How To Decorate Seashell Cookies

If you don't have plans for a beach vacation this summer, bring the beach to you in the form of cookies and icing with these seashell cookies!

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

• Roll out cookie dough (use your favorite recipe or get mine in the tutorial shop)
• Cookie crumbs for sand
• Mini fluted tartlet pan
• Flood consistency royal icing in pink and white
• Stiff consistency royal icing
• Decorating tip 10
• 12" decorating bags
• Scribe Tool
• Gold Luster Dust*
• Brushes
• Paint palette or small dish
• Alcohol or flavored extract (Read this post to learn about why I use alcohol to paint on royal icing)

Colors:

I used a mixture of red and brown from the Wilton Color Right color system to make the pink icing.

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*A note about the gold luster dust I used for this project: As you may know, there are some gold dusts that are meant for consumption and some that are not. Normally, I use gold dusts that are approved for consumption, but this time, I wanted that super shiny gold that only comes from the non-toxic "for decoration only" gold highlighter. So, if you want to use this gold highlighter but aren't comfortable eating it or serving it to others, you could always use these cookies as a centerpiece on a dessert table. Or, you can use the less shiny but edible gold dust that I usually use, which you can find here and here.

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