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Step 1.
Start by placing the plastic stencil with a letter pattern
on top of the iced cookie. Make sure that it doesn’t
move and spray on top of your stencil.
Step 2.
Then, gently remove the stencil from your cookie and
leave it to dry for a bit.
Step 3.
Using the sponge daubers, ink the rubber stamps with
black and green food colouring mixed with vodka and
gently press them straight down on the iced cookie.
Step 4.
Now, using an image or picture as a visual reference,
draw two butterflies with a non-toxic pencil or an
edible marker.
Step 5.
Once your butterflies have been traced on the iced
cookie, pipe their outlined areas with white royal icing
(medium consistency) by slowly pressing out the icing
to build up some volume. This is called dimensional
piping. Let the royal icing butterflies dry completely
(about 8 hours at room temperature or an hour in a
dehydrator).
Steps 6a-e.
Place the matte dusting powders and gel colours in the
paint palette and mix them with a few drops of vodka
(or other alcohol-based medium). Make sure they have
a paste-like consistency: not too dry, not too wet. Hand
paint the butterflies with the small round paintbrush.
In order to create different shades, shadows and
highlights, you can use a butterfly picture as a colour
guide.
Dip the whole brush into the lightest colour, dab off any
excess on a piece of paper towel and start the basecoat
of the butterfly with it. Apply a layer of shadows with
the blue edible ink pen. Dip the brush in vodka again
and blend these shadowed areas with the lightest
colour used before.
Finally, colour the black parts of the wings and add
some white and burgundy highlights to them as well.
6b 6c
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6d 6e