Adorable Woodland Cake Decorated With Royal Icing Cookies
There’s a new tutorial in the Cookie Art Club! Learn how to decorate an adorable woodland cake with owl cookies, mushroom cookies, and royal icing ferns.
You can turn almost any cake into an adorable woodland scene with these decorated cookies!
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I was inspired to make the owl cookie when I saw a vintage clock at a friend’s house during a birthday party (cookie inspiration is everywhere!).
I’d also planned to make a cookie set based on the Merry Mushroom canister set, and then decided to put the two ideas together to make this adorable woodland cake.
To make these tiny mushroom cookies, I used this set of polymer clay mushroom cutters. They were NOT easy to use with cookie dough but I managed to make it work!
It helps to dust the cookie cutters in flour before cutting the dough. You’ll also have to roll the dough very thin before cutting the mushroom cookies.
Here’s what you’ll need to make this adorable woodland cake decorated with royal icing cookies
These supplies are available in my Amazon store unless otherwise noted
- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (my cookie recipes are available in the Cookie Art Club)
- Owl cookie cutter (I used Ann Clark’s owl cookie cutter)
- Mini mushroom cutters
- Craft knife or paring knife to trim owl cookie
- Oven safe cookie sticks
- Royal icing
- Brown, Coal Black, Sunset Orange, Super Red, and Leaf Green food coloring (I used Chefmaster brand)
- 12” Decorating bags
- Tipless decorating bags
- Decorating tips 2, 5, and 352 (I used Wilton brand)
- Couplers & Bag ties (I used Wilton brand)
- Scribe tool
- Edible ink marker or Food Pencil
- Decorator brushes (I used Chua Cookie & Sweet Sticks brushes)
- Sweet Sticks edible paint in Brown and Black
- Vodka, grain alcohol, extract, or paint powder activator for painting (as needed)
- Paint palette or small dishes
- Wax paper covered board
- Cupcakes or Swiss roll and chocolate frosting (I used canned cake frosting)
- Small metal spatula for spreading and texturing
Want to make these cookies yourself? The video tutorial and recipes to recreate these cookies are available to Cookie Art Club members and you can try it free for 7 days.
