Video Tutorial on Drying Cookies Made with Royal Icing & Making Parisian-Themed Cookies
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Hi there!
Hope all of you are having a good start to 2012 and hope this year is filled with lots of sweet things for you.
I’m excited to start my year with some fun cookie themes, like these Parisian ones here. I’ll be doing a travelling series of Around the World decorated cookies, and I just happened to begin my journey with Paris, France.
Oh la la!
I knew when I found these paris design sticky notes by Jillian Phillips, I just had to make a cookie version. Thank you to Jillian and Lilla Rogers for allowing me to use her images! They were so fun to make, and really quite simple once you know a bit about piping royal icing. If you need some guidance, a good place to start is with my Cookie Decorating Tutorial, and two videos on Icing Consistency and How to Pipe Icing Lines.
As part of this post, I thought I’d share with you how I dry my cookies after I’ve decorated them with royal icing. It seems like such a simple thing but if you’re new to cookie decorating there can be lots of questions about how to do it so that your cookies turn out. You can find all my tips in this video here (I’ve put it here in the post again in case you missed it because sometimes the page takes a while to load):
Video on How to Dry Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing
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Something I didn’t mention in the video, is that the cookie shapes were made using templates I made, not cutters. I thought I had an Eiffel Tower cookie cutter and when I went to look in my (eep, hundreds of) cutters, I didn’t actually have one.
Either way, if you’re not making too many of these, cutting the cookies out with a template and paring knife, isn’t difficult, it just takes a bit longer than using a cutter.
You can find an Eiffel Tower cookie cutter here, and for the other shapes you can be creative and use other cutters you already have. Take for example the dachshund, Cindy asked on facebook if it was from a stocking cookie cutter. It wasn’t, but it easily could have been. Thanks for the idea, Cindy!
I’m thinking these would work as romantic Valentine cookies too, don’t you?
Now I’ve got some questions for you…
Where in the world do you live? Are there buildings, things or symbols from your city or country which you think would make great cookies?
Share your thoughts with me here in the comment section below, or you can share them on Facebook or twitter. I can’t wait to see where you’re from and which cookies you’d love to see!
Happy decorating!
xo,
Marian
p.s. I’ve linked these cookies to TidyMom’s I’m Lovin’ It. Check out her page for lots of amazing and fun ideas!
Heidi says
Hello! I don’t know, sometimes I see things on the internet that just make me happy to be alive? These cookies, they are just the thing that makes me think that!! Silly? Well, when everything goes wrong, I can just turn to Marian’s cookies and smile. These are superb, cute, intricate, fantastic. I’ve said it once and I will say it again, you are my total cookie hero! Thank you for the inspiration!!!
Heidi in Switzerland
Jen says
Hi Marion. I love these Paris inspired cookies! I am from Melbourne, Australia. I would love to see some Australian themed cookies. We have the Opera House in Sydney; boomerangs; kangaroos; koalas and kookaburras. Or even some Great Barrier Reef themed cookies would be fantastic. Then you could do clown fish and corals etc. Cheers! Jen
Jen says
@ Jen:
Ooops. Sorry I misspelled your name. My silly fingers hit the wrong key. Of course I meant to say “Hi Marian”. 🙂
Kris Colucci says
I love love love the Paris themed cookies… My scrapbooking room is like a Parisian patisserie and these cookies are adorable. My best friend has 2 wiener dogs and would love those cookies.
I am not from Denmark, but I bet windmills, wooden shoes little Dutch girls and Delft plates in blue and white would be adorable cookies.
You are amazingly talented!
Kris
Kerry Smart says
I second Jen’s suggestion! I am from Sydney Australia and think that the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and animals like kangaroos and koalas would make wonderfully fun cookies.
I think your detail work on the Eiffel Tower is gobsmackingly amazing!
Cookbook Queen says
Those cookies–So CUTE I’m gonna DIIIIIIIIIEEEE!!!!
That Eiffel Tower is perfection…the straight lines??? How do you DO that?!
I live in Arkansas so anything outdoorsey would probably be fitting (we are the “Natural State”). Lots of deer, trees, rivers…and hillbillies.
Just kidding about the hillbilly part. But not really.
Kristy says
Hi Marian, another big vote for some Aussie cookies here please, you could add Uluru to the suggestions already made such as the Opera House, Kangaroos and Koalas……. Love your Parisian cookies, the sausage dog and cat are just sooo cute 🙂
Caz says
Geez you are brilliant!!
Glory/ Glorious Treats says
LOVE these!! I could watch that video of you doing the Eiffle tower over and over! Just incredible!!
I live in Northern California, so there are tons of things that would make great cookies… San Franciso themes (golden gate, pretty houses), or mountian themes (California redwoods, etc)
Sheri says
These are seriously incredible. My jaw dropped when I saw that Eiffel Tower. I hope I can be even half as talented as you some day… I’m from Chicago. We have famous sky-scrapers and “The Bean” http://explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/attractions/dca_tourism/MP_orinigal.html
Sue says
I have a soft spot for French-themed cookies, and I’ve never even been to France:) I’m head-over-heels over your cookies, Marian! The Eiffel Tower looks as perfectly constructed as the real thing! Magnifique!!! Time to watch your video:)
I’m on the central coast of California and of course there’s the Pacific Ocean, plus gorgeous ocean sunsets, Hearst Castle, elephant seals,and Big Sur, to name a few:)
Wardah says
Wow, these are some amazing cookies! I love the detail work on the Eiffel Tower. I think the Taj Mahal would make a great cookie: big and beautiful. 🙂
Thanks for the helpful video! 🙂
Bea @ CancunCOOKIES says
Beautiful video, Marian! I live in Cancun, and there are beautiful beaches and mayan ruins around my city… also, in Mexico there are lots of places I’d love to re-create in a COOKIE! Happy New Year!
Michele says
Oh those cookies are SO KOOL!! I especially love the cat.
I’m with Glory, in Northern California. I would LOVE to see a Golden Gate bridge cookie- it is just so magnificient every single time I see it. Also, a cable car to go along with it, some Victorian houses all in a row would be cool.
vanessa says
hi cam u tell me the recipe for your royal icing
Faigie Light says
Wish I could pipe the Eiffel Tower that fast :o)
Joan says
Marian,
I love your Parisian cookies – they bring a smile to one’s face. I live in northern California close to San Francisco so I agree with the Golden Gate bridge, Victorian houses, Transamerica building, etc. But I’m going to Australia in March so the idea of the Sydney Opera house and Sydney bridge would be wonderful. Thanks for asking us what we’d like to see and for giving us all a lift today.
Anne says
I love that Eiffel Tower. And now that I know how you did it, that might be my next project!
Paula {JustABiteDesserts.com} says
Magnificent cookies and talent! I’m in awe of everything you do, Marian! Thanks so much for the video, so delightful to watch you pipe the intricate Eiffel Tower. Amazing! I’ve dabbled in Royal Iced Cookies (freehand, no KopyKake) and would love to know how to make lines without pointed tips on the end. Hoping to find an answer here or someplace on your site. If anyone knows, please share! Thanks. 🙂
A Crafty Traveler says
Those cookies are way too pretty to eat! I can’t even believe that they are cookies in the first place! You must have the world’s most steady hands. I love the Eiffel Tower ones, they are gorgeous! Well done!
Dorothy says
I’m not an Aussie, but I agree with the others above me…Aussie animals PLEASE! Koalas especially 😉
Monica says
Great tutorial, the pink dog is so adorable.
Im from panama, we have lots of buildings but one thing that would be awsome in cookies are “molas”, you’ll find lots of pics in google
Sasha (Global Table Adventure) says
Such a great theme! I can’t wait to see what else you come up with… I’m cooking a meal for every country in the world so this is right up my alley. What about doing a Japanese theme with blooming cherry trees, sushi, etc? Cute, cute, cute 🙂
Lesley says
I’m in the California Bay Area, so the Golden Gate Bridge, Trans American Building and Coit Tower spring to mind. Plus the cable cars!
cindy says
How do you do the details so perfect? I think I am missing a step!
I love your work
Gail says
Marian! SO SO SO ADORABLE! The chiens. Their berets. The MUSIC!
Thank you, Marian!
Bisma says
Beautiful set of cookies- as usual! I would LOVE to see some Persian carpets on cookies. Fan of intricate work.
Sara says
Hi Marian,
I am from Venice Italy. Even if I temporarily live in Virginia. I would love to have any cookie that inspire my country and especially Venice where they will have carnevale soon. Or even better a cookie like a old Fiat 500( my husband would love that).
Sara
Lori @ RecipeGirl says
So adorable. Loved your tutorial. You’re so good at this!
Courtney M says
We are from Brooklyn, NY but work in Manhattan. So many possibilities. Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Yellow Cabs, Subway cars, Rockefeller Center, Brooklyn Bridge, Etc. Lovely post 🙂
Valerie says
Chinese new year is coming soon and I have been thinking about ideas for cookies. How about doing a Chinese inspired one? With the double happiness symbol, mandarin oranges, great wall etc. I would love to see you do it =)
Jenny says
Those are gorgeous cookies! My daughter would love those little cats!
I’m in St. Louis, but Arch cookies might be kind of boring. LOL!
Angie says
Your talent just blows me away! I can’t get over the Eiffel Tower cookies. I made my husband stop what he was doing to come and look at them too. 🙂 I really love your videos. I watched a few before making my Christmas cutouts this year and I had the most success I ever had with royal icing. I got so many compliments and just had so much more fun making them than I usually do after following some of your tips and suggestions.
Thank you for taking the time to share your work and knowledge!
Mary Sanavia says
Happy new year!!!
Thanks for the tips on drying cookies and I also wanted to say that these Paris cookies are absolutely adorable!!! so cute.
I also LOVED your gingerbread houses 🙂
Deea says
I really don’t know what to say…watching you decorate the Eiffel tower cookie left me speechless! If they offered college degrees in cookie decorating, you would have a Ph.D.!!
Andi says
That Eiffel Tower is so incredible! Please don’t ever stop posting your videos! I hope you haven’t been asked this a bazillion times before, but what brand/style of baking sheets do you use? I like the high sides allowing to stack them – mine don’t seem to be tall enough to stack with a 3/8″ cookie.
Toya@PetitCAliCupcakes says
Simply……….WOW!
Yael says
What is there to say but ” just amazing! ” your cookies are the best of the best, tutorials are easy to understand, clear and make me think that “yeah maybe someday I ‘ll be able to do that too!”
Tania says
You are an artist. I love your cookies, i really hope one day i can decorate just like you. Keep going!
Suzanne says
How about southwest themed cookies – I’ve had a cactus cookie cutter for years and I have never really known a cute way to decorate it…
Also, what about Mexican themed, for a cinco de mayo party
I’m also always looking for creative ways to gift cookies or to make cookies go along with a birthday party theme (princesses, peace signs, super heros, etc…)
Suzanne (from sunny Phoenix, Arizona)
Your work is amazing!!!!
sweetsugarbelle says
Beautiful is not even the word, Marian! In awe!
Laura says
These are sooo adorable!!
I’m from Sydney, Australia. You could do Harbour Bridge Cookies, or Opera House Cookies!
Mary says
Sooooooo CUTE!!! Amazing job, Marian!!!
via says
Happy New Year Marian !!!
Wow, two thumbs up for this Parisian theme cookies
Really love the dogs … they are so cute
Even i’m not from china, i think chinese themes would make such a great designs for the cookies, like series of chinese horoscopes.
Thanx for sharing the video =)
Can’t wait to see you next video …
Bianca Tiel says
Again great cookies!!! I am from the Netherlands and I think you could also make great cookies with windmills, tulips and canal houses. I wish you lots of inspiration, and love to see more of your lovely cookies!!!
Toni says
Happy New Year!!
WOW is all I can say about these truly beautifully decorated cookies. I love exploring your site to get inspiration for my own cookies and your videos are the best available! I love how you are able to be so detailed with your projector so much that my wonderful partner bought me the kopykake projector for Christmas!!! Unfortunately I haven’t had time yet to test it out. I am from Brisbane Australia so it would be wonderful to see some Australian themed cookies, but especially something unique to Brisbane aka the story bridge. It will be Australia day on the 26th Jan so Aussie Animals and native flowers, beach theme would be brilliant !!
Toni
Robyn Woodroffe says
HI Marian,
Your cookies are to die for, and the piping on the Eiffel tower is just exquisite.
I have to agree with Jen, Kerry and Joan…..I’d love to see some AUssie bikkies (we call cookies , biscuits or bikkies in Oz). I’m from Brisbane and am looking for inspiration for our up coming AUsralia Day, on 26 January.
Love your work
Rob
Jillian Phillips says
I am thrilled to see my artwork in Cookie form!! You are extremely talented Marian 🙂 Best wishes, Jillian
Laura Munford says
YOU BLOW MY MIND!!!!!! You are amazing!!!! I wish I could do what you can do! You are a true artist. Fantastic!
Laura says
Wow, these cookies are really great!
I live in Holland and think you could make great cookies of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes etc..