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Before those wedding bells ring, you’ve got to shower the bride! And every celebration of love needs a few extra-special touches… like these cookies.
Start with a cool chalkboard look and then personalize them with the bride’s initials, wedding date, or the couple’s monogram!
Chalkboard Bridal Shower Cookies
Level: Easy
Yield: Makes 1 dozen cookies
What You Need
Instructions
1. Ice Your Cookies
![flooded chalk board cookie](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112151/flooded-chalk-board-cookie.png)
Fit your piping bag with a # 2 tip and fill it with black flood consistency royal icing.
Pipe and flood each of your cookies. Let dry.
2. Make It “Chalky”
![painting chalky royal icing on cookie](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112250/painting-chalky-royal-icing-on-cookie.png)
Using your round brush, start dabbing cornstarch on the surface of the cookie.
![painted chalk board cookie](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112328/painted-chalk-board-cookie.png)
Cover the whole surface of the cookie, allowing it to look uneven and streaky … you’re going for a chalk effect here!
![chalkboard cookie without words](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112400/chalkboard-cookie-without-words.png)
Dust off any excess so you have a smooth surface to continue working on.
3. Pipe The Border
![piping chalkboard cookie border](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112437/piping-chalkboard-cookie-border.png)
Now to add the pretty filigree pattern! You’ll need your piping bag fitted with a #1 tip and filled with medium-consistency icing.
Working one section at a time, pipe a swirl following the outline of your cookie.
![creating chalkboard cookie border](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112539/creating-chalkboard-cookie-border.png)
Then, moving quickly, take a fine tip brush dipped in water and wipe away some of the icing.
![painting cookie border](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112635/painting-cookie-border.png)
Wipe your brush on a paper towel, and continue removing icing until you have a faint line that resembles chalk. (You want it to appear a bit uneven, thicker in some spots than others.)
![finished chalkboard cookie border](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112721/finished-chalkboard-cookie-border.png)
Continue this technique around the cookie until you’ve completed the border.
4. Add Some Text
![piping words on chalkboard cookie](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112758/piping-words-on-chalkboard-cookie.png)
Using your same white icing, pipe on the first letter of your message. (We’re spelling out love, but you could do the bride’s name or couple’s monogram.)
![painting words on chalkboard cookie](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112829/painting-words-on-chalkboard-cookie.png)
Then, use your brush to wipe away most of the icing as you did with the border.
![love on chalkboard cookie](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112909/love-on-chalkboard-cookie.png)
Continue this process until you’ve spelled out your entire message.
Pro Tip: Nervous to freehand with a piping bag? Scratch your letters into the icing first with a scribe tool to create a guide.
5. Decorate With Roses
![roses on chalkboard cookie](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2021/02/24112953/roses-on-chalkboard-cookie.png)
You can really add whatever decorations you like, but we love a pop of color with little pink roses.
To make the royal icing roses, use stiff-consistency pink icing and a number 3 tip to pipe tiny swirls of onto your cookie. Then, add leaves with stiff-consistency green icing piped in a tear drop shape.
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