A friend of mine recently requested a custom cookie portrait of her cat for her wife's birthday cake. I love making cakes for friends and family and I was so excited to create this one for her!
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You can create your own template of your pet by printing a photo of them and cutting it out. To cut the cookie, place the template on a chilled sheet of cookie dough and cut around it with a paring knife.
The plaque shape that I used for the frame was also cut by hand. This template is available to my Cookie Art Club members.
Here's what you'll need to make your own hand painted cat portrait cookie:
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- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (my recipe is available in the tutorial shop)
- Template of your pet
- Frame template (available to my Patreon Subscribers)
- Paring knife to cut the cookies
- Flood consistency royal icing in white and teal (I used Chefmaster Teal Green)
- 12″ decorating bags
- Couplers
- Decorating tips 3 and 2
- Bag ties
- Scribe tool
- Edible ink marker
- Gel food coloring for painting: Chefmaster Golden Yellow and Neon Brite Green
- Powdered food coloring for painting: Wilton Brown Color Dust, Snowflake and Coal Black by Crystal Colors
- Gold luster dust
- Paint Palette
- Vodka or grain alcohol for painting
Read this post to learn more about painting with food coloring on royal icing.
Here's the completed cake! I used a carrot cake recipe (the birthday girl's favorite!) from Simply Recipes and decorated it with cream cheese frosting (the border is piped with a Wilton 1M tip). Take a look at my cookie pop tutorial to see how I turned this cookie into a cake topper.
Read my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about royal icing consistencies.
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