If you’re looking for a sweet DIY project that’s perfect for Valentine’s check out these I love you beary much cookies. If you’re new here, I’ll share the basics to get you from start to finish, and if you’ve already got some cookie decorating experience under your belt piping bag, below are the tools used, gel colors used, recipes and printable tags.

I thought I’d break it up a bit and include the Teddy Bear and Blue Heart Floral Cookies in this post and I’ll share the Valentine Vase, Heart Plant, and Branch Flower HERE. in another post and video soon.

I’m also only including the floral cookie with the center blue flower, the rest will come in the next video.

The links to tools and recipes etc. following the video below.

Video – How to Decorate Teddy Bear and Floral Cookies with Royal Icing

If you enjoy watching the video on a different platform, I’ve listed the various places on social media you can find it:

YouTube

Pinterest

Instagram

Cookie Design Ideas and Cutter Sources

Thanks to the following sources for the cookie cutters and design inspiration!

• Teddy Bear Cutter and Design by The Cookiery
• Heart Flower Cookie Cutter by The Cookiery
• Vase with Flowers Cutter by The Cookiery, design by The Millers Wife Custom Cookies
• Flower Branch Cookie Cutter and Design by 6 Bittersweets
• Heart Cutter by Wilton
• Floral Design Bunting by Rifle Paper Co.

Projector for Tracing on Cookies

The decorating techniques might be easy for those talented at drawing, but since I’m not the best at it, I like using a projector to help with the design. If you’d like to try the projector for this or other projects, my tutorial is HERE.

Royal Icing Recipe and Icing Consistencies

You can find my favorite royal icing recipe here. The consistency of icing is key for easy decorating. Click here to see a YouTube video on finding the right icing thickness.

Complete Guide to Royal Icing PDF

You can also find my Complete Guide to Royal Icing Consistency here.

Cookie Recipe

I used my cinnamon sugar cookie recipe for these, which you can find here. If you’d like to try a different cookie base, other recipes can be found here. 

Cookie Designs Icing Consistencies

All the icing consistencies are medium, unless mentioned otherwise. You can find my Complete Guide to Royal Icing Consistency here.

Cookie Decorating Basics

Here are some posts which take you through cookie decorating basics. If you’re a beginner, you can use these videos as a guide to basic decorating. I’ll mention details unique to each cookie in each cookie section below:

{Video} Cookie Decorating Tools & How to Fill a Piping Bag

{Video} How to Outline and Flood Cookies with Royal Icing

{Video} How to Dry Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing

Decorating Tools

What you’ll need (The Amazon links are affiliate links):

• Piping Tips 1.5
• Piping Tips 4-6
• Piping Bags
• Tipless Piping Bags
• Couplers
• Americolor Gel Colors; Avocado, Super Black, Forest Green
• Wilton Gel Colors; Delphinium Blue, Pink, Brown, White
• Rainbow Dust ProGel Colors; Pink, Cream, Caramel, Strawberry
• Scribe Tool or Toothpicks
• Rainbow Dust Edible Ink Food Coloring Pens 
• Pico Projector or Magnasonic Projector 
• Arkon Remarkable Creators Phone and Tablet Stand (20% off with coupon code sweetopia)

Royal Icing Transfers or Floodwork

The little hearts on the teddy bear are royal icing transfers. Flood work, also known as runouts, transfers, color flow (by Wilton), or run sugar, is basically the piping of a runny royal icing onto parchment paper or acetate paper into an outlined shape. When the shape dries, you have an icing design which you can use for a multitude of decorating purposes; on cakes, cookies, gingerbread houses, cupcakes etc.   You can also pipe onto wires, toothpicks, skewers etc. so that your design can be ‘free-standing’. You can find more detail on how to make them HERE.

Puffy Royal Icing

If you’d like some tips and tricks on how to get that puffy royal icing look, I have a Digital Download Tutorial in my shop.

Piping Bags

In terms of piping bags, I mainly used tipless piping bags for very fine details and PME 1.5 piping tips for most piping, and larger piping tips such as 4 to 6 to flood larger surfaces.

Teddy Bear Cookies

Besides the basics to decorating which I’ve shared above, here are a few notes about the teddy bear cookies:

• I made the black icing a tad bit on the thick side so it would hold its shape nicely and not bleed into the lighter colors beneath.
• The pink for the ribbon is medium thick as well, to keep the line of the ribbon clean

Floral Heart Cookies

Besides the basics to decorating which I’ve shared above, here are a few notes about the blue floral heart cookies:

• The colors took a little while to get right. I tried to match the original Floral Design Bunting by Rifle Paper Co. I’ve listed all the gel colors I used under the title decorating tools, but to give you an idea of how they were mixed, I’ll share the basics below:

Dark foliage/leaves – Americolor forest green with touch of black

Pink flowers – Wilton pink with touch of black and Rainbow Dust cream

Chartreuse buds – Americolor avocado, Rainbow Dust caramel and cream

Blue – Wilton Delphinium blue, Rainbow Dust Cream and a touch of black

• For the tiny lines I used a medium thick icing consistency

i love you beary much heart cookies

Besides the basics to decorating which I’ve shared above, here are a few notes about the i love you beary much heart cookies:

• The fonts/tag can be found below in the printable tags I created

• The icing for the thinner lines is medium thick and the fill in or flood icing is medium consistency.

If you’d like to make the tags, the printable file is below. You can adjust the size of the tags in the printer settings. I cut them out with a Circle Cutter Punch.

Printable Valentine Tags

HERE is the link to these PRINTABLE tags:

I think those are all the basics! Please feel free to ask me any questions in the comment section or on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and YouTube.

Happy decorating!

xo,

Marian