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How To Use SugarVeil® Icing To Decorate Wedding Cookies

A few months ago, I was invited to participate in a project with some of my YouTube friends using SugarVeil® icing. Julia M Usher organized the video collaboration and I’m so happy that she asked me to join. You can see all of our SugarVeil® icing tutorials including videos from Haniela, Pink Cake Princess, Montreal Confections, Happy Cakes Bakes, SugarCoder, Krazy Cool Cakes, and Julia M Usher in our YouTube playlist.SugarVeil

I really love the look of this edible lace. You can get the tiniest details out of the Confectionery Mats (available here) and the lace keeps its shape when you fold and bunch it like I did for these decorations. You just need a little bit of water to use as glue to hold the lace onto the cookies.SugarVeil-2

On the first try, the product and I did not get along very well. The lace wasn’t setting up and it was sticking to the mat, or becoming too dry and crumbling as I tried to remove it. But, after reading through the troubleshooting tips on the SugarVeil® website, I had a much better time. If you’re using it for the first time and it doesn’t work out, just keep at it. Once I got the hang of it, peeling the mat away from the lace was one of those oddly satisfying experiences. I loved using this stuff! By the way, when they say to peel the mat away from the lace and not to peel the lace away from the mat, they mean it! 

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SugarVeil® doesn’t have a strong taste. It’s sweet, but not as sweet as royal icing. The texture is sort of like gummy candy, and it dissolves right away when you bite into it.

I shipped some of these to my grandma and she said that some of the decorations that were sitting on top of the cookies had some damage. While you can store the lace so that it stays flexible, it will become brittle if it dries out. So, keep that in mind if you’re going to be shipping cookies that have SugarVeil® decorations on them.

If you’ll be painting your decorations with gold like I did here, be careful to not let the lace sit in the same spot for too long, or else it will stick to your work surface and break apart if you try to pick it up. As soon as you’re finished painting, carefully move the piece to a clean piece of parchment or wax paper to dry for a couple of minutes before you place it onto the cookie.

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Here’s what you’ll need for this project:

Watch the video to see how I used SugarVeil® to decorate these wedding cookies:

Click on the images below for more cookie projects!                            Vintage-Wedding-20 Color-Right12 Pearl-Cookies1

This post is sponsored by SugarVeil®

Amber Spiegel, founder of SweetAmbs, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and the author of Cookie Art: Sweet Designs for Special Occasions. Amber has over 12 years of cookie decorating experience and has traveled the world teaching others how to decorate beautiful cookies on their own.

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