Eid al-Adha falls at the end of July this year and since I have many followers on my blog and social media who celebrate, I thought it would be fun to create a beautiful set of Eid Cookies with symbols that represent the holiday.
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When searching for inspiration for these Eid cookies, I came across lots of beautiful images with deep shades of purple and blue with gold embellishments.
If you've been following me for a while you probably know that painting with gold luster dust on royal icing requires the use of alcohol, so I had to think of another way to get gold decorations on these cookies.
The solution: Edible gold leaf! It's not easy to work with but I love the result. I used Wilton's Dab-N-Hold edible adhesive to apply the gold leaf to the royal icing transfers (see how to make the transfers in the video tutorial).
Here's what you'll need to make these Eid Cookies
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- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (my recipe is available to my Patreon Subscribers or get it in my tutorial shop)
- SweetAmbs Ornate Square Cookie Cutter by Ann Clark Cookie Cutters
- Dark purple flood consistency royal icing (I used a combination of Chefmaster Violette and Navy Blue)
- White medium consistency royal icing
- Dark purple medium consistency royal icing (color the leftover white medium consistency icing with Violette and Navy Blue to match the base color)
- 12” decorating bags
- Couplers
- Decorating tips 1 and 3
- Bag ties
- Scribe tool
- Acrylic board or baking sheet wrapped with parchment paper
- Lantern, moon and star, and ram template (below)
- Edible gold leaf
- Edible adhesive
- Dragee tweezers
- Decorator brushes
- Gold luster dust (I used Crystal Colors Antique Gold)
Read my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about royal icing consistencies.
These are lovely! Just wondering if anyone else can see the printout for the design. I wanted to give these a try. Thank you!
Thank you so much for including our celebration people like you makes the world beautiful even if it is in such a small way.you are amazing.
It's a pleasure! Thank you!
I have followed your page for many years and have watched you grow in your work. I am happy to see you diversify your work. These look amazing. I am curious to know, if you don't mind, what your inspiration was to make Eid cookies?
Thank you so much, Nadia! I received requests from my followers for Eid cookies and I found inspiration for the designs by searching images of Eid greetings and celebrations 🙂
It’s my pleasure, Fathima! Thank you! ☺️
Love the Eid cookies! Makes me so happy to see a holiday I celebrate being included especially by someone as amazing and talented as you, Amber! Thanks so much!!
I’m so glad you like them, Nazia! Thank you! ❤️
This is awesome! Thank you for this 🖤