Garden Cookies Decorated With Royal Icing

Cookies on a white plate with a wooden background. The cookies are decorated in a garden theme to look like a watering can, flower pots, sprouts, dianthus, a hand rake, and a shovel.

For Father’s Day this year I decided to go with a set of garden cookies inspired by my husband’s newfound interest in gardening.

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Fun fact about this set: I worked for Wilton from 2009 to 2011 and while I was there I decorated the cookies that are featured on the packaging for their garden cookie cutters.

It’s neat to look back and see how my work has changed over the years.

A card with images of cookies decorated to look like a watering can, a flower pot with a tulip, and a shovel with cookie crumbs representing dirt on the shovel. The card is next to the same cookies in an updated style. The caption on the photo says "My cookies in 2010" on the left and "My cookies 10 years later" on the right.

Here’s what you’ll need to create these garden cookies

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Chilled sheet of cookie dough
Garden cookie cutters
Decorating bags
Tipless decorating bag for lettering
Decorating tips 2, 3, 10, 101, and 352
Bag ties
Scribe tool
Couplers
Offset tapered spatula
Corn starch
Parchment paper squares
Flower nail
Stiff consistency royal icing in light pink and dark green (see color combinations below)
Slightly-thinned stiff consistency royal icing in terra cotta, and brown
Medium consistency royal icing in white
Flood consistency royal icing in dark blue and gray
Pink food coloring for painting (I used Wilton Color Right)
Red food coloring for painting (I used Wilton Color Right)
Silver pearl dust
Brush for dusting (I used the one from the Wilton 5 piece set)
Round brush for painting
Thin artist brush for painting
Paint palette or small dish for mixing colors
Vodka or grain alcohol for painting