Rose basket for Mother's Day with TruColor swirl roses

When I have some left over royal icing I like to make some flowers that can be used for later projects. This is also a great opportunity to try my new colors.

This time I played with TruColor super red gel natural food color. I needed to add some extra lemon juice to my icing to achieve real red color, as egg white is a base, which turns the natural food color purple. But, as you can see, with some lemon juice I could balance out the acidity and I have some nice red roses. When I had only a little icing left in my bag I added some more white icing to create some dark pink roses, then added more icing to get the lighter shades. I like to use different shades of the same color.

I used my favorite basket cookie cutter again, if you would like to get one from Cookie Cutter Kingdom, use coupon code FRIENDSOFTUNDE to get 10% off.

Here you can see a video of this project:

And some pictures if you would like to have a closer look of the patterns:

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Mother's Day cookies with cute animals

You know you are a cookie addict, when you always think cookies. Where ever you go, what ever you do, cookies designs float into your mind. I am a cookie addict. A few weeks ago I went to Hobby Lobby to pick up some scrapbook paper and I've found this cute stamp set:

Other people would think about postcards or gift tags to make. Not me! As soon as I laid my eyes on these, my brain generated the picture of some plaque cookies with these animal moms and babies for Mother's Day.

I used TruColor natural food colors for this project. And as you can see in the video, they are easy to use. Here is my color palette:

I chose some plaque cutters from Cookie Cutter Kingdom, they have a great selection of plaques.

Enjoy the video:

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