A friend of mine recently sent me a gift package with lots of fun stuff for decorating cookies. Included in the box was a bag of gold star sprinkles, a jar of petal dust, a package of mini cutters, and sheets of edible gold leaf. I'd never used gold leaf to decorate cookies before and I was very intimidated by it. Then, Georganne of Lilaloa (who I am super excited to meet at CookieCon!) posted this month's decorating challenge, which is to add something extra to your cookies. With a few exceptions, I don't usually decorate with anything other than royal icing, so thought this would be a perfect opportunity to try out the gold leaf.
The inspiration for this design came from the idea of making a cookie that resembled semi-precious stone jewelry, combined with this summery beach-y theme that I keep coming back to.
I cut my cookies to 1-½" squares for this project. My Orange Vanilla Spice cookie recipe is available in my tutorial shop. You’ll also find lots of useful video tutorials there including How To Make Royal Icing, Flooding With Royal Icing and Cookie Decorating Basics.
The blue color I'm using is a combination of Wilton sky blue with a touch of leaf green and the coral is made with Wilton pink combined with lemon yellow. Start by piping a few sections in blue flood consistency icing and a tip 2. Make them all different shapes and sizes. Fill in the rest with the coral icing.
The inspiration for this design came from the idea of making a cookie that resembled semi-precious stone jewelry, combined with this summery beach-y theme that I keep coming back to.
I cut my cookies to 1-½" squares for this project. My Orange Vanilla Spice cookie recipe is available in my tutorial shop. You’ll also find lots of useful video tutorials there including How To Make Royal Icing, Flooding With Royal Icing and Cookie Decorating Basics.
The blue color I'm using is a combination of Wilton sky blue with a touch of leaf green and the coral is made with Wilton pink combined with lemon yellow. Start by piping a few sections in blue flood consistency icing and a tip 2. Make them all different shapes and sizes. Fill in the rest with the coral icing.
Do you think that cookies with gold leaf could be frozen for later use, such as at Christmas? And if so, what would you layer them with, or how would you store them?
Hi Susan! I don't freeze decorated cookies, but this post has information on how I get a head start so I don't get overwhelmed with large quantities of cookies: https://www.sweetambs.com/uncategorized/cookies-some-general-information/
Can you use the gold leaf on a royal iced cake which is already set ?
Yes! You can apply gold leaf to dry royal icing.
How do apply it if it's dry? Do you need an adhesive (water, corn syrup etc)? Or will it just stick to dry royal icing??
Hi Enie! The gold leaf will stick to just about anything, even dry royal icing. You'll just have to pat it down using a dry brush to get it to stick to the icing.
I offer a gold leaf gourmet chocolate in my sweet shop. And yes, turn off all fans etc. and I find you even have to hold your breath as you apply it. If you need large pieces of gold, VS torn bits, you can cut it and apply it with an X-Acto knife. I haven't used it on cookies yet but I have been thinking about using it for Christmas cookies - Gold and Red - beautiful!
Good tip, Richard! Thank you. I would love to see what you do with it on the Christmas cookies!
Amber, These cookies are so pretty and truly unique. I love the soft colors too.
Thank you, Joan!
Wowwwww
really very nice ,Y `ll tried it
Thank you! Let me know how it comes out!