern on each cookie. Here is the video:

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Easter basket cookies

I always wanted a BIG basket cookie cutter to have plenty of room for decoration. My time has arrived! With my collaboration with Cookie Cutter Kingdom, now I can have all the cutters I can think of. I just love to create my own designs! This one is a 3 piece set: an outline with two optional extra parts. (don't forget to use coupon code FRIENDSOFTUNDE to get 10% OFF if you buy them)
Let's see how they work:

If you use the outline with the simple rounded inside part, you get a simple basket. The focus is on the decoration. See the video tutorial below.

With the other inside part you will get a basket filled with Easter eggs. To see the tutorial for these cookies and learn how to make basket weave, watch this video:

If you use the outline by itself, then you can fill the basket with whatever you want. And here is the video for the bunny and the flower basket:

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you would like to join in the fun, get the basket cutter set and don't forget to use coupon code FRIENDSOFTUNDE to get 10% OFF.

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Coloring cookies for Easter, my version of the "paint your own" cookie

"Paint your own" cookies are really popular in cookie world. They first appeared in Montreal Confection's blog in fall 2013, then everybody started making them.

I have two little girls who LOVE to paint and color. And I never made a paint your own cookie before. You know why? Because royal icing will melt if you use too much water and I was afraid the black outline would make other colors a mess. And one of my girls is a perfectionist and she could not deal with a disaster like this.

I was looking for a way to create a coloring cookie that can handle more water and decided to try fondant. I don't use fondant for cookies, because I don't like the flavor and the texture of it, but we can make exceptions for a good cause, right?

Then I asked my friends at Cookie Cutter Kingdom to print me the set I designed for this experiment and they did a wonderful job.

Let's see, how it works:

For this project I needed a whole different set of tools, than I am used to:

• I work on a silicone pastry mat. 
• I brush corn starch to the work surface so the fondant doesn't stick.
• Rub a little Crisco to my hand so the fondant doesn't stick to my hand.
• I use my home made fondant (you know me, I like to make everything from scratch, but you can buy some at the grocery store).
• Need a fondant rolling pin.
• Water and brush.
• The cutter and stamps use coupon code FRIENDSOFTUNDE to get 10% OFF.
• And an extra glass with a piece of plastic wrap

This is the way I store my fondant during work. This prevents it from drying out. I learned this trick from my friend Ibolyka Kiss during her sugar flower classes last summer.

I rolled the fondant, used the cookie cutter to cut the egg shape and removed the excess fondant. (It went back under the cup.)

Brushed a little water on to make it sticky.

And placed the cookie on top, upside down.

My favorite cookie recipe spreads, so my cookie is bigger, than the fondant. If you have a non-spread cookie recipe, then your fondant will cover the whole cookie, as you use the same cutter.

Here comes the fun part: push the stamp in your fondant and your design is ready. (I love it!)

Bunny in the Easter egg stamped into the fondant with a 3D printed stamp.

You can stamp on the palette too, or just paint it on without the outline.

Next step is adding the colors. I use Americolor airbrush colors and about 2 drops was enough to paint the color on 12 cookies.

I have to practice staying inside the lines... or ask my perfectionist girl to paint these for me.

They are ready, my girls are excited!

Here are the painted cookies with the cutter and stamp set. If you want to purchase these cutters use coupon code FRIENDSOFTUNDE to get 10% OFF. Have fun!

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Baby shower cookie set with gender reveal cookies - video tutorials

I wanted to create some baby shower cookies that look great but are easy and quick to make.

For the visible part of this set I used only 3 icing bags: piping consistency white, flood consistency white and green. But the gender reveal cookies hide an extra color.

We will create this set during our April class at Sweet Wise, more information and registration will be available at their website.

For those who can not join us, I created some videos:

Let's start with the easiest one. You can pick any cute shape and just flood it and make some polka dots inside with wet on wet technique. It's easy, fast and the result is a cute, playful cookie.

For the next cookie I used only dots and teardrops as decoration, but it looks intricate.

When I have some left over royal icing and time, I like to make drop flowers. I can keep them forever and they make the simplest designs look fabulous.

And to finish the set, I made three versions of the rattle gender reveal cookie. Of course the last one is my favorite, as it does rattle!

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