Fall Mason Jar Cookies with Royal Icing

I’m getting a lot of use out of my royal icing roses and chrysanthemums this season! In addition to using them to fill my fall mason jar cookies, I also used them to decorate these polka dot pumpkin cookies and these fall dress cookies.

This mason jar cookie design has become somewhat of a template for me over the last couple of years. You can see other seasonal mason jar cookies by typing the word “mason jar” into the search bar on my blog.

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Fall sunsets are so gorgeous in the Hudson Valley and they are my inspiration behind this fall mason jar cookie. This is not the first time I’ve paid homage to them in cookie form, see another fall sunset cooke here.

I used gel food coloring mixed with vodka to paint the sunset on the dry royal icing. For the trees, I used black edible matte dust from Crystal Colors mixed with vodka.

The roses and chrysanthemums are made with stiff consistency royal icing. I let them dry overnight before painting the centers orange.

Here’s what you’ll need to make this Fall Mason Jar Cookie

• Chilled sheet of cookie dough (recipe available in my Cookie Art Club)
• Mason jar cookie cutter
• 1-½” round cookie cutter
• Flood consistency royal icing in white and dark blue
• Stiff consistency royal icing in golden yellow, pink, and green
• 12” decorating bags and couplers
• Decorating tips 1, 2, 3, 59s, and 352
• Scribe tool
• Yellow and pink gel food coloring for painting
• Edible black matte dust for painting
• Vodka, grain alcohol, or any flavor extract for painting
• Flat, wide decorator brush 
• Thin decorator brushes (NY Cake and Sweet Sticks – use code SWEETAMBS for 10% at NYCake.com)
• Flower nail and parchment paper squares

Colors (I used Chefmaster)

• Lemon Yellow
• Deep Pink
• Light pink = Rose Pink + a touch of Lemon Yellow
• Golden Yellow
• Green = Leftover light pink and golden yellow icing mixed with Forest Green

Instructions

1. Begin by icing a mason jar cookie with white flood consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 3. Use a scribe tool to help shape the icing. Allow the icing to dry for about an hour.
2. Ice the lid of the jar with dark blue flood consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 2. Use the scribe tool to help shape the icing. Pipe white dots with flood consistency icing and a decorating tip 1. Allow the icing to dry overnight.
3. Paint the mason jar with food coloring mixed with vodka, grain alcohol, or any flavor extract. Start with yellow at the top and pink on the bottom and blend the colors in the middle. Allow the paint to dry. This should only take a few minutes.
4. Mix black powdered food coloring with vodka to paint the fall scene. 
5. Pipe lace trim under the lid of the jar with dark blue flood consistency icing and a decorating tip 1. 
6. Attach a parchment paper square to a flower nail. Pipe roses with pink stiff consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 101.
7. Pipe a chrysanthemum with golden yellow stiff consistency icing and a tip 59s. Allow the flowers to dry overnight.
8. Empty the remaining yellow and pink icing into a container and add forest green food coloring. 
9. Attach the flowers to small round cookies with the green stiff consistency icing.
10. Pipe leaves around the flowers with a tip 352.