Silhouette Cookie Tutorial

I designed these silhouette cookies for a Dolce Drive princess charm school themed party, which was recently featured on the Amy Atlas blog, Sweet Designs....

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I used the royal icing transfer method in order to make the silhouettes for these cookies. First, I drew a silhouette, scanned it into the computer and printed multiple images on one sheet for my template.

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Then, I taped the template to a sheet tray and taped a piece of acetate over it. Using thinned royal icing and a tip 1, I piped the silhouettes onto the acetate.

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After the silhouettes were allowed to dry overnight, I carefully removed the acetate from the tray by sliding a knife under the tape on both sides. I then cut the silhouettes apart and very carefully peeled the acetate back in order to loosen the royal icing transfer.

I then gently slid the silhouette off of the acetate onto a sheet tray.

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I made a lot of extras in case of breakage!

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This cookie shape is the fancy square from coppergifts.com. I iced the cookie with thinned royal icing and let it dry overnight. This step should be done on the same day that you make your silhouettes so they'll be ready at the same time. Using a 2-1/2" round cutter as a stencil, I traced a circle onto the cookie using an edible ink marker.

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Then I filled in the circle with hot pink thinned royal icing and a tip 3.

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I carefully placed the silhouette onto the icing while the icing was still wet. Using a small piece of acetate from earlier will help in transferring the silhouette onto the cookie. Let the icing dry overnight.

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I added an earring, a necklace and a bead border using stiff aqua colored icing and a tip 2. The gold bead border was piped with a tip 3 and light brown stiff icing then painted with gold pearl dust.