How to Decorate Cookies for a Wedding Shower
Make these romantic treats that can also serve as favors at your next wedding shower.
Instructions
- Step 1: Roll out dough Roll out the sugar cookie dough and cut out each cookie with the heart-shaped cookie cutter. Bake the cookies as directed and let cool completely.
- Step 2: Color icing Divide out three-quarters of the Royal Icing and add food coloring to match the wedding colors.
- Step 3: Frost cookies Frost all the cookies with the colored Royal Icing using the spatula or a butter knife and let them dry completely.
- TIP: For best results, dry six hours or overnight.
- Step 4: Decorate Fill the pastry bag with the white icing and use a fine tip to create a border around the edges of the cookie. Draw the names of the bride and groom or monogram in the center.
- TIP: After the icing has dried, dip a small paintbrush in edible gold glitter to highlight the initials.
- Step 5: Let dry Let the icing dry completely and arrange the cookies on a multi-tiered cake stand. The display makes a great rehearsal for the wedding cake.
- FACT: In Roman times, a groom would break a loaf of wheat or barley over the head of his bride to bring luck and prosperity.
You Will Need
- Sugar cookie dough
- Royal icing
- Food coloring
- Equipment:
- Heart-shaped cookie cutter
- Offset spatula
- Pastry bag
- Pastry tips
- Tiered cake stand
- Edible gold glitter (optional)
- Small
- clean paintbrush (optional)