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What you'll need:
- Cookie cutters are from Brighton Cutters - Flamingo Floaty, Coconut Drink, Designer Sunglasses
- Tipless piping bags
- Cookie scribe or toothpick
- Dot tool
- Tip 101
- Sprinkle mixes
- Gel colors
- Paint palette
- Detail brushes
- Regular brushes are also helpful
- Kitchen sponge
- Edible ink marker
- Pipette - optional but gives you better control
- A cookie swivel is going to help a ton with the flower (and you’ll want to use it over and over
lol)
- Vodka or grain alcohol (evaporates quickly as it dries), I hear you can use orange juice for
“paint”, never done it myself. Water will cause the icing to disintegrate, do not use water.
- A dehydrator is going to come in handing
- Have prepped: your favorite royal icing and cookie recipes
- Also check out our resources list for a bunch of other tools!
Directions:
1. Bake your cookies and ensure they are fully cool before we begin decorating!
2. Make and color your icing. I made the following colors and made them all approx. 20 second
consistency: white, pink, brown, orange, blue, black. I also made 1 extra pink that’s extra stiff
(think thicker than toothpaste) for piping the flower with.
3. Make a paper template for your sunglasses so you can get uniform lens sizes.
4. Create guidelines on your sunglass cookie using an edible ink marker so you know where to fill in
your lens. You can also “scratch” the guidelines into the surface by using the tip of your scribe
(see video)
5. Fill in the lens of your sunglasses with white icing, set aside until it is dry when you tap on it and
will not accidentally indent it. Usually a few hours (4-6 hrs) at room temperature, uncovered, or
in a dehydrator for 20 minutes and then at room temperature for another 1-2 hrs.
6. Make guidelines in your flamingo floaty by scratching the surface of the cookie with your scribe,
fill in the center with white, and the face/body with black, white and pink. Set aside and let fully
dry (8 hrs+) so that when you tap on it and apply pressure, it doesn’t indent. In the video, I was
too impatient and didn’t let it dry thoroughly before applying my polka dots. TIP: if you want to,
you can use the PME black pearls from Grunderfully Delicious for the eye. Simply press it in
when the flood icing is still wet!
7. For your coconut drink, flood the coconut shell portion and let dry so it doesn’t dent when you
apply pressure… you can work on the next step while this is drying!
8. Scratch the shape of your umbrella onto the surface of your cookie - I used the curve of a small
bowl to guide me. Outline your umbrella, and working in alternating sections, doing wet on wet
flowers as demonstrated in the video. Leave every other section unfilled so we can create
“folds” in it later.
9. When the coconut shell portion of the cookie has dried, adhere sprinkles to the rim, then create
texture on the shell by adding a bit of brown icing on top, and dabbing it with a scrunched up,
dry paper towel.
10. Finish all the other sections of the umbrella and add the straw, and “liquid” portion of the drink.
Set aside to set a few hours (or about 20 min in dehydrator, read about that HERE) so that it is
dry to a gentle touch.
11. Paint your sunglasses. Watch the video for specific tips!
12. Add the frame to your glasses. Wait till it dries before adding the dots on the side, and let the
dots dry before painting on them.
13. Add on the eye and eyelashes to your flamingo floaty, and then add the gold dots to the body
with the dot tool.
14. Pipe the flower to your coconut drink and accent your straw.
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