How to Make Cookie Place Cards

It is easy to create cookie place cards, which will be a stunning decorative feature at the wedding reception.

You can use any shaped cookie, but do make sure that they are large enough for writing names on top. You can wrap each in cellophane or tie with a ribbon.

What you need

Use your favorite cookie sugar cookie recipe.  Or use this Sugar Cookie Recipe

Make cookies that are about 6cm (2 ½ inches) in the shape that you require.

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Royal Icing

Food coloring to match your wedding theme

Small round cutter

Small Bowl

Small palette knife

Paper Piping Bags

Scissors

10cm (4 inches) of 15mm (1/2 inch) ribbon for each cookie – Optional

Optional Step

As soon as the cookies are out of the oven, use the small round cutter to cut a little hole at the top of each cookie (you will thread the ribbon through this once the cookies has been iced). The tray will be very hot so be careful. Let them cool down before you ice.

How to Make

I will now describe how to decorate the cookie place cards. Use colors of your choice.

1.  Once the cookies are cold start with the background color (I will use the color blue). In a bowl mix some royal icing with a small amount blue food coloring. Add a little water until you reach a soft-peak consistency.

The correct consistency is reached when a sharp and smooth peak forms and holds its shape when the spoon is lifted out of the mixture. If the icing mixture is too soft, the peak will curl back. If you have used too much icing sugar, the peak will break of bluntly.


2.  Put some of the icing into a piping bag. Snip a small tip off the piping bag and pipe around the outline of the cookies.

Leave these to dry. If you have any icing left in the bag just squeeze it back into the bowl with the remaining blue color.

3.  Add a little water to the remaining blue icing color to make a runny consistency and mix well.

4.  Put this into a clean piping bag, snip off the tip and fill the center of the cookies with the runny icing, try not to overfill. Leave to dry.


5.  Once the background icing is dry, mix some green royal icing and red royal icing and make to a soft peak consistency (as describe above). Place these into clean piping bags, snip of the tip and pipe the names, initials or other decoration in green in the center of the cookies. Use the red to pipe a decorative edge.

6.  When the cookie place cards are completely dry (leave overnight) wrap in cellophane and ribbon. Or if you have made a hole in the top of the cookie, push a piece of ribbon through the hole and tie into a bow or knot.