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Hand Painted Hydrangea Cookies (Cookie Art Club Premium Tutorial) - SweetAmbs

Hand Painted Hydrangea Cookies (Cookie Art Club Premium Tutorial)

This rather large hydrangea cookie was requested by a lovely client who wanted to give her mother and sister something extra special for Mother’s Day this year. Her vision included a bunch of blue and white hydrangeas sitting in a ginger jar and I was happy to oblige!

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Before making the cookie, I drew a sketch for the client which I then used as a template to cut out the dough. Once the cookie was baked, I cut the template into pieces and traced each section on the cookie with my scribe tool so I would know where to pipe each section of icing. You could also use an edible ink marker for that part.

Here’s the full supply list for this project:

Most of these supplies can be found in my Amazon Store unless otherwise noted.

  • Chilled sheet of cookie dough (use your favorite or get mine in the Cookie Art Club)
  • Template (above)
  • Knife to cut around the template
  • Flood consistency royal icing in white, green, and blue
  • Decorating bags
  • Decorating tips: Wilton 2 and 3 and PME 1.5
  • Couplers
  • Bag ties
  • Edible ink marker (optional for tracing template)
  • Round decorator brush
  • Fine tip brush
  • Food coloring for painting (I used Wilton Color Right)
  • Alcohol or any flavor extract – Alcohol or flavored extracts are used for painting on royal icing because they evaporate very quickly, which means that the liquid won’t dissolve the icing as you are applying the paint.
  • Small dish or paint palette for mixing paint

Amber Spiegel, founder of SweetAmbs, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and the author of Cookie Art: Sweet Designs for Special Occasions. Amber has over 12 years of cookie decorating experience and has traveled the world teaching others how to decorate beautiful cookies on their own.

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