Learn the art of creating a beautiful bouquet of flowers made entirely from sugar cookies and royal icing! Cookie artist, Maddie Gartmann will guide you through the process from start to finish. First, she will teach you how to make delicious no spread cutout cookies from her tried and true recipe that is included in this class. You will learn her trick for attaching the sticks to the cookies so they won’t fall off. Next, whip up a batch of royal icing from scratch and gain an understanding of how to adjust the icing to achieve different consistencies for piping dimensional flowers. She will also share tips for coloring your royal icing to create vibrant and natural-looking hues. And finally, Maddie will show you how to assemble a professional-looking edible bouquet of cookie flowers that is the perfect centerpiece for a party or a wonderful gift idea for loved ones.
Class Sessions
Intro and Supplies
1:59
Join Maddie in this lesson to see what supplies are needed to create a beautiful cookie bouquet from start to finish.
Making the Dough
10:58
Download the recipes for this class, gather your ingredients, and get baking! In this lesson Maddie mixes up batch of her delicious cookie dough. Along the way, she identifies the importance of each step in order to achieve the perfect texture and consistency of dough. Then find out how she rolls out her dough to make the process of cutting out shapes easy.
Cutting out Cookies and Attaching Sticks
7:42
Now that the dough is rolled out and chilled it is time to cut out the cookies for the cookie bouquet. Maddie uses three shapes: a daisy, a rose, and a leaf, but choose cutters that work best for your arrangement. Be sure to use Maddie’s cookie stick trick so they won’t fall off.
Making Royal Icing
6:27
In this lesson, Maddie mixes up a batch of her tasty royal icing. She shares her tip for making a smooth icing while keeping air bubbles to a minimum. And find out which ingredients is a must to achieve a royal icing that dries firm to touch but has a soft bite when enjoyed on a cookie.
Creating the Color Palette - Consistencies
19:18
Creating a variety of colors and icing consistencies is key to making beautiful cookies. In this lesson, Maddie mixes up three consistencies of icing including stiff, outline, and flood which are used to decorate the cookies in slightly different ways. She also discusses the importance of using a few shades of color for depth and teaches you an easy method for minimizing dishes when making multiple colors or shades of one color.
Decorating
24:16
Now that all the prep work is done, let’s decorate! Join Maddie as she pipes daisies, roses and leaves onto the various cookie shapes using a round tip, a petal tip, and a leaf tip. She shares which consistency to use for each step to outline, flood, and pipe petals and leaves that have lots of texture and depth.
Arranging your Bouquet
4:43
Once the cookies are dry, gather your floral supplies and start arranging! In this final lesson, Maddie will show you how to secure the cookies into a pot and add some extra flare with shredded paper.
Your Instructor
Maddie Gartmann
Maddie Gartmann, creator of Garty Goodies, is a self-taught cookie artist who turned her passion for creating edible art into a business. Her work is both whimsical and delicious, and she shares cookie making tips, tricks and tutorials through videos on Instagram and TikTok. When not decorating cookies, she can be found chasing after her two rambunctious toddlers, Lou and Georgie.
Bonus Material
Sugar Cookie and Icing Recipe
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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