Wedding Cake Cookies

Wedding cake cookies favors can be made to coordinate with your wedding cake, making this a lovely gift for your guests to take home.

Makes about 6 cookies (it will depend on the size of the wedding cake cookie cutter you use).

What you need

1 quantity of Royal Icing

Blue food color

6 Wedding cake cookie shapes: use your favorite cookie recipe or you can use this one.

Paper Piping Bag

How to decorate the wedding cake cookies

1. In a small bowl mix about 1/2 of the royal icing with a little water so that soft peaks form. When not in use cover the icing in plastic wrap to prevent it from drying out.
   

2. Put some white royal icing into a paper piping bag.
   

3. Cut a small tip off the piping bag and pipe an outline of the cake shape for each cookie (use the picture as a guide), making sure that the lines are smooth and steady. Cover the piping bag in plastic wrap for later use. Let the icing on the cookies harden before finishing the cookie.
   

4. Dilute the remaining icing with a few drops of water so that it becomes slightly runny but not to wet. Place this into another paper piping bag and flood the center of the cookies, being careful not to overfill the cookie. Leave it to dry completely.
   

5. To make the blue bow mix some white icing with a little blue icing and a little water. Place into a paper piping bag and snip the tip off. Pipe an outline of the bow on each cookie. Cover the piping bag in plastic wrap. Let the outline dry.
   

6. Dilute the remaining blue icing sugar with a little water as you did with the white icing sugar, fill the center of the bow by flooding it. Leave to dry.
   

7. Once the cookie icing is dry use the remaining white icing to pipe the outline of the cake tiers and add a dotted border. Leave to dry.
   

8. The red and white cookie is done in the same way. Just remember to do the white base icing first and when dry pipe on the red details.