How to Decorate 29 Different Christmas Ornament Cookies

hi everyone this is Grace and today I'll be walking you through this most epic ornament set I mean 29 designs amazing but there are a couple of things that I did to this tutorial to kind of streamline it shorten it a little bit because y'all 29 cookies is a lot of cookies so first of all I ordered this by color so it is hopefully a little easier to find a specific ornament because I don't really have names for all of them I don't know how I would um and second of all I have taken out any floods after this one so we're gonna see the flood situation with this cookie um and then I'm gonna skip past that for the rest of them because I like to be able to talk through the whole thing and there are only there's only so much I can say through a flood so also it's repeat motion and I think what's most important is what's going on top right so let's talk about this this entire set is a two consistency outline and flood oh and sidebar I'm definitely going to be doing this in a couple of goes so just prepare for that um yeah because it's two hours and 17 minutes we can do this it was even longer before I took out the floods anyway Focus Grace so two consistency outline and flood this whole set is a soft Peak piping consistency to outline let that crust and then well actually in my videos you probably won't see it crust because I'm impatient but I would not recommend that for a beginner um let it crust because that's going to really hold the icing in better than when it's still wet and then I was going to say something else was I going to say oh oh the flood is a thin flood I tried to make it an extra thin flood but I don't think I actually succeeded because I feel like with some of the um extensive wet on wet it still felt like it crusted too fast but anyway I digress so um this is just a simple addition on the top here with these lines um I Am Naturally I was gonna say I'm naturally good at piping lines I have a very steady hand um and so I know a lot of people really struggle with not steady hands so I don't have a ton of advice but a few crucial things to have nice straight lines first of all brace your piping hand piping arm on the table so I sometimes put my elbow sometimes I put like just above my elbow on the edge of the table um then what do I do okay um I do not brace my decorating hand but you certainly can if you want if you feel like you need it so I recommend taking your pointer finger and your middle finger of your opposite hand and depending on the size of your bag you can either brace the bag itself if you're working with a much larger bag or you can just brace the palm of your hand so you have extra stability now this is not an indicator of your skill level I know a couple of expert Advanced cookiers who pipe that way I just personally do not like to I didn't learn that way I think so it's not how I pipe um I'm doing the topper here which I agonized over what kind of topper I should do for the set until I realize you know what Grace they can just all be different so I don't know they're at least three or four different kinds of Toppers um this is one where I did like this little scallop thing but all um pressure piped which I later discovered I didn't love so I switched that up um this design originally just had the lines and I was like it needs something else it needs something else so I have this recurring Holly theme um oh shoot what's the word for that oh my goodness I've used that before in my videos before Motif thank you Grace um so there's a recurring Holly theme recurring themes I believe the definition of that is the definition of a motif okay um and I guess I could have cut this out too but there's a lot of boring um painting of all of the toppers and what am I doing okay so I'm using the sugar art Sterling Pearl in wedding gold to paint the topper and someone asked me like why bother making the topper a different color if you're just going to paint it gold like why not just do it in the color of the cookie the reason for that is this is a totally edible Luster Dust which doesn't have the best coverage I mean it's good coverage for edible Luster Dust don't get me wrong um but if you've ever tried the not edible stuff that does have incredible coverage this needs a little help so if I were trying to paint gold on top of this dark red or green um or blue it has to work extra hard just to get just to cover um those colors so yeah I mean I what would have been even better is to actually use a golden yellow of some sort but I did not make that for the set and I wasn't going to make that just for the Toppers so here we are but it probably would have made an even richer gold in the end if I had done that so just keep that in mind all right this cookie here um was actually inspired by uh uh my goodness brain fart oh my goodness what was it inspired by grace um wow it was a previous set that I did for a holiday I am Lunar New Year wow massive brain fart okay I did something kind of similar to this like this kind of line scalloped action thing um for one of the cookies I did for Lunar New Year so that inspired this and I love doing Line work in the same color I just think it's so classy so you'll see here what's important is that I am picking up the icing off the surface of the cookie that's another important thing for good Line work so not only do you want to make sure you brace your arm on the table brace your decorating hand if you need to but you have to lift your bag off the surface of the cookie and how much you lift your bag is just going to depend on really how long the line is so obviously these are pretty shorelines so I'm not lifting very far but you can see that I'm lifting them and in the end this gives me total like art deco vibes which I love and something you'll see me do here you see I'm like cutting off the very end of the line and that's because um it just leaves a little too much icing on the end I'm not making any sense right now like I like to have thank you excuse me I don't know where that came from um I like to have oh like a seamless waterfall effect off the side of the cookie um and depending on the angle sometimes I can kind of do that with the tip of the bag and if I can't do with the tip of the bag then I'll use that specific metal scribe you see the pme one because that's my smallest like finest scribe and I'll use that to just whoop chop off the ends gorgeous now obviously I free handed this because I'm just freehanding Queen that's my usual ammo but you could um if you want to mark this off at all I would recommend using that pme scribe and actually poking holes in the surface of the crusted icing it could be a little scary at first um but be gentle and it can work if you want to like mark off but y'all who's who has time for that now I originally was only going to do those scallops and then I looked at it and I was like I feel like it needs something so I decided to add these dots and I am using a soft Peak piping consistency that is what I definitely recommend for Line work it's definitely the easiest there is like the rare rare type of line work that I can't think of right now at the top of my head that you would need like a medium Peak for but generally soft Peak all the way so then I piped the dots and I looked at it and I was like I feel like it still needs something else this is also a different topper so we've got two different options already and what sold me on doing different Toppers is one of the reasons I make these shape series sets is I want to provide inspiration to do this kind of cookie this kind of design in a bajillion different ways like the sky is the limit so why limit myself to just one topper let me give you different ideas okay so I looked at this cookie and I was like it needs it needs some gold so I decided to paint the dots not original not my original plan obviously the dots were not even part of it I might have considered actually painting all of the lines at one point which is totally a look too that would look great but I like the dots simple Art Deco love it okay this is one of my favorites I mean so many of these are my favorites so I'm probably just going to say that over and over again but that's fine um this gorgeous burgundy red to start and we let that crest and then we're doing this snowfall effect which I did not come up with I've seen this on many a ornament design and the burgundy red so the colors that I used here are mostly the sugar art Master Elites so the red is the burgundy um I think I used that as pure burgundy but if you want it to be like a brighter red you can add some of their red rose to it to give it a little more life um the green is not a master elite the blue is the blueberry master elite love that one um the green I'm fairly certain how did I make that um americolor royal blue mixed with I don't know lemon yellow egg yellow um very saturated I probably added a touch of black to it I tend to do that when I'm trying to make darker colors for both the red and the green um I just added I made a little extra of the dark and I added like a spoonful of the dark color to a bowl of fresh icing to make the pink and the lighter green so the green is definitely on the Bluer side of Green which is why the lighter version is kind of like a mint green which is exactly what I was going for and then the blue I just made blue and then I had very intentionally made this off-white which you could agree with disagree with whatever but I wanted this set to be a little softer um I didn't want a bright white so sidebar I'll talk about the white in a second sorry I don't know why I keep coughing all right um so these little snow blobs I'm letting those dry and I felt like it needed more I don't know that I was planning to do those dots before I don't really know I was kind of I was flowing I felt like I needed to fill in some space which is why I'm adding these red dots which I don't think was my original plan and you want to let the little white blobs dry because then when they're dry you can take a paintbrush and actually like um brush off the excess sanding sugar so this is my favorite sanding sugar that I don't think is made before made still which makes me really sad um it's Wilton small sanding sugar if you Google like Wilton sanding sugar you're just going to find the big stuff that they still make this is my favorite small sanding sugar because it's like the shiniest and sparkliest of all of them I'm going to be so sad when I run out of this okay um so you can see what I'm doing here only do this when those white dots are dry because otherwise you're gonna like brush off the icing and then obviously I had a little had to have to add a little Holly detail because I was feeling the Holly y'all obviously now when I am filming I try to move the cookie as little as possible so if you see me move the cookie that's because I really needed it moved for the angle of whatever I'm piping and that left side of the Holly I just cannot do right-handed at the correct angle because you really want to come at the Holly at a 45 degree head-on angle if that makes any sense chef's kiss love that All Right Moving On to yet another red one now I must admit um I thought this was going to be more impressive than it was I mean my mother don't get me wrong my mother was very impressed by this one and it was one of her favorites and I was like really because for me it's so simple so I left in the flood because we are doing wet on wet um it's always good to use a scribe to get like the really um sharp corners or edges that you might have all right so a trick that I do when I'm doing wet on wet or like fine detail what on What is I actually use I know this is annoying but I will bag my flood in two different bags I'll put it in a big bag for my actual flooding the surface and then what you saw me use there and while you see me here use of the pink is actually a very small bag that's like one maybe two ounces of icing but you really only need like one I'm just always afraid I'm gonna run out and then what that does by having two different bags is that I can cut a much smaller tip in the small bag to do fine detail stuff like this and then cut a much larger like normal flood tip in the other one the smaller bag also gives you a lot more control um because there's less icing like less pressure one of the biggest mistakes a lot of people make and I honestly still often make is putting too much icing in your bags because you're going to have a lot less control when you have more icing more weight so just keep that in mind um these little hearts at the bottom really sealed the deal for me in giving total Valentine's Day Vibes which is fine it's totally fine there's nothing wrong with Valentine's Day Vibes I just I love my color palette as as a unit but when I I probably I should have added some green to this maybe like the light green would have been nice but ship has sailed clearly um all right and this kind of topper I did add a little squiggle in the middle to help prevent craters on that this is a flood consistency that I'm putting in there I love this topper it might be my favorite one from the set it's like very simple but just super elegant clean love that this oh excuse me something else I can say about these Cutters um I actually worked with Amanda over at Brighton Cutters to come up with this um ornament set she does already have an ornament set which is a bit more ornate than this one is I wanted something that it was a little simpler and honestly I'm quite obsessed so if you want to look these up I mean they'll be linked in the description of the video but it's just the graceful Baker ornament set um I tend to have a much like chubbier simpler aesthetic to my designs and so I wanted to come up with a few like simpler and kind of bigger um bigger ornament shapes I believe these only come in one size so if you buy them they'll be the size that I used alrighty next up we have the pink ornaments so this pink color I just took a spoonful of the burgundy added that to White and that's how I got this pink because I wanted to be a true gradation of the burgundy um this is a design that I've actually done before I know if you've been around a minute you know my heart shape series set and I don't know I'm just obsessed with this I had to put it on put it on an ornament obviously um so here we are all right now what am I doing okay what you didn't see me do is I took an edible marker and I obviously marked this off um to be totally honest foreign like again I only did one of these so I kind of wish that I had made the curve a bit more exaggerated I think at the start because as you can see since I was trying to follow it kind of like tapered off I don't know it's a look too um but one and done we didn't have another go which is fine uh it's still beautiful so I outlined that in a soft Peak piping consistency and then I'm going in here with soft Peak again to do the little squiggles to prevent curators and I do not like to let them dry I like to go in immediately with my flood and I'm just using my thin flood that I use for the rest of this set and using my scribe to get it into all the little corners and what's really important about this design to make it look really pretty and seamless is [Music] um to make sure that you're getting it into all the little crevices because it's just one big flooding in sections essentially which means I'm flooding alternate sections so they can crust and then I can come back and do the one next to it foreign I can't get my Piping Bag to get that tiny little corner I feel like when I did this on the heart I actually had I want to say a smaller bag of icing because this also requires a good amount of control with your flood so if you're new to this especially I would recommend um actually having a smaller bag of flood for this so you can cut a smaller tip and you can have a lot more control the bag that I'm using is much larger and the tip is much larger like it's a normal flood the entire cookie size tip which just requires more control that's all but I managed to make it work y'all and definitely the most nerve-wracking thing about this design is um what was I gonna say total brain to fart oh right because if it craters if these crater it just kind of ruins the whole aesthetic right you're just going for like quilted plush poofy gorgeousness so we're doing well so far I'll let those crust um for me that's like at least 15 minutes sometimes I wait longer just depends on what else I'm working on in between I do find with these squiggles um I don't want to get them all the way to the edge I want to keep them really in the center and then the way that I'm going to add these last sections as I'm pretty sure I'm just going to do a flood of the whole section let's see what I end up doing what does grace do am I am I yup so it's a small enough space that I can just like squeeze The Living Daylights out of that and just get a nice one and done um kind of flood situation that to me gets the best seam the seam is what I refer to the two different sections next to each other um yeah how pretty how pretty what else can I say about this oh real time can be so slow sometimes yeah I just would not recommend doing this any other way I mean maybe if you had a tiny bag you could do like two floods up each side but again I was rocking the big bag of icing so that was not gonna happen which is fine my inspiration for this color scheme was I wanted something a little less traditional a little more vintage a little softer so to me the less traditional part is I added the navy blue and I did the pink um I would say more and more especially with cookies like Pink's becoming a thing um for Christmas but when I think traditional I just think red and green um and for this so I added the pink I added the lighter green that's kind of minty and that's like a softer Edition um I've had a lot of people I think they're trying to compliment it but they've made comments like this was so what do they say like coming in like wanting to hate the the lighter softer palette like two of the five colors are lighter softer okay I also have off-white but like most sets have white so I don't really count that um yeah oh that was something else with the softer is I wanted to have the off-white um instead of like a a bright white like I normally do you could pair this with a bright white just not what I wanted to do y'all most Toppers um have the actual uh what's it called like indentation of the whole topper instead of what mine is it's just like simplified I don't I don't know why did I do that I originally designed this thinking I was just gonna have like one I don't know I don't really know what I was thinking I I thought I was going to do something different but I didn't I just ended up making like traditional Toppers on top of the cooking whatever but it's it's more of a free space you can do whatever you want you can just do like a wire on top I mean a quote unquote wire made with icing obviously um all right this is another one that I'm like is this Valentine's Day Grace what'd you do um it's definitely the pink and the lack of green giving me a little bit Valentine's Day vibes it's okay because this wet on wet plaid is so freaking satisfying now I think I mentioned with this set I did a thin flood I think I tried to do my extra thin flood because I knew I wanted to give myself plenty of room to be able to do a lot of wet on wet if that's what I wanted and I did do a lot of wet and wet and I would say it was a pretty thin flood because I had a decent amount of time to work with it but I could have done an even thinner flood because the thinner the flood the longer it takes to crust so the more time you have to work with it foreign obviously topping it off with some edible glitter love me the edible glitter and that's in the gold I probably normally would have done the white diamond of the diamond dust from the sugar art but since I was doing gold accents with this set I wanted to keep it in the gold theme and there we go that's the nice plaid slash sort of Valentine's Day but that's okay all right next up I purely made this cookie um because I just wanted to do more of the wreath design that I did with this set which um obviously I'm showing everything out of order so I think I think the white ones are last and I'll show you one of my favorite favorite cookies um but I did this wreath technique I did not come up with it by the way I've just seen other people do it and I was skeptical but it's so easy and it's so effective because you just do this zigzag and I swear the zigzag can look so messy it doesn't matter it always turns out beautiful gorgeous now I like to do two greens with this I didn't actually try it with just one green but I would imagine assume you know it still works with one but I liked the different dimension of adding a second green to it and putting the lighter one on top because that's what you're gonna see more of um instead of the darker one which I feel like would like overpower it because it you know it peeks through enough and then the magic sauce I'm using my smallest scribe um because the smaller the the metal the less it um like pulls the icing if it's thicker it's obviously going to mess with it more and this is a pretty small space like a small thing to be pulling um so I wanted to have a minimal agitation of the icing and then coming in with my little red berry dots and I just kind of alternate three two one two one three just different groupings uh you could probably do with less berries but I love the berries so much so much so cute and then and then and then and then I think we're going to top this off with a Topper now this kind of design it takes a lot of self-control for me to not add something else to it because I always want to add more like a gold splatter or something and sometimes I have to ask my roommate be like um does this need more and she's usually like no she has much more of a simple aesthetic anyway I find that with cookies it is it is deceiving how hard it is to do simple cookies because um when it's super simple when a design is simple there's nothing you can hide behind I nothing um and sometimes less is more often less is more and sometimes more is more it just depends anyway all right we are rocking um the oh my God a different kind of knit this is like the traditional knit we've already done the cable knit um this is the sweater technique lovingly called and I am using a medium Peak here so when I do my shape series sets um I do have a plan that I've written down often with like inspiration photos or notes or whatever of the kinds of designs or techniques that I want to do on this set and to give myself the most flexibility I always prep three consistencies of every color which is such a pain and the bumpkins but it's worth it because then I can do a lot of different things so like this is another cookie where I used three different consistencies I outlined with a soft Peak I fled with my thin flood I'm doing the sweater technique with a medium Peak and then um these lines here I'm doing with a soft Peak and again you need the medium Peak for um for the sweater technique because foreign it needs a little extra extra help to hold its shape right okay so what I'm doing here this is a type of pressure piping which means that I'm varying the pressure on the bag as I'm piping and what that technique is I'm essentially piping a DOT and then as I pull away I'm simultaneously pulling towards the cookie and releasing pressure so you're creating this um tapered teardrop is kind of the way I describe it so you pipe a DOT you pull away you pull towards the cookie and you release pressure so it's a lot harder than it looks um it's a lot of brain power to really focus on doing all those things at the same time so satisfying to watch this this is also like a very standard execution of this sweater knit um a lot of people do this like add one line add two lines sometimes you can add three um in this case it wasn't that wide and I wanted to get as many in as I could and to be totally honest I did not plan this out I didn't plan the widths out and I think it worked perfectly because I was able to get an even 5 in five of the knits very very pleased with that and this one I really debated adding more gold to it you're going to see that I just end up leaving this all plain um because I added the gold to the cable knit one and I didn't want them to like look the same I don't know I tried to do as much variation as possible in my sets always but especially the shape series because I want to show you as many different things that are possible so with the cable knit I painted the lines gold with this sweater knit I'm gonna leave them plain and you can see how gorgeous the monochrome look is I mean y'all so good so good love okay now I just have to paint the toppers and yeah when you're painting with Luster Dust you have to use a super high alcohol content clear alcohol because it evaporates as you are painting and that's how it dries you cannot use a vodka that has a really low alcohol content that won't work so I usually use I use Everclear or I use the sugar Arts color solution which is a great alternative if you can't access Everclear next up we have the dark green I love this dark green it's exactly what I was hoping for this beautiful like dark forest green it's definitely has some extra blue on it so it's on the Bluer end and this is my first time using embossed parchment paper how cool is this oh my god um I'll link the shop that I purchased this from in the description now I went with a haul no sorry I always get these confused mistletoe not Holly mistletoe for the print and then I Was Made what I think is a cute cheeky choice and I put Holly on top of the mistletoe yeah I don't know that was cute anyway um so a couple tips about using embossed parchment paper slash just like any parchment paper technique um when you put it on you want to do what I did which is where you go from like one side to the other so you kind of roll it on and that's the best way to prevent air bubbles I personally think it's not the end of the world if you get air bubbles it's just like the aesthetic but if you're going for imperfect texture embossedness then um yeah roll it from one side to the other I have always let mine completely dry I think some people take them off sooner but I just if you take them off too soon um it's gonna look terrible and there's no going back from that so um I let mine dry completely like six to eight hours so I did these first on my decorating day um I did them first thing in the morning and then I let them sit out and dry while I was decorating everything else and because I did so many cookies this day it was a very long decorating day and so by the time I was done with everything else um and I was ready to move on to these they were dry and I peeled them off so yay I do believe you can use these embossed parchment papers multiple times depending on um you know the color of the icing sometimes I think if it's really dark it'll kind of color the paper a little bit but it's a nice effect oh and make sure um that you don't put too much icing down and I still have not perfected how much pressure to apply so that you get like the best kind of edge to it because if you don't press hard enough then you're going to still have some of the like Smooth um flood on the edge if that makes sense this was perfect I was so proud of myself I put just the right amount of pressure covered the whole thing um if you you give too much pressure then you create like a lip of really thin sharp icing which is not ideal either so it does take some getting used to um I did try a couple other ones which my application was not that great so those went in the dead corner um and I only made again one of everything so I think I did how many shapes did I make six different shapes I think I have six different shapes so I did six different embossed papers and I think I ended up with three is so cute um just very proud of myself oh my goodness gracious wow this is the moment that I realized I've been doing way too many voiceovers at different points of this set and I'm so sorry back when we were doing the sweater technique you were probably like Trace I don't know what you're talking about we've already done the cable like whoops I don't what color do we start with did we start with blue I am I'm losing it anyway yeah um we did not do this cable net yet and this is the cable knit I'm trying to figure out oh we started with red so we've only done red and pink wow okay now we're on to Green and now we are doing the cable knit okay so a couple tips to get the best cable knit possible so number one is your consistency you need to be using a medium Peak okay because you want it to hold its shape if it's more like a soft Peak it's going to kind of melt um and not look good all that hard work you don't want that to go to waste so medium Peak um you want to cut the tip of your bag pretty big so you can see here what I'm using here is like somewhere between a regular um outline piping and a flood um yeah I'm not really sure what it would be but you can always experiment you can always go bigger but definitely recommend a pretty big tip so that you can get like a thick piping out of this because I'm this is just how it comes out of the bag I'm not applying like a ridiculous amount of pressure to get it that thick and I excuse me I personally find like I like to have a nice thick cable knit um what else so the movement is obviously the hardest part here right so it's kind of this elongated sort of and you want to make sure at the end you're really tapering It Off so that it's easier to cover it when you come through with the other side and then you kind of Tuck the beginning of the line into the curve of the previous one um I would say probably the first curve is the hardest one to start foreign [Music] yeah so we're gonna see that again in a minute these lines here are actually my soft Peak piping consistency because I like to do lines with a soft Peak and obviously this has a much smaller tip to it so two different bags of icing two different consistencies I'm doing my little trick with my scribe to kind of create that waterfall falling off the edge effect um you do need to do that while the icing is still wet if it's already crusted it's going to look real messy and not good all right so you can see I'm tucking the beginning of the next line and then I'm like tapering off when I finish it it's so satisfying to do I definitely like the first time I did this wrapping my head around that first curve was really hard so I tend to do the first curve as just kind of like a half moon shape not like the full kind of s so that might be helpful to know there we go wow I am just losing my marbles all right um so this one we are going to paint the lines and that's what I meant when we were back on the sweater technique here I'm sure you were just like Grace we haven't done that yet what are you talking about this is what happens when I'm like yeah I I obviously I'm doing this in multiple sittings because this is very long and it's just trying to get my my voice and my energy fresh for each segment so anyway um all right we're doing the topper here I love this shape it's probably my second favorite shape from the set I love the double bubble gourd situation uh but this would be my second favorite very elegant which I like love so let that line work dry and then I'm going in painting I'm using a pretty small brush here and the hardest part I think about painting gold is first of all getting the right ratios of the powder to the liquid and I do not have anything exact I'm always just testing it out like add a little bit more one the other test it out um and then you don't want to get too much on on your brush um if you get too much it very easily just puddles over the edge and then you cry because it's really hard to remove like unintentional gold now the reason I did this one line at a time because I'm applying this at an angle and I found that the lines were so close to the uh the raised cable knit that if I did the line closest if this makes any sense like um what am I trying to say yeah I would just get gold on the cable knit is what I mean I don't hopefully that makes sense okay something like that um yeah so this was a case again if you ever see me moving the cookie that's because it really needed to be moved for optimal execution um sometimes like I try to move my cookie as little as possible for the filming aesthetic because it's more pleasant to the eye the less it moves that's why you see me use a cookie swivel very rarely if I break out the cookie swivel it's because I needed it generally though I recommend you know always move the cookie to the optimal angle because everyone has a preferred angle for piping like most um most detail piping is at like a 45 degree angle when I'm flooding here I'm closer to a 90 degree I think actually when I'm not filming I'm really at a 90 degree but when you're at a 90 degree like cover more of the cookie so I try to make it at an angle uh what else was I gonna say on that one yeah I lost your training flat um so everything's always going to be easier to pipe at a certain angle so just keep that in mind right so I wanted to show you this one from the beginning this is wet on wet and I'm working pretty fast here um this is one of my favorite ways to do a wet on wet tree did not come up with this really simple you could just leave the tree as a zigzag but I feel like giving the pull up the top just gives it more of a sense of a trunk doing a little bit of layering here I honestly didn't know how I was going to finish this so I did that first and I was like uh it's kind of like floating trees it needs something so then I thought to add some little dots for snow obviously and at this point I look at it and I go okay it still needs something and I literally what you don't see off camera because I obviously edited it out I ran to my sprinkle Supply and I grabbed my other favorite um always on hand sprinkles which is white non-prize I always have sanding white sanding sugar and white non-prize I like to have sanding sugar in two sizes in the small and the large and then these white non-price in the small size and I just decided to like really roll with the snowing snow globe aesthetic and I think it worked so you can see here kind of in how it dried that I was applying those non-pries when it kind of already started to crust because I was flying by the seat of my pants here oh and I made the mistake of trying to press some of them in very lightly but you can see that I kind of like cracked the surface a little bit on that left side uh so don't do that but I was afraid that the non-price were gonna fall out if I didn't do that so oh that this topper is one of my two favorites from this set kind of giving me the snowy Vibes and also I just wanted to be able to show you that you can totally paint on top of um sanding sugar which I'm going to show you another example later but there we go that's like the snowy snow globe Vibe situation all right we're doing another Double Bubble or gourd whatever you want to call it and this one I was really channeling my simple simple wet on wet mesmerized by myself so just working quickly here I've got that small bag of icing my lines are not super straight good enough let's see what am I doing okay so I'm doing individual polls and I'm cleaning my scribe off after every pull now this technique you need to work like extra fast and you need to make sure you have a nice thin icing um because it takes you longer to do this and every pull in and out of that icing just manipulates the icing more so if your icing has started to crust at all uh it's not gonna look good it's gonna have like wrinkles in it and you're gonna be sad so do yourself a favor so pretty I kind of wish that I had added like white to this in hindsight but I really leaned into just the two different greens which is fine it's still pretty obviously I just cracked myself up this is one of those that like I look at it and it's cool and I think to people who don't know how to make these cookies like oh my God it's so like it has a big wow factor this kind of wet on wet but when I look at it I'm like this was so easy this was so simple it's too simple like I look at it and I kind of look down upon it because I'm like it's not it's not hard enough it's not challenging enough um but I have to learn to appreciate this kind of thing more that's what I'm trying to say basically all right so just using my scribe to kind of settle that out nice and flat now I'm pretty sure that I'm going to do a slightly different scribe technique on this bottom if I remember it correctly yeah I really do think that like some white could have really popped nicely but I only made one so ship tailed all right so when you do this continuous move first of all it looks cool obviously but um second of all it's a good thing to do if you want to work faster and like your icing is crusting faster or whatever it's on the thicker side and then I felt like it needed some dots wasn't planning on doing the dots but I felt like it tied in with the top better so there you go oh man I just make myself laugh it's all good it's all good all right we're gonna add the twapa I like this one I'm just kind of bringing it down using the tip of my bag since this is a soft Peak to kind of help it settle foreign and then pulling it up and painting it when it's dry on those little tips I gotta make sure again you're not using too much gold now nine times out of ten when I paint gold um I only do one one go on video that's good enough and then I always nine times out of ten uh off camera I will I will give it a second coat and or I'll get all the little Corners that I missed but like on camera that doesn't really matter because you just do like the top surface and it's fine it's good enough um but yeah I want to make sure I'm getting all the sides of the icing too not just the top all right moving on to this ombre effect so my inspiration here was um what was my inspiration right okay wow I think I'm gonna need a break soon okay um my inspiration was uh these cookie ornaments that I've seen that use um an airbrush on white icing that's covered in sanding sugar and they create this beautiful ombre effect and that is one rare instance where I'm like I wish I had an airbrush but I don't have an airbrush so I wanted to recreate this just with icing so the way that I did that was I did the uh the Ombre in the in the icing because when you use the airbrush you can just flood the whole thing white cover it in white sanding sugar and then do the the Ombre but I don't have that again so this is how I decided to do the Ombre um you can see that I switched the scribes because the first one I was using was really small and I wanted something with a larger tip to kind of manipulate the icing more so that's what I'm doing here twot and I'm really just trying to mess with this as much as possible I honestly this is the first time I've ever done this so I was not really sure like how this was gonna go said my prayers [Music] and then cover this in standing sugar make sure that you're not using too much icing I do think I used a little too much um you can get away with slightly under flooding like not too much though because if you do too much in there like indentations in the flood um the I the sanding sugar will show that so just keep that in mind all right so one of my biggest hacks when covering something completely in sanding sugar other than making sure that you don't do use too much icing is then I like to use this tool um to immediately kind of smooth out or or are reinforced the shape of the cookie while it's still wet so if you already find way too much overflood at this point you could actually scrape off the overflood and um recover the exposed icing with sanding sugar I have done that many a Time but this is good enough so like as long as the icing is still wet you can continue to kind of um help it in and I find I feel like I could be imagining this that when I use my dehydrator on something like this it just like heats up the icing and makes it flood over more when it's covered in sanding sugar I don't know another thing I've noticed is that when I cover something in sanding sugar it doesn't dry completely like exposed icing does um so sometimes I do leave these out a little bit longer before I package them just to make sure they're like hard enough but I will say the ones covered in sanding sugar are absolutely my most favorite ones to eat alrighty next up we are rocking the light green which is probably my favorite color from this set um I'm just completely obsessed with the light green minty goodness so you can see here I'm using the embossed paper again this time a really pretty snowflake design and I'm doing my best to kind of press it out evenly I do think that I gave a little too much pressure we'll see when this comes out so you can see I have like a little bit of a lip especially at the bottom there it's a little uneven which is fine so I was like oh my God what do I do also big air bubble at the top y'all whatever [Laughter] um you just kind of have to own it I think because it's just part of the I don't know um I didn't notice that there was an air bubble and anyway all right um so I did that and I had no idea how I was going to finish after I did the parchment paper had no idea so thankfully um I had this brilliant idea to add um this brush embroidery to the edge because I was thinking to myself like I didn't love the Border I didn't want to just leave it exposed kind of on its own like I did with the the star and the mistletoe so here I am um what am I doing sorry fresh embroidery so this is actually one of the first techniques I ever learned from sweet AMS um yeah she's to me she's the queen of filigree brush embroidery and beaded borders those are the things I learned from her still not that great at filigree though um but brush embroidery so my personal opinion is that you need to use a medium Peak for brush embroidery um a soft Peak is fine but you'll have less texture in the the paint brush pulls so that maybe I guess is personal preference um I like to have a lot of texture in mind so the next thing you have to decide is what kind of brush do you want to use now I'm here using um a kind of small angled brush because I like to comment my icing with like a narrow brush um you want to use something that's pretty stiff so I wouldn't do just like um something that narrow that's just like straight if that makes sense like this is wide and flat and angled um this is probably my favorite brush to use for this small area now if I was doing bigger um areas of brush embroidery I have used like a flat but more narrow brush um so I'm pulling like more widths at a time if that makes sense because the smaller your brush the longer it takes right because you have to cover more surface area with those tiny little poles um the next thing is kind of how thick you make your line I don't understand how people do just like a normal thick pipe normal thickness Pipeline and get a beautiful brush embroidery out of it I don't get it um so I always end up applying a little bit more pressure like you can see here I'm not piping like a normal line like I'm applying more pressure so I get more icing out the next key is you want to be pulling from the center of the line down if you pull too far then you get rid of the nice um outer edge of that line and it just becomes this like brush pull situation if that makes sense um so that's another reason why I like to do a slightly thicker line because I just have more icing to work with um and if you don't pull enough icing then you're not gonna get as much of an effect right so in this case this is pretty low stakes um brush embroidery often I'll do this as like a scalloped border um before flooding a cookie so in that case you have to be really make sure that you're pulling enough icing down and that you have enough icing to work with so that you get um so that the icing covers enough of the surface now I think typically um brush embroidery is is used with white to mimic lace which is beautiful um and you can't tell obviously here because it's the same color but what's nice about this brush embroidery is that it it's very a very thin layer so you can still see the icing underneath that makes sense so um we're doing what are we doing here we're doing a splatter um this is my not messy way to do a splatter but it gives you much more uneven and thicker splatters it's just a different effect if you watch my other videos another way to do it is to use a paintbrush sorry paintbrush a toothbrush um but you need to use a glove with that or you can still use a paint brush and use a glove and actually use your thumb um to kind of brush the bristles that probably doesn't make any sense but oh well um I just I don't know I I don't like to get messy and I also for that one especially because the snowflakes were different sizes I just like the idea of having uneven splatter the other way of doing the the toothbrush or like the thumb technique um gives you a much smaller but more even splatter so just keep that in mind now here's another one that I'm covering in sanding sugar but this time I did small sanding sugar because again remember shape series set I like to show you as many different techniques as possible so this has a different look to it and I wanted you to see that now I did add a bit too much icing to my flood which I soon learned because it was definitely fallen over the edge immediately but going in with my thingama genie tool literally it's called I think I'm a Genie by the cookie Countess um favorite tool so useful and we're gonna let that dry you can see it spread a little bit more whatever oh well um you're gonna see me cut out some of the topper stuff as we go on because y'all this video is long okay so I covered that in sanding sugar and I had no idea how I was gonna finish it I really I looked at it and I was like I don't know what to do and it was giving me like snowy Vibes so I thought why don't we put some snowflakes on it I don't know seems cute so that's what I proceeded to do and honestly I'm obsessed this is also one of my favorites I have so many favorites from this set so I can't really maybe calling it another favorite is just like losing its power but whatever um so I'm doing them evenly because that's how my brain works um even spacing for the most part that I guess that one wasn't so even um I'm using my soft Peak piping consistency you don't if you're doing something like this you don't want to use icing that's too thick because then it won't adhere to those sprinkles you need to use something that's soft enough that's going to kind of melt a little bit into the the sprinkles if that makes sense so now I'm just gonna like the key to doing this kind of spacing is to make sure you get the outer edges even if you're just going to do a partial design so that's really in my opinion what makes this look really good the proud of myself uh it's just like sparkly snowy softness with that beautiful mint green um I skipped painting the topper because y'all we'd be moving on okay this is also one of my favorites but I have to be honest I was going to start the um the compilation video with this cookie because this is one of my favorites it's the center of the main photo um but I just found that it just I I always I love how the sanding sugar looks in the end but I don't think it's very satisfying to watch especially since I'm obviously changing the um focus on the cookie not ideal also my flood of this was not great which you didn't get to see because I skipped that here but I love the Simplicity obviously I love the color we've talked about that and I do this little Holly Motif a few different times and I love adding the sanding sugar to the holly berries that's a common thing too with um uh cranberry accents so good all right we have another mint green deliciousness uh this shape I don't know I call this the geometric shape is that a great name for it I don't know it's pretty boring but it does the trick right um yeah all right this is another fly by the seat of my pants moment um I I just kept adding more and adding more and I don't laughs I don't know you can tell me at the end what you think about it all right this is a pretty big cookie I feel like this was like four and a half inches maybe so I had this cute adorable idea right to do this wet on wet Holly and the second I started piping it I was like oh no because it just looks like blobs but I only made one of these and I just had to roll with the punches and so because like y'all it just looks like green blobs um to prevent that I would have needed a much much smaller tip on my bag to get more definition so I looked at this and I was like all right pivot what do we do so I took my scribe to attempt to create a little bit more definition a little more Holly action and I was like okay it's getting better but now we've got like green croissants like what is this oh man yeah not my finest hour but that's okay so but it does not end here okay so you're wondering um all right I needed to add a little bit more in the corner I am going to add berries in a moment this was really playing with fire with how much I was trying to do on this icing um because it was a thin flood but it it could have been thinner let's just say that so I gotta add my berries and it's like okay starting to come together sort of um but it gets a lot more treatment just brace your sales love it remember we're gonna fill all the extra spots okay so now it has crusted and I'm like not doing it for me yet so I decide to add some extra dots I don't know um using a soft Peak piping consistency here add in those dot dot dots love it okay and then we're going to let those dots caress oh after we do the chopper apparently I think I left this in because this might be the first time I've done it this way so this is the scalloped um but we're going to use a flood on top of it to give it like a nice puffy clean look now we're gonna let it crust and we're gonna add gold okay we're starting with the topper [Music] um this will be fun to watch it evolve because I just kept adding more gold thinking it would make it better I did wonder if I should should have stopped at the dots let's see let's see what it looks like after I do the dots diddly dots okay okay okay okay okay right oh losing it that's fine totally fine okay and then and then I decided that wasn't enough that like the Holly needed just a little bit more definition um intentional definition from the green blobs uh I like it it's just it's extra you know what it's extra sometimes sometimes you gotta go extra thank you and I should have could have would have used an even smaller brush that I'm using here but y'all I already dirtied this one and I just I don't know it didn't feel like dirtying another one so here we are yeah it's a lot of extra that's okay it's pretty I like it I do like it I do next up we're rocking the blue this is the sugar art master elite in the blueberry a gorgeous color highly recommend obviously so it's a double bubble again and this is probably the most like predictable execution of this design because this is inspired by the Vintage concave glass ornaments I grew up with them because my parents had them and I'm pretty sure they got them from their parents so um I remember a lot of broken ones to be totally honest but that's where this inspiration came from I'm also certainly not the first person to do this just to be clear here so to create the concave effect I started by covering the um most of the area with the blue obviously I used um the flood for that you can also use piping consistency I wanted as little texture as possible which is why I went with the flood sorry I have a frog in my throat okay um it's really important to not go all the way to the edge with um anything like this because it just makes flooding over a royal pain in the bumpkins so do yourself a favor and don't let all the way to the edge um I am trying to prevent trying to prevent craters here which is why I've done the squiggle and then I'm going to immediately come in with a flood foreign trouble getting the icing out there for a second this is still all the same thin flood my oval is a little wonky want if you could find normally if I have something like this I might use like a cookie cutter to actually Mark out the shape but I don't know I just didn't even think that I would have something this shape because normally something like this would be like a circle and circles are just a pain um so I would use a cookie cutter to to Mark out a circle that I can trace I didn't do that this time you know what good enough so I'm doing a wet on wet design here because that's what I felt called to do um I will say so you have to be a little careful if you're doing wet on wet and you've done squiggles underneath because obviously now you have like extra icing underneath all the more reason not to let the squiggles dry um but I'm usually extra careful then to just not stick my scribe in too far to the icing because I don't really want to take the squiggle with me if that makes sense this is cute by itself and honestly I almost wish I left it alone yeah I kind of actually do well whatever um this is a fun little technique um when you do the hearts or Hearts the the dots far enough away then from each other then they look like hearts which they which they do here but I've done this um to make it look like a wreath but for that you want to put the dots closer together and or make them bigger um so that they kind of melt together more if that makes sense makes total sense okay so I let that crust so I can move on to the next section because I wanted it to be you know the flooded in sections effect and naturally I had to add a little wet on wet to this bottom section obviously who am I uh I just love wet on wet so much it's probably the first technique that I learned so versatile so like simple I wouldn't say it's easy it's simple well not all of them are simple but some of them can be very simple um but they're just so effective which is as you know if you've followed me for a minute um simple and effective are the name of the game to me love that I just oh man these colors together so good so good I would not have wanted to put that dark green because it just would have been way too dark against that blue I would say color wise the only thing that I wish I had done with this set was to mix the colors more because I feel like I did a lot of monochromatic palettes with a lot of the um the ornaments I didn't have any designs that had all the colors in it which usually when I do a shape series set I always have at least a couple of designs that have all of the colors and I don't know just didn't feel called to do that this time so I didn't and we finished that off let that crust and then we're moving on to the center concave part and I'm piping lines here with soft Peak piping consistency and this is how I do spacing I just split the difference over and over again so this is the moment I realized I can't keep going through the center and in a continuous line because there would be too much icing so you can see I actually start and stop in the center and so that's to prevent too much of a build up in the middle because if you keep layering all of those lines it's just going to be a lump of icing and I honestly could have probably started doing that after I did the first cross but I was rolling with the punches then I decided whoops to attempt to add a little old guy in the middle because I just I wasn't planning on it but it just worked and then I had to add some more gold obviously someone asked me um why I didn't just make yellow icing to um excuse me to to make these little I don't know lines whatever the whatever this is um why did I paint it gold because gold paint looks very different from gold icing um it does not have the same effect at all and it's well different reason why I didn't do the Toppers in the color so um let me clarify right here I'm painting on top of blue and the reason for that is because um when you're doing fine details on top of a flood I usually prefer to pipe with the same color as the flood because then if you don't perfectly cover up the piping on top then it's less noticeable right so now with the Toppers I did all the Toppers in white and that's because there's a much larger surface to cover with that topper than just like these little detail lines and with this totally edible Luster Dust um it doesn't have the best coverage I mean it's good it's good don't get me wrong but in a larger space like that it just needs like if I was trying to cover that dark blue it just it would have been hard so um in the most Ideal World I probably would have made a yellow icing and then painted on top of that but I didn't do that all right this cookie um totally I don't know where this came from I don't know where this idea came from my head somewhere um this entire cookie is brush embroidery so we've already talked about brush embroidery um this took a long time by the way I don't know why I always have to go from right to left I tried going from left to right um and it just did not work and then I don't know why I don't just totally go from right to left so I'm just a continuous am I making any sense like continuous brushing across the whole thing I don't know anyway I digress um see I'm always going from right to left whatever so um yeah I don't know I'm I don't know what to say about this because we've already talked about brush embroidery I will admit I am going to skip some of this because this is a long one this is like an I don't know eight nine ten minute cookie a lot of the cookies in this set are like eight nine minute cookies which is long for me I would say simpler cookies tend to be in the like four to six range but hashtag worth it so is this no okay I'm gonna do one more layer and then I think I'm going to cover this with glitter now this is a great technique if you don't like as much icing right I totally could have done this on top of a flooded surface that is an option too but I don't know I was feeling like not doing that um I feel like there's also a little more Dimension with the color um because it's being painted on top of um The Naked cookie if it was on top of like a Navy flood then um I don't know I don't know if I'm making any sense anyway so that edible glitter is the sugar our diamond dust in I think it's gold again I think I've said that I have both the 10k gold and the regular gold and I don't know that there's really a difference I mean I can see a difference in the bottle but when I actually put it on the cookies I don't know if there's much of a difference I love them both no matter what um so you can see in that upper right corner that I was a little heavy-handed with my glitter and I was like oh man when I did it so annoying because I had such a nice even covering until that one um you can see I do use the the pumps which gives you much better coverage than if you like tapped it out of the container which I used to do all the time foreign yeah so now I'm trying to make up for the fact that I whoops added too much because I don't want that to like stick out I think at some point yeah now I'm adding a bunch more because I'm trying to even it out now it's really gold I didn't intend to use that much glitter but I did foreign this one is super simple I already flooded the cookie and now I'm just going in with a sprinkling of the large sanding sugar I like the Wilton and um there's one that I found at Hobby Lobby I don't actually have a Hobby Lobby I just found it on the internet and it was super on sale and I love it because it's really shiny that might be this one not entirely sure anyway um I was just going for a sprinkling effect here I didn't want to cover the thing and then because I'm a glutton for splatter [Laughter] I added um more splatter yeah I don't know it's like it's simple I think it's cool foreign not everyone's cup of tea and that's okay not all my designs always make sense and that's okay totally fine and there we have it all right what do we have next okay this one did not come up with this design I saw it from um Megan over at downtown dotio I don't really know what to call this um other than I'm obsessed with it it's not the first time I've done it um so it's just like this pressure pipe improvised situation so it's a lot of kind of teardrops over and over again some of them are straight some are curved I just flow with whatever feels right no two of these cookies are ever the same I think I actually unfortunately made two of them because somehow I think I forgot to film the first one I did um which happens every once in a while so frustrating I think I pressed film and then somehow I didn't so this is that same concept of pressure piping as the knit technique where you're piping like a DOT and as you pull away you release pressure and you pull down towards the cookie this is definitely harder than it looks um and yeah because you have to also really focus on a nice ending to it I try to vary the size the direction whether it's straight whether it's curved all that fun stuff I like to do it in this monochromatic look um you could do a different color piped on top that would work too but I'm in love with this one I think at some point I'm gonna fast forward to the end ah there we go okay so what I like to add as my own touch to this is I like to paint some of them gold there's really no Rhyme or Reason I try to make them like uneven um like not always the same number in each cluster that I paint and yeah that's it paint the topper and then we're just about done with this cookie we still have more video all right what is next okay we've moved on to the white I've skipped ahead here I outlined and I flooded this is a wet flood and I'm immediately moving on to this wreath I am completely obsessed with this wreath technique completely obsessed and I love it on this double bubble gourd situation love it so much I just y'all so good okay I like to start as I said with the green on the bottom I did think after I made this this would also look cool if you did the sections separately like bottom and then top or whatever um but it also looks super cool as one section and I have left space on the edge because we're going to be doing a beaded border Yes you heard that right so I swear you can make this so messy and it still turns out great I mean look at my zigzags like look how uneven they are oh but what's important I think is just to make sure you're alternating you see I'm filling in all of the empty spaces with the top green and then I take my smallest scribe because this is a pretty small area and I just go around so easy I mean like y'all I'm so impressed with myself I know you're like Grace all right whatever oh and then I add the berries love me some berries and again I just try to like change it up three two one two three one one whatever um and you think it helps too to have the lighter green on top because there's a bit more of that which helps the red to pop more because um I think that read against the dark green would be challenging then we let that crust and we move on to the beaded border another one another technique that I learned from sweet amps and I'm positively obsessed with so this is a medium Peak I've cut the tip a bit bigger because I really want to cover that full edge of the cookie that's something to keep in mind when you're outlining the initial um section or the flood part is how much cookie you're leaving exposed um this is a pressure pipe technique just like we've been doing it's the same concept of the teardrop you're just doing it over and over again on top of each other as opposed to the Nick technique which is like uh uh back and forth right to left kind of thing I personally love to cover the entire edge of the cookie with my beaded border so if I need to cut my tip bigger I will I mean how how Christmasy is that oh okay this is another like snowy Vibes one but you're gonna see I was really impatient when I was decorating with this bear technique I sh absolutely one thousand percent one thousand percent should have waited longer um when you're doing the bear technique you're applying a good amount of pressure right with this paintbrush and it is so easy to poke a hole which I didn't poke a hole thankfully but I definitely made an indent and I don't think I did it yet but you'll definitely see it when this dries and we move on to the next one so I realize I used Too Much icing which is what I'm trying to like pull off because if you have too much icing you're not really going to get um texture I think I made that indent and that's where because I had too much icing on the end of my brush which made it really heavy um you can do a piping consistency or a flood for this I used a flood because I wanted very little texture the thicker the icing the more texture you're going to get a lavent okay so again I only made one of these so I had to roll with the punches with my indent you're going to see it in a minute if I can just stop doing this bear technique it'll happen and cut come on Grace oh no I'm coming back for more guess it wasn't enough so if it this is what I'm doing here if you're not getting quite enough texture because you had too much icing if you let it dry just like 30 seconds then you can come back with your brush and get more texture with it so you can see that indent towards the middle so I was like great I'm going to cover that with my Greenery so this is the same um knit technique that I did on the pink one the back and forth this is the moment where I go oops I want that to be longer so I made it a little bit longer and then I make a point to make this long enough to cover that so now you can't even see it I swear as I get better I just get better at covering up my mistakes one thousand percent and then had to add some nice big old berries to the top and then I thought it still needed a little bit more so I added some berries to the whatever Greenery oh man I love it it's so pretty so pretty love look at that it's like snowy wintry Christmasy Vibes because of the berries and the greenery okay this one also not my design um I first saw this from the Kaleida Cuts ornament Cutters um I don't know if she came up with it or whatnot I mean I think this this is actually mimicking an actual vintage ornament I could be wrong here but I believe it is so the key here is to use a soft Peak piping consistency to make these dots because you're trying to make them as soft and round as possible and I'm getting the bigger dots just by applying more pressure and getting more icing and then I'm using my scribe right away to help them settle I still don't think I did a great job getting my dots to totally settle like I could have done a better job but YOLO um I'm patient but I'm not that patient fortunately unfortunately um I also was like really excited about this color combo but after I did it and you'll see at the end these dots literally look like blueberries which is obviously ironic because the name of the color is blueberry um all right this is another part of the design that everyone's doing is adding lines in between the dots and I'm curving mine just a little bit so that um it kind of goes with the curve of the cookie to kind of mimic um the roundness and I'm doing three because I really like the look of three but it's tight here to do three so you could do two and make it easier on yourself this part was torture um do it you can't tell but doing it at this angle uh not easy if you're decorating this please turn your cookie but I did not want to have to you can see how slowly I'm moving because I'm really like I'm I'm moving over a bunch of blind spots as I'm doing this which is super frustrating at the end I am going to paint these lines I think yeah I do okay all right we're skipping ahead a little bit um this is the hardest part so in the Kaleida Cuts design there's actual in like scalloped indentations on the edge of the cookie to actually carry these dots but this is just a circle so the if the effect here is you literally want it on the side of the icing because you want them to stick out this is hard um but as long as you're using the right consistency it's not going to fall off or fall over or whatever this next part is the most epic torture um you're gonna see here I'm trying to do this oh it's just so bad because of the ankle I really should have moved the cookie I actually made this cookie again because I was so unhappy with my lines and this blob here so a handful of the cookies I made twice for different reasons um really just a handful though like maybe three or four um I didn't intend to make them twice but I felt like I needed to redo them or like that other one where I forgot to film it whoops doodle all right so in a moment after we get these dots finished we are going to move on to painting I think I'm gonna skip ahead a little bit Yeah so same deal with that other one I did the left side dot lines first then I flipped the cookie and now I'm doing the opposite the remaining lines just to maximize the painting angle so I don't have to worry about painting any of those blue dots so by all means stare into those dots a little more especially since I didn't do the best job finishing them at the top it really does look like a little blueberry opening [Laughter] whatever I love the dots on the edge so good all right so moving on I already flooded this this is freshly flooded still wet immediately moving on to doing the sanding sugar we've seen the sanding sugar before this is the big size but we're gonna do something a little different with this one so first you need to make sure I have covered the cookie well there was a bit of a clump in here um maybe actually I don't know why that happened so I'm gonna dig it out very carefully and then cover that with sanding sugar again now if you watch the sped up version of this I took this part out because I want the illusion that I did it perfectly okay um but in the tutorials here I like to leave it in so you can see how I fix my mistakes so we're going to come in with a thingama genie again of course just to finesse all of the edges to make sure they're good and then we're going to do the topper we're going to let this crust and we're going to come in for the best part all right topper this has crusted by the way we're just gonna paint the whole thing um this is this looks stupid simple you're like Grace why are you even doing this um because I want to show you what's possible and this is a really easy like I think impressive thing to do one thing I wish I had done um was actually add some edible glitter on top of this just for like a maximum Sparkle um because obviously when you paint the sanding sugar it loses like the Sparkle because you painted over it it's still pretty don't get me wrong and this was me being lazy and not getting out the smaller brush but that's okay [Music] um I would not recommend painting that topper though with that size brush all right moving on we've got another embossed parchment paper this is a different um snowflake design that's much more fine and I really like it for that reason and since I did it on white it was giving total snowy Vibes now I did all these embossed parchment papers and I didn't know how I was going to finish any of them I just thought I would fly by the seat of my pants and I had this idea to add some of the snowy draping on this because it was giving me snowy vibes and I love that so pretty so I'm outlining it first with the soft Peak and then I'm coming in with and the flood and again I don't want to put too much flood because we're going to cover this in sanding sugar and I don't want it to flood all the way over the edge now when I do this kind of drip thing when I'm doing like a one consistency outline in flood I would totally just use the thick flood to do this because it would it would not fall off the cookie but a thin flood probably would and I don't want to risk that I love the sanding sugar on this off-white oh speaking of the off-white so the way to achieve I think I have found the perfect way to achieve an off-white it that goes with the color of your set I added the tiniest bit of all of my colors to white icing I wish I had taken a picture because I want to say like not even a pea size I mean also obviously depends on how much icing you're mixing but a very small amount a very small amount yeah I mean I think less than a pea size and that gets an off-white and it gets all of the same like undertones qualities whatever the correct words are um of the colors in the set because I tried making a color from scratch for the off-white and it just I was like is it too warm is it too cold I couldn't figure out what it was that just was not working and then I decided to do this and I'm so proud of myself okay we bring back the wreath I literally just made this cookie because I wanted to make more wreaths and I was like how many different ways can I do this so I'm just alternating the directions for a little more variety variety I don't know why I said that so strangely and we're going to come in hot with the berries now I also did this on a pink background I definitely think I like it best on the off-white it pops the most and it just looks so pretty with the greens and the red clearly I'm very proud of myself as I should be right now I do believe I skipped past doing the topper but we're doing the same snowy topper that I did on a different cookie love that look love painting it gold even more I mean all right this next one gives me my off-white monochromatic Vibes heart happy I don't think that was a proper sentence but that's okay um we let the bass crust and then we just go in with lines faux days faux days um I started in the middle because that just made sense to me I honestly sometimes I kind of wish I started at the bottom just because I realized as I was piping this that like spacing wise it was easiest for me to go up and after this I'm going to have to go down um yeah that's just my sidebar but I would have worried about not making the line straight and what counts as straight here I think is really making sure that that Center Line matches up with the two corners so that's what that's why I started there again this little um scribe thing that I'm doing super important to do all the lines are still wet so that's why I do it in um batches because if I waited in for the entire cookie um to be done they would have crusted and it just like it does not make a nice clean end of your line so just keep that in mind um I think we're gonna skip ahead here straight lines brace your elbow on the table or your arm on the table somewhere um breaks your piping hand if you need to lift your bag off the surface of the cookie always be guiding your icing so the shorter the line the less I lift the bag off but I'm still lifting the bag off the line Looks drastically different if you don't okay okay just nod say yes Grace so I wasn't planning on paint no I can't um Okay I lied I was gonna say I wasn't planning on painting this but I think I was planning on painting all of the lines gold but I ultimately decided to kind of do it somewhat randomly instead of painting all of them gold it's a guy do a little choppy choppy here I do think this is better or this is easier with this really small scribe then if you use something with a larger tip because you're doing a really fine movement here gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous so just carefully painting um you can add so if you don't add enough Luster Dust to your mixture it will be really transparent and it won't cover well enough if you add too much it kind of becomes cakey um and like has a texture to it which you don't want you want it to like paint on nice and smoothly all right it has happened my friends we're on to the last cookie now at this point I just feel like I can't do a shape Series without doing this technique I don't know what happens okay okay oh I'm just uncomfortable with myself okay um also I always imagine this going on an ornament and it's perfect so I decided to roll with um the white look obviously and I'm going to add edible glitter so you do want to add this in stages because the icing will start to crust and the edible glitter is deceiving because you can put it on top of crusted icing and it'll look like it has adhered but if you run your finger across it it will come off on your finger every time I use edible glitter it gets everywhere and my roommate walks in and she's like it's a glitter cloud yeah this is an offset spatula by the way the small size but you can totally use um a kitchen knife as long as it has a rounded end to it this offset spatula does kind of spread out the dots a little bit so you need to give them a little space in between each other and I'm using a medium Peak here I do think that's important for this technique I've done it with a soft Peak and it's okay it doesn't totally melt but I just like to have a bit more definition in my polls and you want to make sure you're pulling far enough you're pulling like at a tapered angle toward the cookie uh you want to make sure you pull far enough so that the next row of dots um covers the icing before it if that makes sense and she beautiful and I think we're actually going to do the whole topper for this finish off strong thank you again this like this would look so pretty with the white diamond diamond dust nine times out of ten I use the white diamond that's edible glitter um doesn't matter what color it is I use white but since all my accents were gold for this I just thought I would rock the gold glitter because I so rarely ever use it they look so pretty I love it so much foreign just finishing this off and then we're gonna come to an end so soon can you believe it oh my goodness wow that was a marathon that was a feat but we did it we got through it together as always I hope you learned more than a thing or two this time around maybe you'll even try some yourself this Christmas next Christmas just like to provide a little inspiration a little fun it was a pleasure as always and I hope you have a sweet sweet day all right bye for now

Channel: The Graceful Baker

Views: 98,665

Keywords: christmas, xmas, baking, holiday baking, rudolf, gingerbread man, peppermint, elf, wreath, snowflake, santa, christmas tree, christmas lights

Id: JbnsguJNk3E

Length: 113min 35sec (6815 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 19 2022