I am going to make my first cookie bouquet this weekend. (I've never been a cookie maker- cakes for me!) I love the perfect icing look, but how do you acheive that? Someone told me to use royal icing- do you use it similar to color flow? I have never liked outlining and flooding with color flow because I don't like how the outline stands out from the flooding. But, if you don't outline, how do you get the color even without going over the edges?
I really want to get a bouquet made for my friend for his birthday and another for my mom for mother's day- but I want them to look good! Thanks for your help in advance!!!
Becky
When I make my cookie bouquet's - I use rolled Marshmallow fondant. (You can see my pictures) and I am just new to this, but it works beautifully. THe cookies come out looking GREAT! I love them. Then I also can just pipe on designs also however I would like. Today I also painted chocolate onto the front of my cookies and then piped on designs. I guess it's all up to!! Just be creative 
If you use one consistency of icing and do your outline and then fill in immediately, there is no line. If your icing tends to overflow the edges, your cookies are not flat. Flatten them out with the back of a spatulas as soon as they come out of the oven, and you'll have a flat surface to pipe onto.
Thanks for the help. What consistency of royal icing should I use?
Also, it never occurred to me before to ask, what kind of sticks do you use for the cookies? Do they make special cookie sticks or will the lollipop sticks I have work ok?
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Well, thin enough that it flows together, but not so thin that it runs off of the cookie. Make some extras to practice so you can adjust consistency if you need to, without messing up the important ones. I use lollipop sticks (the rolled paper kind, not plastic ones!) for cookies. Wilton maks cookie sticks, but they are larger around and that requires you to roll the cookies very thick, which I don't like to do.
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