These heart cookies were made using the wet on wet royal icing filigree technique. It's one of my favorites and I always find myself coming back to it when I make cookies for gifting. Once you get the hang of it, it's a lot of fun.
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A nurse in Georgia recently put together care packages for her coworkers and I happily contributed these heart cookies. I hope they brought a little bit of joy to those extremely hardworking healthcare workers.
Here's what you'll need for the wet on wet royal icing filigree technique
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- Chilled sheet of cookie dough
- Heart cookie cutter
- Flood consistency royal icing
- Slightly-thinned stiff consistency royal icing
- Decorating bags
- Decorating tips 3 and 2
- Bag ties
- Couplers
- Scribe tool
- Colors: Chefmaster Violet, Rose Pink, and Teal Green
See my Ultimate Guide To Royal Icing to learn all about icing consistencies.
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I have tried to do filagree I just can't get it right it runs together and I really don't know how to draw it very frustrating