Chalkboard Cookies!
Of course chalkboard cookies are great for back-to-school treats, but my brain has become wedding soup and I can’t think of anything else (3 weeks to go!), so I used the chalkboard icing technique to make these wedding plaque cookies.
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The plaque cookie cutter that I used for this project is from Ann Clark Cookie Cutters.
The idea for these chalkboard cookies came to me after I purchased this beauty from Michaels. I bought it to use at my wedding, but until then it’s just hanging out in my craft room!
Here’s what you’ll need to make these chalkboard cookies:
- Roll out cookie dough (my Orange Vanilla Spice cookie recipe is available in the tutorial shop)
- Plaque-shaped cookie cutter
- Flood consistency royal icing in black and white
- Stiff consistency royal icing in pink and green
- 12″ decorating bags
- Tipless piping bags
- Decorating tip 2
- Decorating tip 3
- Scribe tool
- Soft round and fine tip Brushes
- Cornstarch
Colors:
- Black: Black from the Wilton Color Right color system
- Pink: Wilton Aster Mauve from the Garden Tone Set
- Green: Wilton Juniper Green from the Garden Tone Set
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Begin by icing a plaque-shaped cookie with black flood consistency royal icing and a tip 3. Allow the icing to dry completely. I let mine dry overnight.
Dust the surface with cornstarch to give the icing a chalky look.—
Fill a “tipless” piping bag with flood consistency icing and cut a very small opening. Pipe your design one section at a time (if you pipe the entire design at once, the icing will dry before you get to the next step). I used a tipless bag here because I needed a very small amount of icing. I prefer to use these smaller, thinner bags rather than using a 12″ bag for things like this.
Use a fine tip brush to flatten the icing and remove some of the excess to make it look like the design was drawn with chalk.
You can see how I piped this monogram in the video in my Cookie Art Club. Add roses by piping swirls with pink stiff consistency icing and a tip 3.
Add leaves with green stiff consistency icing and a tip 2.