Lace Heart cookies

Lace heart cookies

And once again lace... 

I've been asked quite a lot how much time does it take me to decorate one cookie. 

I can't give the exact answer. 

Because, first of all I never look at the time, 

while decorating and secondly I am decorating few cookies at the same time. 

For that I use my turntable, spinning it and adding new detail to each cookie. 

These cookies are perfect for the bridal shower 

as well as a gift for a woman, 

who is in love with lace like I am :)

Wedding cookies..

 These are chocolate cookies decorated with glaze and royal icing. 

All recipes can be found here. 

My only addition - I added a couple teaspoons of cocoa in the glaze to get the chocolate taste.

Wedding cookies...Sweet Napkin Holders

This idea is perfect for the wedding table. 

Guests will be pleasantly surprised by such a delicious little gifts!

I made chocolate cookies and decorated them with glaze and royal icing. 

In order to keep napkins clean with no stains from the cookies, 

it is necessary to cover the surface of the cutouts with royal icing.

Wedding gift cookies

I'm not sure that in future I want to do something similar. 

These cookies are very fragile and delicate .. 

Rather, the web within the heart. 

But if you do, though, and decide to decorate your cookies this way

 you will be guaranteed success! 

That person who you give this gift will never eat it. Lol.

You all know how I love lace! 

On this pic you can very well see the detail.

I used this Royal Icing with Meringue Powder recipe.

White on white.. (and sugar cookie recipe)

I am sure, that everyone likes white color!

White symbolizes purity.

White cookies are more elegant and romantic.

These I decorated with Royal icing using #1 and #59 tip.

Many people ask me what sugar cookies recipe I use most often.

I love this recipe, not only because of taste, softness of cookies, 

but for the fact, that the dough doesn't spread during the baking.

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour,
1 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup sugar,
pinch of salt,

1 large egg

1 teaspoon good quality vanilla extract

Directions:

- In a medium bowl, stir together the flour and baking powder and set aside.

- In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  This should take about 3 minutes.

- Add the egg and vanilla and beat another minute or so.

- Add the flour mixture slowly.  

(Be careful not to add too much at a time or you will have a snowstorm of flour.)

- Blend until all of the flour is incorporated and the dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl.

- Take the dough out of the bowl and place it on a piece of parchment paper.  

- Using your hands, knead the dough a few times.

- Place the dough in a large plastic (ziplock type) bag and refrigerate for about 2 hours. 

- When it's almost time to remove the dough from the refrigerator, 

preheat oven to 350 degrees (F).

- When the dough has chilled and is firm, take out about half of the dough, leaving the rest in the refrigerator (until your ready to work with it). 

Bake cookies on middle rack of oven for 8-12 minutes, or until cookies are lightly browned. 

Wedding dress cookie

When I was a kid, I loved to draw dresses ... 

Very often I drew dresses of princesses and dreamed 

that I would have a dress like this ... 

Now I dream that one day my daughter at her wedding 

will be dressed like a princess!

This dress does not look like princess dress,

 it is more modern and simple .. but I love this design.

For ruffles I used #97 tip (rose)..

Wedding cookies

Today I made Wedding cookies...

These are sugar vanilla cookies with Royal icing on top of them.

I used #1 tip to make the flowers..

Wedding cookies (Part 3)

I think the Heart cookies are perfect for bridal or Wedding shower ...

  You can find the great variety of the cross stitch schemes

on the Internet on amateur embroidery blogs.

Wedding cookies (Part 2)

These mini cookies are 2 inch..

My recipe for royal icing...

1 egg white

3 cups powdered sugar

3-5 drops (or more)  of lemon juice

1 / 4 teaspoon cream of tartar

almond extract if desired

While rubbing in egg white, gradually add sugar (do not beat egg whites). At the end put cream of tartar, lemon juice and essence. Consistency should not be too thick, but not liquid.

Wedding cookies (part 1)

These are chocolate cookies with Royal Icing on top of them.

They will be great for Bridal shower too..

Valentine's Day cookies

I continue to practice with my royal icing. 

And you know how much I love lace! 

So I put them in almost all of my last cookies. 

For Valentine's Day I decorated heart cookies with lace accent, 

and I think that white would be perfect for the bridal shower :)

Wedding cookie set

Here is the set of wedding cookies.

 I hope the bride will love them :)

Another Lace cookies

I want to show you my other lace cookies ...

These and other similar cookies I made for a wedding shower.

Bride/wedding cookies

These cookies are perfect 

for a wedding or a bride shower.

I used the embroidery technique to decorate the sides of the cookies.

Old fashioned wedding dresses

Today I will show you my vintage wedding dress cookie ...

I worked with royal icing 

and used #1, #3, #97 and # 233 tip.

Wedding cookies

Chocolate sugar cookies (recipe here) 

decorated with royal icing.

Old-Fashioned Wedding Dress

I do not have a dress cookie cutter ... 

So I always use a paper blank and a sharp knife.