I am going to make some cookie bouquets for teacher appreciation gifts next week at my son's pre-school. I want to make butterfly cookies. I got the cutters - in two different sizes. I am going to use the NFSC recipe.
My question is about the decorating. I want the butterflies to look as realistic as possible. I was reading the tutorial in the articles about making realistic edible butterflies and it says to use rice paper and color that. If I did that and then put them on the cookies, would that work? I was thinking of using Antonia74's icing and then put the rice paper on top. Should I wait until the icing sets up to put them on, or try it right away? I don't know if the colors would run if it's too wet. Or maybe let the icing dry and put some piping gel on the back of the butterflies and lay them on the cookies?
Does this sound reasonable or am I going about it all wrong??
Thanks,
Steph
I've made tons of cookies over the years and have never tried this. My mediocre attempt at making the rice paper butterflies you mentioned makes me think that the paper will indeed "melt" into the icing.
I've made butterfly cookies, but only fanciful ones; never tried making realistic-looking ones. Sorry I can't be of more help.
what about getting a nice rubber stamp from the craft store and use antonia's royal icing....flood the cookie, let it harden at least over night and then use the rubber stamp and put some black food coloring on a foam roller and roll it across the stamp, stamp the cookie, let it dry and then color it in with edible markers??
Thanks for the advice and ideas.
Tina, I looked for a stamp to fit the cutters, but didn't have any luck. I will remember that for the future though... I really like that idea!
I posted pics of the cookies and the finished bouquets. Had trouble with the sticks and breaking cookies... but eventually I got it!
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