Christmas Cookies

Hi all,

 

In my last post Making unique moulds using Silicone Plastique I made moulds using Christmas tree decorations for a simple Christmas cake.

 



Here are a couple of moulds that I made for cookie toppers, this is what I did with them. 

 

 My moulds were lightly dusted with corn flour and filled with sugar paste treated with CMC powder. The sugar paste was turned out of the mould and placed on a cooled cookies that I brushed (avoiding the edges) with piping gel. These were then put to one side to allow the sugar paste to firm up.

 

 

I used the same sugar paste/CMC mix to fill a mini holly silicone mould, the resulting holly was also left to firm up.

 

 

 

I thought a complimenting design of cookie would be nice, so I printed a design using my edible printer onto an edible icing sheet, which was then placed onto some rolled sugar paste, cut out with a craft knife and glued using piping gel on to some more cookies.

 

 

 

An extruder was used with the sugar paste/CMC mix to create faux piping.

 

 

 

 Which again was glued in place around the topper using piping gel.

 

 

I carefully painted the faux piping using Bright Gold Lustre Dust mixed with Liquid shiny Clear Glaze.

 

 

 

I airbrushed the holly that I made earlier with Sage Green Pearl airbrush paint, the berries were painted with Carmoisine Red lustre dust mixed with the glaze.

 

 

When they were dry I attached them to the cookies with some royal icing.

 

 

Now the moulded toppers are ready to add some colour to. I did this with Petal Crafts dusts, then very lightly airbrushed over this with Dinkydoodle pearl paint. This helps to blend the colours.

  

So here we have it, Christmas cookies ready to share with my family and friends.

 

 

Thanks for reading,

 

Wendy.