Edible Trinket Box Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing
The floral design and bronze trim on these edible trinket cookie boxes decorated with royal icing are inspired by vintage makeup compacts. I made these boxes for my mom and my grandmother for Mother’s Day, which also happened to fall on my grandmother’s 95th birthday this year! I filled the box with one of my grandma’s favorite treats, chocolate chips.
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I used wet-on-wet royal icing to create the rose pattern on these edible trinket boxes, which is a technique used to make royal icing designs in one smooth layer. My royal icing recipe gives me up to 10 minutes to work with the icing before it crusts over, which was just enough time to get all of the details on this cookie.
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Here’s what you’ll need to make these edible trinket cookie boxes decorated with royal icing
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- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (use any of my cut-out cookie recipes)
- 2-¾” round and 2” round cookie cutters
- Royal icing
- The Sugar Art natural food coloring in Slate, Arctic Blue, Ruby, and Sunny
- 2 12” decorating bags
- Couplers
- Decorating tips 3 and 1
- 5 tipless decorating bags
- Bag ties or rubber bands
- Scribe tool
- Ivory and bronze luster dust (I used The Sugar Art sterling pearl)
- Vodka, grain alcohol, extract, or The Sugar Art Color Solution for painting
- Round decorator brush (I used Sweet Sticks and Chua Cookie brands)
- Paint palette or small dishes
Relevant tutorials: Royal Icing 101, How To Pipe Royal Icing Borders (both of these tutorials are in the Cookie Art Club)
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