Sunday, February 14, 2016

seashell, starfish, and seahorse cookies


Last September, my cousin's husband's cousin (cousin-in-law?) Su asked me to make sea-themed cookies for her sister's baby shower. The invitations had a pretty sea coral theme, so we decided to go with seashells, seahorses, and starfish in turquoise and coral colors.

I baked up a few batches of my favorite sugar cookie dough (recipe in my book, The Hello Kitty Baking Book!), and used various cookie cutters that I had bought on Amazon! (You can find them here for the star fish, here for the sea shell, and here for the sea horse!)



For the seashells, I used stiff white royal icing (recipe also in my book!) to outline the shells, and once they were dry I filled them in with runny white icing.



Then once that had dried for several hours, I went back with stiff white icing and a small round tip to pipe the shell details.



I also prepared piping bags of turquoise and coral colored icing. For the turquoise I used Americolor sky blue, and for the coral I used two parts soft pink, one part lemon yellow, and one part red.


Next came the starfish. I again outlined each one, this time with stiff turquoise icing, and then filled them in with runny turquoise icing.


Once dry, I added dot details to each starfish, using stiff turquoise icing.



I also made some of them in coral.



And it was pretty much the same process for the seahorses as well - outline with stiff icing, fill with runny icing, let dry, and then use stiff icing to add the details.




I love how they turned out, and I especially love this color combination!


Happy baby shower, Jueun! 


2 comments:

  1. These are so cute! I love them. The seashells are my favourite! I need to invest in some new cookie cutters, so maybe I'll have a hunt for these!

    Sian xx Cakey Dreamer

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. thanks @Sian!!! the cutters are worth it, they're so cute i'm positive i'll use them again! here are the ones i bought, in case you are interested!

      star fish: http://amzn.to/1TqMIZs
      sea shell: http://amzn.to/1SF6hhI
      sea horse: http://amzn.to/1KZDjXn

      Delete