Wedding Cake Cookie

Wedding season is fast approaching so it's time to get piping for your friends and family! The key to creating a beautiful cookie is making sure that you have the basics down. Practice piping straight lines as this is the basis for many cookie creations. Piping straight lines are actually the easiest to pipe as curved lines need more control, but both will be a breeze once you get the hang of it.

For this wedding cake cookie, you will need the following:

1) Disposable piping bag

2) Thin metal piping tip

3) Edible gel food dyes

4) Any colour dragees

This particular cookie is a cookie pop, but feel free to make a regular wedding cake cookie.

First pipe the heart's outline. I always start at the top of any cookie creation, but feel free to start anywhere you please!

 Pipe the rest of the outline.

Pipe the lines that represent the layers of the cake.

Whip up some icing. I decided to go with a Tiffany's blue (blue and a little bit of turquoise) colour to match the Tiffany's blue macarons that this cookie was paired with. 

Notice how the icing is quite shiny and not super thick. 

I iced the centre 'cake' first just in case the icing turned out to be too drippy (If the icing flooded into the upper or lower parts of the cookie, it would be fixable, but it would be more difficult to fix if it flooded into the heart or base of the cake). 

Then fill in the rest of the cookie. 

As you can see, the lines on the cookie are now slightly messier, but we will fix that!

Now, outline the outer edges of the cookie.

In order to avoid making a mistake, I try and stick to using straight lines at all times. As you can see on the bottom layer, I made one fluid piping line rather than breaking up the line, but it will probably be easier if you stick to breaking up the lines. It doesn't alter the finished product too much. The base icing is also still quite wet which means that the cookie's outline won't be as defined. This cookie gets a lot of detailing added to it so that's why I wasn't too concerned with waiting for the base icing to dry. 

Here is the finished product!

Because I refuse to make videos of my tutorials at this point in time (so awkward to see yourself on camera, but I am not completely shutting the door on the idea!) it is a little bit difficult for me to show you how I decorated this particular cookie. I will say, however, when you're decorating a wedding cake cookie try and get inspired by looking at real wedding cakes. If you're a little bit nervous about piping fine details, use some silver dragees (the small candy balls) to bling out your cookie. 

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