Whenever I bake a batch of sugar cookies, I always make more that I need, in some different and sometimes random shapes for practising various techniques on. I had had these cookies in mind for a while and my plan was to make fondant lace and then top them with a rose, when I came to do it, I found that I preferred the look of a few (shop bought) sugar pearls instead.
These are lavender flavoured cookies adapted from a basic sugar cookie recipe. The same recipe I used for the Lavender Chrysanthemum cookies find it here.
If you have never tried decorating cookies with fondant, this is a great place to start. I used this beautiful "Amy Lace" mould by Karen Davies who is generous enough with her talent to make many wonderful moulds. If you pop by her shop, bet you can't just buy one!
You can use any lace mould, embossing sheet or rolling pin to get a similair effect.
Decorating
Equipment
Lace mould or embossing sheet
Lavender colour sugar paste or fondant
Small rolling pin
Marzipan spacers (optional)
Small round plain or fluted cutter, (that you have used to cut out your cookies with).
Edible Glue or piping gel (optional)
Sugar pearls
Edible Glue or piping gel (optional)
Sugar pearls
Method
I remembered to snap some photographs of what I was doing when making these, they are only snapped with my phone, but, I hope that you will appreciate them to illustrate the method.
Roll out your sugar paste to about 1 cm thick, using the marzipan rollers as a guide if you have them.
If your sugar paste is sticky then rub a little vegetable fat (trex) onto the surface.
Place the rolled out sugar paste on to your mould or embossing sheet and roll a little more to impress the pattern from the mould or embossing sheet on to the fondant
Position a cutter over the part of the patterned sugar paste that you want to use and cut out
Carefully lift the sugar paste and place on top of one of your cookies.
You may need to use a little edible glue or piping gel to make it stick
Brush the holes in the lace mould, or anywhere else that you want the sugar pearls to stick with a little edible glue or piping gel and then place a sugar pearl in position. A pair of clean tweeers can be helpful.
Before you go, please indulge me with one gratuitous china shot, this vintage plate is just too pretty not too show you
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