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Get Inspired with Dolce Sentire: Make a Wish Cookie

 

Now that I’m about to start my summer vacation, I have more time to do one of the things I love most: going for long walks with my pet Bruno.

Luckily, I live in Valencia, a small city that is ideal for walking, breathing clean air, and enjoying nature, since it has a huge park called Turia Gardens. There, you can relax on Sundays, surrounded by nature and beautiful flowers that bloom throughout the year.

One of these summer flowers is the delicate dandelion - you can find lots of them in every step you take! They're everywhere!

 A beautiful Dandelion:

Do you find it hard to resist blowing their seeds? Me too!  Dandelions bring me memories of my childhood, when I blew every dandelion I found in my way, hoping my wishes would come true some day.

Today, I bring you a tutorial about how to decorate a cookie inspired by these symbolic, ephemeral, and beautiful flowers-gone-to-seed. Are you ready to make your wishes come true? 

Supplies you’ll need for this project:
  • 1 round cookie (I used my Abelia plaque cutter, which you can find here.)
  • White royal icing, flooding and medium-stiff consistencies
  • Nontoxic pencil or edible marker
  • Piping bags and couplers
  • Small piping tips (I used PME #1 and #2 tips.)
  • Round #0 or #1 paint brush 
  • Vodka or alcohol-based extract
  • White gel food coloring, for stenciling
  • Plastic circle stencil(s)
  • Dauber or sponge brush
  • Pale brown royal icing, medium-stiff consistency
Powder Colors:

Step 1: Start with a baked cookie as usual. (Chocolate or dark cookies are preferred, so the white border applied in Step 6 really pops.)

To create a guide to help flood a perfect circle, trace a circular shape onto the cookie with a round cookie cutter and a nontoxic pencil (or edible marker). Then pipe all of the outlined area with white royal icing of flooding consistency, and let the icing dry completely (about 8 hours at room temperature or 60 minutes in a food dehydrator).

When the icing is dry and hard, begin painting a watercolor background on it using different shades of yellow and green powder colors mixed with vodka or alcohol-based extract. (See colors above.) The goal is to create a bokeh effect on the background, so first apply a pale yellow, leaving blank spaces between the strokes.

Applying pale yellow colour:

Then, go with the pale green . . .

Applying pale green colour:

After that, apply the dark green.

Applying dark green colour:

Finally, apply the dark yellow.

Applying dark yellow colour:

Step 2: Now, blend the four colors together with vodka (or alcohol-based extract). If your colors look a little "scratchy" with brush strokes, apply some white powder color (with vodka) over the other colors to minimize the marks.

Blending all the colors together:

Step 3: Place a little bit of white gel food coloring in a palette or shallow dish, and mix it with vodka to create a fairly opaque paint. Press your dauber or sponge brush into the paint, and dab off any excess paint onto a paper towel. Place a circle stencil on the cookie top, taking care to hold it flat and securely in place; then, using circular motions, start sponging over the open space with the dauber.

Repeat the above sponge-stenciling process with circle stencils of different sizes. To create the most realistic bokeh effect possible, overlap some circles, apply more or less paint to some, and/or use different motions with the dauber (circular, up and down, etc.). In other words, mix things up!

If you don't have any circle stencils, you can create your own by punching them through card stock with a craft punch or cutting them into acetate with a utility knife.

Creating the

Step 4: Once the bokeh background is completely done, let it dry for a short while (5 to 10 minutes in a food dehydrator should be enough), and then start piping the dandelion puffs with white medium-stiff-consistency royal icing and a PME #1 tip.

Piping the dandelion pufs:

Step 5: Next, pipe the centers and stems of the dandelion puffs with brown medium-stiff-consistency royal icing and a PME #2 tip.

Let the dandelions puffs dry completely (about 1 hour at room temperature or 10 to 15 minutes in a food dehydrator).

Piping the dandelion pufs [II):

Step 6: Finally, complete your cookie with a border of your choice. (I'm partial to brush embroidery frames, as you can see!)

Make a Wish Cookie - All Finished!:

Finished! 

So, are you ready to blow on your dandelion and make a wish?

3, 2, 1 . . . Here's hoping your wish comes true! 

Cookie and photo credits: Aixa Zunino

Aixa Zunino is the soul of Dolce Sentire, a virtual corner of sweetness and creativity dedicated to cookie decorating. On her site, this garden engineer, self-taught decorator, and lover of flowers and animals lets her imagination fly, sharing everything she has learned since discovering the world of cookies in early 2012. She combines this activity with courses around Spain (her current home) where she teaches all the secrets to getting dreamy cookies. Meet her on Facebook or her website, and email her your cookie decorating questions or concerns at dolcesentiredolci@gmail.com.

Photo credit:  Aixa Zunino

Note: Get Inspired with Dolce Sentire is a monthly Cookie Connection blog feature written by Aixa Zunino, where, through in-depth tutorials, she proves that if you can dream it, you can cookie it! This article expresses the views of the author, and not necessarily those of this site, its owners, its administrators, or its employees. To read all of Aixa's past Get Inspired tutorials, click here. And to see all of Cookie Connection's tutorials, click here.

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  • Make a Wish Cookie: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • A Beautiful Dandelion Gone to Seed!: Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Applying Pale Yellow Color: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Applying Pale Green Color: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Applying Dark Green Color: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Applying Dark Yellow Color: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Blending the Colors Together: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Creating the Bokeh Effect by Stenciling: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Piping the Dandelion Puffs: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Piping the Centers of the Dandelion Puffs: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire
  • Make a Wish Cookie - All Finished!: Cookie and Photo by Dolce Sentire

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Thank you for sharing another great painting technique. I like the blurr effect you create on the cookie and the final "bokeh effect". Glad to have learned also something about photography and also find out about that dauber you are using to stencil the circles.

Funny gingerbread.Elena Vlasyuk posted:

I love many ,many times!!! It seems so simple, but this is the talent of the artist!!! Thanks for the master class.

Ohhh thnks dear!!! 

You'll see, it's really really simple ))))))))

Thanks for your kindly comment! <3

Manu posted:

Thank you for sharing another great painting technique. I like the blurr effect you create on the cookie and the final "bokeh effect". Glad to have learned also something about photography and also find out about that dauber you are using to stencil the circles.

Thanks dear Manu!

Yes, daubers are a very useful tools, I really love them to make this kind of decorations on my cookies

Hugs! <3

Lucy (Honeycat Cookies) posted:

Gorgeous ethereal design! I particularly love the blending method and bokeh effects you've described. I need to try these! Thanks :-)

Thanks ))

I'm sure you will do little sweet wonders with it! 

I love your tutorials Dolce!! They're always so straightforward, clearly shown in detail with pictures and your tone in the tutorial is one of confidence that the project is never too difficult to at least give it a try! That's a wonderful combination of attributes for effective teaching. Thank you, as always, for your continued contributions here . I so appreciate you!!

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