Pretty Tulip Cookies

In case you missed my Tulip Cookies Tutorial guest post over at Bea's Cancun Cookies last week, I'm sharing it on my blog today.

I prepared a Tulip Cookie Tutorial  for you. I wanted to achieve a new dimension with tulip cookies, tulip cookies are mostly decorated flat so I thought I'd play around a little.

In this tutorial you will find embroidery technique and sanding sugar application, both techniques play a key role in this  tulip design.

•  Bake cookies, and prepare Royal icing, color icing with food color and make outline consistency icing(thin the icing down with a bit of water to about a toothpaste consistency) and flood consistency.
• You need 2 colors, for the petals and then for the flower stamens
• I used a combination or red and touch of orange  gel food coloring to achieve the red shade of icing I used to decorate my tulip cookies

•  Pipe a thick border with outline consistency royal icing, do one section at a time
• Using a  clean painter's brush, brush by pull the icing inward toward the center of the cookie, wipe the brush into a damp towel if necessary
• Continue with other sections, all together there are 3 sections you need to do this

• Once you have the brushed embroidery details finished you can move onto the front petals
• Pipe the petals
• Flood the petals with flood consistency icing
• Let dry for several hours

• Once the icing has dried you can move onto adding details
• First you need to pipe flower stamens and let them dry for an hour or so, use outline consistency icing to do this
• Then outline the petals with outline consistency icing 
• Sprinkle sanding sugar on top of the freshly piped icing, shake off the excess

• Pipe small dots onto the dry brushed embroidery design, you want only random dots, pipe only several dots not a whole lot
• Using a clean painter's brush, brush the icing inward
• Immediately sprinkle sanding sugar on top freshly brushed icing
• Shake of the excess

Pretty Tulip Cookies