Gourmet Cookie Bouquets Recipe Blog

Archive for March, 2010

Here’s a quick and easy recipe to impress your friends and family!  Take the hassle out of preparing cookies by using refrigerated sugar cookie dough.

To created the wonderfully colored “nests”, color your flake coconut by adding about 4 drops of liquid food coloring to 1 cups of coconut in a plastic ziplock bag. Shake until all flakes are covered.  (You may need to add 1 teaspoon of water to help disperse the color evenly.)

Ingredients:

• 1 package (16 oz) ready to bake sugar cookies
• 1 container (12 oz) fluffy white frosting
• 1 cup flaked coconut
• Food coloring
• Jelly Beans

Directions:

• Bake cookies as directed on package. Cool completely.
• Frost cookies, top with about 1 tsp. of colored coconut and a few jelly beans.
• Sit back and enjoy!

If you’re looking for a unique gift to send to those with a Bit o’ Irish in them, our Lucky Shamrock cookie bouquet is the perfect choice!

They’ll enjoy a variety of hand-decorated, green clover cookies decorated with stripes, dots and swirls.  The clover cookies surround a round cookie that you can personalize with your own message.  Each cookie is about 4-5″ tall!

Each bouquet is artfully arranged and carefully packaged for shipment to insure it arrives safely.

Check out all of our St. Patrick’s Day cookie gifts!

All those beautifully iced cookies you see online that make up cookie bouquets are created using Royal Icing. It works especially well when making cookie bouquets or decorating cookies that you are going to mail somewhere because it dries hard and holds up well.  Royal icing decorated cookies will arrive looking as good as they did when you decorated them.

Standard royal icing recipes call for powdered sugar, meringue powder and water. Basically, the water is added until you achieve the desired consistency.  You can find meringue powder in upscale grocery stores and craft stores such as Michael’s (in the cake decorating section).

Here is a great Royal Icing Recipe to get you started on your delicious creations!
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Standard Royal Icing Recipe
3 3/4 cups powdered sugar – sifted
3 Tbsp. meringue powder
6 to 8 Tbsp. water (depending on consistency desired)

In a bowl, combine the powdered sugar and meringue powder. Then add water a little bit at a time (until the desired consistency) beating with an electric mixer on medium speed. NOTE – a thicker consistency (6 Tbsp water) is used for outlining the cookie while a thinner ‘flow’ consistency is used to flood thecookies inside the outline. If you’d like almond flavored icing, consider substituting 2 Tbsp. almond extract for the first 2 Tbsp. of water.

After the icing is fully mixed and the desired consistency, just divide it up and add color.  Keep the icing containers covered until you are ready to use the icing as it will turn hard quickly.