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Saint Patrick’s Day Cookies

These Saint Patrick’s Day Cookies are part of a collaboration with my friend Hani of Haniela’s. The video, printable instructions, supply list, and templates to make these shimmering shamrock and rainbow chevron cookies are below. After the video, visit Haniela’s blog to watch her tutorial on how to decorate Lucky Shamrock Cookies!

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I used the royal icing transfer method to create the four-leaf clovers.

Once the royal icing transfers were completely dry (I let mine dry overnight), I painted them with Roxy & Rich Emerald Green luster dust (available in my Amazon Store). The bead border is also painted with luster dust – Crystal Colors Antique Gold is my favorite (also available in the Amazon Store). You can read this post to learn all about painting royal icing with luster dust.

See below for the printable instructions, supply list, and templates.

Saint Patrick's Day Cookies

Saint Patrick's Day Cookies

These cookies for Saint Patrick's Day feature shimmering shamrocks and brightly colored rainbow chevron, complete with a golden bead border. The supplies are available in my Amazon Store unless otherwise noted.

Materials

Instructions

  1. Wrap an acrylic board or the underside of a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper. Slide the template under the paper.
  2. Pipe two leaves of the clover with Kelly green flood consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 2. Use a scribe tool to help shape the icing. Allow the icing to dry for at least 30 minutes.
  3. Pipe the remaining leaves. Use a scribe tool to help shape the icing. Allow the icing to dry completely (overnight is best).
  4. Mix green luster dust with alcohol or any flavor extract, such as vanilla, lemon, or almond (Alcohol is used for painting on royal icing because it evaporates very quickly, which means that the liquid won’t dissolve the icing as you are applying the paint. The stronger the alcohol, the better!).
  5. Paint the clovers with the luster dust mixture.
  6. Carefully remove the clovers from the paper.
  7. Cut plaque cookies from a chilled sheet of cookie dough. Bake them according to the recipe and allow them to cool completely before decorating - about 30 minutes.
  8. Use an edible ink marker to trace the chevron template onto the cookie.
  9. Ice the cookie with flood consistency royal icing in red, orange, yellow, bright green, blue, and purple.
  10. While the icing is still wet, apply the clover (royal icing transfer) to the cookie. Allow the icing to dry for at least an hour.
  11. Pipe a stem with the Kelly green icing and use the scribe tool to help shape the icing.
  12. Pipe a border with golden brown stiff consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 3. Allow the icing to dry for about 30 minutes.
  13. Paint the stem with the green luster dust mixture.
  14. Mix gold luster dust with alcohol or any flavor extract.
  15. Paint the border with the gold luster dust mixture. Enjoy the cookies right away or allow the rainbow icing to dry overnight before packaging them.

Right-click on the templates below to save them to your computer and print them out. Both templates are 8.5 x 11″ sheets.

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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