St. Patrick’s Day Green Beer Cookies

In addition to my 2 previous posts dedicated to Saint Patrick’s Day cookie decorating, today I’m sharing the 3rd and the last post, highlighting St. Patrick’s Day Cookies from this very green cookie project. We are going to make Green Beer Cookies.
Before I jump into a tutorial on how to make Green Beer Cookies I just wanted to let you know that you can find a video how to decorate Green Beer Cookies, Leprechaun Hat, Moustache, cute Shamrocks and a Bunting Banner in the video below.
And if you missed my previous St. Patrick’s Day Cookie posts you can find them both here :
- Rainbow, Bunting Banner and Shamrock Cookies
- Pot of Gold and Leprechaun Cookies using a cupcake cookie cutter
LEPRECHAUN HAT COOKIES
First, let’s make Leprechaun Hat Cookies.
- First, I flooded the cookie with light green and white royal icing. Let dry.
- Then I airbrushed the side edges, bottom edge and also top edge of the bottom section.
- Using black royal icing ice the belt section. Let crust well.
- Although you can pipe the buckle directly on the cookie I optioned to use RIT (royal icing transfer) instead.
- Using yellow royal icing pipe the buckle on a wax paper and let dry.
- Then mix Gold Luster Dust with Lemon Extract or Everclear to make a gold paint. Use a dropper to add just the right amount of alcohol. If you add too much at once, give it a few minutes for some of the alcohol to evaporate. Gold paint will thicken as alcohol evaporates.
- Paint the buckle with food paint brush. Let dry for couple of minutes.
- After, you can peel off the backing wax paper.
- Attach buckle onto the cookie with a little bit of royal icing.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY GREEN BEER COOKIES
To make the bubbles I’m using wet on wet technique. This method can also be used with other designs, for example you can use it to make golf ball cookies.
- Use edible marker to the outline of the design on the cookie.
- Start with a light green royal icing and flood the “inside” of the beer glass, leaving a little gap between the edge of the cookie and edge of the icing. We will be adding white icing for the glass there.
- Immediately, while light green is still wet use dark green and pipe polka dots of different sizes.
- Then with a light green icing pipe a dot on each dark green dot to cover up a section of it. Give the cookie a little tap on a table. As polka dots sink in place, you are left with a perfect crescent shapes = bubbles. Let crust well.
- With white royal icing outline the green rectangle and pipe the handle. Let crust for about 30 minutes.
- To finish St. Patrick’s Day Green Beer Cookies with thicker royal icing make the top bubbles, gradually, after each layer crusts, add another layer, until you are happy with the finished design.
- Cheers!
TO MAKE SAINT PATRICK’S DAY COOKIES YOU NEED(as seen in the video)
- RECIPES
- Sugar Cookies
- Collection of Cut Out Cookie Recipes
- Royal Icing, Vegan Royal Icing
- TOOLS
- Cookie Cutters : beer cutter (here or here), hat, moustache, shamrock, or assorted shamrocks(3sizes), dialog bubble/cloud, bunting banner
- Piping Bags
- Needle Tool
- Food Colors : red, orange, yellow, green, sky blue, purple(I used sky blue and electric blue to make purple), black,
- Airbrush
- Airbrush Colors – green for the beer design, and leprechaun hat
- Edible Marker – brown to draw the outlines
- Aztec Gold Luster dust – to paint Leprechaun hat buckle
- Dropper
- Alcohol : Lemon Extract or Everclear
- Tweezers
- Food Paint Brush – to spread a thin layer of icing on bunting cookies
- White Sanding Sugar
- ROYAL ICING TRANSFERS
- Wax Paper
- Leprechaun Hat Buckle
- Yellow Royal Icing
- Template – buckle template should be wider then the black belt
- Gold Coins – used on a rainbow shamrock cookie
- Check a tutorial on how to make the coins here
ROYAL ICING CONSISTENCIES
- ROYAL ICING CONSISTENCIES
- Leprechaun Hat Cookie
- Light Green : 15 second consistency
- White : 15 second Consistency
- Black : 15 second consistency
- Yellow : 20 second consistency – buckle
- Green Beer Cookies
- Light Green : 15 second consistency
- Dark Green : 15 second consistency
- White : 15 and 25 second consistency, 25 for outlining the green glass section and handle, and foam bubbles; 15 to flood the bottom of the beer mug, handle.
- Moustache Cookies
- Orange : 15 second consistency
- Orange : piping consistency
- Bunting Banner
- Dark Green : 15 second consistency – to spread a thin layer with a paint brush
- Orange, Light Green : 20 second
- Orange, Light Green : piping consistency – to outline
- White – piping consistency – to pipe shamrocks, then dip them into sanding sugar
- Luck Cookies
- Light Green, Orange, White, Dark Green : 15 second consistency
- “l” : use green, white and orange
- “u” wet on wet shamrocks : dark green 15 second consistency
- “c” lines across : orange piping consistency
- “k” wet on wet polka dot design : white 15 second consistency
- Dialog Cloud Cookies
- Orange : 15 second consistency
- Light Green : 20 second consistency – letters
- Shamrock Rainbow Cookies
- White : 15 second consistency
- Rainbow Colors : 15 second consistency
- Shamrock Polka Dot Cookies
- Orange : 15 second consistency
- Dark Green : 15 second consistency
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