How Do I Get A Design On A Cookie?
Decorating By sofiasmami Updated 2 Dec 2005 , 12:25am by sofiasmami
I'm wondering how to get an image transfered to a cookie so I can do something like this.... I'm doing a garfield party for my son's 5th birthday .. but I could never free hand the drawing ... is there a trick???
Use a clean rubber stamp (like for scrapbooking) or use a kopykake machine. You could even do letter presses or those tiny cookie cutters just to imprint a design.
I googled and got the answer ...that's too much money for what I'm wanting to do ... I'm thiking the preinked stamp .. I'll just use a food marker to make the imprint ... x'ing my fingers
3 mins!!! wow 
... yes I would love to know the secret 
Here's a trick....
Cut out a piece of wax or parchment paper that is just a bit larger than your cookie. Trace just the basic shapes/outlines of the picture onto this cut-out with a piping bag using a thinned out royal icing...in this case, black for Garfield.
Carfully take your paper, turn it over and position it on top of your cookie. Don't rub or push down, just let the icing touch all over.
Now carefully lift it off. Now you have visible lines that you can trace and fill in like a kid's colouring book!
REMEMBER...everything will be backwards, so don't do any letters or numbers! 
I went to ICES this summer and went to a Cookie Bouquet class. One of the tips they gave on writing, was to use a non toxic pencil, trace over the message, then lay that over the dried icing. She thing took the pencil and rubbed it against the back of the paper over the message. This imprinted the message onto the icing, then she followed it with her icing.
I don't see why that wouldn't work for a bigger design too.
well I am betting that they did with the garfield what I do with mine. I just do a royal icing transfer of the design I want and then after it has dried for at least 24hrs I peel the wax paper off carefully and put a dab of royal onto the cookie and then place the royal image on top. I am doing a whole wack of different ones this week put here is a picture of the Harry Potter ones I did. The cookie looks kind of funny because I cheated and bought jumbo chocolate chip cookies from the bakery and then coated them with thinned royal the even out the surface and added my dried harry images.
I also added my piano cookie and elvis cookies that I did that way
Very cool, bet those will be popular!
Hugs Squirrelly
I love doing cookies and with doing royal transfers, I feel like I can do anything. thanks so much for your replies antonia74 and sgirvan
great tips!
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