How To Decorate Lilac Cookies With Royal Icing (Cookie Club Premium Tutorial)
Lilac season is too short, isn’t it? I’m making it last a little longer with these lilac cookies made with my chocolate cookie dough recipe. See below for the full tutorial on how to decorate lilac cookies with royal icing as well as the printable instructions and supply list.
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For this project I used these lilac cookie cutters from Sweet Elite Tools.
Here’s the full supply list to make these lilac cookies
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- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (recipe below)
- Lilac cookie cutters
- Chefmaster food coloring – Violet, Rose Pink, Lemon Yellow, Leaf Green, and Buckeye Brown
- Flood consistency royal icing in dark green, light green, dark purple, and ivory
- Medium consistency royal icing in ivory
- Stiff consistency royal icing in ivory and yellow
- Decorating bags
- Decorating tips 2, 77, and 1
- Couplers
- Bag ties
- Scribe tool
- Acrylic board or baking sheet wrapped in parchment paper
- Decorator brush (I used the brush from the Wilton 5 piece set)
- Vase template (available to my Patreon subscribers)
Colors
- Light and dark green: Leaf Green + Lemon Yellow + a touch of Buckeye Brown
- Light and dark purple: Violet + Rose Pink
- Ivory: a touch of Buckeye Brown
- Yellow: Lemon Yellow + a touch of Violet
See my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about icing consistencies.
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