How awesome is your mom? Awesome enough to have her own coat of arms? How about personalized Monogrammed Chalkboard Mother's Day Cookies?
Oh, did I mention they are fully edible AND palatable? The cookies are a fragrant blend of rose and cardamom, inspired by a recent visit to Aveda. Yup, flavour combos flood my mind while shopping for shampoos and the like. In my world, if it smells great together, then that must translate to taste. Right?!
OK, not always, but once I had the flavour down, I enlisted some fancy plaque cutters, a batch of marshmallow fondant, stencils and some royal icing to fully pimp out these fancy plaques.
Initially, I intended to keep these Monogrammed Chalkboard Mother's Day Cookies a simple black and white to play up the chalkboard effect that is currently trending. But the floral stencil was just screaming for some colour, then I found myself adding colour to the other designs. I am happy I did! What's your preference - black and white or colour?
Oh, and how about my sugar magnolias and poppy? I plan to blog about them in a future post, but I felt they deserved a spot to shine in the interim. Plus, my photos were starting to look a little halloween-ish, so a pop of colour was in order.
With Mother's Day just a few days away, these Monogrammed Chalkboard Mother's Day Cookies would make the perfect gift. Don't have font stencils handy? Try diluting some white edible gel paste or petal dust in clear alcohol and paint her initials. No time to make your own fondant, store-bought black fondant will do the trick.
The cookies above could also double as great teacher gifts, don't you think? With the school year coming to a close, bake up a batch and get the kiddos to write messages to their favourite educators.
Whether it's mom or teacher, how perfect are these cookie boxes for gifting your beautifully decorated cookies! The ribbon? I found it in my sewing room and was pleasantly surprised with how well it coordinated with my cookies!
Mother's Day Past:
To make these cookies you will need:
One recipe Cardamom Rose Sugar Cookies
One recipe Marshmallow Fondant (colour with SugarFlair Black Extra)
One recipe Royal Icing
Copper Gifts Large Fancy Square Cutters
Designer Stencils Chic Rose Mini Print, Monogram and Royal Damask #1 Stencils
Wilton Gold Lustre Dust (edible)
SugarFlair Red Gel Paste (edible)
Make the marshmallow fondant a day before to allow the colour to set.
Bake cookies and cool completely. To ensure little to no spread, I chill my cut dough in the freezer for 3-5 minutes prior to baking.
Roll out fondant and then run it through the #1 setting on a pasta roller/attachment, if you have one.
Cut out fondant with the same cutters used to shape cookies. Use a pasty brush to add some piping gel to the surface of cookies to adhere the fondant cut-outs.
Use royal icing and stencil to add designs.
Use gel paste or petal dust diluted in clear alcohol to add colour.
Package and gift!
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