As end of the year gifts for Macy’s School of American Ballet class she and I designed these ballerina silhouette cookies. Very simple and oh so beautiful!
Once again I took to the internet to find the best tutorials from the cookie experts. My favorite cookie artists are Sweetoptia and Sweetambs, there isn’t much they havent conquered in royal icing techniques. Doing a silhouette on a cookie perfectly is much more simple than it looks. The black portion of the icing is traced separately on parchment paper using whatever silhouette image you want. Then added to a solid wet or dry field to complete the design. Check out these DIY tutorials that I referenced: For Sweetambs cookie silhouette tutorial click Here. For Sweetopia’s cookie silhouette tutorial click Here
For my pretty ballerina I used a Barbie image but freehand the bun instead of a pony tail. I also found a little trick to make the tiny lips and eyelash detail. I didn’t try to pipe the lips with the piping tip, instead I went straight down from the nose to chin and went back in with a toothpick to pull out the delicate lips. For the eyelash, I didn’t event attempt to pipe it. I figured it would break off during transfer so after the black silhouette was placed in the wet field (which is Sweetambs technique) and all the way dry I drew the eyelash with an edible marker. Just a light flick of the wrist!
Macy was so proud to give these out the last week of ballet class and of course the little girls just LOVED them!
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