I recently had the honor of creating custom cookies for a Lord of the Rings wedding shower here in the Hudson Valley. It was such a joy to create these decorated cookies and I'm so happy that they were part of the bride's special day.
While I didn't create a full cookie decorating tutorial for this set, I did use recipes and cookie decorating techniques that are available to members of the Cookie Art Club, such as brush embroidery, royal icing transfers, piping bead borders, and painting on royal icing.
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The wedding gown and the ivy leaf brooch cookies in this set are made with royal icing transfers. I drew the templates, printed them out, and then covered them with wax paper on which I piped the royal icing decorations.
After allowing the icing to dry overnight, I removed the royal icing transfers from the wax paper and placed them on the cookies. Because royal icing transfers can be made well in advance, this method allows you to get a head start on your cookies. I prefer this method when a cookie has several steps, as these cookies require.
Had I flooded the cookies, let them dry overnight, and then piped the wedding dress and ivy leaf decorations on top, I would have needed to let the second layer dry completely, which means that the cookies would be out in the open for longer than they need to be.
Instead, I had my royal icing transfers dry and ready to go so that when I flooded my cookies, I only needed to let that flooded layer dry before completing the designs. This allowed me to get the cookies sealed up faster to keep them fresh.
The royal icing on these cookies is made with natural food coloring from The Sugar Art. The gorgeous shade of green is their Garden Sage, which is one of my favorite colors in their natural food coloring line.
Here's what I used to make these custom cookies for a Lord of the Rings wedding shower
These supplies are available in my list of favorite cookie decorating supplies unless otherwise noted. This is an affiliate link.
- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (use any of my cut-out cookie recipes)
- Royal icing
- Plaque cookie cutters
- Hexagon cookie cutter
- Round cookie cutter
- The Sugar Art natural food coloring in Garden Sage, Slate, Arctic Blue, Golden Ivory, Driftwood, and Sunny
- Ivory leaf template
- Dress template
- Couplers
- 1 tipless decorating bag
- 1 12” decorating bag
- Decorating tips 1, 1.5, and 3
- Bag ties or rubber bands
- Scribe tool
- Gold luster dust (I used Dessert Bling from Sugar Love Baking Supplies)
- Vodka, grain alcohol, extract, or The Sugar Art Color Solution for painting
- Decorator brushes (I used Sweet Sticks and Wilton brands)
- Paint palette or small dishes
- Wax paper covered boards for royal icing transfers
Relevant tutorials: Royal Icing 101, Brush Embroidery, How To Pipe Royal Icing Borders (these tutorials are available in the Cookie Art Club).
SweetAmbs custom decorated cookies are available for local delivery and shipping throughout New York State. Try a sample here and contact Amber at info@sweetambs.com to order custom decorated cookies.
