Easter Cookie Fun

We had a day of Easter Cookie making fun!

We just love to play together in the kitchen

and cookie making is the perfect thing to do.

I have been wanting to try Fancy Flours edible

images for decorating cookies, and we finally

got around to doing it.

I ordered these vintage images,

and these innocent bunny ones.  They create

cookies that are works of art.

They really are fun and easy to do and 

Fancy Flours sends them with instructions.

I combined their instructions with some things

I learned at Cookie Con and had great success.

Make your cookies using your favorite recipe.  

After they cool frost them with Royal Icing.

Here is the trick that I learned at Cookie Con - 

rather than waiting for them to dry overnight,

dry them for 20-30 minutes in a food dryer, then

the frosting is hard enough to work with. 

There is no way that I could wait overnight!!

Cut the edible papers out to fit.  Have them slightly smaller

than your frosting surface as the papers don't really bend

down the curved edge of the finished frosting.  (I made

that mistake!)

Brush them with light corn syrup, being sure not to get

any on the front surface of the image as that will smear

the image.

Place on the front side of the cookie, smoothing down and 

then turn over for ten minutes to keep the image smooth as

it dries.  Fancy Flours gave this instruction, and it really

helps the edges not curl.

Decorate the cookies as desired.  I added pastel

Disco Dust to the edges.

I had also watched a video made by

Arty McGoo, whom I met at Cookie Con 

on hand painting cookies with food coloring

 with her swirl method,

 so my daughter Jessica

and I tried our hand at that and loved it.  Even her

three year old daughter Jacquelyn got into the fun.

The cookies will be part of our Easter Dinner.

Let us all rejoice in the joy

of Easter, as we celebrate

the most important event in human

history - the Resurrection of the Savior of Mankind!

What joy and hope that brings!