TELL: MOTHER’S DAY FLOWER COOKIES

What is the next best thing to getting flowers?  How about little cookie flowers?  I mean, they smell good AND you can eat them.

I found the most adorable tiny cookie cutters and I thought… tiny flower cookies would be so cute for mothers day!

I ordered these ADORABLE cards from Treat and am just in love with how they turned out!  The quality is awesome and I love how special the pictures make them.  Ha ha, and how many cards can you find that say Ga Ga (Rowe’s name for my mom)?  I just love that I could personalize each card.  I thought they went SO well with these little cookies!  I even made sure I matched the color of the cookies with the cards (because I’m crazy like that ha)

The best part is the kids can help make these cookies too.  I loved watching my son decorate the cookies. I couldn’t help but smile over that “concentration face” –  and he LOVES to help (and loves eating the frosting even more).

Read all about how to make these cute flower cookies after the jump.

I have made these cookies a LOT.  Here is a link to the cookie recipe.

The Royal Icing is the key to having these cute petals hold their shape.  I always vary in the thickness of my royal icing and since I wanted these petals to hold their shape I had to make the consistency very thick.  You want to add in the water very slowly so you can control the thickness.  I just make sure that when I shake the bowl the frosting doesn’t flatten out or move much.

3 Tablespoons Wilton Meringue Powder

4 cups confectioners sugar

6 tablespoons warm water

(again: add the water SLOWLY so that you can control the consistency, you want the icing to form peaks and not flatten back out)

–Small flower cookie cutter 

Rose

Creamy Peach

Buttercup Yellow

Dephinium Blue

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Here is a video so you can see how I used each of the decorating tips.

Happy almost Mother’s Day!  Bake away!

cards c/o Treat