Wisteria and Butterflies - A Honeycat Cookies Tutorial

Looove them💕

The tutorial I have chosen for my challenge entry is the lovely "Wisteria and butterflies" tutorial by @Lucy (Honeycat Cookies). My garden wisteria has just finished blooming, and after my own take on wisteria last week, I thought it interesting to see how somebody else had "cookified" this flower. And clearly, I am not the only one with wisteria on my mind: @Lucy (Honeycat Cookies) herself has just reposted today pictures of these cookies on her Instagram!

Here is the link to the tutorial: http://cookieconnection.juliau...eria-and-butterflies

This tutorial is classified as intermediate, but reading it and watching the video, I was thinking they looked really difficult - all that detailed wet-on-wet work! I was relieved to find they were actually easier than I had anticipated, and are in the scope of any intermediate-skilled cookie decorator such as me.

Which does not mean I did not encounter any issues: the flood icing of my first cookie  dripped off when I added the wet-on-wet design... (And my medium blue was way too dark, and my yellow too green.)

After this mistake, I adjusted my colors, but most importantly let my piped outline dry for half an hour before piping the cookie - this alleviated any further overflow, but makes the edges less neat. 

I did not make any adjustments to Honeycat's design - the only thing I changed was that I piped color-by-color, and not flower-by-flower as she recommends. Piping all three flowers on the cookie with a single pass with each color ended up being way faster for me! I also drew the black designs on the butterfly transfers with an edible marker instead of handpainting them because I could not find a fine enough brush.

And once again, I found the hardest part of it all was photographing the set! 

You do Lucy proud!  

Muy bonitas!

Pretty!

You did a wonderful job!

Wow, you've done an amazing job. They look wonderful and initially on seeing them (and being forgetful about what the PBP challenge was this month) I thought they were the originals.

Lovely!!

Thanks @Heather Bruce Sosa @pip @CHELY Morales @Econlady @carouselselsel @Marie Elgaard @Dolce Flo for all your kind comments! I had fun making these, and hope Lucy won't be too horrified by the results.  And I also hope we'll be seeing more entries in the challenge soon - there haven't been many participants yet! (Though fewer participants means higher chances of me winning the draw...! )

I instantly recognized this set as drawn from @Lucy (Honeycat Cookies)'s tutorial, which means you did an awesome job! Thanks too for clarifying those things you did differently!

STUNNING!  I am sure that @Lucy (Honeycat Cookies) would be thrilled with your results!  I think these cookies are just fabulous, and I loved your discussion of all of the issues you encountered along the way.  By looking at the results,one would never guess you encountered any issues at all!  Well done! 

Beautiful work!!!

Gorgeous!

I was so impressed when I saw your cookies, Annelise! Those wet-on- wet wisterias are just perfect. You are surely talented. 

I also read that you couldn’t find a brush fine enough. Recently I found these (I am not payed to endorse this brand, but they are fine and food safe. I linked to the first image that popped up when I googled them).

Manu posted:

I was so impressed when I saw your cookies, Annelise! Those wet-on- wet wisterias are just perfect. You are surely talented. 

I also read that you couldn’t find a brush fine enough. Recently I found these (I am not payed to endorse this brand, but they are fine and food safe. I linked to the first image that popped up when I googled them).

Thanks @Manu biscotti decorati, that is so nice of you! Those brushes look just perfect! I will try to find a retailer in France and order them right away!