This month in the Cookie Art Club, share your summer-themed decorated cookies for a chance to win a prize box with fun baking supplies from King Arthur Baking Company, including their Black Cocoa Powder, Sparkling Sugar, Pearl Sugar, and Parchment Paper. I used these supplies to create this set of Summer Camping Cookies!
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One of my favorite things about these cookies, aside from the fact that they depict my favorite summer activity, is that they are made with natural food coloring! I've been using natural food coloring from The Sugar Art since they launched this new line a few months ago and I don't see any reason to go back to artificial colors.
The black icing is made with a combination of King Arthur Baking Company's Black Cocoa Powder and The Sugar Art's Slate natural food coloring. I recently made a batch of black royal icing using only the cocoa powder, but the fat from the cocoa powder makes the icing dry with a wavy texture. It's a pretty cool look, but for a smooth finish on your royal icing, it's best to use a little bit of the cocoa powder mixed with the natural food coloring.
The full color mixing instructions and recipes are included with the tutorial in the Cookie Art Club.
In addition to adding sparkling sugar to these camping cookies for my Starry Night inspired sky, I used King Arthur Baking Company's Swedish Pearl Sugar to make asteroids in the galaxy cookies.
Ever since I worked on these Lord of the Rings wedding cookies, I've been enjoying using a variety of shapes for my cookie sets. This time, I used 3 different plaque shapes and a small hexagon shaped cookie cutter. The largest of the 3 plaques was given to me as a gift and has been part of my collection for a long time. The other two plaques are by Ann Clark Cookie Cutters and they are linked in my favorite cookie decorating supplies.
Here's what you'll need to make these Summer Camping Cookies
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- Chilled sheet of cookie dough (use any of my cut-out cookie recipes from my books or in the Cookie Art Club)
- Plaque cookie cutters
- Small hexagon cookie cutter
- Royal icing
- The Sugar Art natural food coloring in Slate, Ruby, Arctic Blue, and Sunny
- Couplers
- 4 tipless decorating bag
- 3 12” decorating bags
- Decorating tips 1, 2, and 3
- Bag ties or rubber bands
- Scribe tool
- Tapered offset spatula
- Sparkling sugar and Swedish pearl sugar (I used King Arthur brand)
- Sprinkle tweezers
- Round decorator brush for stippling (I used Wilton brand)
Relevant tutorials: Royal Icing 101, How To Pipe Royal Icing Borders, How To Pipe Filigree (these tutorials are available in the Cookie Art Club)
Want to make your own summer camping cookies? The video tutorial and recipes to recreate them are available to Cookie Art Club members and you can try it free for 7 days. If you’re already a Cookie Art Club member, you can log in here.
