i love your work. thank you so much for sharing your techniques. I love to bake and have recently starated to decorate cookies and cupcakes!! I will definitely be referring back to this post often!

@ Trinnie:
Thanks Trinnie! I used the toothpick technique that she used for the butterfly wings. I just piped short black dots and lines in the white icing while it was still wet an then drug the toothpick through it in sort of a jagged fashion. I didn’t post a picture of it but I also used the same technique to make leopard print panties!! Couldn’t have done it without sweetopia’s tutorial tho

Nicole, they’re all different ‘decorating dusts’ with slightly different looks and properties, as I’m sure you already know, but I think I’ll have to do a post on them to show you the difference!

Just one more question – can you explain the difference between sparkle dust, luster dust, disco dust, highlighter dust, mystical dust and pearl dust? If you know … it’s all so confusing!

Thanks!

Hi Nicole; It’s a good question.

For many of my cookies the first layer is all icing, which acts as a sealant. This icing prevents the cookie from drying out.

For the black butterfly outline, I do leave them out to dry, especially in the summer when it’s very humid here; otherwise the black especially can bleed into the other colors. The first 24 hours don’t seem to make a difference with the taste/texture of the cookie dough I’m using. I wouldn’t leave them out longer though. Fill them in as soon as you know the outline is bone dry. You could make an extra cookie and test the icing periodially to see.

It can be tricky to let them dry in a sealed container. If any moisture is trapped in there (there’s even moisture in the icing of course), the icing might not completely dry.

Hope this helps and good luck with your cookies! Please leave more questions or comments if you need to!

Hi Marian,

When you say to let the outline sit or the cookies dry for 24 hours, are you just leaving them out in the open or putting them in a sealed container? I imagine leaving them out for 48 hours would make them stale wouldn’t it?

I’m very new to this and I’m making cookies for a wedding shower, so I want to make sure they’re great!

Alison- your cookies are amazing! Great job! How did you make the zebra stripes?

I decorated my first batch today!! Look:
http://snargblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/lingerie-cookies.html
Thanks for the great tutorial!